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My Bimota KB1 is a German specification machine with two batteries mounted in the Hansel fairing.
The bike came with two Fulbat FB5L-B batteries.
I'm looking for an equivalent battery, as this size ...

Apparently there is no such thing as a KB1R. All racing KB1s were just KB1s.

So what is my exhaust pipe?

The receipt from 1987 states 4 in 1- Auspuffanlage corsa (Racing Exhaust), at a cost of D ...

Hello.

My Bimota KB1 was built by Hansle Motorradsport in Germany. The front brake master cylinder is a Tokico 5/8 unit that is very long and thin. A standard Z1000 unit is much shorter and wider t ...

The worst Bimota I owned was a 1986 YB5. It had been both crashed and written off, and stolen recovered. The UK title had it listed at a rebuilt V5. It was less than 3000 pounds, but that was still to ...

I have a letter from the German Bimota importers Reinhold Kraft GmbH in Leutkirch.

As you know in Germany, even the tyres have to be approved for TUV inspection.

This list is for KB1 and SB3

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I've owned six Bimots in all. I tried to own one from each frame group, but ended up with a hodge podge of what ever came along. Some were good, some bad, and one down right ugly.

The only one I re ...

I have just found out that the engine number is not Hansee 9P2. It's the funny way they write it. It actually is Hansle 9P2, as in the fairing manufacturer. The name belongs to Hansle Motorradsport in ...

I visited Gallaria sometime in the 1990s. At the time I was Bimota SB2 crazy, and followed every sale closely. I remember seeing a racing SB2, that had just been imported from South Africa. I later fo ...

Hello everybody.

I have owned a Series 3 Bimota KB1 for the last 30 years. It has simply sat beside my SB2 in my house for that length of time.

I purchased it in Szarbruggen Germany in the mid 1 ...