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Spy Shots: The 2009 Ducati Monster 1100

Here they are, the world’s first pictures of the 2009 Ducati Monster 1100 that only recently hit the internet. We all knew Ducati wouldn’t go too long without updating it’s Monster line, and now here it is.

It looks like the bike keeps its dry-clutch, and the instrumentation is digital just like the 690cc. The 2009 Ducati Monster 1100 is basically a 696 with the 1100CC DS engine installed. But compared to the 696, the air-cooled 1100 offers 15 more horsepower (95bhp) and 26 more lb/ft of torque (76lb/ft). Check out all 3 full-sized spy shots after the jump.

It also sports Y-spoke wheels and a single sided swingarm from the Ducati Hypermotard. Radial front brake and clutch reservoirs, and maybe improved Brembo radial mount brakes would mean massive stopping power. Expect the Monster 1100 to be officially unveiled at the 2008 EICMA show in November.



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Video of the World’s Largest Bike

When it comes to choppers, the bigger the better, right? Well I guess Gregory Dunham has the best. He has the World’s Biggest Motorcycle, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

It took Dunham three years to build this 15-foot high, 25-foot-long, 6,500 pound freakbike, and cost him $300,000. But who else can say they have a 15 foot tall bike with 500 hp, eh?

Check out this insane video:

 



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Sidehacks by the seashore

To everyone’s delight, last month’s spectacular Pebble Beach concours included a special category on historic British motorcycles. Most were competition bikes, or at least somewhat race-derived, but there were a couple of exceptions. Read on and you’ll understand that in some places (including the United States, we should add), the motorcycle and sidecar was marketed as a viable alternative to the automobile, at least for a while.

bike 1

To me, this was one of the most fascinating sights on the green at Pebble. Believe it or not, this is a post-war motorcycle, a 1954 Ariel Square 4, so named for the layout of its four-cylinder, 997cc engine, with its famed quad exhausts. The roadster-type sidecar, built in Britain by Garrand, is called a Silchester Saloon Mark II. Look over both views, including the boat-keel bodywork faired into the windscreen, the side door and the rumble seat, along with that reverse-skirted fender. The owner is James Shaffer of Hawthorne, California.

bike 2

An earlier, and more conventional, arrangment is this 1932 BSA 32-A, a traditionalist Brit bike if there ever was one, with a 499cc side-valve vertical single. Unlike many British sidehacks, this came from the factory as a complete, ready-to-ride set. Theresa Worsch of Rancho Santa Fe, California, is the owner.

bike 3



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