Update: This one sold before we could finish writing it. Congratulations to buyer and seller! -dc Hub center steering bikes make the occasional appearance here on RSBFS. Sometimes they are wild like the Gilera CX125, sometimes they are mild like the Yamaha GTS listed earlier this week…and then we have the Bimota Tesi/Thesis series. The…
Somewhere in Florida, a ’06 MV Agusta F4 CC is crying silently on a showroom floor. Like a greyhound in a crate, a F1 car in LA traffic jam, a or dolphin in a goldfish bowl, this is just wrong. Sure it is pretty to look at…but it was made to MOVE! Unfortunately, with the…
I know a lot of RSBFS readers think that except for the new EBR bikes all Buells were kind of half-assed sportbikes that didn’t measure up to the competition. What is interesting to me is that if you say the name “John Britton” to these same people they will claim that the Britten V-1000 was…
From the book of funny front ends comes this rare 1993 Yamaha GTS1000. Born of the James Parker “RADD” design and licensed by same, Yamaha added a bit of tour to the sport package and created a very interesting bike. In some ways, it is a bike looking for a purpose. It is clearly not…
Update 4.22.2015: This bike is heading to a new home. Congratulations to buyer and seller! -dc Update 10.6.2014: Now on eBay, links added. -dc Certainly not the handsomest machine, Buell’s XBRR was a factory racebike based on their XB12 streetbike that featured Buell’s customary obsession with mass-centralization and weight-reduction. Both very good ideas, considering the…
Spanning the globe to blog the best rare sportbikes… the thrill of discovery!.. the agony of your bank balance!.. the drama of last minute bidding on ebay!… This..is..RSBFS! Okay, depending on your age you read the above and either heard Jim McCay or Gerald Butler in your head. The point is that this site is…
I normally don’t choose bikes from outside the continental US to post, but this Moriwaki MD600 is cool enough I thought I’d make an exception. The listing doesn’t include much information, but if you’re seriously considering dropping 40-large on this, you probably already know what you’re looking at. For the tourists: This is a genuine…
When it comes to making risky technology bets in the search of performance, Honda remains unparalleled in the world of engineering. Having offered every conceivable engine configuration possible over the years, Honda has always been about reaching further, exploiting rules where possible, and owning the competition. That is where the NR concept comes into the…