Ultra-lightweight Ducati-powered NCR weighs just 126kg

This Monster-powered, featherweight racer is the M4 One Shot, the latest beauty from Bologna-based bike builders NCR.

Using the same basic geometry and concept as the firm’s 1000 Millona race bike, and borrowing heavily from the Ducati Monster 1100 Evo – itself a meagre 169kg – the stripped down, titanium and carbon-fibre constructed M4 One Shot tips the scales at a phenomenally slight 126kg wet. Couple that with a 132bhp output and you have a power-to-weight ratio that exceeds any production superbike’s and begins to justify the £52,000 asking price.

While the standard air-cooled 100 Evo engine makes 107bhp and 84ftlb at 7500rpm, the heavily modified version in the M4 One Shot uses titanium pistons, an increased stroke and specially fabricated titanium internals – from cylinder to cams – to reach 132bhp and 105ftlb at 8,700rpm. NCR will also offer a base 130kg M4 – minus the One Shot moniker – with an unaltered 1078cc Ducati lump for £35,000.

The firm says its mission is to “redefine motorcycling by setting a new standard in light weight, simplicity and pureness of design and technology”.

The M4 and M4 One Shot are being launched in North America, with a European release planned next year.

Where the NCR fits in

	Power (claimed)	Weight (wet)	Power-weight ratio
Yamaha M1 MotoGP bike	240bhp	148kg	1.62
Ducati 1199 Panigale	195bhp	176kg	1.11
NCR M4 One Shot	132bhp	126kg	1.05
BMW S1000RR	193bhp	207.7kg	0.93
Suzuki GSX-R600	126bhp	187kg	0.67
Ducati Monster 1100 Evo	100bhp	185kg	0.54
Bugatti Veyron supercar	1001bhp	1888kg	0.52
KTM 125 Duke	15bhp	128kg	0.11

 

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