Ducati Monster 1100S Darmah Edition (HSBK Build)

[hbliam]

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  Anyways who actually builds these days when we have google and the Internet 

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.

[ungeheuer]

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...i

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.

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

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

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

+1   .

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.

Not too fast I hope  .

[iRam]

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.

[xplodee]

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.

[xcaptainxbloodx]

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.

+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.

[ducatiz]

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  Anyways who actually builds these days when we have google and the Internet 

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. 

[spolic]

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?

[Triple J]

Nice bike. Very tasteful mods.  The rims are sweet. 

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. 

[junior varsity]

Nice bike. Very tasteful mods.  The rims are sweet. 

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.

[hbliam]

Not too fast I hope  .

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

[ungeheuer]

^^ Now theres a surprise....

[hbliam]

^^ Now theres a surprise....

Shocks me everytime.

[orangelion03]

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

[ducatiz]

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..  )

[ungeheuer]

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

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