Bimota DB5 Pics

[wkid_one]

What do you think?

[matthewt]

I want to like it but it's a little to much of a Benelli/999/RSVR mix for me to instantly love it.

I do like the swingarm though.

[James Deuce]

Makes the 999/749 look like an amateurish slab of strawberry cheescake.

Wkid, thanks very much for posting the pics of the latest models. It's a real treat.

[Zed]

Looks a tad bare in parts, but I'd gladly receive one into my home!

[Badcat]

IT'S A TOTAL HORN-DOG.

(my tummy hurts)

[Badcat]

is it me - or is that an auto-meter telltale racecar tach?
that's one damn BIG rev-counter dude.
the boy racers have stained those forever for me.
(visions of one with a huge shift-light in some sad corolla with 18" rims and cut springs)

[gav]

Makes the 999/749 look like an amateurish slab of strawberry cheescake.

Wkid, thanks very much for posting the pics of the latest models. It's a real treat.
Well, he only "stole" err reposted the pics I posted, in fact 7 minutes later if you check my post (under Hot 18 year old) :sneaky2:
Anyway heres a little bit of info on the DB5
" Powered by a Ducati 992cc Dual Spark V-Twin (the air-cooled unit used in Ducati's Multistrada, Monster 1000 and 1000 SS), the DB5's frame uses a combination of a tubular chromoly trellis structure and CNC machined aluminum plates, and the swingarm is also a tubular trellis structure. Although no official weight figures have been released, the DB5 is expected to be one of the lightest 1000cc V-Twins ever produced"
It looks too tall and reminds me of a Multistrada.

[James Deuce]

Well, he only "stole" err reposted the pics I posted, in fact 7 minutes later if you check my post (under Hot 18 year old) :sneaky2:
Anyway heres a little bit of info on the DB5
" Powered by a Ducati 992cc Dual Spark V-Twin (the air-cooled unit used in Ducati's Multistrada, Monster 1000 and 1000 SS), the DB5's frame uses a combination of a tubular chromoly trellis structure and CNC machined aluminum plates, and the swingarm is also a tubular trellis structure. Although no official weight figures have been released, the DB5 is expected to be one of the lightest 1000cc V-Twins ever produced"
It looks too tall and reminds me of a Multistrada.

Put your coke bottle glasses back on, look again, and then hush your mouth! Nothing looks as hideous as a Multistrada. In fact the HD Night Train is a better looking bike than a Multistrada.

[Marknz]

I'm thinking that falls into the "IF money was no object" categories.... I'd have one for sure!

[Waylander]

Looks nice but could do without that plate mount and I have to agree with badcat on that Tach. It's just too big for a bike, doesn't even look good in a car.

[bugjuice]

I kinda like it and kinda don't.. I think it'd grow on me, given enuff water and plant food, but I think I'd give it a thumbs up.. so I did

[Storm]

Looks nice but could do without that plate mount and I have to agree with badcat on that Tach. It's just too big for a bike, doesn't even look good in a car.
What he said re the tach, rest llooks ok (in my not-so-expert opinion)

[Two Smoker]

Even though Wkid posted this ages ago... who thinks that the rear end (excluding the pipes) looks like a K5 gixxer thou???

[Sniper]

Nice bike but still looks well, uuummmmm, yea

[Cajun]

Even though Wkid posted this ages ago... who thinks that the rear end (excluding the pipes) looks like a K5 gixxer thou???

TS yeah the ass end is simlar angles

[Eurodave]

:puke: trying too hard

[Patrick]

I think I like the originators avitar even more...

[Brains]

Powered by a Ducati engine...enough said, they should have stayed with the suzy engines...ahhhh...SB6.

[zadok]

Nice head turner.

[Sniper]

I think I like the originators avitar even more...

I take it you like dredging up old threads with no meaning to your posts?

[ducatilover]

very sexy methinks. i want almost as much as a 916biposta, 916's are THE sex machine...... :apint:

[WRT]

To me it looks like a rolling identity crisis. Got the frame of a street fighter, fairing of a sports bike, tacho off a boy-racers WRX, and yet from the front all I can think is "Mad Rabbit".

[Patrick]

I take it you like dredging up old threads with no meaning to your posts?

I thought the meaning was obvious...know nothing of the old threads...gave them to the Op Shop...

[Back Fire]

To impractical and will have shitey electrics....

[Blackadda]

mmmmm avitar............

oh oh bike, well ummmm........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............avita r

[Shagg]

Powered by a Ducati engine...enough said, they should have stayed with the suzy engines...ahhhh...SB6.
I like your taste in bikes.. :)

Good to see Bimota hasn't sunk away yet again.. the Tesi2 is awesome as well... think I'd go for the Tesi2 over the DB5... but given the price might have to wait a few years..

[ducatilover]

:spudwave: :dodge:
To impractical and will have shitey electrics....
point being??

[Grizzo]

Stunning looking bike:Punk:

[nallac]

Big thread dredge...............but nice looking bike..

[ital916]

db7 takes it in the looks dept while tessi 3d takes everything in the "over engineered, it is not the quickest but will change into megatron if you push it hard enough" department. I love bimotas *the tessi 3d and db7 in particular if you didnt notice lol*

[3umph]

Bloody nice looking bikes....

Have a mate that has a DB4... would be f&^k all of then in NZ... his has done under 2000k from new still :eek5:

bit more rounded in the bodywork

[3umph]

Pic of the DB5 prototype.... nothing like the finished bike

[puddytat]

Over rated I reckon....suit more the type with more money than they know what to do with....counts me out I reckon.

[AllanB]

Yuck, thats, well yuck.

The whole transformer thing is soooooo going to date.

The only redeeming factor is the pipes look the horn, however I'd expect under-slung ones on new, state-of-the art bikes, just to lower the weight of them.

A fluid, organic flow is preferable to the origami look.

[mikeey01]

Put your coke bottle glasses back on, look again, and then hush your mouth! Nothing looks as hideous as a Multistrada. In fact the HD Night Train is a better looking bike than a Multistrada.

:rofl: You reckon a hardley night train looks better than a multistrada :rofl:
There goes another Tui ad! this should be in the joke section.

The hardley and i mean HARDLEY ain't even in the same league!

[mikeey01]

Makes the 999/749 look like an amateurish slab of strawberry cheescake.

Wkid, thanks very much for posting the pics of the latest models. It's a real treat.

ha, yep there goes another Tui ad...
It'd be a real treat if you put that logic to those many models of Hardleys...
strawberry cheescake, lets try jelly suspension perhaps or the ground clearance of an pizza box.

Bimota do build some horny bikes, both in looks and handling.

[3umph]

Bimota have made some nice bikes... but they have made some crap ones as well

[saltydog]

Too busy to be interesting.

[Harvd]

mmmm sexy swingarm... shame that if i bought 1 i would be too terrified to ever attempt to ride it near its potential