Here is another bit of history for RareSportBike fans, a 1983 Suzuki McIntosh Bathurst Replica that needs a few pieces to be complete. For those of you unfamiliar with these bikes, its important to remember that for a long time motorcycle racing allowed anyone to try their hand with whatever they could put together, sometimes with…
The zane-era laverda bikes tick a lot of the Rare Sport Bike boxes; limited production numbers, discontinued marque, italian heritage, smexy looks in an age where eye-bleeding graphics packages were the norm, etc. The final generation Zane bikes were even recently ranked as one of the top 5 “future classics” by Bonhams. Personally I am…
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…
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…
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…
It doesn’t matter if you are a coach, CEO or motorcycle designer, following a highly successful predecessor is tough, especially if you are tasked with going in a new direction. When the Ducati 999 was introduced most Ducati fans had one response; WTF? Where the predecessor 998 had kept the classic design of the…
What is art? For a long time the belief was that a motorcycle could not be art because “art can never have any other purpose than itself”. But the folks at the Guggenheim museum in New York thought differently and their 1998 display the Art of the Motorcycle was the most popular event at the…
The Ducati Supermono is usually pure unobtainium, with only 65 units built between 1993 and 1995. They seem to be mostly garage queens that get swapped between collectors and have appeared on RSBFS less than 10 times since the inception of the site. As Tad D wrote back in June of this year, “The Supermono…