BIMOTA SB8K Santa Monica production and import numbers?

[daotoys1]

Does anyone know how many BIMOTA SB8K Santa Monica bikes were built?

Does anyone know how many were brought into the USA and/or North America??

Is this model a "numbered" bike; does it have a numbered plaque or badge or no???

thanks for replies

[JS sport classic]

I was told 400 total & 50 came to the US. Mine is # 14, not that You asked or care, just saying
Oh yeah, the # is the last two digits of the vin. No stinking badges

[daotoys1]

A friend who has one said that only 15 were imported.

The 400 total number seems very very high. My understanding is that when BIMOTA went bankrupt in 2000/2001 right after the release of the SB8R/SB8RS model that they used left over parts to design the first "new" bike under new ownership and that was the SB8K models.

BIMOTA only 150 SB8RS Specials, and had a target goal of only 350 standard SB8R models, and Im not sure that all were actually built.

I know that only a handful of SB8K, and SB8K Gobert Replica bikes were made.

Im thinking that maybe BIMOTA might have made only a few dozen SB8K Santa Monica bikes.

The SB8K models seem to be extremely rare compared to other BIMOTA models.

Thanks for the reply.

FYI.....my BIMOTA Tesi 3D LE is #14..........

[dick]

my santamonica is frame #65. i was under the impression that the production run was in the region of 50 ish for worldwide market though i have no absolute proof of this. i met the english bloke called chris mayhew who was employed by bimota as their santamonica R and D guy who rode the prototype for miles in the italian hills prior to production. i recall him saying that the production run was very low... and nowhere near 400 as suggested.

i know of no one else in the UK who has one and have never come across any other owner.....except on this forum.

[bimotard]

There are 75 Santamonica built.