Ducati Monster S4 custom
Beauty or a beast? Italian custom bike builder Ferruccio Codutti has created a Monster with a difference, including hub-centre steering and lots of aluminiumCustomising a motorcycle is a labour of love for most bike builders and the vast majority are classic or vintage designs, this blacked out Japanese-tweaked Harley-Davidson Bomb Runner and neat looking Kawasaki W800 good examples of this.
But what happens when a craftsman has been listening to Daft Punk and finding influences from the present and future rather than the past?
This Ducati Monster S4 by Ferruccio Codutti happens.
Though it is so far removed from its donor bike, love it or hate it Codutti's Ducati Monster 'special' shows off an utterly original design.
The hub-centre steered custom bike took about a year to build and was commissioned in 2008 for a customer who wanted lots of aluminium.
With sumptuous machine work and impressive fabrication, the end result is eye-catching, though as the saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder…
Interesting design elements include the hub-centre steered front end, which Codutti says he designed himself from scratch, and of course the profusion of aluminium.
The front end design will polarise opinion, with its robot-like headlight and air induction system and protruding handlebars.
Codutti had to modify the Ducati Monster S4 frame to get the front swingarm to integrate properly, and the result meant that the radiator had to be moved. Twin cooling units now live underneath the bike's belly pan.
The exhaust system was custom built by Mivv and the tri-spoke wheels are Marvic brand.
If nothing else, Codutti's creation is unique.
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