Nothing wrong with Ducati's.
My wife has a 2000 model M750 with 21,000km on it. The only problems we have are; she doesn't ride it enough and the registration is due the same month as one of the cars, the telephone, gas and electric bills.
In fact the Bandit has been in the shop more than the M750. Which to be honest is only for servicing, unless you count the little lie down the B12 had about 18 months ago.
Ok yes generally the servicing is more expensive, but with a 10,000km interval as apposed to a 6,000km interval it's really a case of swings and roundabouts.
There's 6 or 7 other people I know who ride Ducatis and there's only two that have had 'major' problems directly related to the bike.
1. An original 916 which had severe electrical problems, until he had it re-wired, and
2. A ST2 that had a computer malfunction that caused it to make the bike think it was at 200ft below sea level when in fact it was 200ft above sea level. Consequently it ran like shyte. Even though it was out of warranty Ducati Australia repaired/replaced it at no cost, why??? Because they'd never heard of it happening before.
As far as the rattling gun clutch is concerned, some would say it 'adds character' others (like my wife) simply fit louder pipes. That way you can't hear it over the exhaust
