The world-famous Spanish shop churns out yet another aggressive endurance-themed café build — based on the Monster 821 — though this time, it’s being offered as a bolt-on kit.

There are an elite few customs shops around the world who seemingly turn whatever they touch into two-wheeled gold. Spain’s XTR Pepo is undoubtedly one of those shops. Run by Pepo Rosell — who formerly operated Radical Ducati for over a decade before starting XTR — the shop is renowned for delivering vintage endurance-style builds with modern stances and running gear — a formula that’s proven to be a success build after build after build. XTR’s latest creation is a 2016 Ducati Monster-based tribute to the 1978 Pantah, and the best part — aside from its stunning looks obviously — is that you can have one too….

The Monster was first stripped of its bodywork, opening up room for a breathtaking set of endurance-themed retro bodywork — all of which was designed and fabricated in-house. The tank, fairing, windscreen, front fender, and monoposto tail section were all cooked up in-house especially for the Pantah. A steep and minimalistic one-off subframe was also fabbed up to support the new tail, as were an entire set of custom mounting brackets for the tank and fairing. Additional parts produced in house included CNC’d clip-ons and foldable CNC’d levers.

No XTR project would be complete without a few performance part upgrades smattered throughout the machine, so Rosell placed orders from a number of top-shelf aftermarket outfits. DNA Filters, Ohlins shocks with Andreani fork internals, CNC Racing brake “coolers”, pinion cover, water pump protector, slave clutch, and gas-cap, SP CNC’d upper yoke, Discacciati brake rotors, Brembo clutch pump, aluminum RC radiators, DNA Racing filter, LiPo battery, Dzus fasteners throughout, Spark two-into-one exhaust and megaphone, hydraulic clutch conversation and CNC’d rear-sets from Ducabike, and carbon fiber reservoir cover, exhaust shield, coil covers, and rear hugger from Carbon4Us all made the build sheet.

With the build nearly complete, next came the paint. XTR called on its go-to paint specialist, the Madrid-based Pintumoto, who laid down a gorgeous light teal livery with dark red and blue accents, heavily reminiscent of the factory paint on the original Ducati Pantah. Furthering the endurance-racer-look are number-plate style yellow sections on the nose and either side of the new suspended tail unit. The tank was also hit with a period-correct, 1980s Ducati logo, as well as an “821” on the fuel-cell denoting the donor, and of course a few XTR logos here and there. Though the build retains the donor’s stock rims, XTR has removed the ten-arm wheels are applied what is presumably paint or powder-coating in a light gold or bronze hue, matching the color of the rims on the ‘80s Pantah.

`We love damn near everything about this build. The bike sports a modern aggressive stance shrouded in vintage-style race bodywork. While we do admittedly love the endurance style headlights that XTR is so fond of, the sunken headlights on this project are a nice departure from the Spanish shop’s status quo. The way the fairing blends into the tank not only looks ace as all hell, but it wonderfully harkens back to Ducati’s NCR900 TT machines (as well as the more recent full-faired Sport Classic). Though this is undeniably a very transformative build, the engine, frame, and exhaust routing all leave very little doubt as to the donor’s identity.

As great as this custom looks, what really puts this one over the top for us is the bolt-on nature of the project, as well as Pepo’s future plans. Through the use of bespoke brackets that attach directly to the Monster’s stock mounting points, Pepo has made all the bodywork simple plug-and-play bolt-on units. Obviously the talented Spaniard didn’t go through all this trouble because he’s afraid of a little metal fab work, as Pepo plans on releasing a production run of the Pantah’s bodywork for sale to the general public. That’s right, you too can now — or at some point, hopefully in the very near future — own your very own XTR Pantah example if you’ve got yourself a Ducati Monster 821 or 1200.

Credit:TimHuber

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