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Author Topic: Mid-sized Monster 796 Coming to USA  (Read 40438 times)
Raux
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« Reply #135 on: April 20, 2010, 05:34:28 AM »

How about a bigger motor with more torque. It also has a higher seat height, not that that should be more money, but it's an improvement if you have long legs. And the subframe is black, that saves the time and cost of removing and painting it.

all the subframes are black
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« Reply #136 on: April 20, 2010, 05:46:26 AM »

all the subframes are black

Well maybe I'm not up on the latest, but I seem to recall the 696 as looking like this.

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« Reply #137 on: April 20, 2010, 05:48:28 AM »

Well maybe I'm not up on the latest, but I seem to recall the 696 as looking like this.



ha ha ha nope. They are all black. though, that makes me think ducati had this idea, then changed them to black, and forgot to change the pillion footrest arms.
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« Reply #138 on: April 20, 2010, 07:08:19 AM »

That is an early preproduction picture.  When Ducati first leaked pictures of the new Monster 696 there was a lot of negative feedback about the cast frame.  People said it looked disjointed, like the bike was designed by two people not in the same room.  It was too late to change the design of the frame, but they did make sure the cast rear frame was black so as to minimize the look of the cast frame.
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« Reply #139 on: April 20, 2010, 08:45:17 AM »

Just got the official email
http://www.ducati.com/bikes/monster/796/index.do
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« Reply #140 on: April 21, 2010, 12:35:30 PM »

That is an early preproduction picture.  When Ducati first leaked pictures of the new Monster 696 there was a lot of negative feedback about the cast frame.  People said it looked disjointed, like the bike was designed by two people not in the same room.  It was too late to change the design of the frame, but they did make sure the cast rear frame was black so as to minimize the look of the cast frame.


Yeah, we had about 15 pages on how ugly that looked.
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