That does sound like a very plausible reason... shame it was that was around though!
Also it sounds like I need to get my hand on the “Monster bible”, is that the title of the book?
Finally, when the Monster got launched I was still in France and the company importing Ducati jumped on the success of the monster and created their own high end limited editions ... those were pretty tasty, have a search for Sima carbon Monster!
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