Written by Andrew Jones
Ducati’s mid-noughties SportClassic, designed by Pierre Terblanche and based on the ludicrously beautiful Ducati MH900e, remains one of our all-time favourite factory creations. There’s only a handful of affordable bikes that you’d kick yourself for not buying, but the SportClassic is definitely one of them. With their prices barely dipping below showroom values since their release, it’s probably fair to say that they’re well on their way to becoming a classic in more than just name. But fear not, as Miami shop Cohn Racers has a solution – your own sport Ducati cafe racer made from the much more reasonably priced and infinitely more customisable Monster S2R.

Hot on the rubber heels of their recent Muscle R Harley XR1200X, son JR and father John are clearly not resting on their laurels. ?This is a cafe’d 2008 Ducati S2R,? begins JR. It’s a limited run series of 10 bikes which we call the ?Agile? cafe. This is bike number three in the series. It has been the most in-demand bike we’ve ever built and we are edging closer to reaching our goal of building ten bespoke examples by 2019.?
?Most of these bikes have been seriously abused and neglected, so finding good donor bikes is a difficult task.  We searched nationally for many weeks and after looking at several bikes we ended up finding a really clean one that had been very well taken care of by a gentleman near Orlando. He even had a very nic...