97 M900 Chop kits

[CarloL]

Alot on the market , what are good quality kits?

Would like one like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEUXdx4QelQ


One I saw

https://www.ducatimonstertailchop.co...aillight-combo

[Yorkie]

Keep it standard, a decent standard one is a rare thing. Only do modifications you can easily reverse.

Yorkie

[Flip]

I know Monsters were not really designed to have the extended bit at the back originally and it is only there to satisfy the legislation of some markets it was sold in but .... and this is the do I? Don't I? bit... as Yorkie says, the earlier bikes with Frameus Intactus are becoming rarer these days.

I know it is possible to reverse a 'tail chop' but it will never be the same as the original coupled with the fact the original frame colour is notoriously difficult to match- I say difficult, I mean impossible- just ask Albie who I am sure will be along shortly to verify how hard he has tried to get anywhere close on his lovely restoration project.

Talking of being along shortly, so will Dirty no doubt to tell you to get the hack saw out and chop it!!!

However, you could do as I have done and compromise it by loosing all the dangly bits, repositioning the indicators (you could always fit a combined tail light) and make (or buy)a new number plate bracket et voila- the bonus is you don't get a wet back when riding in the rain either:

[SteveG]

Ha... I beat Dirty to it for a change... Chop it

I bought a pre-chopped 96 ... and love it.
It is of course entirely up to you. Your bike... There will be many opinions on whatever mods you do. All options valid... Flips halfway house is one of them. (And a good one by the looks..)

[CarloL]

Thanks , I like Flips Idea , want to keep it original too

[Darren69]

Nooo! Love your beer tray! Its part of the Monster style. I wasn't keen on the plastic thing but a DP carbon kit is much better

[CarloL]

Nice!

I might get away with just a bracket for the reg plate , remove the plastic

[alan s4]

Never mind the weave on the carbon, the weave on the artex is a proper work of art

[Albie]

Hello and its yours to chop or short chop.. Advice keep all original parts and bolts with all you remove or give or sell to a good home.

I semi chopped my first monster so I cant be a hypocrite. I relocated the original indicators but later swapped the tea tray for the later beaver tail one complete with oval indicators and also the front ones.
Had scorpion big boom cans and fitted high level Sils after them. Opened the clutch cover with a secondhand Rizoma which also went on my S4 after too. Kept bars stock My old bike is still around here somewhere and still looking decent unlike the S4/ S4r conversion.

[Darren69]

Originally Posted by alan s4

Never mind the weave on the carbon, the weave on the artex is a proper work of art

I had started to try and remove the artex but was warned it may contain asbestos, depending on how old it is. And it made a lot of dust!

[Blah blah]

Chop, chop, chop, chop, chop chop it all off!!

Or you could (short term) remove the mudguard, leave the beer tray, make some brackets for the indicators and get a tail tidy, like....



Or just chop it off (because it looks loads better, see my S2r thread! )

[Darren69]

That 750 looks real nice. Personally I wouldn't chopper such an original early 900 as yours but its yours now. If you're gonna chop it don't keep the original exhausts length, chop them to suit otherwise it just looks odd. All exhaust and nothing else.

If you're going to the trouble of sourcing some original Termis and you do actually get some, or some copies then it makes no sense to chop those as well?

[Blah blah]

Originally Posted by Darren69

If you're gonna chop it don't keep the original exhausts length, chop them to suit otherwise it just looks odd. All exhaust and nothing else.

No, don't, original length looks fine / cool



I really must take some new pictures, or you could have a look at Nasher's thread as it's his now !

[Darren69]

I dunno, the standard low level cans don't look so bad, i suppose. Still a lot of exhaust on show there and not much else. High levels looks worse in that respect. I mean chop the number plate saves what 500g ? Its not that much better if you've still got 10kg of exhaust cans to drag around. Those things have so much metal in and are so heavy!

[Dirty]

As Darren says, low level exhausts look fine with the chop (which MUST be done, otherwise you have an unfinished bike ) but hi levels give it a 'wheel barrow' look which is not cool.