Ducati Monster Forum

We started this build about six months ago because we felt like the new 696/796/1100 monsters had a lot of unexplored potential.  Our goal was to make subtle and functional upgrades.  Hope you like it!

Cosmetic & Performance Upgrades Include:

Ducati Performance Bucci Forged Wheels
Ducati Performance Termi Full Exhaust System with Race ECU & Filter
Ducati Performance Corse Brake & Clutch Levers
Ducati Performance Corse Carbon Fiber Front Fender
Ducati Performance Carbon Fiber Sprocket Cover
Ducati Performance Darmah Skins
Rizoma Brake & Clutch Fluid Reservoirs
CRG Billet Bar-End Adapters
CRG Billet Arrow Bar-End Mirrors
Braking Wave Rotors
STM Star Clutch Pressure Plate
DP Billet 7 Spoke Clutch Cover
DP Billet Star Cap Set
DP Billet Oil Cap
DP Billet Alternator Inspection Cover
Oberon Billet Front & Rear Blinkers
CW Powder Coated Rear Fender Eliminator
Powder Coated Kickstand, Brake / Clutch Pedal, Rearset Brackets

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I'm digg'n the black with the gold trim.  [thumbsup]


..but you'd think for all the customizing that was done that they could have done better than the simplest sprocket cover available.

looks great, and i think next step is to ceramic coat those headers... would blend in perfectly into the color scheme

Perhaps they meant to match the wheels.

Not bad looking though. Polish and paint the sub frame..... new rearsets.... it would be tits

It's a nice bike but trying to link it to the Darmah is sort of off.  The only thing it shares is the SD coloring and the scheme doesn't even hold true to the original.    No full body stripe, no gold wheels.  Could have used gold Carrozzeria 6 spokers and gotten a better tribute imho.

Nice bike, just not impressed with the very fleeting Darmah reference...

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I'm sure he's sorry for offending you.

harrumph!

Sprocket cover, not clutch cover.

Like it..A LOT!!  [clap]

Perfect amount of gold and CF too.  Not TOO much of either!   [thumbsup]

The only thing I would add would be a white/gold/black Termi sticker.   

My bad, I honestly didn't even think of sprocket covers.  They don't really do much for me (nothing but aesthetics from stock).

Sometimes simple is better though.  What is out there that would have done better to "complete" the look?

That's what Ducati is calling this after market skin set.

It looks clean but....calling bolting on a bunch of after market products "a build?" And it took six months? There is maybe three days of work there. And two of them are waiting for the powder coated parts to come back. Raise the bar guys...if you didn't fab a part yourselves or customize a part to fit something it should not have it's not a build. It's a customized bike.

 [popcorn]

Guess you haven't ordered parts from Ducati before.  I think we waited close to three month for the wheels and pipes to come in.  Don't hurt my ego with the build talk, I watch allot of American chopper  ;D Anyways who actually builds these days when we have google and the Internet  [beer]

I like the parts, the style and the commitment to DP parts for a dealer.
What I would like to see is a step further for a dealer as well.

A few other parts would be rearsets, sprockets, Titanium cans instead of Carbon (the original had no CF), pick up the rearsubframe CF covers that Bellisimoto carry and paint them black and add the Monster 1100S words on it similar to the original,

Massage the motor, lightweight flywheel, PC V, ergal cam rollers, port and polish, etc.

Paint and powdercoat parts like the headlight frame black, exhaust hangars black, wheels gold, upper triple and barmount black, spring black, paint the front fender (again CF isn't nostalgic) etc.

remove the lower oil cooler cowl since you removed the emissions and left the stock hole there (oversight?)

I understand the need to create something that is reversible though.

I've probably been ordering parts from Ducati longer then you've been in business (2005? Yep).

Not trying to hurt your ego. It is a clean looking bike. I haven't done any engine mods on my hyper either. Just a slipper and a bunch of bolt on stuff that made it lighter and easier to ride fast.

Wow.... Tough crowd in here tonight....

+1   [thumbsup].

Not too fast I hope  [leo].

Paint and powdercoat parts like the headlight frame black, exhaust hangars black, wheels gold, upper triple and barmount black, spring black, paint the front fender (again CF isn't nostalgic) etc.

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if im not mistaken Ungeheuer had his rims powder coated gold.. Thats one sexy 1100s as well.

Sweet looking ride, not sure why there's so much whining going on, but it's very nice. I saw a thread once where some one clear coated the Darmah paint colors to make them glossy instead of matte, looked really sharp! I'm actually thinking about duplicating a black/gold paint scheme by using all carbon body work and adding some gold highlights. That and some forged hypermotard wheels painted in a matching gold color would be sick.

+1 (except my PC'ers aren't quite that fast ;))


seems like a bunch of bolt ons that any bike could use regardless of theme.
 the goal was "subtle and functional" but the only functional mods are forged rims, wave rotors and a set of termis? couldn't even tuck the pigtail for the battery?

I mean, clean bike and all. just expected more from a 6 month build from a dealer.

I think the bike looks great -- my only criticism is the weak connection to the Darmah.  If the wheels were gold and you had more of a pronounced side stripe, it would nail it. 

I like it


but

no fault of the builder...those termi look almost as bad as the stock pipes.  Why can't someone make them fit in there better?  Also, can the little screen in the tank be painted to match the tank?

Nice bike. Very tasteful mods.  [thumbsup] The rims are sweet.  [thumbsup]

I agree with the others that it isn't a build though...and isn't anywhere near 6 days work, let alone 6 months. It's just a pimped out M1100. 

+1.

i like some bolt on parts, just like the next guy, but when they are so pedestrian as to look like any ol' bike, its not so screaming neat. where's the carbon frame and triple clamps, the ti manifolds and carbon airbox, where's the 100+hp to the ground, where's the carbon solo seat, where's the billet monoblocks, where's the mag swingarm, where's the carbon fork tubes and one-off ti fork internals, etc...  a build is a build, or its 'hey look at this tasteful combination of a few off the shelf parts we put on".


i second the ceramic coating black of the headers and pulling the headlight apart to pc the gray to a black as well.

Funny thing. I haven't received a citation since 2003. For some reason they always let me go.  :P

^^ Now theres a surprise....

Shocks me everytime.

This is the bike I dreamed about when I was riding in the early 80s.   [moto]

here's mine:  (i mean mine as in my garage mine..  ;D )

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This is the bike I was riding when I was "dreaming" thru the early 80s  [laugh].    Wish I still had it, cantankerous though it was.

Awesome! 

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^^  My take on a Darmah edition Monster.

^^^I was looking to post that picture  ;D

Red Darmah works for me too!!!  Dead sexy!

winner. by a very wide margin.

^^^^ That's a no brainer. One is a Monster the other is.....well what they call that new thing a monster.  ;) Props to the OP on a clean build.

man, i give up.

the new monster sucks. the fact that it's lighter, out handles, has more power... makes it suck.

so there i joined you.

  You forgot looks better   [wine]

[wine]

Like köpfjager posted, the M1100S the OP posted is a clean build.   [thumbsup]

I didn't mean to turn this into a 'new bike' vs 'old bike' thread as deity-knows we have enough of them around here...

Yup. We have it in writing  ;).

gold wheels make it

the stripe is missing tho..  maybe a custom seat with a gold line ? 

but then again, that's not a Darmah tribute, that's a 900SS tribute.  Notice the bike behind it is not a Darmah.

I want to reiterate that the OP's bike looks amazing and I'd love to have it, it's just got a weak design connection to the Darmah

Wow!

That's beautiful!!

Nice looking 1100!  No matter what it's called, I think you put together a nice package.  Looks to me that you selected parts to draw attention to the whole, rather than separate bling items.  Well done.