Location: Newport Beach, CA Miles: 13,500 Price: $4000 In accordance with our 400cc Week here at RSBFS, may I introduce the one and only Yamaha FZR400. This, my friends, is one of the current object of my desire in the world of rare sport bikes. I don’t need ample amounts of carbon fiber or even…
While many won’t think of a Guzzi as a sportsbike the company has a very long and proud racing history. Just to give you an idea look at these stats. By the time of its pull out from Grand Prix racing, Moto Guzzi had won 3,329 official races, 8 World Championships, 6 Constructor’s Championships and 11 Isle of Man…
All too often we are about the chase – always looking for the next rare bike, the next unobtainable this or that – and we tend to miss out on some of the best aspects of collecting: not just the search, but the find, the deal, the anticipation, and ultimately the experience of actually riding…
1986 Suzuki RG500 Gamma Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Miles: 5820Km (3,616mi) Price: $16,000 Our neighbors to the North again offer us a piece of sport bike history in the super clean and original ’86 RG500 Gamma. It seems that a few of the RG500’s featured here on RSBFS are Canadian, and this on is no…
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…
Location: Camarillo, CA Mileage: 5,220 Price: $4,000 BIN As I’m sure most of you do, when I think RZ 350, I think Kenny Roberts. The Yamaha RZ 350 Kenny Roberts Signature is a legendary bike associated with a legendary racer. Indulge me for a second while I drop a little history. ‘King Kenny’ was…
For Sale: 1990 Ducati 750 Supersport This is what one might refer to as Ducati’s “awkward years.” Between the baby-cute 1970 Supersports and the razor-sharp 916 era of the late 1990s comes the teenage stage where, when looking back in perspective, bikes evolved in some ways but not in others. In this case, the design…
For Sale: 1989 Honda CB-1 / CB400F / NC27 The Honda CB-1 was meant to be the spiritual successor to the heralded CB400F Supersport of the 1970’s. As such, it is a cafe racer sports bike with a small displacement, four cylinder engine. This time around, however, techology has improved such that the bike is…
Faster/Stronger/Lighter: 2004 Ducati 749R #257 Location: Bay Area, CA Miles: 11,200 Price: $11,500 Here is your daily dose of fiber, of the carbon variety. If you’re looking for a not-so-average Ducati, then the 749R is just what the doctor ordered. Unlike the standard and ‘S’ models of the 749, the R was built with one…
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…
After the TT1 and TT2, Ducati released the 750 F1. This particular example appears to be a final 1986 model (the 750F1 was only produced in ’85 and ’86) because it has the Cagiva logos only on the tank and not the fairing which the earlier ’86 models did. The ’85 models of course did…