Bimota KB-2

I don't know if this has made the rounds, but... damn!

hadn't seen that pic in particular but i do have these pics,















leon

Does look a great bike but far too much bling and polishing for my taste.

Maybe spray it all matt black???

guitargeek wrote: I don't know if this has made the rounds, but... damn!

you love your red frames dont you? :laugh:

531blackbanshee wrote: hadn't seen that pic in particular but i do have these pics

Leon, it's interesting that the bodywork is different in just about every picture you posted. I guess they just kept revising it...

There are other wrap-around style frames for the KZ engine (Martin, Harris Magnum), but I like the Bimota frame the best...

I think the first version for the KZ/Z1 engine was the KB-1, while the KB-2 was built around the KZ650/750 motor, and the KB-3 was based on the J/GPZ1000 motor.

More pictures.....

I think this one is my favorite body kit:


race ready:


An early version with a stock frame?


The frame:


KB2? lattice frame:


Next gen KB3:

DoctoRot wrote:

guitargeek wrote: I don't know if this has made the rounds, but... damn!

you love your red frames dont you? :laugh:

:lol: Can you blame me?

that lattice frame with the swingarm pivots way out there so they line up with the countershaft sprocket and keep constant equal tension on the chain is pretty crazy cool.
dohc,
it does look like they don't mind changing things around :ohmy: !

leon

531blackbanshee wrote: that lattice frame with the swingarm pivots way out there so they line up with the countershaft sprocket and keep constant equal tension on the chain is pretty crazy cool.

I assumed it had something to do with removing the torque reaction during acceleration due to the offset between pivot and output shaft. Is the unequal chain tension enough of a problem to go to all of that trouble?

Mostly, it just looks like you'd have to have small feet in order to fit them behind that giant pivot.

Here are a few more shots:

dohc,i wouldn't think it was a big enough deal to go through that much trouble.
but,
apparently they did :whistle: .

leon

BUMP!

The 2nd-gen BIMOTA chassis, if nothing else PRACTICAL for the rest of us, it's a fantastic spectacle of what all WE could be doing with the 16" specimens of the OEM 7-spoke wheels. I've always wondered at the possibilities of using a 3.5x16" rear wheel, with a custom sprocket-carrier if it's only available from a shaft-drive wheel with the 7-lug cush-drive etc, but either which way pair it up to a 3.0x16" specimen of the original MORRIS mag wheels, with the bolt-up cush-drive - with spacers for dual front discs instead of the cush-drive & rear rotor etc etc. Could make for a really cool OEM style Bimota pseudo-replica. OR perhaps even an air-cooled pseudo-replica of the GPZ900RR.....

-Sigh.