BiMoTa is a small, semi-bespoke Italian motorcycle manufacturer. A 125 cc motorcycle, the Italian-manufactured Cagiva Planet. ...

Founded in 1973 in Rimini, Italy by Bianchi, Morri and Tamburini: the first two letters of each forming the name BI-MO-TA, a portmanteau. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and capital city of the Rimini Province. ... Massimo Tamburini is a motorcycle designer for Italian motorcycle companies such as Cagiva, Ducati, Aprilia, and Bimota, which he founded, together with Bianchi and Morri (BiMoTa). ... Look up Portmanteau word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

At the time of foundation, the state of frame design and overall packaging was poor, and so BiMoTa concentrated on taking great engines and building excellent motorcycles around them. They first customised the top-models of Suzuki, Honda and Kawasaki. In the 1980s they also customised Yamaha and Ducati. Suzuki Motor Corporation (スズキ株式会社) TYO: 7269 is a Japanese manufacturing company producing a range of small automobiles (especially Keicars), a full range of motorcycles, outboard motors, and a variety of other small combustion-powered engine products. ... For other uses, see Honda (disambiguation). ... Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Yamaha Motor Corporation (ヤマハ発動機株式会社) is a motorized vehicle-producing company, initially part of the Yamaha Corporation. ... Ducati Motor Holding is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer. ...

Today they make very expensive and exclusives bikes, as they develop cutting-edge chassis and add very high-end suspension and other components to push handling and performance levels. In present, they build four models: DB5 Mille, SBK8 Gobert, SBK8 Santa Monica and Tesi 2D. Bimota model names reflect the origin of the engines they begin with; Yamaha- and Ducati- engined creations began with Y and D respectively. Thus the DB5 and SB8K are the 5th Ducati-engined and 8th Suzuki-engined models.

In 2005 in Milan Motorbike Exposition, Bimota launched a new naked motorbike derived from the DB5Mille: the new DB6 Delirio. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese: Milán) is the main city of northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed region in Italy, being often mistaken with the capital of the country. ...

External links

• Official website