{link updated 6.16.2011 -dc} If you know some of these colors by name and what bikes they were applied to, you’re in deep: Fighting Red, Shasta White, Candy Aleutian Blue, Wistaria Blue, Seychelle Night Blue… You’ll also appreciate this motorcycle from the greater Charlotte, NC area: The original 900RR should need little introduction around here.…
To be honest, it’s kind of a kick to the plums when you fashion yourself as a connoisseur of Honda sportsbikes — and one turns up that you’ve never heard of. I suppose in fairness, I poured though the dozen or so Honda and more generalized sportsbike coffee table books; nothing. I present you with…
It’s Saturday night — well past closing time, and you and your mates decide to see who can come up with the rarest of the rare Ducatis; specifically, the Tamburini Ducatis. “That’s easy,” says one friend; “The 998 S Bostrom.” “No, no, no,” says the other. “The 916 Senna.” You nod; the Senna is rare…
They’re all still faster than you are — all these years later. 750s went away when 1000s were homologated for top of the food chain racing. And in the four-cylinder world, the only company who still makes a 750cc full-on sports platform is Suzuki. But the Kawasaki ZX750P (1996 – 2003) is still one of…
… but none of them have been so affordable as this 1991 Suzuki GSF400 Bandit. Arriving at the tail end of the time when the Japanese manufacturers were taking a stab at getting the US populace interested in medium-spec (the good stuff was still mostly reserved for overseas markets) 400cc sports platforms, the Bandito served…
In the early to mid-nineties, these bikes were awash with top shelf kit, and were, in many ways, rolling showcases for Ducati’s up and coming technologies. Chief among them was part of this bike’s namesake: “Iniezione Elettronica” – or i.e. Fuel injection was still far from mainstream — about as far from mainstream as water…
