Yes, your eyes aren’t playing tricks. It’s a LAMBORGHINI motorcycle. During the mid-80s, the Italian sportscar maker was looking to expand and diversify, so why not sportbikes, to cater to the same Need-For-Speed, Fast & Furious crowd which bought their sportscars? I knew Lamborghini made tractors, and their powerful engines powered boats, but never before have I seen Lamborghini bikes!

Lamborghini turned to French racing bike constructor BOXER to build their ultimate sportbike, the Lamborghini Design 90. Led by engineer Claude Fior (died 2001 in an aircraft accident), Boxer bikes were known for high-tech bikes hand-built to aerospace specs. High performance was ensured with the usage of a lightweight frame and a DOHC 16-Valve Kawasaki 4-cylinder engine pumping out 125 bhp.

Introduced in 1986, the bikes were priced at an astronomically high price of about US$13,500 just about twice as much as the most expensive high end bike then available. They styling, seen today is questionable, being inspired at the time by the 25th Anniversary Lamborghini Countach.

The design has been described by critics as being the equivalent of having an embarrassing public discharge of body waste in public, but remember, at the time side strakes were common on Testarossas and US-Spec Cizeta Moroders. This was to cover large scoops which were outlawed by US specifications. Side strakes were a symbol of speed and power in the 80s, but seen on a bike they look quite odd, in my humble opinion. In Italy, side strakes lived on, albeit in a toned-down manner on the Cagiva Freccia 125 and the Ducati Paso 907. About 25 units were scheduled for production, but the actual number of completed bikes is estimated to be around just only 5.

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Yes, your eyes aren’t playing tricks. It’s a LAMBORGHINI motorcycle. During the mid-80s, the Italian sportscar maker was looking to expand and diversify, so why not sportbikes, to cater to the same Need-For-Speed, Fast & Furious crowd which bought their sportscars? I knew Lamborghini made tractors, and their powerful engines powered boats, but never before have I seen Lamborghini bikes!

Lamborghini turned to French racing bike constructor BOXER to build their ultimate sportbike, the Lamborghini Design 90. Led by engineer Claude Fior (died 2001 in an aircraft accident), Boxer bikes were known for high-tech bikes hand-built to aerospace specs. High performance was ensured with the usage of a lightweight frame and a DOHC 16-Valve Kawasaki 4-cylinder engine pumping out 125 bhp.

Introduced in 1986, the bikes were priced at an astronomically high price of about US$13,500 just about twice as much as the most expensive high end bike then available. They styling, seen today is questionable, being inspired at the time by the 25th Anniversary Lamborghini Countach.

The design has been described by critics as being the equivalent of having an embarrassing public discharge of body waste in public, but remember, at the time side strakes were common on Testarossas and US-Spec Cizeta Moroders. This was to cover large scoops which were outlawed by US specifications. Side strakes were a symbol of speed and power in the 80s, but seen on a bike they look quite odd, in my humble opinion. In Italy, side strakes lived on, albeit in a toned-down manner on the Cagiva Freccia 125 and the Ducati Paso 907. About 25 units were scheduled for production, but the actual number of completed bikes is estimated to be around just only 5.

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