| | | | Road test: Bimota DB6 Delirio-Delirious and delicious from Bimota (Rimini) |  Written: 22/05/2006 : 16:55. Read 7262 times (11/day). | | The integrality of this filed article is for Premium Members. | Delirious in the magical world of Bimota and Italian exotica translates to high wheelies and loads of fun. Delirio is Bimota’s go at a naked DB5 that already featured some highly technical chassis innovations where the trellis frame extends to both the swing arm and even the pillion footrest support on DB6. Delirio DB6 is fun to look at, fun to ride but at around 19.000 Euro not that much fun for your wallet.
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The front wheel lifts instantly commanded by a big dollop of throttle in both first and second gear in the Ducati 1000DS powered Delirio. Attached to that front wheel are some very nice bits such as a big 320mm wavy disc, 4-pot radial Brembo callipers and a top of the line Marzocchi Corsa fork. Stopping the 170kg (claimed dry weight) naked fighter was never going to be a problem and even easier so with the help of the Marzocchi 50mm USD fork with TiN treated surface on the stanchion tubes. The radial Brembo brakes bites on a stylish 320mm wavy disc and both the feel and power is nothing less than excellent. The Delirio has been stripped of anything unnecessary and a huge effort has been put in to this bike purely to make it as fun as possible to ride. Fun on a Bimota also means safe and everything from the top Brembo, Marzocchi components to the Extremetech rear shock makes sure the bike never puts a foot wrong. The Dunlop D208 RRs are sticky enough in most situations, however the front offers more grip when leant over and the rear was sliding more often than I would have liked from small throttle openings out of the hair-pins. I had some great fun sliding that rear wheel around by all means, but sometimes I did wonder whether it was too easy and that it could be a matter of side grip on the 180 Dunlop rear tyre. Steering into the tight bends could also have been improved with one of the top front tyres from Bridgestone or Pirelli. I had some funny situations on a couple of the many occasions where I entered the bends too hot and I had to brake so hard that the chassis tried to wring itself into knots over the front tyre mid-turn and still an easy save each time. The beautifully designed trellis frame and swing arm is linked together by machined aluminium plates, also beautifully done at the Rimini factory. Some flex has been designed in by the designer, Sergio Robbiano, to make you feel every little thing that is happening. Quality all around is the conclusion from those experiences.
The roads around the Rimini factory and Misano race track was, to say it mildly, narrow and offered more blind and tightening corners than there are r ...
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