The Ducati Monster Org is running a heck of a piece as their
Featured Bike this month. It’s well worth the read imho.

Here’s a bit of an excerpt from the story… there’s way more info on their site… So if you haven’t already, you ought to stop by… Definately one of the best looking Ducati Chops I’ve seen!

The history started way back when it was seemingly a normal MH900e, as time progressed so did the failures of components, I won’t go into much detail but it was enough to classify the bike as a Lemon.

This was very unfortunate and to be fair was the big turning point for developing a big dislike for the bike, even as beautiful as she was she was like the supermodel girlfriend that looked great in public but kept cheating on you.

Ok, so long and short of it I was not keen on keeping the bike, luckily I had not sold my S4 Monsta as this was my basic trusty that was as reliable as the day is long, this was to change.

On April the 25th 2005 (Anzac Day For New Zealand) we went for a normal ride on a normal holiday, my riding buddy, his son and me.

On our return home the Monsta developed a terminal fault either in the electrical or fuelling and burst into flames while I was riding much to my surprise and my riding buddies’s surprise.

The result was 200 hectares of trees burnt, the use of 3 monsoon Helicopters, 4 Fire appliances and 50-60 men, that day was very very sad for me, something you only read about on the internet in some far away place had happened to me.

That was the biggest character building moment of my life and changed the way I thought about things which brings me to why Malattia was built.