#001 · Fiera
The Beast
One motor, two expressions.
Fiera is the old Italian word for a wild beast, the one used in the classic tellings of the fable. She is the Beast half of a sibling pair. Her sister, Belta, is a Paul Smart 1000 LE left exactly as Ducati built her: silver over a sea-green trellis frame, the reference object. Fiera is a Monster S2R 1000 going the other way.
Everything goes black. Tank, wheels, exhaust, hardware. One exception: the trellis frame, painted Belta's sea-green, matched by scanning her actual frame rather than trusting a paint code. On Belta the green is an accent under silver. On Fiera it is the only color in a black field, so the eye goes straight to the skeleton, and the skeleton is the shared DNA.
No second color. No graphics. No chrome. The green does all the talking.
Ducati's own name for the Monster was il Mostro. The beast role was factory-assigned. The build just commits to it.
Fiera is the first bike Aaron Christopher Evans and Phillip Mirgliotta are designing together. Forgiati number one.
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