In 1985 , Bimota was under " controlled administration " , or '' fallimento '' , similar to US Chapter 11 reorganization and Tamburini had officially left the company , Giuseppe Morri having purchased Tamburini 's Bimota stock . Tamburini 's successor as chief designer at Bimota was Federico Martini . Even though Tamburini was in his new position as head of Cagiva 's design studio , he continued work back at Bimota , in spite of the falling out with his partners that led to his departure , working on the Bimota DB1 prototype , a bike that used the engine of the Ducati Pantah 750 , which was to be presented at EICMA , the Milan motorcycle show . Martini was responsible for the engineering of the DB1 , Tamburini , as a consultant to Cagiva , handled the styling
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Massimo Tamburini