new Bimota

[kevrider]

DB7

[veefer800canuck]

Ooh, neeto.

Dug this up as well:

"With styling once again by Enrico Borghesan, the new model will be available in two forms – a Strada version using the engine package from the current 1098 Ducati, and a race-focused Corsa variant available with a kit to bring capacity up to the full 1200cc which World Superbike regulations will shortly be amended to allow V-twins like the DB7 to measure – just as Ducati has a 1200R version of the current 1098 under development for such an eventuality. Comini is committed to bringing Bimota back to the racetrack on the 20th anniversary of the small Italian company so narrowly failing to clinch the first-ever World Superbike Championship with the YB4 in the hands of Davide Tardozzi, today team manager of the works Ducati SBK team. Tardozzi won the first-ever World Superbike race at Donington Park in April 1988 on his factory Bimota, then at the other end of the season went into the final race of the 1988 SBK series in New Zealand leading the points table, only to crash on the warmup lap and non-start, handing Honda the first-ever World Superbike crown.
Bimota’s Superbike victories 20 years ago underlined the success of the specialist Italian manufacturer’s constant efforts to push back the frontiers of motorcycle technology, then deliver the results to their customers for the street, in the form of a racer-with-lights. Comini & Co. will be hoping that the DB7’s innovative design will achieve the same objectives, while pushing the company’s annual production on to 900 bikes for the 2009 model year. And, yes – there’s a good chance that, alongside the forthcoming new Bimota Superbike, there’ll be another born-again Tesi model in the company’s lineup, according to chief engineer Acquaviva. “For sure there’ll be another eight-valve version of the Tesi sometime in the future,” he confirms. “But whether it’ll be with a ‘D’ in the name, I can’t say….!” Well, if not fitted with a Ducati motor, there’s a host of alternative candidates – from KTM to Aprilia, Harley to Suzuki, Voxan to – well, to Bimota’s very own engine, the one they’ve dreamed of building for the past quarter-century, and ended up settling instead for the supposedly les costly two-stroke Vdue 500, which sent them instead for yet another drink in the last chance saloon. Place your bets now.…."

[kevrider]

there’s a host of alternative candidates – from KTM to Aprilia, Harley to Suzuki, Voxan....

not thinking Tesi, but Bimota in general....  imagine a Bimota powered by a KTM single!!  a nice, strong KTM single makes, what, 60hp?  crammed into an artfully crafted Bimota sportbike chassis, something around 350 lbs, maybe less... it would drop into a vacant niche and would be silly fun to ride.    dreamin'.....

[Orson]

not thinking Tesi, but Bimota in general....  imagine a Bimota powered by a KTM single!!  a nice, strong KTM single makes, what, 60hp?  crammed into an artfully crafted Bimota sportbike chassis, something around 350 lbs, maybe less... it would drop into a vacant niche and would be silly fun to ride.    dreamin'.....

now, dat's whut I'm tawkin' bout  

I see in the December issue of BIKE magazine, another Italian company did something like this but used a relatively gutless Rotax 650cc engine.

[kevrider]

Orson, check out the MCN link in this thread.