Update: sold for €8,300 EUR Ducati’s famed “bevel-drive” v-twins offered handsome looks and hand-crafted performance, but were extremely expensive to manufacture, assemble, and maintain. By the late 1970s, Ducati engineer Fabio Taglioni had developed a new v-twin that significantly reduced production costs and simplified manufacturing, replacing the complex system of tower shafts and bevel-drive gears…
1983 Kawasaki Z1000R R2 ELR for Auction in Portugal, No Reserve! Today, the term “superbike” evokes images of plastic-clad darts with aggressive angles and wings, dammit, so many wings… But in the early days of the superbike, production-based racebikes that bore the nickname were often large, twin-shock, cradle-framed, air-cooled inline-four brutes with hardly a piece…
1995 Buell Thunderbolt S2 Miles: 10,485 Clean Arizona Title Listed Price: $8,750 Listing Ends: Jan 17th, 2025 1995 Buell Thunderbolt S2 for Sale on eBay at $8,750 Introduced in 1994, Buell’s Thunderbolt S2 was based around a hopped-up 1203cc 45° Harley-Davidson Sportster engine, backed by a five-speed transmission, rubber-mounted in a stylish and lightweight tubular…
1999 Honda CBR900RR Miles: 17,664 Clean Pennsylvania Title Listed Price: $14,999 Or Best Offer Listing Ends: Jan 1st, 2026 1999 Honda CBR900RR for Sale on eBay at $14,999 In the late 80s and early 90s, the very best road-going sportbikes were generally 750cc class machines, due to production-based racing class regulations, while 1000cc machines were…
1999 Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 Miles: 11,110 Rebuilt, Rebuildable, & Reconstructed Title Listed Price: $20,000 Or Best Offer Listing Ends: Jan 7th, 2026 1999 Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 Track Bike for Sale on eBay at $20,000 There is an undeniable mystique surrounding homologation special motorcycles that goes well beyond their rarity. In an effort to boost the…
Introduced during the latter years of the two-stroke era, the Yamaha RD400F Daytona Special was a development of the company’s popular middleweight two-stroke sportbike platform. By the time of its debut in 1979, two-stroke streetbikes were being phased out of the lineups of most motorcycle manufacturers, as ever-more-stringent regulations made the lightweight, simple, and powerful,…
2003 Aprilia Tuono Racing Miles: 38,625 [indicated] Clean California Title Listed Price: $4,895 2003 Aprilia Tuono Racing for Sale on Craigslist in Los Angeles at $4,895 Naked sportbikes really did play second-fiddle to fully-faired sportbikes, up until the advent of “supernakeds” like the Aprilia Tuono Racing: even Ducati’s original “Monster” was hardly terrifying, just leftover…
2007 MV Agusta F4 1000 Senna Miles: 10,000 Clean California Title Listed Price: $25,000 Or Best Offer Listing Ends: January 3rd, 2026 2007 MV Agusta F4 1000 Senna for Sale on eBay at $25,000 Much ink, both physical and digital, has been spilled in the service of what is widely considered one of the most…