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The Six Sexiest Bimotas
By Roland Brown on 20/12/2010 11:04:40
Their business history may be erratic and their electronics legendarily so, but the one thing Bimota have always been able to do is bolt together a damn fine-looking motorcycle. Here’s the six sexiest bikes they ever built.
for Italian performance and exclusivity has lost nearly all of its allure and credibility. And this is somewhat sad.In some ways the problem is easy to understand. Bimota — like rival chassis specialists Harris, Spondon, Bakker, Moto Martin and Egli
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Motorcycle Radar: 1998
By Roland Brown on 20/11/2010 15:58:33
Journalist Roland Brown has ridden everything that’s walked or crawled in the last 30 years. Here he looks back at the bikes that defined 1998
APRILIA RAISES THE BARAprilia had a problem with the launch of the RSV Mille. Not with the 998cc V-twin itself, which was brilliant by any standards and utterly breathtaking as the Italian firm’s first ever large-capacity superbike. The problem
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Motorcycle Radar: 1991
By Roland Brown on 19/11/2010 16:11:30
Journalist Roland Brown has ridden everything that’s walked or crawled in the last 30 years. Here he looks back at the bikes that defined 1991
1D, which promised to lead motorcycling into a brave new world of non-telescopic front suspension. Powered by an eight-valve Ducati 851 V-twin engine enlarged to 906cc, it made 113bhp with heaps of grunt. But handling problems showed up even
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Motorcycle Radar: 1982
By Roland Brown on 23/11/2010 12:07:30
1982 was a great year. The year Visordown's founder Ben Cope was born. But what else happened?
.Honda’s CBX550F2 and Yamaha’s XZ550 were both victims of the civil war that had seen development rushed, with resultant problems. The CBX was a quick and sweet-handling straight four that was handicapped by engine niggles and Honda’s curious enclosed disc
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Motorcycle Radar: 1992
By Roland Brown on 21/11/2010 15:43:10
It was the year of the FireBlade. But a lot of other stuff happened too, lest we forget..
handling, possibly due to the dodgy suspension bearings that would prove a common problem. Highlight of my day was being outbraked by Bimota’s test rider at the end of the main straight, only to see him lose the front end and disappear into the sandpit
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Motorcycle Radar: 1977
By Roland Brown on 16/11/2010 16:59:51
Wise road tester Roland Brown looks back at the years that changed biking.
handling. The XS promised to be an outstanding sports-tourer but developed a series of mechanical problems that killed sales stone dead. Meanwhile their TZ750 destroyed all on-track.ITALIAN TIGERThe year’s most interesting new Italian was Ducati’s Darmah, a
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Motorcycle Radar: 2002
By Roland Brown on 03/12/2010 13:42:30
Roland Brown is a world class swordsman, entertainer, poet, scientist, boxer, ladies' man and motorcycle journalist. Only one of those is true.
abandoned, with sessions resembling rounds from a one-make race series. Not even remotely professional, but brilliant fun.998 problems but the bike ain't oneWhen the world's bike press gathered at Vallelunga in southern Italy for the launch of Ducati's 998
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