Really enjoy your reviews, I should learn French so I can watch all your videos. Why did you test ride an A2 restricted bike, rather than the unrestricted version?
Good review! And your English was just fine. Well done. I don't understand how this bike is limited to 47.5 HP to meet the A2 riders license class. The bike in Urban mode is dropped to 75 HP from Ducati. Otherwise it's 111 HP in Touring and Sport. How does it meet the A2 requirement? Just curious. We have no such restriction here in the U.S.
Hi there burner188!! Thank you so much for the kind words, great to hear! Regarding the A2 motorcycles, the answer is quite simple: the engine in its "full power" configuration never is equal to the "factory" setting, if the machine is over 95 HP. In this case, the Ducati Monster is 111 HP strong, but for the A2 version, they make a special ECU map that tones down the engine to 95 HP, which is the european law for the maximum power allowed for a A2 motorcycle. From this point, they "divide" by half the power of the machine to reach 47,5 horsepower, either by an electronic restriction, or a mechanical one. Some bikes that have higher than 95 hp values can be included in that list after that ECU map, like the MT-09 or even the Z900. Problem is, as you can guess, on a motorcycle that develops originally 125 HP, toning it down to 95 horsepower and then again 47,5 to be compliant with A2 driver's licence causes a gigantic loss in power, and the machine becomes quite sluggish. All in all, everyone could benefit and be happy here not to have those A2 rules, but that is how things go here in Europe for your first two years of rider's licence! Ride safe!
@@RodstersTVEN Appreciate the explanation. So it is a significant mod via ECU map that allows this. That's unfortunate, but I understand. Thanks again.
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Nice review! I’m getting my monster soon.
Really enjoy your reviews, I should learn French so I can watch all your videos.
Why did you test ride an A2 restricted bike, rather than the unrestricted version?
Really good video just one thing keep your hands on the bars not for safety but it’s distracting you lovely video sorry for saying ash
Good review! And your English was just fine. Well done.
I don't understand how this bike is limited to 47.5 HP to meet the A2 riders license class. The bike in Urban mode is dropped to 75 HP from Ducati. Otherwise it's 111 HP in Touring and Sport. How does it meet the A2 requirement? Just curious. We have no such restriction here in the U.S.
Hi there burner188!! Thank you so much for the kind words, great to hear!
Regarding the A2 motorcycles, the answer is quite simple: the engine in its "full power" configuration never is equal to the "factory" setting, if the machine is over 95 HP. In this case, the Ducati Monster is 111 HP strong, but for the A2 version, they make a special ECU map that tones down the engine to 95 HP, which is the european law for the maximum power allowed for a A2 motorcycle.
From this point, they "divide" by half the power of the machine to reach 47,5 horsepower, either by an electronic restriction, or a mechanical one.
Some bikes that have higher than 95 hp values can be included in that list after that ECU map, like the MT-09 or even the Z900. Problem is, as you can guess, on a motorcycle that develops originally 125 HP, toning it down to 95 horsepower and then again 47,5 to be compliant with A2 driver's licence causes a gigantic loss in power, and the machine becomes quite sluggish.
All in all, everyone could benefit and be happy here not to have those A2 rules, but that is how things go here in Europe for your first two years of rider's licence!
Ride safe!
@@RodstersTVEN Appreciate the explanation. So it is a significant mod via ECU map that allows this. That's unfortunate, but I understand. Thanks again.
Not a monster
Correct sir.