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Offline tony27

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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2011, 05:02:31 PM »
Having ridden the trials version I reckon it won't be far off the mark

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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2011, 06:46:21 PM »
The servo power valve is great feature.

Can you say WR200? RZ350YPVS? RZ500?

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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2011, 07:02:26 PM »
Now that's a mod bike I'd love to own. There's a lot of good lateral thinking gone into the design,  I love the compactness of the engine and yep, the pipe placement's brilliant. I too would love to see it in metalic blue and orange as a homage to the Phantom.

Who owns OSSA these days? Are they a cashed up multi-national conglomerate or are they a boutique producer running on spirit and cool ideas but little money? With a cool product like this they deserve a shot at the market biggun's.
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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2011, 07:30:21 PM »
Independent company who must have a little bit of money as building a clean sheet trials bike while setting up the factory can't have been cheap or easy

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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2011, 08:24:16 PM »
Love it!! I'm biased though, i just LOVE Ossa's. Goes back a long long way. And yeah Jezza I'm with you Phantom colors.   Mark

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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2011, 08:24:49 PM »
That thing is sex on wheels, who cares if it's any good!!!!!!!!
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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2011, 11:49:17 PM »
Even a Bimota at the EIMCA show

Yes it has a servo driven power valve

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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #22 on: November 10, 2011, 08:03:28 AM »
Hey Lozza,
What brand of engine is in the Bimota?

Looks pretty trick, certainly no restriction on the case reed.
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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #23 on: November 10, 2011, 08:11:15 AM »
Hey Lozza,
What brand of engine is in the Bimota?Looks pretty trick, certainly no restriction on the case reed.
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Is it rebadged Gas Gas ..... bet the price is thrilling. But Bimota has a long history of pretty good styling and using the best components. Plus they did produce 500 injected 2 stroke twin in the VDue so may know something about 2 strokes..... VDues were mostly converted back to carbs so maybe not that much.
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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #24 on: November 10, 2011, 08:30:44 AM »
V Dues were let down by a lack of computing power, as with the premature Cannondale MX history has proved them well ahead of time. Retrofitted carb kits for the V due got them to only 120HP.
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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #25 on: November 10, 2011, 09:53:14 AM »
Here comes a two-stroke revolution!! Now that they have everyones 4 stroke money-it's time to go 2stroke again :D :D.
BUT these 2es will have "much better combustion for less emissions" - ahh....which they already had!!
Talk about "smoke and mirrors" :D

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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #26 on: November 10, 2011, 11:05:09 AM »
I heard GMC got the job of building the prototype pipe!
Nice work Geoff.

They approached me to make a pipe but when they started to explain what they were building it sounded too much like some weird pain in the arse hybrid that vintage guys like to build so I fobbed them off. :o ;D


Nothing special about the pipe

The fact that it fits I think makes it special.
Also the welds have that machine welded look about them.
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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #27 on: November 10, 2011, 11:16:29 AM »
[…it sounded too much like some weird pain in the arse…

Only if you got the stinger in the wrong place...  ;)
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« Reply #28 on: November 10, 2011, 11:41:50 AM »
Is it rebadged Gas Gas .....

Nah, the Gasser motor has the ignition pick up at about 1-o-clock and the motor in the pic has it at about 10-o-clock. Also the gasser PV is driven from the right. The motor in the pic is driven on the left.

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Re: Oh hell yes! New Ossa enduro bike!
« Reply #29 on: November 10, 2011, 11:51:50 AM »
Nah, the Gasser motor has the ignition pick up at about 1-o-clock and the motor in the pic has it at about 10-o-clock. Also the gasser PV is driven from the right. The motor in the pic is driven on the left.
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anyway Bimota know how to style a bike, as they should the 'TA' in Bimota is Massimo Tamburini who has arguably been the most infuential designer ever with Ducati 916 and MV Augusta F4 under his belt.
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