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There are a million bikes that will fill the bill. Only a mind reader will know what suits you.For your budget, I'd seriously think about some Japanese bikes but I can't read your mind why you wouldn't consider one. And really have no more comment. Buy a bike, ride it and tell us how it went.
Tusayan, On fitting a three phase voltage regulator to the Ducati single phase ...to handle the same watts, single phase(two conductors) has 73 percent more current on each wire compared to three phase (3 conductors) I believe using only two legs of a three phase regulator/rectifier may overload the diodes...
. The valve lash was exact to the specs..everything looked original and in good shape except for the damn oil leaks from the head/cylinder joint. Ducati guys tell me this is a problem on all ST2's up to about 2001...I pulled off both heads and cylinders...Not that difficult as some say EXCEPT the nits for the head/cylinder studs were seized from rust.. nothing else on the bike showed of signs of corrosion.. These two valve liquid cooled engine are just like the air cooled engines in that they have no head gaskets..a few o rings for oil and coolant passages... I lapped the cylinders to the heads with grinding compound and now have a leak free fit...But it appears the early heads will leak some oil no matter what...Doesn't hurt the running of it,just have to clean it off occasionally.
Can you make head gaskets? How about head gasket sealer compounds - Permatex, Yamabond, etc.?