When ever a Bimota pops up on the market it is noteworthy. These bikes are rare, exotic and beautiful both to ride and to look at. The idea that a small batch Italian manufacture would take an already fabulous bike , the Ducati 900SS, and make every little detail just that much better is what…
The motorcycle world offers many interesting rabbit holes to dive into. One can spend hours learning about a bike that only a few dozen are ever built. Something that defies logic from a monetary standpoint, something that is just so over the top one would struggle to picture the intended buyer. As one learns more…
Bimota’s stock-in-trade has always been aggressive, lightweight racebikes for the road but, every once in a while, they throw us a curveball. Or even the occasional knuckleball like this DB3 Mantra. An unapologetically road-biased machine, Bimota’s third Ducati-powered special featured upright ergonomics, an oval-section trellis frame shared with the later DB4, a roto-molded fuel tank…
Bimota’s successful line of Ducati-powered bikes seems a bit unconventional for the brand, considering they’d always been about creating machines that fused powerful, well-engineered Japanese engines with lightweight, race-bred frames to create bikes that were more than the sum of their parts. But machines like this DB4 seemed to be more about just distilling a…
Bimota could be thought of as an Italian alternative to Harris, Metisse, or Egli, companies that took the refined engines and transmissions from established industry giants, and then provided frames and new bodywork to create desirable exotics you could service at a local dealer… Although at this point, only Bimota is still building complete motorcycles.…
This Bimota ticks all the right boxes for me: It’s light, it looks fantastic, and it utilizes an old school approach to power and performance. In fact they not only revert from the then current 900 Supersport’s fuel injection to carbs, the race kit utilizes chokeless Keihin FCR carbs and a 2 into 1 titanium…
Anything interesting for sale in UK you ask? I sure think so. That red numberplate is always a sign of something special. In my humble opinion the most collectible of GSX-R’s, the 1989 RR. It has almost 18,000 miles on it but it sure looks like a sharp example. Asking price is 14,980GBP which is over $22,000! …
Update 1.5.2013: Now available on eBay for $9899. Links updated. -dc It’s been a while since we posted a Bimota on these pages. The search for the rare and the magnificent is a feast or famine affair. Fortunately the Bimota famine appears to be over with this very nice DB4. Offered by the same seller…