T12 MASSIMO SPECS
T12 Massimo Specs
Massimo Tamburini has launched a project motorbikes great Italian designers devoted the last years for. Built around the superbike-spec BMW engine, T12 Massimo which implies a maximum in Italy, features an array of elite equipment in unique handmade frame.
Tamburini made a reputation for itself by changing to an amazing standard Agustas MV sport, an ability that eventually led him to the level of Grand Prix racing in the mid-eighties. due to budget constraints, and to tighten the homologation rules. Tamburini was never allowed to fully express their creativity to design a perfect Superbike. When he stopped MV Agusta in December 2008, he was marked by a three-year non-compete clauses, forcing him to work on this project alone. It gave him time to focus on his dream bike, a track racer pure, freed from the constraints of the legal and financial of mass production.
make the best-handling, safest, lightest and most compact motorcycles in the Superbike class, No compromise anywhere, absolutely free from all limitations. it all is the ultimate dream of Interest and Tamburini.
Frame T12 in its final form, the typical frame Tamburini. small diameter steel tube trellis structure built to the essential minimum, and is integrated with the light-alloy castings tightly wrapped around the BMW engine, and complete the rest of the main components of the chassis, the highest quality available from Öhlins, Brembo and Marchesini. It's so compact and tight.
At first glance this seems to be a T12 frame typical stainless steel railings, attached to the swing arm by two side plates of aluminum alloys - signature Tamburini MV Agusta's design. Hand-welded by the man himself in a prototype version of the first, he had all the amenities motorcycle racers will ask, be adjustable in the steering angle and offset - but there is a twist. Through a patented mechanism, you can adjust the frame rate flexibility without the need to replace any parts.
T12 Massimo Specs :
T12 project evolves around four-cylinder powerplant BMW S 1000 RR. The factory is equipped with a racing engine HP kit 3 to World Superbike spec, it released excess of 230 hp (171.5 kW) - compared to the 199 hp of the street-legal BMW.
Swing arm, the steering tube, triple clamps and rear wheel hub and second Marchesini wheels, made of magnesium alloy. Arrow exhaust system is custom-made to add a touch of titanium, and the rest of the motor gear (lever, footlegs, handlebars etc.) are CNC machined from billet aluminum. Ha can describe There is no shortage of rare and expensive metals in T12 Massim.
with minimum weight and dimensions, and it seems the result is spot-on. visual spatial dimensions T12 looks very compact. The dry weight is 154.5 kg (340.6 lb), which is indeed a very generous leap of 180 kg (397 lb) of dry value of the stock model is claimed.
Just like frames, fairings of T12 was developed privately by Tamburini. Carbon fiber is used exclusively, including airbox with her holes, and the fuel tank. This last item is based on a self-contained design is very interesting, is included in the frame structure and provide support to the tail section. T12 is also equipped with the best gear, Ohlins suspension and Brembo Monobloc brakes directly from the Grand Prix. A digital display MOTEC minimalistic lightweight add functionality to track the bike stripped down to its essentials.
T12 Massimo ready for production Thanks to the competence and hard work. And the bike just as Tamburini designed and specified it: what he felt would be the most exclusive, most powerful, most elegant, racetrack-ready Superbike ever produced.
T12 MASSIMO SPECS
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