Progress: Bimota Tesi “Custom”

Hi,

I just started a new project: a Bimota Tesi with Ducati-V2 from Tamiya in 1:12, but „open“ that you can see the technics.
I won´t use the side parts, put the Exhaust under the seat, build a higher steering bar and modify the windshield.

Here are the first steps:


Cutting of the rear fender
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/28/1077928/3461346465326265.jpg


Empty parts were filled and puttied, the yellow tube will form the exhaust.
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/28/1077928/3933323061623638.jpg


Nearly finished rear end and progress on the exhaust
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/28/1077928/1665303965653838.jpg


This is the seat/fuel-cell out of the box.
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/28/1077928/6338623036333231.jpg


Here I cut away „unnecessary“ material and you can see the frame
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/28/1077928/6230333132343561.jpg


Now it is nearly smooth
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/28/1077928/3763646233326330.jpg

Micha

I'll look forward to this. I bet this will be awesome. Havent seen many modified bikes. How about some engine tuning also. Turbo?

I'll look forward to this. I bet this will be awesome. Havent seen many modified bikes. How about some engine tuning also. Turbo?


Hi Jurva,
to be honest: Modifications on the Body are enough for this project :-))). Futher I haven´t seen a Turbo or Compressor on a street Ducati


Micha

Great start! This will be a thread worth watching!

hope to see it completed.. My dad used to have a Tesi 1D, so i'd like to compare hehe :)

Interesting to see a modified bike. I'll follow this thread carefully.

I did this kit when I was 14-16 y/o, so I'd like to see what it will look like with your modifications. I'm sure it will be very nice :)

Finally a moded bike! Looks like you've made a nice start. Nice exhaust.

My bad. V2 is hard to turbocharge. I forgot that this has V2. My friend put turbo in suzuki, but it got 1100 inline 4. And it wasn't oilcooled, so he had no room for intercooler.

But go for bright and flashy colors. No black and blue.

can't wait to see further results.

My bad. V2 is hard to turbocharge. I forgot that this has V2. My friend put turbo in suzuki, but it got 1100 inline 4. And it wasn't oilcooled, so he had no room for intercooler.

But go for bright and flashy colors. No black and blue.


Hi Jurva,

no, I intend to make it green metallic, nearly the colour of the Jaguar Formula 1 team of last year.

The technic I want to leave like on the kit box: Engine is meanwhile nearly black, front and rear suspension silver, steering rods and frame unter the seat in red.

I´m not sure about the wheels: white or silver with green spokes???

Micha

Interesting project! Looking forward to follow it through.
/Joel

Hi,

little update about the steering bar:

The grey part is out of the kit, 2 little tubes (white) will later hold the higher steering bar, at the moment just a brass tube, that must be cut and bent.

The black box is the battery, from which I cut away the horn and electrical stuff. Further I cut it in pieces and glued it together again by taking away some plastic. It is now smaller. Later it will be hold in its place by a belt.

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3532326137323663.jpg

Micha

Slowly but surely:

The rear mudflap was constructed as a reinforcement of the rear wheel wing/axle (compare to the first pic). The flap itself will get the colour of the bike or a CF-decal

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6432623135653533.jpg

Micha

…finished dampers for rear and front ….
http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6565373365653733.jpg


Micha

Nice progress! those dampers looks like the real deal!

Hi !!!


The fan for the radiator was made of alu-foil and fixed in his frame.

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3034626338666139.jpg

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3961336664393633.jpg

Micha

Slowly but surely:

The rear mudflap was constructed as a reinforcement of the rear wheel wing/axle (compare to the first pic). The flap itself will get the colour of the bike or a CF-decal

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/1024_6432623135653533.jpg

Micha

Great work.

Very nice work, I am glad to see some major work on the bike around here.

...Further progress ...

The damper for the front wheel found its place in the left frame side.

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6338333335626364.jpg


Both frame halves are waiting for the engine now.

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6630373431643830.jpg


Micha

Wow, it's exciting to see this much work go into a bike for once. I am also interested in how much scratch work, modification and whatnot you are doing, as I am rather unfamiliar with bikes.

Wow, it's exciting to see this much work go into a bike for once. I am also interested in how much scratch work, modification and whatnot you are doing, as I am rather unfamiliar with bikes.


Hi willmo,

up to now I didn´t scratchbuild much. Just a little bit of detailling. I must fix the engine in the frame now, maybe add the rear wheel and then real scratchbuilding starts by making new pipes for the exhaust system, as there will be only one muffler under the seat.
Parallel I then can work at fuelcell / seat / front cowling to bring it in a line.

I keep you informed !!!!!!!!

Micha

incredible owrk man. keep it goin'

The engine is nearly finished, some details (like cf-decal on clutch housing) are added later ...

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6237363238396433.jpg

Micha

This is the battery, smaller than in the kit, detailled with a belt to fix it. It will be glued to the frame later.

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6432343937353562.jpg

Micha

Very nice work Micha, a bit of smoke on that CF covers could look better, but than again it is maybe only because of flash.
I like it a lot.

The engine is fixed in the frame now

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3139346261363439.jpg


http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6463386462373835.jpg

Micha

Very nice, it comes to life slowly :) can't wait to see it on wheels.

Here 2 more pics of frame and motor, taken at daylight

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3736326439346232.jpg

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3466626534373637.jpg




Little detail that you can see at many 1:1 Ducatis: The oilfilter is fixed to prevent it from turning

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6632653466313734.jpg



As I leave body panels away, the cooler was too big. It was shortened (the material cut away are the 2 stripes on the top of the foto).
The pipes bringing the water to the cooler had to be changed, too.

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6662386238616461.jpg


Micha

Hey.

That is Looking Awesome!!!!! Great job so far!:bigthumb:

lookin good, keep it coming.

Update time No. 1

Beginning of the work at the front body panel.

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3164633534326130.jpg



Tank / seat`s underside, a real fuel cell was scratched, on the left the final position of the exhaust.

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3663636663633366.jpg


Micha

Update Time No. 2

To get to the end of the exhaust system, the 2 pipes from the front cylinder run under the engine –like in the kit –, then they were cut and bent over a candle. Then a Plastic tube was “shaped” in its new form …

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6462333235323963.jpg


...and somewhen it looked like this (with some primer)…

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3665303965653838.jpg


Finished:

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6666326436313063.jpg

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3336663366373031.jpg

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6666653432356230.jpg


Micha

whoa heat stainging is awsome i think im gonna try it on my sard supra with my air brush!

How cool is this :)

Thats tight! Cant wait to see this finished. Looks really good.

Plus, not so many other modified bikes here.

Hi,

here the nearly finished frontwheel (without fender)

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3931626538636161.jpg

...and this is the rear one

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3736653139316163.jpg


Micha

While the colour on the body parts is drying, I do some wiring

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3039363137333436.jpg

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3734623237633336.jpg

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3334656239363961.jpg

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/6261323434373633.jpg


Here the colour is on (still no decals, clear, polishing, …

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/28/1077928/3433366235366432.jpg


Micha

ammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmazing.

Can't wait to see the finished product.

It's looking really nice!!

That is Sweet!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Looks Awesome!

so it only has one engine?

and i don't know much (anything) about bikes, so if i'm wrong correct me, but why is the front wheel connected with a trailing arm type suspension (or because it's on the front, leading arm)?

it all looks very detailed, better than i could do, it looks really really good.

so it only has one engine?

and i don't know much (anything) about bikes, so if i'm wrong correct me, but why is the front wheel connected with a trailing arm type suspension (or because it's on the front, leading arm)?

it all looks very detailed, better than i could do, it looks really really good.

I like this kind of questions because it shows that the poeple are looking, so Bimota was always known as "special" in term of some solutions on their bikes so the Tesi is no exeption, this kind of suspension was used later on (not same but something similar) on Yamaha but it proved more negative sides (read money) then classic two shock absorbers in traditional fork.
Bimota used something similar to rear fork with one schock mounted on very strange place and those stabilisator rods on the sides to try to improve the bike handeling, but sadly it was never used again.
BMW is the only manufacturer (mass production) that try to improve this front fork problem even today because it is not good that dampers and steering is connected in same thing because the ideal solution would be to try to separate them.
Sorry Micha for this explenation but I felt like giveing it :), I hope you don't mind.
And this Tesi of yours is beautifull. I know you worked very hard on body parts but I would never cover this beauty with anything. By the way, are those Modeler's wires you are using?

:bigthumb: ok then, thanks for the expaination, i've never seen this kind of suspension, so it threw me.

am i correct in saying that BIMOTA is the manufactuer of the bike (called TESI)

i thought it was italian for "two motors" or something, like the Maserati quattroporte, quattroporte means "four doors"

Yes you are right Bimota is manufacturer and Tesi is model, they have codes for each bike like "SB-..." or "DB-..." where first letter represent the engine manufacturer (S-for Suzuki, D-for Ducati) and the B is for Bimota. Here is their site, they make realy unique bikes just like Micha make unique model of their bike ;)
http://www.bimota.it/

Yes you are right Bimota is manufacturer and Tesi is model, they have codes for each bike like "SB-..." or "DB-..." where first letter represent the engine manufacturer (S-for Suzuki, D-for Ducati) and the B is for Bimota. Here is their site, they make realy unique bikes just like Micha make unique model of their bike ;)
http://www.bimota.it/


Hi Sasa,

I must thank you for your explanation and I must admit, you know more about this bike than me. I did know, that Bimotas are expensive and that the way they attached the front wheel has more disadvantages, especially when riding on the race-track. So this time I learned from you about my model :-)))

Once again, thankx Sasa.

The wire-lines I used are not from Modelers. These are not bad, but expensive and stiff. I use a synthetic material, which is available for me 1 mm (here the brake lines) and 1,5 mm thick and white. You can make very narrow curves and after you fixed in at the model, just put your brush with thinned silver colour to it and the white material sucks the colour from the brush. While drying the material gets a little more stiff and stays in its position.

The material is hard to find, if you have some interest in it, send me a mail.

Micha

I use a synthetic material, which is available for me 1 mm (here the brake lines) and 1,5 mm thick and white.


Hi. Following your thread and like what I see! Don't know if you with "available for me" mean that you have easy access to the material or that you only can get these widths. Anyhow, 1 and 1,5 mm is too thick for the wire work if you want it in scale. For 1/12 bikes 0.4 mm for throttle and 0.6 mm for brake lines would be more apropriate.
Best regards
Joel

Hi joel

As I know only the 2 width are available and -of course- the smaller one is out of scale. However I think the impression should be adequate.

F.e. if you try to wire an engine with every wire existing at the 1:1 car you probably won´t see the engine anymore.

Micha