Ducati presents, 15 years after the first naked designed by Miguel Galluzzi the new Monster 696. A true ’street fighter’ that the users will appreciate so much as for its design as for the few drivers experience.

His 4T bi-cylindrical 696 c.c. motor with electronic injection gets 80 CV to 9,000 rpm. It’s air-cooled and have a clutch with anti block system.

The multi tubular chassis has been redesigned completely by the engineers but now with bigger diameter tubes and a thin wall. The sub chassis is made completely in aluminum and it goes screwed in his underside and that grants bigger rigidity and a modern aspect.

The front suspension is in charge of a ‘Showa’ inverted front fork without possibility of regulation but the rear simple shock absorber with progressive system from the Sachs brand can be adjusted in preload and extension. We can stand out his oversized 320 mm front brakes with radial anchoring system.

All the new changes to the Monster 696 have been enabled to reduce their weight to 163 kg ( 7 kg less than the predecessor ).

Due to the quality of the materials with the ones they manufacture each Ducati 2008, Ducati assures in their Website that the time between the maintenance operations and the the refill costs had been reduced on each of the revisions, reaching in this way to a major cost saving up to 50 %.