Lately we seem to have had a lot of pristine/desirable Ducati machinery popping up for sale. Perhaps its just coincidence or perhaps people are making room so Father Christmas can bring them some new toys, either way I am not really complaining. Here we have a lovely 1995 Ducati 916 that has had some tasteful…
No, you haven’t activated a Instagram filter and your computer monitor has not switched over to monochrome, this really is an all gray and black Ducati MH900e. The MH900e is a pretty polarizing bike among sportbike fans. Some naysayers consider it merely a Ducati design and marketing exercise, an affront to the Mike Hailwood name. …
Here is an icon, a 1st gen CBR900RR, known as the Fireblade outside the USA. For younger readers of RSBFS or for anyone who has forgotten, when the CBR900RR appeared in 1993 it was a hammer blow to both the 750 and 1000cc market segments. In typical Honda fashion it wasn’t an overpowering powerplant that…
Over the last 20 years Ducati seems to have focused on a 3-segment strategy for their bikes; a tiny top segment of unobtanium level technical masterpieces such as the SuperMono or Desmosedeci, a big general segment of standard level bikes such as the Monster for the masses and in the middle, a segment comprised of…
2008 Ducati DesmoseDici RR with GP exhaust on ebay A lot of motorcycle manufacturers produce race-replica (RR) bikes that they promise are street legal versions of track bikes. Honda did it with the the RC45, Kawasaki with the ZX7R, even BMW with S1000RR. But above the RR bikes are the “Halo bikes”, outrageously expensive modern…
Here we have two excellent examples of the Kawasaki early 90’s Ninja family, a first generation ZX7 with only! 7000 miles and a pristine 1992 ZX11. Here is the 1st one, a Dark 1989 ZX7. 1989 Ninja 750 for sale on ebay Back in 1989 Kawasaki launched their 750cc sportbike, the ZX7 H1. The ZX7…
A Ducati 851 Corsa Superbike is like a “blu-rare” cooked steak; a level beyond rare. For those readers who are unfamiliar with the 851 Corsa Superbike, in 1991 the Ducati factory produced two small batches of production based customer race bikes (two batches of 25). These bikes were produced in the Spring and Winter of…
Triumph Motorcycles Ltd. is the largest surviving British motorcycle manufacturer but it hasn’t been an easy path for the Uk-based manufacturer. The entire British bike industry basically collapsed back in the early 1980’s and Triumph went into receivership in 1983. After a few years and a lot of legal wrangling, British businessman John Bloor ended…