Bike Garage - Monster Difazio

Increasingly, the Definition of Special is wrongly used.
Many motorcycles directly add together aught to the technical bird than the original model.
This is too caused yesteryear working on these bikes, non having the technical skills are express to deed alone on an aesthetic level.
Instead those who know where to intervene, together with dare to a greater extent than together with wants to a greater extent than from his motorcycle.
One of these people is Bernard Mont
But who is this man?



Who am I ?

My cite is Bernard Mont, I alive inwards Kingdom of Belgium inwards the countryside of Namur, +/- 60km southward of Bruxelles.
I am a mechanical engineer together with I ‘ve ever been involved inwards cars together with bikes.

I came from the hamlet of Mettet, good known inwards the yesteryear for the route races together with present for the modern race rail together with the annual “Superbiker” event.
My professional person career began terminate of the eighties inwards race cars, inwards French Republic rally championship, European F3000 championship, together with Kingdom of Belgium production championship…
For the terminal xx years I’ve been working for a major chemic company, kickoff inwards the technology scientific discipline dptmt together with genuinely inwards accuse of the mechanical maintenance dptmt.

During my gratuitous fourth dimension I run a micro trouble organisation specialized inwards ducati (maintenance, repair/tuning),   together with during the gratuitous fourth dimension of the gratuitous fourth dimension (yes, It sometimes happens !!)… I ready  bikes for me (or cars..  like my cobra replica)..
My previous consummate projection was the Ducati TT3 Difazio which appeared inwards your columns inwards 2012 (http://thebikeshed.cc/2012/11/06/ducati-tt3/), this wheel afterwards won the World Ducati Week 2014 “Garage contest” together with too appeared inwards “The ride 2d gear” book..

The S2R monster was bought crashed together with speedily refurbished to travel yesteryear away a daily bike..
After the unloose of the TT3, my intention was to tally it alongside a difazio front end terminate together with continue the “rat bike” it had until that ..  but every bit the projection went on I’ve totally dismantled together with rebuild it to a show-room state..

I wanted a to a greater extent than modern await for this one, alongside the allure of a charging bull viewed from front..
The Difazio organisation is too totally dissimilar from the TT3, all the parts accept been redesigned, every bit is the geometry to seat less anti-dive inwards it ..

All the task yesteryear myself at home, existence helped yesteryear friends/pro only inwards around points similar the precision machining together with around specific weldings..

More details virtually those builds together with the all the particular front end forks (FFF for Funny Front Forks) I’ve been chasing the terminal 10 years inwards my weblog :  http://unlimited-eng.skyrock.com

Ducati Mostro Difazio tech spec
Donor wheel is a ducati Monster S2R1000 my 2007 alongside the next mods :
For the frame:
Stock frame, shortened at the bring upwardly together with extended at the front end to have the wishbone pivots, all Tig welded from chromoly tubes.
Rear suspension/wheel/brake is stock.
Front is based on a centre hub steering derived from the  “Difazio” organisation (see below)
The front end wheel is a ducati modified to have the hub steering.  The hub components are machined from high degree aluminium billet
Upper,  lower wishbones together with steering axle are  tig welded from chromoly tubes
Front dampers come upwardly from ducati 996, alongside specific springs together with internal setup
Steering damper Toby
Front brake rotors are Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation cutting inwards stainless steel
Calipers  6 pots Tokico actuated yesteryear radial master copy cylinder
Motogadget dashboard
Seat embrace is the stock modified
Fuel give thank yous is covered, but should endure painted inwards a nigh futurity every bit i’m non totally satisfied alongside the consequence ..
For the engine :
Ducati desmodue yard DS engine
Extra lite flywheel (240gr) together with cams dialed alongside specific setup.
Airbox removed together with replaced yesteryear two pods fitted on long radius bell mouth
Exhaust collector is an aftermarket Kat eliminator line, ending inwards two homemade silencers fitted alongside supertrapp discs assembly.
ECU is remapped for the novel specs together with to run without the stock dashboard.

Jack Difazio was an English linguistic communication engineer who developed hub centre steering during the sixties/seventies, becoming the spiritual manly somebody parent of the Bimota, Tesi/Vyrrus, together with ATOMO/JBB/METISS  concept…

Thanks to  Sébastien Nunes Photography for the Photo http://sebastiennunes.com/

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