RSBFS has had a slew of sub 500cc bikes come through these pages recently. Smaller bikes, as we all know, are fun to ride. Sure, you don’t have that arm-ripping torque, that wheely-prone acceleration nor the bragging rights of beating all comers, but you do get to have an absolute blast on a lighter bike…
The world of rare and collectable motorcycles is a funny place. You can go months with never seeing a particular bike, and then you can find four of them in a very short span of time. Feast or famine is the general rule, and today we feast on yet another pre OW-01 homologated Yamaha, the…
The fact that Kawasaki upped the small bike ante in 2013 by bumping the 250 Ninja up to 300cc and thus creating a new category is some pretty old news; check out this wonderful GPz 305 back from 1983. During this time – and prior to the introduction of the 205R which did not come…
Bikes become collectable in a few ways: They can be iconic motorcycles that have simply survived the ravages of time and modification, they can be homologation machines built in limited numbers and destined for the racetrack, or they can be born into collectability, with a flashy name and fashionable limited number plate. This Senna Edition…
MHe owners rejoice! Your chance to cash in on the internet-hyped, Italian wrought, collector-stashed MH900 evoluzion is apparently right now. We who spend our lives at the RSBFS offices – intently searching for the best of the best – have noticed a not too subtle trend here. Quite simply: MHe bikes are showing up in…
Noriyuki Haga is one of the more prolific racers riding in competition today. Starting in Japanese Superbike back in 1996 and then subsequently bouncing back and forth between WSBK, 500cc GP, Moto GP and British Superbike, he has ridden just about anything from just about every manufacturer. During one of Haga’s retrograde movements back into…
Honda Turbos – or any factory Turbo bike, for that matter – are genuinely rare motorcycles. Built to showcase technology of the future, these bikes were complex, expensive, and very, very fast. In the case of the Honda 650 Turbo, for example, the roll-on performance today is just as astounding as when it was first…
This being April 1st and all, there is a tendency for some of the RSBFS staff to engage in childish shenanigans. Make no mistake, I am not above such shenanigans myself. But since Jared did such a great job on this Fiat-liveried Yamaha R1 (you DID realize what day it was, didn’t you???), I figured…