Remember this ? That’s right, this is Mick Doohan at Suzuka on a factory HRC RVF. What we have here is an OKI (see above) colored Honda RC30: The bike had 2 previous owners and currently indicates 20500km on the clock. The frame has been polished and the paint scheme is not standard (experts out…
It doesn’t happen every day to come across a Ducati 996RS. How about two in a week? This one here is found in Italy: While it carries the Troy Bayliss colors the seller describes this bike as Neil Hodgson’s WSBK race tool back in 2000. The year after, it was ridden by Steve Martin as…
Ducati is probably the most “limited edition” prolific motorcycle company out there. What we have here is a special edition of the 996. At the beginning Ducati started to differentiate itself from the others by using the suffix S or SPS for their track oriented models. In particular the SPS stands for “Sport Production Special”.…
The Aprilia RS 250 is a proper sports bike. Combining high output (52 horses) with low weight (145kg), peaky power delivery (proper of old school race bikes) and a super fine frame, this is as close as you can get to MotoGP bike for a fraction (and a very tiny fraction indeed) of the cost!…
It’s winter time, at least here, north of the Alps in Switzerland. The roads are mostly wet when not frozen, the sky is grey and the mood is low. The 2012 MotoGP season just ended with a marvelous race of Pedrosa who won this season’s last race starting from the pits. A long wait is…
The oil cooled Suzuki GSX-R models are sought after by many enthusiasts. The engines of these bikes proved to be very reliable despite the extra mechanical noise given by the absence of thicker water insulated walls. The oil cooling system coupled with thin fins for better exchange with air proved a smart solution to keep…
Between 1960 and 1978 Harley Davidson controlled first and owned later, an Italian firm in the area of Varese. This wasn’t MV Agusta which eventually was also owned (for a very short time though) by HD. Instead, it was called Aermacchi. Just like MV Agusta, also Aermacchi used to be in the aerospace business. After…
The Suzuki GSX-R 750 is among the most sought after super bikes of the late 80s and synonymous of sportiness. Especially so, if the colors are like the ones of this almost pristine sample found in Germany: The bike has less than 9000 km which is really rare for this particular version. The seller describes…