GT750 motor in Bimota Frame?

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GT750 motor in Bimota Frame?

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Calling out to the UK/Irish crew......I grew up in Dublin, Ireland, and I was an avid reader of Bike Magazine (UK) for many years back in the 1970s. I have this strong recollection of reading an article in one issue about a custom bike with a GT750 motor in a Bimota frame. I have searched high & low to try to find this article but no luck. Perhaps I dreamed it up, but I thought I would put it out to see if anyone remembers this?
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I know there was a one that was dropped into a DRESDA frame. I have no recollection of a BiMoTa
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Dim recollections I know, but I think it was a one-off custom project by someone in the UK. It wasn't Bimota themselves.
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Bike magazine did a series on fitting a GT motor into a Dresda frame. To add to Pedro's comments, there were several articles on S&L bikes including the first one that reportedly was a a Nico Bakker frame though it is very different to every other frame that Nico built.

http://www.thekettleclub.com/bike/isitabakker/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Does that shed any light on dusty memories?
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TZ.....thanks for the post and the link to the Kettle Club articles. Reading those old Bike magazine articles was quite a nostalgia trip! However, I did not have any glimmers of recognition related to the article I had in mind. Maybe I did dream it up after all....wishful thinking!
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If it wasn't the S&L it must have been the articles in BIKE where they fitted a GT750 motor into a Dresda frame. I have been unable to locate that one on the web so far. I'm sure I have a hard copy (remember them) somewhere.
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Hello Ring Ding,
I just found this thread now. I am currently building a Bimota HB1 replica with a GT750 engine, just to make your dream come true - when this discussion started on this forum I had no plans to do so. I also found no information that this has been done before. I need to point out that my frame is obviously not an original BIMOTA frame but a very good copy made by a dutch artist. I only had to sacrifice the swingarm pivot location a bit due to the width of the GT engine vs. the CB 750 engine.

See my separate thread " Bimota GT1 replica"
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Thanks Wolfgang! I have subscribed to your HB1 Build thread. Fantastic work:) :clap:
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