Written by Marlon Slack
In only a short few years Spain?s XTR Pepo have produced the best racer-inspired customs in the world. Every time one of their builds smashes into our inbox we drop what we?re doing, drop our trousers and get ready for some serious Italian eye candy. This time was no exception, with the unveiling of their 2016 Ducati Monster dubbed ?Pantah?.

Head of XTR Pepo, Pepo Rosell, hasn?t arrived at the acme of the Italian bike custom scene by accident. He slogged away for years with a Ducati importer before striking out on his own, crafting high-end Ducati builds for both race and road use. He fronted ?Radical Ducati? for 14 long years before switching things up and starting XTR Pepo – a rolling masterclass of Ducati custom bikes.
The ?Pantah? started it?s life as an unspectacular 2016 Monster 821, purchased for a song from a Barcelona local. And on the drive home, Pepo already knew what he wanted to build. ?I was going to make a tribute to the original Ducati Pantah launch in 1978,? Pepo says, ?There?s a lot of Ducati lovers that would love to have a bike with modern technology but dressed as an old and classic race bike. And they?re really the DNA of the brand?.
You should see it in the flesh. It looks even better when you’re drooling on it
And sure, the Monster has some sort of race-bred DNA deep inside, but it?s still a hell of a leap from a naked street bike to an endurance-racer inspired build. But life, uh, finds a way. Sure, there?d be ...