Bimota

Bimota is a manufacturer Italy N of motor bikes. The name of the firm comes from his/her three founding fathers: Valerio Bianchi, Giuseppe Morri and Tamburini.

At the origin, the three associated ones assemble a specialized company in the heatings and the Climatisation S.

Finding the frameworks motor bikes Japan too unstable eases, Massimo Tamburini decided to create its own framework, which it adapts on its Honda CB 750 Furnace personal, after an route exit in the parabolic turn of the circuit of Misano. Bimota was born in 1966 and the first motor bike is produced in 1973; it was personal HB1 of Tamburini. A few months later, whereas it ran on the circuit of Misano, a pilot Suisse noticed the motor bike and asked Tamburini to manufacture a second of it… This machine allowed to him to gain the Swiss championship of hill climb the following year.

The firm decides to create a branch motor cycle called Bimota Meccanica. After the departure of Bianchi, Morri and Tamburini decide of priviligier the branch motor cycle with the detriment of the factory of heating, however remunerative. For this reason the first executives were manufactured with tube of heating.

For the denomination of the models, the first letter represents the motor mechanic, the second the Bimota factory. When with the figure, it specifies the row of exit of the model for the same motor mechanic.

It is in 1974 that the transalpine firm gains its first victory in Grand Prix speed with a YB1 with engine Yamaha 250 then 350 cm ³. Apart from the HB1 which was sold only with one handle of lucky, and some special parts (oscillating Bras S, bracelets etc.) adapting on the part-cycles of orgine, 1976 will have to be awaited so that Bimota take the road with the SB2 then the KB1. For these the first two road models, Bimota provided in fact a complete kit to adapt on its motor bike. First Bimota of road delivered key in hands is the KB2 550 cm ³. Thus, contrary to the majority of the manufacturers of part-cycles of the Years 1970, Bimota was going to survive to arrive it of the frames in Aluminum Japan board, increasing its year production by year until its Best-seller: the SB6.

The supreme title arrives in 1980 with the South-African pilot Jon Ekerold, world champion speed in 350 cm ³, then in 1987 in TTF1 with the pilot Virginio Ferrari on a YB4 motorized by the engine of Yamaha 750 FZ.

The factory, like much in Italy, knew tops and bottoms during its history. The first crisis was the departure of Tamburini which joined the row of Cagiva in 1983 (where it drew amongst other things the Ducati Paso, but especially the Ducati 916). It was replaced by engineer Federico Martini which gradually gave up the construction of the tubular executives for that of the aluminum executives.

Tamburini was the angular stone of the mark (Morri being more the financier of association), impassioned technician of competition it endeavoured during ten years to bring Bimota to the top while making take part the majority of its creations in various championship (Italian, Suisse, world, endurance etc…) with excellent results. Its departure coïncidat with new objectives consisting in more developing the production that the competition.

Martini was surrounded then of two young students who carried out a thesis in the field of the motor bike. The prototypes which will emerge from this alliance will call Tesi and will have the characteristic not to have a fork but a second oscillating arm.

After the manufacture of several prototypes of race, Bimota decided to decline the project for the road, thus was born Tesi 1/D in 1990.

The following project was that of a news 500 cm ³ two times, the V-Due. The basic idea was neither more nor less than to build a machine able to be aligned in Grands Prix in 500 cm ³ and to be approved for the road. If the version with Carburateur S were very promising in Italian championship, its approved version, with injection (for the anti-pollution standards), known enormous problems of development, at such point that they obliged the small factory to repurchase the sold models. The firm could not unfortunately go back some financially and was obliged to put the key under the door in 2000.

Repurchased since by Roberto Comini, a giant of the drug company, and given on feet, the Bimota factory started again its production in 2005.

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