Sacrificing a bit consolation for model isn’t exceptional within the {custom} scene. However what occurs when your purpose is to throw consolation out the window altogether? This svelte Ducati Monster 620 from Fuel & Oil Bespoke Bikes is the reply.
Matěj Sysel and his band of {custom} bike lovers at Fuel & Oil aren’t any strangers to our pages, or the Ducati Monster platform. The Prague-based workshop builds the whole lot from tough and prepared scramblers to slick café racers and the whole lot in between. However whereas their final {custom} Ducati Monster was a fairly restrained affair, this one’s a bit extra… centered.
“It is a bespoke construct for a buyer,” explains Matěj. “The directions had been clear—to create a really minimalistic machine based mostly on a Ducati Monster, with as little consolation as attainable. We picked essentially the most attention-grabbing components of a number of Ducatis and mixed them to create our concept of the last word enjoyable machine.”
With a short like that, we knew this Monster would look wild earlier than the pictures had even completed downloading. And we weren’t disillusioned. Fuel & Oil began with a inventory 2005-model Ducati Monster 620, however by the point they had been performed, solely the body, engine, and entrance forks remained from the donor bike.
The largest change is the brand new bodywork—most notably the gasoline tank, which was taken from a Ducati 999. It’s a surprisingly good match for the Monster, with the open area beneath it emphasizing the trellis body and L-twin motor’s rear cylinder.
Fuel & Oil tweaked the body to accommodate the tank out entrance, and fabricated a brand new subframe out again. A fiberglass tail part sits up high, trimmed with the scantest of seat pads. Just like the 999 tank, the tail unit feels barely separated from the bike, giving the Monster a lithe, mechanical really feel.
There’s a tiny Kellerman LED taillight built-in into the again of the tailpiece, with a numberplate bracket that includes Motogadget LED flip alerts to maintain issues street-legal. The rear hump hides the entire electronics, together with a JMT Lithium battery and a Motogadget mo.unit.
Shifting decrease down, Fuel & Oil grafted on the single-sided swingarm from a Ducati Monster S2R. The S2R additionally donated its Marchesini rims and Showa shock, making the bike even much less recognizable as a Monster 620.
On the entrance of the bike, the Monster’s giant spherical headlight was ditched in favor of a tracker-style quantity plate. Protruding by way of the plate is a single LED projector from LSK Electronics—a neighborhood Czech provider of digital bike components. The manufacturing unit handlebars had been changed by M-Fashion clip-ons, fitted with Motogadget bar-end flip alerts and mirrors. The throttle meeting, grips, and controls are additionally new.
With the handlebar risers not in use, Fuel & Oil fabricated a housing for a tiny Motogadget speedo that doubles up as a blank-off plate. It’s a intelligent approach to tidy up the cockpit with out trimming the highest yoke, and leaves the door open for a handlebar swap sooner or later.
With round 60 hp on faucet from its full of life L-Twin, the Monster 620 is spritely sufficient to get your coronary heart racing on twisty backroads. This one will get a bit assist from a pair of UNI foam filters, custom-made chrome steel exhaust headers, and a Sharon muffler. And since Fuel & Oil’s mods have undoubtedly shaved just a few kilos off the unique 390-pound dry weight, it needs to be much more enjoyable to experience.
Pirelli Diablo Supercorsa tires add a enough quantity of grip, whereas CNC Racing footpegs and a transparent clutch cowl (as a result of it’s a Ducati) add an additional dose of fashion.
The Monster’s livery is quintessentially Ducati. Fuel & Oil settled on pink for the body, tank, and entrance fender, then painted the tail part white. It pops arduous in opposition to the pink base, additional accentuating the 999 gasoline tank’s sculpted traces.
Low weight, sticky tires, clip-ons, and a complete lack of consolation; it certain appears to be like like Fuel & Oil’s consumer received precisely what he wished.
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