To make a bike like that worth what he may or may not be wanting for it, it would need provenance up to its eyeballs.
If you're paying the wrong side of 100k for anything then you'd be looking at doing your homework on the thing for months before sale.
Ideally you'd need to go there with as many library pictures of the bike at the time so that you can make sure then equipment on it is right, etc etc. The only way you know if that bike IS that bike would be if it was wheeled into the back of the truck from park fermé at the end of the season, otherwise it could just be a team bike lashed together at the end of the year to do something with the bits.
Then there's the run worthyness of it. Does it run, does he know how many hours / distance the engine has left, what was the last time it was looked over, etc etc.
If he says that they did a service on it, then offer 20k less and walk away, as there's only one man in the country who as an non Reparto Corse employee has official licence from Ducati to open those GP engines up.
We used to have it with our customers in my old place. If we brokered a car for them we'd go through archives, checking over the specifications they finished their race with, what was stripped by the team before it was let go etc etc. Understandable when the man is looking to part with the wrong side of 10 million for an old LeMans racer. One particular car the owner paid 18 million and wanted it back to how it ran its last race but to a concourse level!
We actually got the original team manager, crew chief and No1 in to act as technical and historic consultants, and with their old photos and our archive images we done a perfect restoration of the car as it rolled over the finish line down to the exact placement of the scrutineering stickers.
The original crew were invaluable at explaining why a bodge was the way it was and were certain parts came from. And we reproduced it.
Without all that, this bike is / should be worth no more than a top end D16, as all it's perceived value is in what it claims to be, but without that provenance it's another old GP bike that was sat in the truck with the rest of them, and as our
@Exige knows, trying to shoehorn information from Ducati about a bike that technically should have never dropped off their radar is nigh on impossible without good contacts or a big fight and loads of persistence.
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