Monobloc engine: an internal combustion engine with the cylinder head and block formed as one unit.
The more expensive 1100S featured a durable low friction diamond-like carbon (DLC) black coating to the front fork sliders, an Öhlins remote reservoir rear shock, the same Brembo Monobloc brake calipers used on the 1098, lighter forged aluminium Marchesini wheels with a red pin-stripe, Pirelli tires, plus carbon fibre fork protectors, timing belt covers, front mudguard/ fender and tail/ exhaust side panels.
The principal products are the STEYR M1-“Monoblock” engine family which is the result of a long development process that was started by Steyr-Daimler-Puch in the 1920s.