The ‘new’ Ducati Monster is almost five years old, but we still haven’t made peace with its hawkish design, nor the loss of the Monster’s iconic trellis frame. Luckily, our good friend Winston Yeh doesn’t share our reservations. When a client requested an aggressive, performance-oriented custom, the Ducati Monster rose to the top of the list.
“I’d always been a Ducati Monster fan, and had done a couple of projects with their previous 1200 and 821 platforms,” says the man behind Taiwan’s Rough Crafts. “So when the new generation came out with so much praise for its rideability, for sure I wanted to jump on it.”
Given the client’s parameters, there was a question of whether the Ducati Streetfighter V4 would have been a more suitable choice.…