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MONSTROSITY

AUSSIE Marc Roissetter is a motorsports consultant in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where he campaigns a ZX6R Kawasaki race bike and is accumulating a small but diverse collection of custom bikes. Amazingly, this is his first Ducati.

“I was looking for a V-twin for my next project and could not find any Viragos or other interesting bikes on the market,” Marc says. “Bikes like that are hard to come by. A wrecker I contacted said he had a cheap Monster so I decided that was the way forward!

“I called it the Monstrosity as that’s how it started out life

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