Custom Single Seat for Ducati Monster 695 Café Racer

The Ducati Monster 695 café racer build gets a major custom motorcycle makeover with the creation of a completely custom single seat. Using the original Ducati Monster seat as a starting point, the stock seat is cut and reshaped to create a new café racer-style single-seat design.

Rather than throwing away the original seat and fabricating everything from scratch, the existing seat is used in a cut-and-shut process. This allows the original mounting points and the distinctive shape that mates with the Ducati Monster fuel tank to be retained while changing the overall proportions and appearance.

The result is a much more purposeful single-seat setup that suits the stripped-down café racer style of the build. It's a good example of using existing motorcycle parts creatively rather than replacing everything with new components.

There is also some modification of the handlebar switches, but the main focus of this stage of the Ducati Monster 695 custom motorcycle build is the seat. Transforming the original two-person seat into a custom single café racer seat makes a huge difference to the look of the bike and starts to establish the shape of the finished motorcycle.