starter bike???

My first bike was a Ninja 250, loved that bike, easy to ride, with plenty of power for what it was, Great on gas as well depending on what year the bike is, the new ones get better but my 04 got about 60 MPG and that with hammering down quite often. The 250 Ninja has great resale value and sell quick when your done with it and ready for a upgrade. Bought mine for 1400 bucks sold is for 1800 and put 4 k miles on it. After the 250 I went straight to a 06 600cc Ninja 6R and put 20 k miles on it sold it and bought a new 09 Ninja 6R back when it was new. Or my brother started on a Suzuki GSF 400 bandit which is a oil cooled inline 400cc 4 cylinder, good bike and sold quick on CL when he was done with it, Has a trellis style frame and is a naked bike

As far as Ducati's, My dad has one and Im close to buying my brothers M900 as he is buying a 996. The 1199 luckily has upgraded service intervals from there old service plans. At the dealer for our ST4S Duc with a 4 valve top end its about 800 dollars every 8000 miles for the valves and in the next few thousand the belt will need a replacement, Ducati raised the timing belt to I think every 15 k miles now or 6 years?