I've got a Honda cbr600, love it.

But a top Ducati sport bike costs 40k, not 400k.

And most of the "regular" sportbikes are under $20k.

For the price of a Honda Civic you get the performance of a supercar - plus the experience of riding cage-free, which in itself is pretty awesome.

Which bike are you looking at? The 1299 Panigale S is $25,500. The Superleggerra 1199 (only 500 made) was 70k+.

I don't know how we got to talking about this, but Honda makes a road legal MotoGP replica* bike for $184k.

*Minus the pneumatic valves and probably a few other things.

Oh, I was specifically asking about Ducati since that's what was mentioned.

The replica bike you mentioned is a huge disappointment for one reason: "Europe and Australia are offered a 160 hp version, the American market gets roughly 100 hp and in Japan, it's an even paltrier 70 hp." Unless you live in Europe, you have to spend another $10,000+ to get it back up to spec.

I'd rather get a Desmosedici, I think.

That thing, unrestrained electronically, could probably make 100 HP with one cylinder dead and a corn cob plugged in the exhaust pipe.

When you are very rich, the difference between $400k and $40k isn't noticeable.

Since most of us are not and never will be very rich, the fact that a not-rich person can buy and ride a motorcycle which will easily smoke the pants off any car but the sort of supercar only a very rich person could buy is, in fact, noticeable.

Is this from experience? Most wealthy people I know are also the most cost sensitive.

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