A genuine Honda NR for sale in the U.K.! 

Located just outside of London, is a 1991 Honda NR with 1,360 miles.  This is an official U.K. import; it was originally used by Honda as a display item and wasn’t registered until the end of 2002.  The bike comes with all manuals, books, and cards originally supplied when new.  The asking price is £105,000 which as of 02/27/10 converts to $160,126.57 and 117,740.13€ respectively.  We have only posted one NR in the past, that bike had an asking price of 45,000€–making it seem like a deal in retrospect!  The NR is an amazing piece of machinery however, much newer machinery will walk away from it but this bike is the ultimate street bike tour de force.  There were only 700 NRs produced and they are very rarely traded in the public market so you can ask what you’d like–as in this case.  The NR came with an amazing eight valves per cylinder, oval piston 90° V4 (Essentially a V8 with the cylinder walls knocked out); a traditional twin spar aluminum frame, and the most up to date suspension Honda could fit. The NR influenced many bikes to follow as, it is purported, the original drawings of the 916 were changed following Honda’s release of the NR.  It is also interesting to note that the FIM rulebook for MotoGP specifically states that cylinders must be round, the original NR750 is the reason for this I suspect.  If you have the means, I would encourage you to pick up a NR at some point as it would be hard to top being able to plop the nickel, silver, and carbon fiber ignition key on the bar after an amazing ride. 

See the ad on eBay UK See a light review and some good photos/videos of the Honda NR here.

AG

While RSBFS concerns mostly with bikes for sale in the US, for very special cases of uber-rare bikes we will make an exception, and this, boys and girls, is definitely one of them: a 1994 Honda NR for sale in the Netherlands.

First produced in 1992, the NR (often mistakenly referred to as the NR750 – the 1987 Le Mans endurance racer) is an absolute legend with it’s GP racing derived oval piston (often amusingly referred to as ‘a can of spam’) engine, and it was the 90s equivalent of  today’s Ducati Desmosedici in terms of exoticism and price - it was the most expensive production bike of the day, retailing for $50,000 – back in 1992!  Here’s more info on Wikipedia about this truly exotic ride.

All we know about the bike from the ad is that the seller is asking 48000 Euros for it.  Hard to comment on the price as you don’t see a NR up for sale everyday, but if I had the cash, it’d be already sitting in my bedroom right by my bed!

phil