Ducati Monster Forum

Rode my modded M900, a mates 944SS/SL, and my Hyper back to back when I had a precious hour break. Good therapy.

The 1100Evo was quite fierce down low compared to the more friendly power delivery of the 900/944 motors. The old motors had FCRs, slip ons, airbox mods and hi comp and/or big bore and both make good power for their vintage.
The Evo had a very strong bottom end and you could feel the urgency with which the EFI, lighter internals and greater capacity operated at low rpm. I can understand why people put throttle tamers on them. I like it the way it is. ;)
All three are light bikes and the two old bikes have light flywheels, but the Evo must have a pretty light crank. You wouldn't want to lighten it's flywheel any more (unless you wanted to [evil]).
The Evo cams have a bit less duration on the inlet, but more on the exhaust than the 900V cams. The Evo cams have more lift similar to ie/ST2 cams.

The old bikes have Ignitech units too and I put a lot of time into tuning each one and their FCRs. They are quite smooth and controllable down low and have good response. The Evo has the DP full 2 into 1 exhaust, airbox mod and DP ECU. It could use a bit more tuning which I will get around to (chatted to Brad about this), but I have yet to make up my mind whether to go Rexxer or PCV. I'll decide after tweaking the bike and trying a few things like riding around with the Lambdas disconnected. We'll see if the ECU goes into a base map that's nicer or just goes mental. The dash light will be annoying..

I think the older bikes when tuned nicely are able to hold their own, but stock with the same mods being equal (jet kit open airbox and slip-ons) would be blown into the weeds.
A nice thing about the Hyper is that it's longer travel suspension and roomy ergos are nice for my old joints on our shitty back roads.

Evolution indeed.

Just rode my best bud's 2007 Hypermotard S into town today to get a state safety inspection done for it.  Good fun.  I like that bike !!  Much more twitchy than my old Monster. In every way.  But in a good way as far as I'm concerned. It's understandable that they "detuned" them as they not everyone's cup of tea.  I hate it that Ducati keeps dumbing down the bikes to increase sales but I guess they have to do what makes money for them. Tough to argue against that.

How was the DS version detuned? Do you mean the cam specs?

Hmmmm...someone rode an tuned 1100 EVO.  ;D

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Yours is tuned, mine just has stuff added (nice stuff though). I intend to tune it. [evil]