I can understand wanting rid of the horrible black plastic thing but the DP carbon one looks great and has great lines IMHO. It is also distinctive of the early Monster. I think its a case of chuck out the baby with the bathwater, for me anyway. Without it, it looks like something is missing and the exhausts stick out too far at the back. I suppose it gives a more modern look as a lot of more recent bikes have that kind of look, Panigale etc but it works for those because the overall design is more modern. The monster is more a retro looking bike, well not so much looking it actually is a retro bike now!
Prices of original unmolested ones will increase for sure, I just look at some of the Jap crap that is fetching big bucks like CX500's up for 5k and stuff like that are fetching silly money.
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