Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Mileage: 17,941 Price: Auction Not too accustomed to seeing a VFR700? Does the cc designation throw you a little? Well, that’s okay. The 700cc machine out of Honda was built to come in under the 750cc tariff the U.S. imposed to punish Japanese bike builders. Can you guess which U.S.…
Location: Altamont, New York Mileage: 16,200 Price: Auction, $3,750 BIN Everyone who reads RSBFS regularly and probably even the newbies know the importance of the GSX-R 750. Every sportbike since the introduction of the GSX-R owes something to it. Like it or not. The truest repli-racer of its time, the GSX-R 750 was a genuine…
Location: Superior, Wisconsin Mileage: 11,445 Price: Auction, $4,600 BIN Race replica bikes, or attempts by people to build them, have been around in some form since the dawn of time. However, the 80’s seemed to bring in the current era of the factory race replica bike and the Honda VF1000R certainly played a role, along…
Location: Leicester, North Carolina Mileage: 30,000 Price: Auction, currently $10,000 We see Suzuki RG500’s on RSBFS from time to time and they command some significant attention. Never imported into the U.S., the Gamma was a potent two stroke 500cc bike and a rider’s ticket to Grand Prix racing on the street. The two stroke motor…
Location: Portland, Oregon Mileage: 20,941 Price: Auction, $5,500 BIN Okay, this bike has been modified but also maintained and upgraded. And sure, it’s in Oregon, my home state. And I also love GSX-R’s. So there was really no way I couldn’t write this up. Generally, I like to find older GSX-R’s that are completely stock,…
Location: Visalia, California Mileage: 42,000 Price: Auction, currently $3,850 Update 4.26.2012: Previoulsy posted on March 1, this bike sold for $4500 but is back on eBay. Links updated. -dc So everybody knows that I’m particularly fond of the Suzuki GSX-R. And we really haven’t had an early one in a while here on RSBFS. Well,…
Location: Near Wilmington, NC Miles: 17,286 Price: Currently $3,000 with No Reserve Nothing screams 80’s sport bikes like a Ninja. When the GPZ900R bust onto the scene, it was the first bike to dawn the Ninja name and quickly became a benchmark of its time. Next up was the 1000R. It came with more power,…
Location: New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada Mileage: 31,068 (50,000 km) Price: $3,250 Here’s an opportunity to take home a legendary bike. For those in the know, the GSX-R 1100 is an icon. When it was released by Suzuki in 1986, the power of the air and oil cooled 1100cc motor built an instant following. It…