2008 Bimota DB5R Preview

Introduction

2008 Bimota DB5R

This brand new version is practically Italy’s best sport bike representative, not only because it comes painted in the country’s traditional flag colors, but due to the fact that its lightness and agility offer a hard to forget ride. The engine is a Ducati 1000 DS (pure Italian muscle) and the chassis is claimed to offer incredible cornering abilities, exactly how you would expect from this work of art.

Competition

2008 Benelli Tornado Tre 1130

Another Italian bike that uses the same recipe in order to attract as much customers as possible is the Benelli Tornado Tre 1130. The Tornado is also a sharp-steering bike and for that it thanks to its racing frame on which engineers mounted a liquid-cooled, 12 valves DOHC inline-triple engine. This unit revs higher and produces more power (120 Kw at 10,500 RPM), but Bimota has worked harder on the refinement part and as you will see it is more than comparable with the Benelli.

2008 Aprilia RSV 1000 R

The Aprilia RSV 1000 comes strong from behind as it is fitted with Öhlins Racing fork with Titanium Nitride coated stanchions and radial caliper mountings, the latest generation V60 Magnesium Engine with Ø 33 mm exhaust valves, larger diameter exhaust headers and external catalytic converters, installed nearer to the header pipes for better performance.

2008 Ducati 1098

Ducati offers the 1098 model, but it also supplies the engine for the bike we’re talking so can’t really compare the two bikes as their building is strongly related. If you ask me, the Ducati 1098 is better than all the bikes you’ve read about, but it is also more up against Japanese supersport rides than Italian machines.

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