New Bimota owner

[beear]

Originally Posted by spider

Do you mind my asking how much it costs over there in NTD?

Here are some pics from the Long Beach show:

http://www.pbase.com/sting458/cycle_...rnational_2007

there are lots sweet bike in the long beach show.
The bike price over here is approxmate twice price as in state due to the terrif tax

I paid $NTD138,000 for my bike, which is a lot for a bike, but in comparision this price is lower than Ducati 1098S in local.

The local dealer also provide me a free upgrade for Motocose big board kit
http://www.rakuten.co.jp/motocorse/1123143/1127303/

a set of Matris steering damper
http://www.pdq1.co.uk/matris2004.htm

plus a free loan bike (an other DB6) until my bike is ready.

[spider]

Originally Posted by beear

there are lots sweet bike in the long beach show.
The bike price over here is approxmate twice price as in state due to the terrif tax

I paid $NTD138,000 for my bike, which is a lot for a bike, but in comparision this price is lower than Ducati 1098S in local.

The local dealer also provide me a free upgrade for Motocose big board kit
http://www.rakuten.co.jp/motocorse/1123143/1127303/

a set of Matris steering damper
http://www.pdq1.co.uk/matris2004.htm

plus a free loan bike (an other DB6) until my bike is ready.

I think you meant NTD$1.38 million. That is just over US$40k and it's only a few thousands more than the prices in the US. I thought it'd cost over 2 million NTD (as in the case of the 1098s probably). It does sound like a Bimota is a "bargain" compared to a Ducati there.

[beear]

Just get "my" bike back from the shop and return the dealers bike.
I'm really lucky to get "DB-06" bumber plate for my bike.



Also got the steering damper installed, the installation is really neat and clean.

[dnovo]

Very neat installation. Please let us know how it effects handling. Some of us may want to make the some modification. Dave

[beear]

Originally Posted by dnovo

Very neat installation. Please let us know how it effects handling. Some of us may want to make the some modification. Dave

I have done few hundred km on the bike, the steering damper do improve stability and reduce vibration at high speed especially through uneven surface or bumps.

In Taiwan, many road surface do not finish evenly, and i can feel the handle bar vibrate when I exceed 120km/h on some roads, and it does feels lighter and gentler after steering damper installed. But you won't feel any different on really good surface roads.