Ducati Monster 1100S The Monster is one of Ducati’s most crucial bikes. It’s a bread and butter model which helped the Italian company stave off financial disaster on a number of occasions. Ever since the first version, the M900, was introduced in 1993, popularity for the Monster has rarely wavered. In a bid to please a broad variety of tastes it’s now appeared in over fifteen different sizes and guises, suiting virtually everyone from novices to experienced sportsbike fans worldwide. This version, the 1100S, is the slightly higher specification variant of the standard 1100, featuring superior suspension and a selection of carbon fibre parts. More importantly, it’s only the second incarnation of the first radically altered model of the Monster since 1993. The first, the...