Benelli 6 engine

pierodn · Oct 21, 2016

http://m.subito.it/vim/182204949.htm

I have seen on the web that there is a fan that loves Benelli 6 cylinders and fit this engine into the featherbed frame.
I know this engine is rare to find.
Here in Italy there is a vendor (i found on the web and i dont know him).
Ciao
Piero

Rohan · Oct 21, 2016

So would that make it a Benbed, or a Featherelli ?

You'd have to wonder that they go pretty good in their original chassis.
Are they collectible these days, you don't hear much about them....
The CBX has become a cult classic ?

Triton Thrasher · Oct 21, 2016

It's a Seibed!

It's a Dominate-Nellie!

cjandme · Oct 21, 2016

Triton Thrasher said:
It's a Seibed!

It's a Dominate-Nelli!

Or maybe a Domi-Nelli

madass140 · Oct 21, 2016

Here's one, I supplied the wheels for this project
Don

pierodn · Oct 22, 2016

Hi.
If someone is interesteed in this engine let me know.
It will be a pleasure for me to contact the seller for you.
Piero

Fast Eddie · Oct 23, 2016

pierodn said:
Hi.
If someone is interesteed in this engine let me know.
It will be a pleasure for me to contact the seller for you.
Piero

Do you know how much he wants for it?

pierodn · Oct 23, 2016

Fast Eddie said:
pierodn said:

Hi.
If someone is interesteed in this engine let me know.
It will be a pleasure for me to contact the seller for you.
Piero

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Do you know how much he wants for it?

Hi.
I will ask and i will let you know.
Piero

pierodn · Oct 23, 2016

Hi.
I have just phoned the seller.
He says that the engine is the first serie and has only 700 km.
One bottom engine lug attack has a littlen broken easy to weld.
He wants 3000 euro.
The engine comes from an accidented bike.
The mail of the seller is: carmelolampo@libero.it
He says that can ship worldwide.
Remember, i dont know him and he lives 700 km far from me.
Ciao
Piero

Fast Eddie · Oct 23, 2016

Another time and I may have been interested, but I don't have the time, or money, to do with this what I'd like.

I had an Egli and loved the slim classic lines. I always thought that such a slim and classically styled bike would look awesome with such a hulking great 6 cylinder engine poking out each side!

They sound awesome too, especially when on 6:6 pipes.

And it wouldn't hang about either...

I gotta stop thinking about this .... Quick, change the subject...!

Matchless · Oct 27, 2016

Whilst I can appreciate the work that the builder has put into this bike, I don't understand why he has used a Featherbed frame. The short engine looks silly & a little lost as the frame was designed for a pre unit engine. Also, the Benelli Sei I rode a few years ago handled very well.

madass140 · Oct 27, 2016

not sure what I'd do with that engine, maybe transplant it into a Honda CB500/4 chassis, a nice stock looking 500/4 but with extra 2 cyls

Bernhard · Oct 28, 2016

Matchless said:
Whilst I can appreciate the work that the builder has put into this bike, I don't understand why he has used a Featherbed frame. The short engine looks silly & a little lost as the frame was designed for a pre unit engine. Also, the Benelli Sei I rode a few years ago handled very well.

to you all, an interesting discussion regarding this Italian manufacturer, not sure if the F/B was designed to hold such an heavy engine without being beefed up , but an Italian engine :?:
if you had been following the Commando forum do you remember what happened to the
Italian made commando frames :?:
At least someone like MV Augusta was a helicopter manufacturer- not many of those fell out of the sky :!: :shock:

Fast Eddie · Oct 28, 2016

Matchless said:
Whilst I can appreciate the work that the builder has put into this bike, I don't understand why he has used a Featherbed frame. The short engine looks silly & a little lost as the frame was designed for a pre unit engine. Also, the Benelli Sei I rode a few years ago handled very well.

I totally agree. But I think the answer is its this guys 'modus operandi'. He has a 'money no object' obsession with building featherbed specials which are all nearly identical apart from the engine.

He built a Laverda Jota engined version, that looked wrong, as does this, so maybe Italians don't like feather beds?

Rohan · Oct 28, 2016

Bernhard said:
if you had been following the Commando forum do you remember what happened to the
Italian made commando frames :?:

we diverge, but Verlicchi made a considerable number of Commando frames.
Quite a considerable number...
Do tell if there was a serious problem with any of them ??

It was the Reynolds made early design ones that were replaced, under warranty, in some countries...
And it is still recommended that early ones be replaced or strengthened if intended to be ridden.
Considering how light the Commando frame is, serious frame breakages are few and far between.
Passenger frame and luggage support rails excepted...

We diverge though...

Bernhard · Oct 29, 2016

Rohan said:
Bernhard said:

if you had been following the Commando forum do you remember what happened to the
Italian made commando frames :?:

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we diverge, but Verlicchi made a considerable number of Commando frames.
Quite a considerable number...
Do tell if there was a serious problem with any of them ??
We diverge though...

You clearly have not been following the thread on the Italian made Commando frames when Norton got them made cheaper in Italy, Norton eventually sent all the frames to Reynolds Tube Co to be corrected, much to amusement of Ken Sprayton –it’s ALL in his book “The Frame Man”
This has been discussed elsewhere on this forum ................

Rohan · Oct 29, 2016

Details of what needed 'correction' and how many were involved and how bad they were are rather scarce.

Some have suggested this is more sour grapes than fact. ??
And at ~10 quid per frame, how much 'repair' could they do before the numbers simply didn't add up.

Remember, this is the british motorcycle industry involved here.
Although when it also involves the italian motorcycle industry AND cost cutting, anything is possible.

Not that this has much to do with Benelli6 engines in featherbeds....

Danno · Nov 1, 2016

madass140 said:
Here's one, I supplied the wheels for this project
Don

I just had to stare at this fantastic combination for a while, and like other transverse multis I've seen transplanted into a Featherbed, I STILL think the engine is placed too far to the rear. If you moved it forward, extended the swingarm gussets and the arm it self, wouldn't you have a potentially much better-handling machine? Somebody tell me what I'm missing.

Fast Eddie · Nov 1, 2016

Danno said:
madass140 said:

Here's one, I supplied the wheels for this project
Don

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I just had to stare at this fantastic combination for a while, and like other transverse multis I've seen transplanted into a Featherbed, I STILL think the engine is placed too far to the rear. If you moved it forward, extended the swingarm gussets and the arm it self, wouldn't you have a potentially much better-handling machine? Somebody tell me what I'm missing.

I don't think you're missing anything, apart from the fact it would be a bigger job than most special builders are prepared to take on I guess. I'm also not sure the finished article would look 'right'.

That's why I reckon you'd be better off with a purpose built Egli style frame. That would look the b*llocks and handle well too.

Danno · Nov 1, 2016

I would think if you are making mounts for an engine to go into a frame neither was intended for by their respective designers, you would have leeway on engine placement etc. It's not as if it's locked into one place with no options. There was a special in one of the mags (Classic Bike?) with a Yamaha 600 4-banger in a Featherbed, and it also looked as if the builder had ignored everything learned in the past 50 years about balance and handling.