Bimota has a history of providing do-it-yourself kits to customers, allowing racers and owners the ability to use their own engines with Bimota chassis. And now, you can do that with the Bimota BB3, as the boutique brand is offering its BMW S1000RR powered superbike in kit form.
All you need to provide is the 1,000cc inline-four engine from the S1000RR, as well as its wiring and electronics, and the Bimota BB3 kit provides the rest.
While the package should be an affordable way for collectors, enthusiasts, and racers to come about owning a Bimota BB3, the kits genesis is very much grounded from adversity in the business realm.
We’ve talked a little bit about how the Bimota BB3 didn’t exactly go as planned for the company from Rimini, and as such we are seeing a return to Bimota using solely Ducati power plants for its future models.
We would chalk up the Bimota BB3’s issues more to aesthetics, though certainly its hard for a small company like Bimota to out-engineer a massive company like BMW, thus making it difficult to improve upon the already stout BMW S1000RR.
Then there is the small issue that put the kibosh on Bimota’s World Superbike plans, namely that BMW Motorrad didn’t want to deliver all of the engines that Bimota required, in order to meet homologation requirements.
The “he said”/”she said” details of that are not important, the only relevant takeaway here is that Bimota certainly had a lot of leftover chassis parts that needed only a motor and electronics to be complete. Enter the Bimota BB3 kit.
A clever solution to a complex problem, Bimota hopefully can unload its BB3 inventory, still at a profit, by providing the pieces it already has, namely a rolling chassis.
Customers are surely more adapt at finding S1000RR engines on the used market, which removes that barrier from Bimota’s problem with the BB3. We’re not sure how many bikes this will help Bimota move, but it’s certainly going to be more than zero. To that, we say good show, Bimota. Now how much does it cost?
Source: Bimota
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