6.23.2005
Bimota Tesi 2D By Alan Cathcart
"Bimota is back. Thanks once again to the largess of Italian ultra-entrepreneur Roberto Comini (who bankrolled Bimota's last failed comeback), the Rimini-based boutique-bike manufacturer now offers three new models. Two of them are conventional--for Bimota, anyway--and powered by 996cc Suzuki V-twin engines, the SB8K Gobert Replica and the Santa Monica. But as if to highlight Bimota's phoenix-like revival from the ashes, there's also the reborn Tesi 2D, a modern iteration of the Ducati 888-powered Tesi 1D I raced for Bimota more than a decade ago, winning the ProTwins class twice at Daytona.
Previously, Bimota technician Ascanio Rodorigo made a deal with the company to take the Tesi concept and re-engineer it around Ducati's much less costly (and more modern) desmodue engine, the 1000DS. Rodorigo named the resulting motorcycle the Vyrus. Comini's revived Bimota motorcycle company, however, will market the Vyrus as the more appropriately named Tesi 2D." [Via motorcyclistonline.com]
Previously, Bimota technician Ascanio Rodorigo made a deal with the company to take the Tesi concept and re-engineer it around Ducati's much less costly (and more modern) desmodue engine, the 1000DS. Rodorigo named the resulting motorcycle the Vyrus. Comini's revived Bimota motorcycle company, however, will market the Vyrus as the more appropriately named Tesi 2D." [Via motorcyclistonline.com]
