Photo: CRD Motorcycles
The small Ducati Monster is one of the iconic streetfighters which still set hearts on fire and make imagination go wild, especially after the bike happens to be handled by some tuning wizards. And since the Spain-based bike magicians going by the name Cafe Racer Dreams (CRD) are some of the best in the industry, it's small wonder that their 695 Monster is such a clean, wonderful build.
This Monster is the living and rolling proof for two things, the first of them being that with some bikes, less can be in fact more. Clean shapes and fluid designs adapted to the base model are sometimes way better than all the cutting and welding in the world, and ditching the unnecessary parts was the key move.
And then, one doesn't necessarily have to spend a ton of money to make a bike look astonishing: CRD has only made some minor modifications to the bike, but they have emphasized some of the styling details which set the Monster apart. Instead of hacksawing the wonderful trellis frame and straightening it into a cafe-racer-like shape, CRD has decided to modify only the very rear of the subframe, adding a loop to hold the convenient two-up seat.
The project will receive some more updates (and we'll be on the look for them), but the basic lines are already in place: it's no longer a stock Monster, it's not a thoroughbred cafe-racer, it's just a clean bike with better looks and a lot more head-turning factor.
And then, one doesn't necessarily have to spend a ton of money to make a bike look astonishing: CRD has only made some minor modifications to the bike, but they have emphasized some of the styling details which set the Monster apart. Instead of hacksawing the wonderful trellis frame and straightening it into a cafe-racer-like shape, CRD has decided to modify only the very rear of the subframe, adding a loop to hold the convenient two-up seat.
The project will receive some more updates (and we'll be on the look for them), but the basic lines are already in place: it's no longer a stock Monster, it's not a thoroughbred cafe-racer, it's just a clean bike with better looks and a lot more head-turning factor.
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