Last week, a friend of mine (a fellow DOCNYC member who would like to remain anonymous at this point), who helped push me over the edge buying a 996 instead of a BMW S1000RR,
 fell in love with my bike so deeply he bought one of his own, purchasing a 2002 998.
 He and I are just itching to get out and ride this spring, though the weather hasn't really warmed up enough to ride very far.
 As we were driving up the Palisades Parkway in my friend's van, it started to snow, which turned into nearly blizzard conditions by the time we got up to Fort Montgomery.
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For the past three weekends running, I've made the commute down to PA to work on my 2004 Ducati ST3, trying to fix or even find a presumably electrical problem with the bike. I finally got in touch with the previous owner of the bike (his dad sold it to me), and discovered the issue of the EOBD (check engine) light, error sensor messages and a jittery throttle, all which apparently stem from an unresolved issue he neglected to fix (or even inform me about).


And sure enough, when I flicked the highbeam, the light flashed and the whole instrument panel started flickering dangerously.  Although I have several family members and friends who excel at Ducati maintenance, I've officially given up on troubleshooting electronics and decided to take the bike to a dealer, and was advised to go down to Fast by Ferraci in Willow Grove.  I borrowed my dad's truck and my brother in-law's enclosed trailer, and hauled the bike down to the Philadelphia suburb (above).



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