Update 6.10.2014: While the auction is over, you can also see this bike on the Loudbike site. -dc I’ve written about bikes from Loudbike before, over on our sister site Classic Sport Bikes for Sale, but the last one was patterned after a garden-variety 750 F1. Very classic, but not especially pretty… I hate to…
Few manufacturers in the motorcycle world have created quite as many exotic machines as the fabled Rimini, Italy firm of Bimota. Known for high quality, lightweight sportbikes that are produced in limited numbers – with commensurately high price tags – all Bimotas except one (first person to correctly post a comment as to which model…
RSBFS just missed this auction the first time around, but fortunately for all of us this beautiful and rare Bimota DB2 is back. The eBay longevity might have something to do with the asking price (starting bid of $14k USD), but it is hard to argue with a bike that shows as well as this…
What we have here is a true, multi-national offering. A custom frame and bodywork wrought from the finest craftsmen Rimini, Italy has known is powered by the fiercest Japanese liter 750 cc engine offered during this period and is now available in Germany (also known as the land of few speed limits) for purchase by…
For those who participate in the occasional track day, a little masking tape and the removal of mirrors is enough. For others, a dedicated track day bike – usually an inexpensive or well-used model with track-specific changes – is in order. Take that one step further and consider a full blown race bike. If money…
One of the oddities offered up by performance boutique bike builder Bimota (say that a few times fast), the Mantra was – to put it bluntly – a brand failure. It is probably not fair to write off the Mantra completely, however, as the ovid-tube frame made its way to the DB4 (as did the…
The SB6 is one of the most powerful Bimota produced. Fitted with a tuned Suzuki GSX-R 1100 water cooled engine, it delivered a whopping 146 hp when new. Unlike its Japanese engine donor, the SB6 is not a comfortable do-it-all fast all rounder, it is instead, a purpose built sport bike with a big and…
When a Japanese-engined Italian exotic shows up at an El Paso Harley Davidson dealership, you begin to wonder if perhaps Bimotas are not that rare after all. The truth is that you would be both right AND wrong. These are hand crafted motorcycles from a very low-volume manufacturer, but they made a few more of…
