‘Why did you buy one of them?’ or ‘Oh no, you haven’t have you?’ or simply just: ‘You’ll regret that!’ First-time Ducati owners will already understand what happens when you tell your Japanese bike-owning friends you now have a Bologna bullet in your garage.
Dull, predictable and inaccurate. Except, well, read on. I first noticed the leak when I stopped to take a picture by RAF Alconbury’s Northrop F-5E gate guardian, near the end of my second ride on the bike. This wasn’t even the first leak I’d had to fix, as after my first ride it was clear that a seal in the OE Ducati clutch slave cylinder had gone, and guess what? Those seals aren’t replaceable – new unit needed. The bike had been stood for six years, so rather than start subscribing to the same old ‘they’re bloody unreliable’ tropes I just shrugged my shoulders and got it fixed, knowing from owning several Yamahas with hydraulic clutches that laying them up for a long time can cause the exact same issue.
If you own a Ducati with a hydraulic clutch that left
