Back at the end of the 1980’s Yamaha was achieving success across its entire lineup of sportbikes with the FZR400, FZR750 (also known as the OW01) and at the top, the FZR1000. The FZR1000 was ruling the litre class not due its having the most powerful engine or the best handling but by having the…
A poet once wrote that in the spring a man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Fortunately for us here at RSBFS, spring is also the time when some nice bits of unobtainium start to appear for sale and here is one such example; a 1996 Kawasaki ZX7RR N1. 1996 Kawasaki ZX7RR (N1) in Calgary…
Rotary powered motorcycles may have been consigned to the dustbin of history but for a while they really were thought of as the future. Most rotary engined bikes were built as standards or sport touring machines but Norton decided to take their rotary racing and actually achieved a fair amount of success with its F1…
Note: Some of the pictures in this post are from the web not from the listed ebay auction. 2012 EBR 1190RS on ebay Ahh…what could have been….the EBR 1190RS, “built to prove an american sportbike could compete with the best in the world”. Sure we have heard that line before but from a technical…
We seemed to have passed through the winter doldrums here at RSBFS and bits of unobtanium are starting to appear for sale again. Here are a pair of Ducati Desmosedici/D16RR team versions for sale on ebay, with the first being a relist from this time last year and the second a new listing located in…
This one is a little newer than what we typically post here at RSBFS but it i s a street legal Aprilia RS125 and is the last generation that had the rotax powered two stroke. While its not the fastest thing, it would certainly make any young squid the envy of his classmates. The Aprilia RS125 actually…
Note: this photo is a stock photo, not a pic of the actual bike from the ebay auction Only one modern day motorcycle company has consistently focused on offering riders the potential of “ludicrous speed“; Kawasaki. From the GPZ of the mid 80’s to the Ninja/ZZR of the 90’s & early 2000’s to the modern…
It may be just after Christmas but this would still make a cool gift for someone who has a “rabid race kid” in the family. 2003 Derbi GPR 50 on ebay The Derbi GPR50 was a joint effort between Cagiva and Derbi that mated an excellent cagiva designed frame with a really good 50cc engine…