2023-06-21 13:58:06
Massimo Tamburini was possibly the greatest motorcycle designer to ever come out of Italy. He worked for brands such as Cagiva, Ducati and MV Agusta, and was one of the founders of Bimota. His designs are emblematic in the world of motorcycling, and models such as the Ducati 916 or MV Agusta F4 were able to mark a before and after in the two-wheel sector.
Tamburini created his first motorcycle design in 1971, customizing an MV Agusta 750 Sport by welding the chassis himself. In 1973 Tamburini, Valerio Bianchi and Giuseppe Morri founded Bimota. Previously the three had been dedicated to the design and manufacture of air conditioning ducts. The company name was an acronym of the first letters of their last names, Bi, Mo, Ta.
After working at Bimota for 11 years, Tamburini switched to Cagiva, which had recently acquired the Ducati brand, and since 1985 he has dedicated himself to designing future sports models for both manufacturers, reaching the peak of his professional success with the presentation of the Ducati 916, an icon of two wheels.
His latest designs were dedicated to MV Agusta, and it was there that Tamburini once again hit the nail on the head with another motorcycle that also has its own history, the MV Agusta F4 750 Serie Oroa fascinating superbike that saw the light of day for the first time at the EICMA Show in Milan in 1997 and whose design remained in production for more than two decades, first with the F4 and then with its smaller displacement version, the F3 675, currently with 800 cc.
After the death of Massimo Tamburini in 2014, a victim of cancer, his son Andrea decided to keep his father’s legacy alive and created his own brand, Corsican tambourines, a design studio based in San Marino. Now, Andrea has given the green light to a project that they have been working on for some time, a motorcycle that pays homage to the F4 saga and of which 25 units are scheduled to be manufactured, exactly the same years of life that this iconic superbike has completed. .
Andrea Tamburini has already presented the first sketches of his Corse tambourines F43 last December, but it has not been until now when we have had the opportunity to see the first unit already finished. The motorcycle was presented last weekend taking advantage of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Italian Air Force, and what better way than to dress the F43 in the same colors as the combat fighters to celebrate this success together.
The exposed bike is practically identical to the renders we had seen previously; in essence, the Tamburini Corse F43 maintains the original design presented in 1997highlighting its rhomboid headlight and its flat, clean signatures, far from the shrillness seen today on superbike machines.
The motorcycle is mounted on what appears to be the same tubular chassis of the last generation of the MV Agusta F4, disappeared from the market in 2019 by not adapting its emissions to the Euro5 regulations. The specific data on the engine that hides its fairing have not yet been revealed, although everything indicates that it is the same four-cylinder in line with the current range of the MV Agusta Brutale 1000 RR with 208 hp of power, a mechanical heart that, In turn, it derives from the engine that the Italian firm used in the latest versions of its now extinct F4.
The Tamburini Corse F43 is also a motorcycle sculpted by the wind; You just have to see his worked and radical colin to understand how hard its creators have worked to make it as aerodynamic as possible, and that includes the presence of two small wings mounted on the front fairing, at the top.
All the elements are exquisite: Brembo Stylema calipers, Öhlins suspension, magnesium wheels, carbon fiber fairing and the same electronics as the current MV Agusta -MVICS 2.1 system- with four engine maps, 8 levels of traction control, anti-wheelie and ABS on cornering thanks to the introduction of a Continental MK100 ABS module.
The motorcycle presented this past weekend is the first of the 25 units planned; Andrea Tamburini has not yet revealed the final price of each motorcycleand in the case of the unit exhibited during the centenary of the Italian Air Force, it was auctioned for charity to the highest bidder.
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