i was surfing around and found this,

http://www.motorsportscenter.com/printer_530.shtml

 

looks amazing and im sure the bike must be really light. thanks for sharing

 

carbon frame... Britten

 

Looks like a nice bike, but Im not feelin' the color/decal scheme.

 

I wonder what the weight savings are?

Benellis are the bikes that use the Ducati motors, right?

 

Nah, you may be thinking of Mondial's, but they used RC51 motors

Brian

 

One Italian marque uses customer motors from a variety of manufacturers. Is it Benelli or Bimota?

 

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It's them.

Carbon frames suck, no flex and very little feel.

 

creates a major mechanical grip issue

 

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Dude, the Britten used it's motor as it's frame, so really it's frame was aluminum. It used two carbon subframes to carry the fork pivots and seat unit, and a carbon swingarm and girder fork.

p.s. Britten stole all his ideas from Phil Irving!

And carbon fiber is a great in that it can be 'tuned' for stiffness/flex by laying the fibers in different patterns/directions. It's really quite amazing stuff.

And as for the bike....it looks great, but it's really a shame that it's a Benelli.