{"id":79,"date":"2007-07-05T08:05:33","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T13:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2016-05-04T07:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:32:05","slug":"2007-ducati-monster-695","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?page_id=79","title":{"rendered":"2007 Ducati Monster 695 (sold)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, at the annual motorcycle show in Chicago, I was always drawn to the Ducati display. Sport bikes have held some interest but not enough to actually buy one. Since I&#8217;ve had good luck with Honda bikes, I considered a CBR600\/1000 sport bike but it those seemed a little too &#8220;common&#8221; for my tastes. Maybe it&#8217;s the sound of the v-twin that I like &#8211; maybe it&#8217;s that you don&#8217;t see a Ducati on every other street corner &#8211; maybe it&#8217;s that the nonconformist in me enjoys having a bike that&#8217;s different. Maybe it&#8217;s all of those reasons combined &#8211; but I have always liked Ducatis.<\/p>\n<p>At the motorcycle show in February of this year I mde up my mind. I was going to sell my Shadow ACE and buy a Ducati. The reading I had done told me that the air-cooled two-valve models (695\/800\/1000) were the best bang for the dollar in the Ducati lineup so that&#8217;s what I was after. I joined the forum on ducatimonsterforum.org and read even more. I watched the bikes for sale section and the timing worked well. I sold the Shadow and made a deal for this Ducati on the same day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-qGQDHGZ\/0\/L\/IMG_0001-L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-qGQDHGZ\/0\/Th\/IMG_0001-Th.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-S6w4BRn\/0\/L\/IMG_0002-L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-S6w4BRn\/0\/Th\/IMG_0002-Th.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-Vb2KwkG\/0\/L\/IMG_0003-L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-Vb2KwkG\/0\/Th\/IMG_0003-Th.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-9BsNkLs\/0\/L\/IMG_0004-L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-9BsNkLs\/0\/Th\/IMG_0004-Th.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-HQ3Kvd7\/0\/L\/IMG_0005-L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-HQ3Kvd7\/0\/Th\/IMG_0005-Th.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-PgMdS9Q\/0\/L\/IMG_0007-L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-PgMdS9Q\/0\/Th\/IMG_0007-Th.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-Vw8BqCn\/0\/L\/IMG_0008-L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-Vw8BqCn\/0\/Th\/IMG_0008-Th.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-48NwX76\/0\/L\/IMG_0016-L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dirtnap.smugmug.com\/Motorcycles\/2007-Ducati-M695-Monster\/i-48NwX76\/0\/Th\/IMG_0016-Th.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, at the annual motorcycle show in Chicago, I was always drawn to the Ducati display. Sport bikes have held some interest but not enough to actually buy one. Since I&#8217;ve had good luck with Honda bikes, I considered a CBR600\/1000 sport bike but it those seemed a little too &#8220;common&#8221; for my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?page_id=79\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2007 Ducati Monster 695 (sold)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/809"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}