Bimota
Bimota is an Italian motorcycle company located in the city of Rimini.
Decoding models names
The names of Bimota motorcycles are very schematic:
- 1letter:
Identifies the provider of the engine ("Y" to Yamaha, "H" for Honda, "K" for Kawasaki, "S" for Suzuki, "HD" for Harley-Davidson, then the "D" for Ducai). - 2ndletter:
Bimota Initial "B" - 3letter:
type model - '4th letter (if any):
The different versions of the same model
The only exceptions are the 500-Vdue which is concerned entirely designed by Bimota Tesi and (1D, 2D e 3-D), which has a particular pattern of front suspension.
History
The Bimota was born in 1966 as a company in the field of heating and air conditioning. Its name is the first two letters of the surname of the three founding partners: Bianchi, Morri and Tamburini. A few years later Massimo Tamburini, designer, directs the company towards the production of special components for motorcycles and in 1973 the company began working in the motorcycle field.
Features
Bimota has never built engine on its own, with the exception of " Vdue-500". At the beginning of its activity creates Bimota frame and motorcycles in competition, the various were the YB1, YB2,YB3, HDB1, HDB2, and SB1.
Production
First road model, the'HB1, Honda Motor has 750CBand tubular frame. In 1977 nascono the SB2'dismountable from the frame, and the'KB1.
Participation in competitions is awarded to the 1980 when Jon Ekerold wins the World Cup Class 350, seven years later Virginio Ferrari won the championship World TT F1.
The models of the 1980s are: HB2, HB3, SB3, SB4, SB5, YB4 EI ,YB6,YB6 EX UP, YB6 Tuatara, KB2, KB3, DB1, DB1 S andDB1 RS.
Members
In 1983 Tamburini leaves Bimota and successor Federico Martini, author of themotionDB1 (the first motor Bimota Ducati) and chassis aluminum became a box Bimota standard. Its also YB4Rwhich won the TT F1 World with Virginio Ferrari. Federico Martini introduces the first in the motorcycle sector (including Japanese brands), the electronic injection engines 750 cc, which is competing in the series production.
Anche Federico Martini lascia però la Bimota. They were the first Nineties, and is replaced by Pierluigi Marconi.
90 Years
Marconi continues the construction of aluminum chassis box, and come YB8, YB8 E, YB8 Furano, YB9 Bellaria, YB9 SR, YB9 SRI,YB10, YB10 tandem, YB11, SB6, SB6R, SB7, SB8R.
But Marconi take new roads, and its oval tube chassis was born DB2 SR DB2, DB2EF,DB3 "," Mantra " ',Supermono tandem , "500-Vdue,Thesis 1 / D(with front swingarm instead of the classic fork).
The 710 cc Supermono, prototype of the "Supermono tandem with BMW-derived engine and made competitive by Fiaccavento conducted by Gianluca Galasso countdown Ducati" clapper "driven by Pierfrancesco Chili winning the European Championship race at Mugello category. Galasso won the Italian title with the same bike.
Following the "500-Vdue", the only model produced entirely by Bimota, equipped with a propeller longitudinal V-twin 500 cc), first two-stroke engine operated by injection electronically.
Bankruptcy
At the end of the nineties comes the decline, due to a financial crisis.
At the beginning of the decade, the bike is the most importantRSB8, with aluminum frame and carbon. With theKSB8 Bimota back to competitions in the World Cup Superbike for derived from the series, and by the second race wins the first victory in the wet, with Anthony Gobert.
A cure engines is derived Suzuki Farnè, but the financial crisis grows and the Bimota declaring bankruptcy.
News
The rebirth
In 2003 a new property restart the activity by making major investments. The first motion made,theDB5, awarded by the 2004 Motorcycle Design Award ", title issued for the Supersport category from the" Motorcycle Design Association. This motion presents the trellis swingarm tubing, painted in red as the chassis, coupled to an aluminum plate and called the "composite Traliccio".
In 2005 Bimota launched at the Salon of Milano anakedon a DB5, designed by Sergio Robbiano of Robbiano Design:the DB6 Delirio.
The following year the exhibition is an opportunity to present the two-seater version of the DB5 Mille but especially the third generation of the thesis calledTesi 3D, with a fairing in essential classic colors red-white Bimota.
In 2007, the Fair of Milan, presents the Bimota DB7, designed by Enrico Borghesan, which presents different motorcycle technical innovations as the rear suspension system on the engine infulcrato (solution used in MotoGP) and the rear frame made entirely of fiber carbon self, as the front frame. The frame is a mixed lattice in oval section tubes and plates cut from solid aluminum. The DB7 has a budget cycle of the first order, while the vehicle is entrusted to the Ducati 1099 cc from which equips the 1098th DB7 in a standard configuration has participated in the tender of the mugello Desmo Challenge 2008 with Danilo Marrancone, centering an important result: in his victory.
Bimota many are engaged in competition in the national and international trophies: Tesi 3D, DB5, DB6 and DB7 now.
Bimota's co-founder and long-time chief designer Tamburini has been an influential player in the development of other Italian brands, most significantly his work on the popular Ducati 916 and MV Agusta F4; other designers such as current Bimota chief Sergio Robbiano have also been involved with larger-volume manufacturers.
== == The current range
- DB5 S
- DB5 R
- DB6 Delirio
R * DB6 Delirio
- Tesi 3D
- DB7
External links
- Official website
- french endurance team which use few Bimota classic
- German website with international forum
