Monster Challenge

Although I was able to see the Monster Challenge at the IMS Long Beach show, I haven't been paying close attention to the other rounds. This week there has been a new flurry of Monster Challenge news activity regarding two interesting developments.

The Kneeslider had a very interesting post about the winner of the NYC round. "The New York Monster challenge is in the books and the winner took a little different route and actually used some building skills to get his Monster together. A bit of welding and metalwork was required to modify his 2004 Monster 1000. It’s nice to see a little more skill involved as opposed to bolting on accessories." This is an excellent point that was also part of judge Brian Catterson's commentary on the event. “I appreciate that Lock created something totally unique instead of just bolting on parts from a catalog. The bike also reminds me of an old Pantah I used to race.”

This week's MCN brought to my attention another Monster Challenge motorcycle from MotoCreations. According to MCN, "Ducati North America is looking at supplying the bike's creator with engines so he can build more machines with an official badge." Ducati.com