Bimota

[Super Dave]

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.

[cornercamping]

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...

PM sent.  Your email isn't listed  ???

[the_weggie_man]

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.

[Super Dave]

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!

[cornercamping]

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

[racesbikes]

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.

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.

[Super Dave]

You 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.

[Old808]

I'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? ???

[Old808]

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.

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

[Super Dave]

The 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.