If you're not tracking, I think its a waste as the SS is a better fit for your riding. Perhaps if you ride a lot of twisty roads and actually try to corner and drag knee, then perhaps getting a V4 is justified.
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I am in a similar situation - 52 and just traded in my 2017 supersport for the new V4 S Panigale. The V4 is much lighter, feels like a 600, power power power, and ok ergos for me being 6 feet tall. The engine is much smoother being a v4 and so is the transmission, quick shifter is almost perfect. My only gripe with the new bike is the searing heat it puts out, enough to cook your thighs on a hot day! The supersport is a very nice bike but I love the v4 as it has 100 more horses so enjoy the new bike!
everyone brings up the engine heat. How bad is it? Do you wish you had the supersport back?I am in a similar situation - 52 and just traded in my 2017 supersport for the new V4 S Panigale. The V4 is much lighter, feels like a 600, power power power, and ok ergos for me being 6 feet tall. The engine is much smoother being a v4 and so is the transmission, quick shifter is almost perfect. My only gripe with the new bike is the searing heat it puts out, enough to cook your thighs on a hot day! The supersport is a very nice bike but I love the v4 as it has 100 more horses so enjoy the new bike!
I'm 6'2" and 62 I find the ergo's of the bike fairly good you have to put up with numb hands every now and then, I attest to the left leg getting cooked in traffic the heat is fairly feisty but once at hy wy speeds not so much an issue we get 40-43 Celcius (104F-109F) days here in summer.
I am getting the fuel light at 170Klm's there abouts have yet to have the wife follow(In the car) with a jerry can & run the bike dry just to see the max range on a complete tank as we do not have a garage on every street corner in Aus some fuel stops can be 000's klm's appart.
I like the set up of the whole package it flicks SS Commodores off like a piece of straw in the wind "Where did the bike go!" and accelerating hard with the front wheel just off the deck is outragous fun just gotta watch the speed cameras and the boys in blue.
How does in compare with my VF1000R Honda sadly the VF would be left in the dust mind you in 1984 when I brought that bike it was one of the top ones out there.
Ducati have stepped up the game with the V4's giving the general public a track superbike for the street almost, you can mod it to get more HP but whats the need your not racing on a track and the thing will see most if not all supercars in the dust over the 1/4 mile.
Me I am stoked with my "S" almost on par with my wife ooops no not really!
I am getting the fuel light at 170Klm's there abouts have yet to have the wife follow(In the car) with a jerry can & run the bike dry just to see the max range on a complete tank as we do not have a garage on every street corner in Aus some fuel stops can be 000's klm's appart.
I like the set up of the whole package it flicks SS Commodores off like a piece of straw in the wind "Where did the bike go!" and accelerating hard with the front wheel just off the deck is outragous fun just gotta watch the speed cameras and the boys in blue.
How does in compare with my VF1000R Honda sadly the VF would be left in the dust mind you in 1984 when I brought that bike it was one of the top ones out there.
Ducati have stepped up the game with the V4's giving the general public a track superbike for the street almost, you can mod it to get more HP but whats the need your not racing on a track and the thing will see most if not all supercars in the dust over the 1/4 mile.
Me I am stoked with my "S" almost on par with my wife ooops no not really!
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