Progress: Bimota Tesi “Custom”

[sportracer02]

Update time No. 1

Beginning of the work at the front body panel.





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




Micha

[sportracer02]

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 …




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




Finished:








Micha

[SupaMan89T]

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

[Hiroboy]

How cool is this

[Jurva]

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

Plus, not so many other modified bikes here.

[sportracer02]

Hi,

here the nearly finished frontwheel (without fender)



...and this is the rear one




Micha

[sportracer02]

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










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




Micha

[DJPaul]

ammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmazing.

Can't wait to see the finished product.

[robrex]

It's looking really nice!!

[JTRACING]

That is Sweet!!

[GvEman]

Looks Awesome!

[hks_kansei]

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.

[sjelic]

Originally Posted by hks_kansei

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?

[hks_kansei]

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"

[sjelic]

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/