Couple of Beauties!!

[Primate]

So Poole bike night was pretty quiet last week but still some nice bikes around....
Favourite of the night was the Conquest Carbon Ducati Panigale 1199 Show Bike...



Then spotted this Bimota at the AWS bike garage yesterday......



Enjoy the bike porn! ;)

[TLS-Moose]

Oooh, I'll take the V-Due please

[avengerpenguin]

Panigale is awesome looking

[billinom8s]

Hubba Hubba

[TLS-Moose]

Panigale is awesome looking

D'Ya think? really?

Not so sure myself ..... too many lines going in different directions, a very 'angry' face, and no real 'flow' to the design make it very bitty to me .......

[avengerpenguin]

Panigale is awesome looking

D'Ya think? really?

Not so sure myself ..... too many lines going in different directions, a very 'angry' face, and no real 'flow' to the design make it very bitty to me .......

Each to his own, I guess its kinda of marmite, however when I can afford it, which wont be for a couple of years I will buy a 899 Panigale.

Plus I am a sucker for carbon

[zing1100]

And when you've paid for it you can ease the pain with the pile cushion that's visible under the rear subframe!!!! I can just imagine the hubby-wife conversations, "It's cheaper to run 'cos it's lighter!" I'd go Bimota.

[avengerpenguin]

And when you've paid for it you can ease the pain with the pile cushion that's visible under the rear subframe!!!! I can just imagine the hubby-wife conversations, "It's cheaper to run 'cos it's lighter!" I'd go Bimota.

Bugger, never noticed that before. Thats put me right off, I am gonna go check if the 899 has the same thing

[avengerpenguin]

Damn, I can confirm it has the same thing, it appears to be a cover over the rear exhaust header

[TLS-Moose]

Damn, I can confirm it has the same thing, it appears to be a cover over the rear exhaust header

Yep, and that header is also responsible for hot arses and melting/setting fire to a few subframes too ....... Litterally the hot seat

[Primate]

BIG shame about the cover! Looks like a bladder!
Found out today, that model of Bimota was made for a race series, so are pretty rare in numbers. You can see the quick wheel release on the front forks. Apparently they're going for around £18k in good nick?! (Haven't looked into that claim) And that should get you one with both race and road fairings. All carbon fibre!

[TLS-Moose]

BIG shame about the cover! Looks like a bladder!
Found out today, that model of Bimota was made for a race series, so are pretty rare in numbers. You can see the quick wheel release on the front forks. Apparently they're going for around £18k in good nick?! (Haven't looked into that claim) And that should get you one with both race and road fairings. All carbon fibre!

Not quite. They came about at the time of the 500 twin motogp bikes, but were always designed as road going bikes. The initial production run suffered very badly from leaks, unreliability, and a very problematic electronic direct fuel injection. A lot of bikes ended up going back to Rimini in bits.

After several failed attempts to sort their baby, they ended up ditching the fuel injection and fitting carbs which transformed the bike.

As said though, there aren't that many out there, and those that are around command high prices ........

And just to help their cool factor, Brit bikers fave truck mechanic has one .......

[Primate]

BIG shame about the cover! Looks like a bladder!
Found out today, that model of Bimota was made for a race series, so are pretty rare in numbers. You can see the quick wheel release on the front forks. Apparently they're going for around £18k in good nick?! (Haven't looked into that claim) And that should get you one with both race and road fairings. All carbon fibre!

Not quite. They came about at the time of the 500 twin motogp bikes, but were always designed as road going bikes. The initial production run suffered very badly from leaks, unreliability, and a very problematic electronic direct fuel injection. A lot of bikes ended up going back to Rimini in bits.

After several failed attempts to sort their baby, they ended up ditching the fuel injection and fitting carbs which transformed the bike.

As said though, there aren't that many out there, and those that are around command high prices ........

And just to help their cool factor, Brit bikers fave truck mechanic has one .......

Cheers for the info Moose! They must be cool if he's got one. ;)