Glad you are enjoying the Duc! Bikes are a ton of fun to ride around on (when the weather's nice). Make sure you keep up on the maintence (oil changes, chain adjustments, ect...). If you don't have a garage to put it in, make sure you keep it under a bike cover, otherwise it will rust in the rain.
Did the oil and chain adjustment last week, runs like a completely different bike. I'm glad we just went ahead and did it, previous owner thought it needed on in 500 miles. Oil that came out was black as a raven and very watery. Not to mention only 2.5 quarts came out and 4 quarts went in. Sent the oil off for analysis and appears to be normal.. just old an dirty, no abnormal traces. As for storage space.. we have a 2 car garage that is too short for any of our cars and presently houses 2 bikes, soon to be 3 and all our tools and riding gear. Should we need more space.. we have a shed large enough for 3-4 more bikes right next to the garage. Chances are it will slowly start filling up.. I may have promised to only own 3 bikes at a time.
Very nice bike! Sounds like you'll do fine on it.
Having started on a torture rack SV650S, I will suggest that at some point you try a smaller bike. They're loads more fun in and around the city. However, that Monster is a nice compromise do-it-all machine. Just need some side cases or a top case or something.
And if you PM me your address, I might be able to get around to sending you some more reading material before you take the MSF class.
I want to put a Givi V46 on the back.. having trouble tracking down the mounting bracket for it. Bike's a 99 and the tail section is from an 05. (Bike came with a carbon fiber tail section with no turn signals.. and newer tail section fit and was cheap.)
