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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #225 on: October 02, 2016, 08:35:53 PM »
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Rob (Artracing),

Your bike has been nominated for Bike of the Month November 2016.  Please post that you "accept" in the nomination thread:  http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,161227.0.html

I would have waited until its finished before nominating it, It will look completely different in a few weeks.... ;)

Hmm.  It's doubtful it will look different before it is shown at Barber this coming week.
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #226 on: October 03, 2016, 04:36:44 AM »
I'm also going to AIM in Orlando if anyone is going
Already signed up for contest in the Custom Performance category.

Lots of people prefer the carbon fiber look and many like the original painted look.
It's always my plan to offer it both ways. It stays carbon until someone steps up to pay for white paint. :-)
The original HB1 prototype did have black tank and seat. So the bike will be correct in both cases.
Here is the prototype.

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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #227 on: October 08, 2016, 03:13:41 AM »
Made it to Barber Festival. I'm in the pits with Framecrafters.
It's Saturday and I'm taking the bike to Motorcycle Classics magazine bike contest. You can see it for most of the day.
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #228 on: October 08, 2016, 10:02:16 AM »
Wow, Rob, Framecrafters does some nice work.  Good luck with the MC contest.
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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #229 on: October 15, 2016, 03:38:41 AM »
Bike at the AIM Expo booth 709
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #230 on: October 15, 2016, 12:20:35 PM »
Quote from: Artracing on October 15, 2016, 03:38:41 AM
Bike at the AIM Expo booth 709

Very nice, Rob. Say hi to my friend Philippe at the Beringer booth.
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #231 on: October 16, 2016, 10:07:06 PM »
Congratulations, Rob, on your 1st Place at the AIM Expo Show.
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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #232 on: October 18, 2016, 02:35:55 PM »
Word has it that -- along with Barber and AIM Expo -- Rob aka Artracing visited Bimota USA and they liked what they saw, too. Hopefully, they'll give him some referrals for builds.
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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #233 on: October 18, 2016, 02:44:56 PM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on October 18, 2016, 02:35:55 PM
Word has it that -- along with Barber and AIM Expo -- Rob aka Artracing visited Bimota USA and they liked what they saw, too. Hopefully, they'll give him some referrals for builds.

Do we have a budget for one of these rare repro's?
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #234 on: October 18, 2016, 03:25:01 PM »
Quote from: FunJimmy on October 18, 2016, 02:44:56 PM
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on October 18, 2016, 02:35:55 PM
Word has it that -- along with Barber and AIM Expo -- Rob aka Artracing visited Bimota USA and they liked what they saw, too. Hopefully, they'll give him some referrals for builds.

Do we have a budget for one of these rare repro's?
Not something to discuss online. You can spend from $25k to $65k for real Bimota.
Let's just say it's in the window. It's 6 months labor, research, design, testing, prototype, build. Etc.
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #235 on: October 18, 2016, 04:17:55 PM »
Quote from: calj737 on October 18, 2016, 03:59:53 PM
Do you have any plans to sell just a frame?
No, not at this time. If you buy the frame, you have to buy a tank because its unique frame, that requires unique tank.
I doubt anyone would be interested in spending the same kind of money on custom frame and tank for the same money you would spend on entire new production bike.

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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #236 on: October 18, 2016, 04:53:05 PM »
Quote from: Artracing on October 18, 2016, 04:17:55 PM
Quote from: calj737 on October 18, 2016, 03:59:53 PM
Do you have any plans to sell just a frame?
No, not at this time. If you buy the frame, you have to buy a tank because its unique frame, that requires unique tank.
I doubt anyone would be interested in spending the same kind of money on custom frame and tank for the same money you would spend on entire new production bike.

More than one company makes these tanks.... ;)  Why would these frames be so expensive..?
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #237 on: October 18, 2016, 05:15:18 PM »
Ought to be able to get into a frame and body set for $5k or so. Now that frame crafters has the jig it should be much easier the second time out. Even so it may be hard to justify depending since there are other special frames out there, some much lighter and more proven for our bikes.
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #238 on: October 18, 2016, 05:26:16 PM »
Quote from: slikwilli420 on October 18, 2016, 05:15:18 PM
Ought to be able to get into a frame and body set for $5k or so. Now that frame crafters has the jig it should be much easier the second time out. Even so it may be hard to justify depending since there are other special frames out there, some much lighter and more proven for our bikes.
Don't lose site of what this is all about. It's all about 1975 racing frame, that was state of the art for 1975. The odds of you seeing a real HB1, never mind own one is slim to none. Even the Barber museum doesn't have one.
Call it a clone or tribute bike. That's what it's  about.

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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #239 on: October 18, 2016, 05:50:17 PM »
Quote from: Artracing on October 18, 2016, 05:26:16 PM
Quote from: slikwilli420 on October 18, 2016, 05:15:18 PM
Ought to be able to get into a frame and body set for $5k or so. Now that frame crafters has the jig it should be much easier the second time out. Even so it may be hard to justify depending since there are other special frames out there, some much lighter and more proven for our bikes.
Don't lose site of what this is all about. It's all about 1975 racing frame, that was state of the art for 1975. The odds of you seeing a real HB1, never mind own one is slim to none. Even the Barber museum doesn't have one.
Call it a clone or tribute bike. That's what it's  about.

I disagree, I know what you are trying to say but its only a frame, its not original, its a copy, there are a few frame makers making replica race frames for around 5 grand or less, some of these frames ,Harris F1 replica's for example, are far more complicated to make than the HB1 Frame, they are made in chromoly or Reynolds steel tubing, are brass welded and are under 5 grand to buy.  Its great to get all nostalgic about it, but it is only a frame..
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #240 on: October 19, 2016, 06:07:03 AM »
yep.  I want it.
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #241 on: November 03, 2016, 05:27:05 AM »
Although the carbon fiber was painted over, I'm anxious to mount these next week.
Stay tuned
I add the original HB1 for comparison.
 
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #242 on: November 03, 2016, 09:17:27 AM »
Rob,

That is some excellent-looking paint.
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« Reply #243 on: November 03, 2016, 12:11:38 PM »
I'll second that.
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #244 on: November 03, 2016, 01:55:18 PM »
Rob, I am really trying to figure out when this forum became a bunch of no taste fools...your bike should have won botm hands down
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #245 on: November 03, 2016, 02:38:03 PM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on November 03, 2016, 09:17:27 AM
Rob,

That is some excellent-looking paint.

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Quote from: seanbarney41 on November 03, 2016, 01:55:18 PM
Rob, I am really trying to figure out when this forum became a bunch of no taste fools...your bike should have won botm hands down

Absolutely.....
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #246 on: November 03, 2016, 05:34:40 PM »
Quote from: seanbarney41 on November 03, 2016, 01:55:18 PM
Rob, I am really trying to figure out when this forum became a bunch of no taste fools...your bike should have won botm hands down
Thanks for that but no worries. The Irish bike is beautiful build and it is much more Honda. that this forum represents.
Congrats to the Irish,
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #247 on: November 07, 2016, 03:20:27 PM »
Quote from: seanbarney41 on November 03, 2016, 01:55:18 PM
Rob, I am really trying to figure out when this forum became a bunch of no taste fools...your bike should have won botm hands down

Love the Bimota, but when did differing opinions become so divisive?
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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #248 on: November 07, 2016, 04:12:54 PM »
Got the leather seat for new original version.
My upholstery guy did great job, including matching the color to the frame.

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Re: Bimota HB1 Clone build
« Reply #249 on: November 10, 2016, 10:35:00 AM »
Quote from: seanbarney41 on November 03, 2016, 01:55:18 PM
Rob, I am really trying to figure out when this forum became a bunch of no taste fools...your bike should have won botm hands down

Because it had the misfortune of going up against Irish Racer's beautiful build.
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