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ETAuto honours Massimo Tamburini, who was called the "Michelangelo of motorbike design"

Italian motorcycle designer Massimo Tamburini is one of the founders of Bimota. In his lifetime he has designed Cagivas, Ducatis, and MV Agustas.

Critics use to call him the "Michelangelo of motorbike design". Today on his 2nd death anniversary, ETAuto presents to you some of the iconic motorcycles designed by him.

He once said, "The bike of the future? A 750 with the power of 1,000 and a weight of 500. The lightness is the secret."

Photo Courtesy: motorevue.com
The HB1 is the first model of Bimota, which came between 1972 - 1975.

It is made of alloy chromium and came equipped with a four cylinder in-line, four-stroke , air-cooled engine, developing 67 hp at 8000 rev / min.

It is powered by four carburetors of 28 mm in diameter. It is coupled to a gearbox with five ratios.
Bimota KB2, which was also called Laser was produced from 1981-1984. The engine comes from the Kawasaki Z500.

It is a four-cylinder, four-stroke , air-cooled and powered by four carburetors Teikei 28 mm, developing 48 hp at 8500 rev / min to a torque of 3.8 kgm at 7800 rev / min.

The bike weighs 167 kg dry.
It was first presented at the Bologna motorcycle show in 1976. It has the engine of Suzuki 750 GS, and developed 75 hp at 8700 rev / min pou torque of 5.8 kgm at 8200 rev / min.
It comes equipped with 90° V-twin, 4-stroke, liquid cooled engine with 851cc displacement. It churns out 102 hp at 9,500 r / min power and a maximum torque of 8.75 kgm at 8,000 rpm / min. It had a 6-speed manual transmission.
5 stands for 500 (displacement), and 89 for 1989 (year in which the model came).

It comes equipped with quadricilindrico a 2-stroke V-80°, liquid cooled engine, which produces 110.3 kW (150 hp) at 12.000rpm power; and a maximum torque of 8.5 kgm at 11.500rpm.

It has a 6-speed sequential pull transmission.
The Cagiva Freccia is a motorcycle sport street with fairings emulated by Ducati Paso. It wa produced between 1987 to 1991, and had an electric start.
The Cagiva Mito (English: Myth) is a small-engined sports motorcycle. The powerplant consists of a two-stroke 125 cubic centimetres (7.6 cu in) single-cylinder engine. The Cagiva Mito was the first bike of Valentino Rossi, 9 time MotoGP world champion.
It was made public in 1987, and had a fuel capacity of 20 litres. It came equipped wih 6-speed, 90° V-twin, fuel injected 4 valves per cylinder desmodromic, liquid cooled engine.
The Ducati 916 is a sport bike made by Ducati from 1994 to 1998. Designed by Massimo Tamburini and Sergio Robbiano and his team at the Cagiva Research Centre in San Marino, the 916's water-cooled engine was a revision of that of its predecessor, the 888, with larger displacement and a new engine management system.
The Ducati Paso was introduced in 1986 with the slogan "Our past has a great future". The name was in honour of racer Renzo Pasolini, nicknamed "Paso", who died on 20 May 1973 in an accident at the Monza race track during the Italian motorcycle Grand Prix.
The Dart is a motorcycle produced by the Italian Moto Morini since 1988 and sold from June 1988, presented for the first time at the Milan Show in November 1987. It had a twin cylinder, 4-stroke V-72° engine which churns out 34.5 hp ( 36 hp ) at 8,500 rpm / min of power.
The Brutale series of motorcycles are manufactured by MV Agusta of Italy. Its style is classified as a naked bike and the series consists of several models powered by either 749.5 cc or 909.1 cc inline-four, dohc-engines.
This was Tamburini's last motorcycle, which he designed. It was awarded "World's Best Looking 600".
The MV Agusta F4 was the motorcycle that launched the resurrection of MV Agusta in 1998.

The F4 was created by motorcycle designer Massimo Tamburini at CRC (Cagiva Research Center), following his work on the Ducati 916.

The F4 has a four pipe undertail exhaust, single-sided swingarm, large front forks (49 or 50 mm diameter) and traditional MV Agusta red and silver livery.

The F4 is also one of the few production superbikes to have a hemispherical chamber 4 valves per cylinder engine.

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