I read on the top of my previous post the date. May 12. Where was i the last 8 months? Working about 20 hours a day trying to keep this thing together. Keeping a company running all by myself, it is a like juggling with 20 bottles. E-bay is a great market place but it is 24/7/365. From March 31 till now i have delivered about 90 orders, i have gave money back to 15 people, my body weight is +8kgs and i have shaved just two times. This has been the toughest and still the most fascinating time in my life so far.
The second project for the Monster the vol.2, was ready since Easter Sunday. But i wasn't releasing it because i knew that i wasn't able to meet any increase in demand. I have listed it on ebay in December and this became possible because i have finally found parteners, both for fiberglass and metal.
This second Monster project came while i was working on vol.1. My goal was to build a cafe racer with the existing fuel tank. Anyone who tried to build a cafe-racer based on the Monster, knows that this fuel tank is a pain in the emm, somewhere. Well the actual problem is the superbike derived V-shaped frame. A cafe-racer must have a straight, parallel, or almost parallel to the ground, top-line. So the Monster's tank, because it follows the V frame lines, is lets say... anti-Cafe-Racer. What needs to be done is create some shape that corrects that V form in the eyes. So i was on photosop, creating new forms, trying to find the right proportions. The picture that when finished i thought that was worthing build a bike like it, was this one.
The first time i saw this pic complete, i thought what a great idea it is to convert the Monster into a street racer. We need a lower mounted headlight, lower mounted instrument panel, clip-ons and of course this top-less fairing.
So with this pic in mind i went in the workshop. First i created two panels from plexiglass, gave them shape with the hair dryer, you know this heater that looks like a hair dryer, painted them and then placed them on the bike to see it in flesh. This is the Monster with the plexiglass panels on. The bike still has the yellow line on the gas tank.
I like it, it is an interesting idea. The number plate looks out of place but we'll fix that. So based on those 2 plexiglass parts, i've started building the prototype fairing, with tons of polyester putty. So cover and sandpaper and cover again and sandpaper again, the bikini fairing starts getting its shape.
And together with the fairing the prototype seat cowl was ready as well. From the parts that i was considering final, i've build the molds and from them my first pieces. Painted, clear coated and on the bike.
The headlight will be placed on this small subframe, that will bring it forward and lower.
This aluminum plate will become...
,this instrument holder.
Another interesting idea, was the leather covered bars.
So with everything in place the bike was ready for the first ride and the photo shooting.
Although seen in those pics without any windshield, from the very beginning i knew that it would be very interesting with a windshield specially designed for the new lower placed headlight. But because the headlight is now placed forward and lower, the new windshiled has to be deeper to cover the visual gap between the forks and the headlight. In the pic bellow, you can see the result. A lower and forward placed headlight together with the corrected windshield, creates a more aggresive look.
And some pics of the Monster with the new windshideld.
In the next 3 pics with the Sport-Classic front fender and without the rear seat cowl.
In this last pic in the lower front side of the bikini fairing, you can see a part i've build as an exhaust clearence. There was no need for this part because the exhaust has some good 5cm clearence from the fairing. But i've build it because i can. It gives some extra retro flavour in the overall result.
And because a pic is 1000 words, pics, pics, pics.
I love those scratches. Love them!
Why this is my favourite project.
A. Although the bike is so fundamentally changed, it is obvious with the first glance that it is a Monster. It will never be mistaken for anything else.
B. Unlike the ST and Monster Vol.1 projects, on which already existing parts were put together on a bike, on the Monster Vol.2 everything was designed and build from scratch (fairing, cowl, windshield, headlight subframe, Ace-Bars, tail-light support). Even the stock Monster front fender is shorter on both edges to be in proportion with the bike's new shape and form.
C. It is a project that it was designed and build 100% in Greece. A country that is actually fighting it's own demons trying to stay alive, in a crisis that can be compared only with the fall of the eatsern European economies back in the '90s.
In my eyes this project would be perfect on a Monster 900, with that fetish dry clutch, with SC wheels, painted black with white stripes (obviously) or black with yellow stripes or Silver with black stripes.
This project is available in the form of a convertion kit. The kit costs $520+$65 for worldwide shippment.
The kit contains: The top-less fairing(belly-pan) and holders, the monoposto seat cowl, the headlight windshield, the instrument cluster aluminum holding plate, the headlight lowering subframe, the air intake aluminum mesh, the tail-light holder, two number plates, rear turning signal holders, license plate holders and a 10page PDF file with modifying instructions.
You can contact me for details and orders at:
ducatitifoso@hotmail.com
PS: This is already an award winning design.
Up next, the Monster Remix Vol.3.
The second project for the Monster the vol.2, was ready since Easter Sunday. But i wasn't releasing it because i knew that i wasn't able to meet any increase in demand. I have listed it on ebay in December and this became possible because i have finally found parteners, both for fiberglass and metal.
This second Monster project came while i was working on vol.1. My goal was to build a cafe racer with the existing fuel tank. Anyone who tried to build a cafe-racer based on the Monster, knows that this fuel tank is a pain in the emm, somewhere. Well the actual problem is the superbike derived V-shaped frame. A cafe-racer must have a straight, parallel, or almost parallel to the ground, top-line. So the Monster's tank, because it follows the V frame lines, is lets say... anti-Cafe-Racer. What needs to be done is create some shape that corrects that V form in the eyes. So i was on photosop, creating new forms, trying to find the right proportions. The picture that when finished i thought that was worthing build a bike like it, was this one.
The first time i saw this pic complete, i thought what a great idea it is to convert the Monster into a street racer. We need a lower mounted headlight, lower mounted instrument panel, clip-ons and of course this top-less fairing.
So with this pic in mind i went in the workshop. First i created two panels from plexiglass, gave them shape with the hair dryer, you know this heater that looks like a hair dryer, painted them and then placed them on the bike to see it in flesh. This is the Monster with the plexiglass panels on. The bike still has the yellow line on the gas tank.
I like it, it is an interesting idea. The number plate looks out of place but we'll fix that. So based on those 2 plexiglass parts, i've started building the prototype fairing, with tons of polyester putty. So cover and sandpaper and cover again and sandpaper again, the bikini fairing starts getting its shape.
And together with the fairing the prototype seat cowl was ready as well. From the parts that i was considering final, i've build the molds and from them my first pieces. Painted, clear coated and on the bike.
The headlight will be placed on this small subframe, that will bring it forward and lower.
This aluminum plate will become...
,this instrument holder.
Another interesting idea, was the leather covered bars.
So with everything in place the bike was ready for the first ride and the photo shooting.
Although seen in those pics without any windshield, from the very beginning i knew that it would be very interesting with a windshield specially designed for the new lower placed headlight. But because the headlight is now placed forward and lower, the new windshiled has to be deeper to cover the visual gap between the forks and the headlight. In the pic bellow, you can see the result. A lower and forward placed headlight together with the corrected windshield, creates a more aggresive look.
And some pics of the Monster with the new windshideld.
In the next 3 pics with the Sport-Classic front fender and without the rear seat cowl.
In this last pic in the lower front side of the bikini fairing, you can see a part i've build as an exhaust clearence. There was no need for this part because the exhaust has some good 5cm clearence from the fairing. But i've build it because i can. It gives some extra retro flavour in the overall result.
And because a pic is 1000 words, pics, pics, pics.
I love those scratches. Love them!
Why this is my favourite project.
A. Although the bike is so fundamentally changed, it is obvious with the first glance that it is a Monster. It will never be mistaken for anything else.
B. Unlike the ST and Monster Vol.1 projects, on which already existing parts were put together on a bike, on the Monster Vol.2 everything was designed and build from scratch (fairing, cowl, windshield, headlight subframe, Ace-Bars, tail-light support). Even the stock Monster front fender is shorter on both edges to be in proportion with the bike's new shape and form.
C. It is a project that it was designed and build 100% in Greece. A country that is actually fighting it's own demons trying to stay alive, in a crisis that can be compared only with the fall of the eatsern European economies back in the '90s.
In my eyes this project would be perfect on a Monster 900, with that fetish dry clutch, with SC wheels, painted black with white stripes (obviously) or black with yellow stripes or Silver with black stripes.
This project is available in the form of a convertion kit. The kit costs $520+$65 for worldwide shippment.
The kit contains: The top-less fairing(belly-pan) and holders, the monoposto seat cowl, the headlight windshield, the instrument cluster aluminum holding plate, the headlight lowering subframe, the air intake aluminum mesh, the tail-light holder, two number plates, rear turning signal holders, license plate holders and a 10page PDF file with modifying instructions.
You can contact me for details and orders at:
ducatitifoso@hotmail.com
PS: This is already an award winning design.
Up next, the Monster Remix Vol.3.
