Are they still around? Is there a U.S. importer ???
nope and no...
The V-Due was it's demise. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Big shame too. Way cool bikes with very nice designs.
Damn. You see that bike with a front swing arm :o That was just bad azz. I'd buy one 8)
Ahh the Tesi 1D
I saw one of those up on Ebay about a year back.. never looked to see what it sold for...
No matter, finding Spares would be a real pain :P
XIII
I'd still buy one. That thing is some pimp sh@t 8) There's some place in CA that has all kinds of hard to find bikes for sale, but they want big money for them. :(
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Think I saw a Bimota in Motorcycle Performance (Madison, WI) the other day...
Every now and then I see an older Bimota out at a track day, old DB2s, etc.
It probably wouldn't be that bad getting parts for one. Other than the V-Due, they always used other engines (Ducati, Suzuki), and the chassis stuff was all top line Ohlins and Brembo, so there aren't too many Bimota specific parts on one other that the frame, bodywork, rearsets, exhaust, etc.
The Tesi is way cool but I'd go for an SB8R myself - the best use ever for a TL1000R engine.
-z.
I'm seriously looking to buy a Bimota to add to my collection of "exotics." I spoke with a guy that specifically deals with Bimota bikes, and he said to watch out for some of them. He said they had an injection problem, and that some guys are replacing the injection system with another, and that severely decreases the value of the bike. It almost makes it worthless. He said he knows where there is an original Bimota 500 V-Due for sale, with 0 miles on the ODO. A collector has it, and wants $55K for it. I wouldn't pay that much, but I would definetly entertain a solid original for under $15K that I could restore with original parts, and as long as the engine/trans/frame numbers matched, I'd do it. If anyone knows someone or something, let me know. I'd love to have the TESI 1D just because of it's design. That thing is really a masterpiece.
I'm also looking for a Benelli Toranado TRE LE if anyone knows where one is in mint condition. I was on the list for one, but the importer screwed everyone, and took off with the money. >:( Luckily I used AMEX for the deposit, so I got my money back, but there are quite a few that got screwed for the full amount of the bike. :(
Wholly Crap :o
http://motopoint.com/Pages/shop.html
Anyone wanna buy a semiused kidney? :P
I have availible to me, for sale
Tesi1D
TesiEF
SB8R
Yb11
SB6
SB6R
All in great shape, and ready to ride...
email me if you are serious...
Also
Honda NR750...
There you go. Put up or shut up Dan!
I'll tell you what. Buy one of these and I'll build you a nice doghouse to park it in...
Heck, you might as well just buy them all, right?
In 1989, I worked with the Roscetti Corportation...they secured the real importation rights, not gray line importing, of Bimota's from Rimini.
They were a total pain to deal with. The highlights were Dale Quarterley and Tommy Douglas (a Canadian Yamaha factory rider) racing the Dieci (basically, what would have been a YB10 - FZR1000 motored) in the AMA Three Hour Endurance. Won several races. I was on a "B" team, but we only ended up having a ride at Daytona...my first ride at Daytona...and the bike was an FZR750R Superbike.
Anyway, that was how I started working with Quarterley.
For 1992, Dale was supposed to campaign the Tesi in Superbike for the season. He tested the bike, I think, in like November 1991 and got the thing set up where the Italian guys were struggling a bit. Bike came to Daytona with some engineers from Bimota...I think he was in the top ten, but the fuel pump died or something. Program fell apart after that, Quarterley got his hook up from his friends at Mirage Studios...Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...and the next several years he was on Kawasaki's.
QuoteI have availible to me, for sale
Tesi1D
TesiEF
SB8R
Yb11
SB6
SB6R
All in great shape, and ready to ride...
email me if you are serious...
Also
Honda NR750...
PM sent. Your email isn't listed ???
Andy Fenwick held the overall motorcycle track record at Blackhawk for many years. He set it riding a Bimota with I beleive an FZR750 engine.
Somewhere I have photos of that record run.
Yeah, Gordy, that was the bike that Doug and Dale rode. Dave Zupan was the guy that the Roscetti Corportation had do the work for the team's program. It was a 1000. The FZR750R that I rode at Daytona was Zupan's. Rich Doan, now of Yoshimura, previously with Muzzy for WSB, was Zupan's head guy.
Time was like a 1:11.9 something in 1991. Wasn't that with the track before you and Mike Irwin made 3D?
My life has order because I remember what race and what bike I was riding in certain months and years...LOL!
Wanna know how to get rich...
Find the custom bike that Ducati gave Foggy ! Ducati gave Foggy a one of a kind bike, made especially for him. If I remember correctly, it sold for like $100K + at a Sothebey's auction to someone, but nobody knows where it went. Last year, in the Dupont Registry, they talked about this bike. It was a one off built for Foggy by Ducati Corse. They gave it to him for some occasion, but I can't remember what. It had a custom plate on the top tripple giving thanks in Italian. Anyways, that bike is no where to be seen, but it's got a several MILLION $ bounty on it from a few collectors overseas that want it. All you gotta do is find it, and then give up it's location for a bounty award.... You wouldn't belive what some of the really collectable bikes go for. :o
Quotenope and no...
The V-Due was it's demise. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Big shame too. Way cool bikes with very nice designs.
Bimota is back in business and offering a 992cc air-cooled V-twin (Multistrada engine) Tesi 2D that is based on the original Tesi and a TL1000 engined SB8K Gobert Replica. Roland Brown tests them in the August 2004 Superbike Magazine. North Leicester Motorcycles is the UK contact for the bikes, not sure if they're being brought here. Steep pricing with the 2D about $48K and the SB8K going for about $50K.
QuoteYou wouldn't belive what some of the really collectable bikes go for. :o
I do.
I knew some of the history of how the Honda 250/6 six GP bike got into private hands...and it got running for AHRMA events. Very different sound.
Rode the Big Halsey Little Fauss movie Yamaha TR2...owned by a guy that I've ridden for.
I ride for a guy that had the first Yoshimura race bike for North America...It led ten laps of the Daytona 200 in 1971...then popped. The rider, Gary Fisher, he's the guy in On Any Sunday that crashed, broke his back, then soaked his cast off to race...Anyway, the bike was just bought from my friend by Honda Japan.
Lots of stuff to own out there.
QuoteI'm seriously looking to buy a Bimota to add to my collection of "exotics." :(
OMG, there we go again... ::)
How many exotics in the "collection" right now? ???
QuoteBimota is back in business and offering a 992cc air-cooled V-twin (Multistrada engine) Tesi 2D that is based on the original Tesi and a TL1000 engined SB8K Gobert Replica. Roland Brown tests them in the August 2004 Superbike Magazine. North Leicester Motorcycles is the UK contact for the bikes, not sure if they're being brought here. Steep pricing with the 2D about $48K and the SB8K going for about $50K.
Bimota won't make it. The time when you could build better bikes around current Japanese engines is gone. And if anybody buys a $50K Gobert-endorsed Better TL1000, I'll gladly sell them the Brooklyn bridge too. ;D
QuoteThe time when you could build better bikes around current Japanese engines is gone.
Yup...
Even the Dieci had problems in racing in 1991. Japanese OEM air boxes had evolved then to be part of the whole package. The big frame rails on that bike caused some turbulance that limited the power output compared to the FZR1000's.