1982 Honda CBX400F Integra for Sale at Martin Moto I’ll get this out of the way right up front: today’s Featured Listing 1982 Honda CBX400F Integra is not powered by an inline six engine. In fact, I’d long dismissed the CBX400F as being some sort of marketing gimmick, with the CBX name used to draw…
Here in the US, 250cc machines are often derided as “learner bikes” or intended as budget commuter machines, but in other markets the 250cc class was extremely competitive, and the little bikes featured cutting-edge technology matched with razor-sharp handling. The highly-strung two-strokes made surprising power, but accessing their full potential required skill as, in spite…
Today’s Featured Listing is a 1988 Honda RS250RF, a bona fide production two-stroke Grand Prix racebike. The RS250R first took to the track in 1984 as a development prototype, with machines made available to privateers and customer teams in 1985. It wasn’t intended for Honda factory teams: they were equipped with the even more exclusive…
Today’s Featured Listing spotlights a matched pair of bikes that were effectively rivals both on and off the track: Suzuki’s RG500Γ “Gamma” and Yamaha’s RD500LC. Both were Grand Prix replicas that used 500cc liquid-cooled, two-stroke four-cylinder engines, although Suzuki used a square configuration, as opposed to Yamaha’s vee. Suzuki’s design philosophy hewed closer to that…
Update: Relisted on ebay with a reserve of $9,000 1986 Yamaha TZR250 1KT Race Replica Whenever a bike comes to RSBFS the first thing I do is look through our 16 years of archives to see if we have posted about this particular make, model and year. The TZR250 model has received lots of love…
Motivated to sell. Price update: $2,900. For many, motorcycles take on a character of their own. Sometimes they are a representation of the owner, and a rolling expression of what is important to them. Other times they personify themselves with attributes of the manufacturing country. Even people that do not know much about motorcycles are…
A rare sight here in the US, today’s Yamaha RD350LC is a lightweight, performance two-stroke the likes of which haven’t been seen here in a long time, as emissions legislation effectively killed off road-going “smokers” in the 1980s. It’s a shame, as two-strokes are naturally lighter than four-strokes of equivalent power, and are mechanically much…
Here in the US, new riders dream of 600cc sportbikes they’ve been told make “great learner bikes” but, in most of the world, taxes and tiered licensing make machines like that impossible for new riders. Overseas in Europe and in Japan, small-displacement two-strokes like today’s Featured Listing Aprilia RS125 were designed to offer a sportbike…