Monday 21 June 2010

Zaeta Street Bike




Directly from Zaeta's boss, Paolo Chiaia's iPhone. The bike has sailed through its homologation, so they can sell it as a road bike, but there are still a few design tweaks and areas to tidy up.
It no has an Italian TM engine and Italian Paoli forks. Oh, and, I think, an Italian QD exhaust.
This limited production run, fully road legal street tracker will be priced at €13,500 when it goes on sale. GI

8 comments:

Austin said...

very nice but not €13,500 worth of nice........and I dunno if TM have improved alot but from going to watch Supermoto for quite a few years they always used to blow up pretty often. fast as fuck when they worked mind you

lenny said...

what a pitty, the colours are extremely bad, what a mess!!
not something that's hard to change but why?
maybe they're just color blind and need some help... :)

paolo said...

not colour blind Lenny just a different taste. My decision to make yellow first time and my decision to make it that blue...maybe I get worse hahah.
The idea is that we will provide client the option to decide the colour they want it.
As far as the price is concerned, I agree it s high but it includes lot of parts in ergal from billet, and other expensive components and a 2 day experience on track with Marco Belli.
In TM are working hard in terms of reliability of the engine. So far the racing experience has proved lot of reliability. As example Marco Belli ran 5 races in 6 days (it means 20 heats and 5 final). Won 4 times and got one second place. The engine required only oil change and a change.

Anthony Brown said...

Great Work Paolo. Well done on Homoligation.

I am color blind! but I am aware of the amount of work taken to build a competitive dirt track bike and then get it street ready.

Really Well Done!!!

AadmanZ said...

Nice...

Is that a TM MX engine? Italian Homologation cracks me up :-)

Anonymous said...

i think the colour is ok would make a lovely little runaround bike, ideal for a big city.
good luck with the sales!.

Paul said...

Wicked! Not too sure about the number-plate... indicators... or the headlight though ;-)
Loving the distinctive tank.
From what I've seen of Marco's bike - QUALITY!
Could be worth 13.5k just for the tuition from the Meastro!
I hope they sell like hotcakes. good luck!

Nick said...

I can handle the colour,after all I have had orange tanks for some time, I just don't like the hard edge on the tank, just makes me wince !!