2007 Monster S4Rs
Bike was brought to me as a low-side victim on the left with some cosmetic damage to all the associated bits you would expect (bent bars, bent wheels, fubar'd radiator, etc). Customer wanted all that repaired/replaced...but wanted more to it.
Ok, no problem there...
I wasn't asked to build the motor or do any performance mods there, and the bike already has the best suspension on it from the factory...so I began with the asthetic mods.
I knew the S4Rs was the most powerful Monster, but it just didn't look like it was all that powerful. In fact, it looked like Ducati hired a circus clown to do the color scheme for the parts. Carbon fiber here, black this & that, yellow shock spring, poop brown udder.... uh.... yeah.
Well, in order to make the bike appear more powerful, I focused on 'silver'ing up the engine so the CF belt covers were painted engine silver, the clutch cover got the same treatment, I stripped off the black p'coat from the swingarm and left it natural aluminum and powdercoated the shock spring in a silver to match as well. For contrast, the clutch pressure plate was painted Ducati Red to match the bike and it plays against the clutch spring holder which was done in engine silver. I even had the headlight bucket painted silver.
Ok, now we're getting 'there'. The larger the 'chunk of aluminum' look, the more powerful the bike became visually.
My customer specified BST CF wheels, but I didn't want the large black wheels to make the bike look too heavy so I had my painter paint the wheel lips in silver and for contrast and to bring some red into the wheels, I had him add a red pinstripe between the silver and CF. After that, the wheels got a coat of clear. BTW, BST supplies a spacer for the rear wheel to clear the Brembo lettering on the rear caliper. I didn't want to use the spacer so I disassembled the caliper and ground off the Brembo logo so it would clear the spokes without using the spacer. I continued the factory paint scheme onto the stock CF front fender.
I moved a few wires around on the engine and flipped the fuel feed and return lines to the alternator side of the bike. BIG visual improvement there. Painted the coolant overflow bottle black so it would disappear in the V of the engine.
Rizoma rearsets and triple/clipons were specified but I didn't want the black mucking up my silver theme so they got disassembled and clear anodized instead. Brake-Tech floating iron rotors stop the bike up front with CP211 pads in the stock calipers. Rizoma master cylinder reservoirs were used throughout coupled with 6mm Brembo clear brake hose.
The exhaust? Well...customer specified using the stock udder but I couldn't leave well-enough alone on that. Got some stainless tubing and angle cut a couple small pieces. Welded them onto the udder and had it Jet-Hot coated. HUGE visual improvement over the dirty-brown udder with the stock end-caps.
I did paint a lot of the CF on the bike, but I added some back to help with the big-bad-bike effect. CF ignition cover, front chain gaurd, rear chain gaurd and rear hugger were installed to go with the stock CF side panels.
The bike is not 100% finished so I don't have a ride report yet. Still have to bleed the brakes, mate up the new gauges to the ecu, and build the reservoir brackets for the front two but I wanted to share what I've been working on since it's nearly finished.
Enjoy!
