Unregistered Bimota Vdue

Unregistered Bimota Vdue

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Esceptico

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7,340 posts

108 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Mmmm

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BIMOTA-VDUE-EDIZIONE-FI...

Luckily I’m not in the U.K. so can’t be tempted. Hideously expensive and if you wanted to use it properly would no doubt have to spend more to get it running properly. But once you did...

babelfish

917 posts

206 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Esceptico said:
Mmmm

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BIMOTA-VDUE-EDIZIONE-FI...

Luckily I’m not in the U.K. so can’t be tempted. Hideously expensive and if you wanted to use it properly would no doubt have to spend more to get it running properly. But once you did...
and this would be faster https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SOLD-2004-YAMAHA-YZF-R1...

rodericb

6,660 posts

125 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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babelfish said:
Cool. Now with that logic all the expensive bikes will become cheap as no one wants them and old R1's will be worth megabucks. And we end up back where we started. Mind you I don't see how either of those is going to help deliver a dozen pizza's - there's no topbox.....


Edited by rodericb on Wednesday 28th October 02:52

Esceptico

Original Poster:

7,340 posts

108 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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babelfish said:
And your point is?

Rubin215

3,985 posts

155 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Absolutely beautiful in its own special way but, unfortunately, now nothing more than a museum piece.

It's bound to sell for that sort of price eventually, but I don't see anyone ever buying it to put it on the road.

Shame really.

S2r

660 posts

77 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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I too have seen that V Due and it's all sorts of awesome, shame that it (apparently) bankrupted Bimota.

A couple of people have also put the engine into an RS250 chassis !

NS400R

463 posts

158 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Esceptico said:
Mmmm

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BIMOTA-VDUE-EDIZIONE-FI...

Luckily I’m not in the U.K. so can’t be tempted. Hideously expensive and if you wanted to use it properly would no doubt have to spend more to get it running properly. But once you did...
But once you did.... you'd be introduced to world of dubious reliability and zero parts availability would be my guess. I get the dream, but this would be a nightmare.

Saw one join me on the boat to the TT once. Never saw it again on the island.

srob

11,566 posts

237 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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NS400R said:
But once you did.... you'd be introduced to world of dubious reliability and zero parts availability would be my guess. I get the dream, but this would be a nightmare.

Saw one join me on the boat to the TT once. Never saw it again on the island.
I wouldn’t assume that parts are non existent. There’s a fair following for these in Europe and many parts available. I posted a link on the Aprilia RS660 thread.

I’ve been amazed at the level of support and pets in the Bimota world so don’t let that put you off. Can’t guarantee they’d be cheap spares, but would be available I suspect!

I’ve only ever seen one in the wild and that was in the fuel station in Horncastle en route to Cadwell Park. Incredible thing.

Steve Bass

10,186 posts

232 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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srob said:
NS400R said:
But once you did.... you'd be introduced to world of dubious reliability and zero parts availability would be my guess. I get the dream, but this would be a nightmare.

Saw one join me on the boat to the TT once. Never saw it again on the island.
I wouldn’t assume that parts are non existent. There’s a fair following for these in Europe and many parts available. I posted a link on the Aprilia RS660 thread.

I’ve been amazed at the level of support and pets in the Bimota world so don’t let that put you off. Can’t guarantee they’d be cheap spares, but would be available I suspect!

I’ve only ever seen one in the wild and that was in the fuel station in Horncastle en route to Cadwell Park. Incredible thing.
I know where there's two parked up on display, an early one and an Evo model...

And a Ducati Supermono.




Fundoreen

4,180 posts

82 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Did anyone ever bother to actually ask why they couldnt get a simple 2 stroke engine to run properly?
I guess it was a lot of pipe benders and welders getting out of their depth.
I wonder what value kawasaki found in this outfit to end up owning it?

Rubin215

3,985 posts

155 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Fundoreen said:
Did anyone ever bother to actually ask why they couldnt get a simple 2 stroke engine to run properly?
I guess it was a lot of pipe benders and welders getting out of their depth.
I wonder what value kawasaki found in this outfit to end up owning it?
What a shame no one ever contacted you to help them fix all the problems associated with two stroke emissions, direct injection, bottom-end lubrication etc...

rolleyes

srob

11,566 posts

237 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Fundoreen said:
Did anyone ever bother to actually ask why they couldnt get a simple 2 stroke engine to run properly?
I guess it was a lot of pipe benders and welders getting out of their depth.
I wonder what value kawasaki found in this outfit to end up owning it?
rofl

Did you know that the "ta" part of the name is part of Tamburini? Not sure if you've heard of a bike called the Ducati 916 or another called the MV Agusta F4 but they were his work too, so the company he co-founded was bound to put out some good machines. Bimota also won at least one world championship at GP level.

I love the fact that you can't be bothered to do any research (there's a million articles on what was up with the V-Due) and then accuse the world of not being bothered to get a "simple" two stroke working properly. A child can get a two stroke running, it takes an absolute genius (overused word but not in this case) to get one to run powerfully, reliably and lightly enough to run in a performance bike.

ddom

6,657 posts

47 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Literally the worst bike to buy biggrin

T6 vanman

3,056 posts

98 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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ddom said:
Literally the worst bike to buy biggrin
I can think of others banghead


Benelli Tornado & MM Corsaro owner

NNK

1,140 posts

198 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Trying to remember how much they were going to be new, 12k ?
I had a deposit on one for ages at Galleria D'Italia, the day I was supposed to ride their demo it blew up IIRC and was shipped back to the factory.
The SB6R I bought instead wasnt much of a consolation and I was always hoping that Aprilia would come out with a 4-500cc stroker.

Anyway, if I had a spare 32k floating around and was in Europe I'd be all over that

mak

1,434 posts

225 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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That's a bit steep, I nearly purchased one last year, it was 18k with 50 miles on it, after googling the fact they didn't work and sinking a few more beers as i convinced myself i needed one I then discovered they needed to be converted back to carburettors to make them run ? .
I became 18k better off over the weekend so spent it on other st as I do.

Krikkit

26,500 posts

180 months

Thursday 29th October 2020
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T6 vanman said:
Benelli Tornado & MM Corsaro owner
I like the cut of your jib

Birky_41

4,276 posts

183 months

Thursday 29th October 2020
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T6 vanman said:
I can think of others banghead


Benelli Tornado & MM Corsaro owner
I had a Benelli and loved it... Although it was terribly unreliable

I also massively want this bimota