Massimo Tamburini

Massimo Tamburini
Born(1943-11-28)November 28, 1943
Rimini, Italy
DiedApril 6, 2014(2014-04-06) (aged 70)
San Marino
OccupationMotorcycle designer
Employer(s)Bimota, Cagiva, Ducati, MV Agusta
Notable workDucati 916, MV Agusta F4
ChildrenMorena, Andrea, Simona
Websitehttp://www.massimotamburini.com/en/

Massimo Tamburini (November 28, 1943 – April 6, 2014) was an Italian motorcycle designer for Cagiva, Ducati, and MV Agusta, and one of the founders of Bimota. Tamburini's designs are iconic in their field, with one critic calling him the "Michelangelo of motorbike design".[1] His Ducati 916 and MV Agusta F4 were included in the Guggenheim Museum's The Art of the Motorcycle exhibit of 1998–1999.[2]

He lived and worked in San Marino at the Cagiva Research Center (Italian: Centro Ricerche Cagiva, CRC), a subsidiary of Cagiva now MV Agusta, from which he retired on December 31, 2008.[3]

  1. ^ Telegraph 2014 "Massimo Tamburini ... was one of the great names of automotive design, allying power and beauty in motorcycles in the way that his compatriot, Enzo Ferrari, did in cars; one critic even called him the 'Michelangelo of the motorcycle'."
  2. ^ Guggenheim 2001, pp. 379, 396.
  3. ^ Cagiva 2008.