Ducati unveils new for '26 Monster

[ungeheuer]

I'm too lazy to play the link to a photo site game.... so here's the URL linky: 

All New Ducati Monster

But I'll spoil it for you.  The Audification continues.....  Still gone is the trellis frame.... dry clutch... Newly gone is the Desmo valve train.

It's barely a Ducati amymore & it's certainly no Monster 

[ducpainter]

Did you forget something??? Linky maybe?

[ungeheuer]

Did you forget something??? Linky maybe?

What happens when you click on "All New Ducati Monster"  ?

Dunno why it's not highlighted in linky blue....  (I made it blue for ya)

[ducpainter]

What happens when you click on "All New Ducati Monster"  ?

Dunno why it's not highlighted in linky blue....  (I made it blue for ya)

With the SMF software you have to manually add color. The underline is very subtle. I didn't see it originally.

www.ducatimonsterforum.org

Yeah...nothing like Galluzzi's creation.

[stopintime]

Do you all remember the launch of the 696? The internet was on fire. Now? Oh well...

I noticed that Ducati talk about brakes in their much too usual bla bla way; dedicated braking system, ensure high performance, excellent manageability, refined, dedicated friction material, more modulable... = poor?

The gap between good Ducati bikes and the cheap, although not actually cheap ones is growing too wide. The V4 bikes are too demanding for 95% of their owners, this Monster is not good enough for anyone. The result might be a brand of garage queens. 45,000 km valve check intervals surely won't make mechanics of the owners.

This bike is a little stretched seat to bars and a little lighter. I suppose that good news 

[ungeheuer]

...yup.  I remember my "new" 2009 M1100 being an outrage.... with half the trellis gone missing.  But surely this.... this.... new... thing..... It's zero Monster.   

The only similarity between earlier Monsters (yeah I include my M1100 in that) is the upwardly mobile designer label on the tank.

Bland.  Dull.  Uninspiring.  Puke 

[herm]

I'm glad I got to experience the monster in the early 2000's. I would not buy the current model.

[ducpainter]

I doubt Ducati cares what we think... just sayin'

[ungeheuer]

I doubt Ducati cares what we think... just sayin'

Yup.  Their Audi-driven business model is to widen their base appeal.  And in doing so, they lose all the quirks which we of the previous Ducati faith found enticing.  Yamaha Honda owners with aspirations towards a premium brand label want the associated stye kudos, but not the make the beast with two backsing irritating clutch rattles and scary black magic expensive to maintain Desmo horse shit.  It's a good business model - there's more money to be mined by enticing not-yet-Ducati owners to the fold than pandering to the already converted.  So way more gains than losses in dollar terms for 'em.   That's OK.  I have my quirks with zero compulsion to update. 

[ducpainter]

<snip>  That's OK.  I have my quirks with zero compulsion to update.