Update 3.11.2019: This bike has SOLD! Congratulations to buyer and seller! -dc For the money, 1990s Bimotas offer some pretty incredible bang for your buck. Obviously, a more modern machine of equal value will be faster, as well as more reliable and practical, but if the goal is to own something different, something exotic, and…
I’ve mentioned this before, but everything just sounds cooler in Italian. If you want to intimidate someone, just shout gibberish at them in German: anything you say sounds clipped and military and very, very serious. But yell at someone in Italian, and it just sounds like you’re trying to very emphatically seduce them. I mean,…
Quite rare stateside, the Yamaha 400-four powered Bimota YB7 might be the exotic you feel safe sending your girlfriend out on. While most of the 321 production models went to Japan ( due to insurance regulations ), a handful has found there way here. Though you can wind it out in every gear, the feather…
Only rarely seen outside Japan, the market for which it was exclusively designed, the Bimota YB7 is like a 3/4 scale YB4. The bike is based around the FZR400 powerplant, so it’s obviously no real powerhouse, with a claimed 65hp from the 399cc liquid-cooled four. But that just means you get a sweet-handling, four-cylinder exotic…
What you are looking at is 400ccs of Bimota goodness. Meant to be the Rimini firm’s entry into the hyperactive Japanese small bike segment, the YB7 called on styling and design cues from larger Bimota models while making the best possible use of the Yamaha sourced FZ400 engine and gearbox. There was a planned run…
For Sale: 1988 Bimota YB7 I’m dragging on my nomex undies in preparation for this one. By all counts a very rare YB7 deserves a place in the pages of RSBFS – and a home in somebody’s heated garage. But the reality of hand built Italian motorcycles is that most of them are rare, and…
Destination Japan: 1989 Bimota YB7 You are looking at Bimota’s entry into the Japanese small cc wars of the late 80’s and early 90’s. Apparently the Japanese Bimota importer had the exclusive right to the YB7’s until the buyers there voted with their wallets and said “no more”. The production run was supposed to produce…