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Re: New Bimota

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Looks tiny...

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Spy shot from the More Crap than News of a pre-production one undergoing brake testing.

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/new ... imota-kb4/
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Hmm...so they fitted brake calipers after all.
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G.P wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 12:13 pm Tesi 3D for me



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Now that is nice ,,,,
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I quite like it.
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KungFooBob wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 1:06 pm Oh Noes!

It looks rubbish.

https://www.asphaltandrubber.com/bikes/bimota-kb4-rc/

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Hold on.... it looks WAY worse than just rubbish !!!! It's a bloody monstrosity !!!
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That's all kinds of different fugly all pulling in different directions. No two lumps hanging the same road.

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I'd rather have the Test H2 (that thing above is gopping).
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Only me then ? :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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WTF does that look like, I don't no where to start criticising it, there are so many ugly bits.
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Wow. That looks like Bimota pulled out all the shit bike designs they had lying about and then asked the designer to combine them all on one bike.
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Was the design brief "make something that proves the Mantra wasn't the ugliest bike we can make"
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Horse wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:05 am
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 8:35 am
Yorick wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 8:33 am Summat like that deserves the full fat ZX10R engine. Not one from a sports tourer.
Probably deserves some brake callipers too.
No need, there's no hoses going to them.
Or sprocket for the chain.
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Yorick wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 1:32 pm Only me then ?
Yup, absolutely minging and hit every branch on the way down.

Just doesnt flow in any way at all and the front end looks like they started a design then someone remembered all they had in the parts bin were old round headlights from the 70's so cut a hole to fit
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That is gopping. And that’s coming from someone who rides a GSA.
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I usually like bikes that have interesting non generic looks.

Not that one though :lol:
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I think the underseat radiator has compromised the whole thing.

To get the air flow to it they've had to build in massive ducts that just fuck the whole thing up.
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Re: New Bimota

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They'd be OK is there was some payoff' elsewhere you'd expect some other aspect of the bike to be slimmer and sexier if you don't need to fit the radiator in it's 'usual' place. That doesn't seem to be the case here.