[Darren69]

ok and so 1997 was the year or our saviour TPG and so began many improvements and technical upgrades to existing models mainly to 996SPS and ST2 but 900SS and Monster both got bimetallic valves and carb heating kits. The '97 M900 was detuned and had the small valve heads from the 750 with new camshafts to suit and max power was 66.6hp compared to 80hp of the 900SS beginning engine number 037728. The actual S model didmt officially appear until '98 but many of the features of the previous Club Italia/Police/Solo model were retained including fully floating cast iron brake discs and remote res master cylinders with adjustable levers and floating rear brake. The solo was fitted with a centre stand and like the Solo appeared in the brochures but wasn't generally available with only 3 being built.

I'm a bit confused by the above text as the accompanying press photos show standard steel semi floating disks with coffin masters and it would appear that they did switch back to steel disks later that year (from May, after the recalls for handlebars breaking, changes to calipers and discs, rectifiers etc, etc!). So all in all not a great year for them.