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- ↑ Giorgio Sarti (1999), Giorgio Nada (ed.), Bimota: 25 Years Of Excellence, ISBN 978-88-7911-198-0
- ↑ Helmut Ernst, List of Bimota Models for 1975 through 2000 (in German), archived from the original on 2010-01-13, retrieved 2009-11-17