Bimota has broken news that it intends to produce a new super-nakedbike for 2016 called the Impeto.
The new machine will utilize Ducati’s latest Diavel engine housed in a composite light alloy frame, with your choice of carbon or aluminum swingarm. But that’s only part of it, because Bimota is also making an aftermarket supercharger kit available for the Impeto, which should bump power well north of 190hp at the tire!
There will also be a café racer version of the Tesi 3D (all we have on this is the teaser image above), the hub center steering machine Bimota has been developing since 1983. You’ll be able to raise or lower the café racer Tesi up to 23mm by adjusting the front and rear swingarms, and the machine will be powered by an 803cc Ducati air-cooled twin.
Bimota is also bringing to market a kit version of the much maligned but undoubtedly beautiful BB3 – albeit without the BMW electronics or S 1000 RR engine the model was originally sold with.
Bimota’s relationship with the German giant has soured to the point where BMW won’t supply engines for production machines to Bimota, leaving the customer to buy a powerplant and all the electronics required to run it.
Obviously this type of project is labeled at customers who simply must have a Bimota, otherwise they’d just go and buy an S 1000 RR complete from BMW! Bimota says by leaving the powerplant up to the customer, it’s getting back to the roots of the original HB1, however we have to doubt the potential success of this version of the BB3, considering how much more complicated an S 1000 RR-powered BB3 would be to the Honda CB750-powered HB1 of 1973.
