El Blanco Diablo
DUCATI MONSTER S2R
When El Blanco showed up on the doorstep of the Icon garage we were horrified. First, it wasn’t the fine pearl white color it is now – it was more a sickly stock black. Second, it was bone stock. Like mudflap and gigantic blinker stock. If stock is for suckers, than stock Ducati’s are for supersuckers. Never having been accused of being nice guys we took our liberty with the virgin S2R. Though no means no in most garages, her Italian whimpering was lost on our cruel hearts and greasy hands. Slashing up a base model Ducati would be very easy – for indeed, we had done far worse to much nicer. The stock silencers were immediately yarded with no intention of replacement. The incredibly awful stock suspension and brakes were eBay’d off to make room for not quite as awful Supersport components. Belt covers, license plates, and any other component ripe with the stench of DOT conformity were sent to the burn pit. Finally, like the little tease she is, we lathered her in a fine coat of white pearl and graphic scribbles. For in the end, when it comes to bike building, gentlemen we are not.
El Blanco Diablo
DUCATI MONSTER S2R
When El Blanco showed up on the doorstep of the Icon garage we were horrified. First, it wasn’t the fine pearl white color it is now – it was more a sickly stock black. Second, it was bone stock. Like mudflap and gigantic blinker stock. If stock is for suckers, than stock Ducati’s are for supersuckers. Never having been accused of being nice guys we took our liberty with the virgin S2R. Though no means no in most garages, her Italian whimpering was lost on our cruel hearts and greasy hands. Slashing up a base model Ducati would be very easy – for indeed, we had done far worse to much nicer. The stock silencers were immediately yarded with no intention of replacement. The incredibly awful stock suspension and brakes were eBay’d off to make room for not quite as awful Supersport components. Belt covers, license plates, and any other component ripe with the stench of DOT conformity were sent to the burn pit. Finally, like the little tease she is, we lathered her in a fine coat of white pearl and graphic scribbles. For in the end, when it comes to bike building, gentlemen we are not.
