I'm over exaggerating by a little bit, My buddy has an older 996 that he got new, for the first 2k miles he had to bring in the bike every 500 miles to get it serviced, from what he has told me, it was very costly for minor things he could have done himself. He is on the Duc forum and says that newer Ducs have to be serviced less frequently but they still encourage you to bring the bike into a dealership to get it serviced, but even if you do some of the basic servicing the service light and message will still come up and can only be shut off by the dealership tech. I don't own a Duc just running off the information a friend of mine has told me.