Update 5.6.2023: This bike has SOLD! Congratulations to buyer and seller! -dc Update 4.7.2023: Relisted on eBay with price reduced to $7,800. Good luck to buyers and seller! -dc Starting with an interesting bike that has been subject of quite a few RSFBS posts, reader Rassie has combined expert fabrication with surprising ingenuity. Prepare to…
1990 HONDA CB-1 For Sale on eBay! Location: Hagerstown, Maryland Make: Honda Model: CB-1 Displacement: 400cc Mileage: 12,194 Price: $4,250 RNM 1990 Honda CB-1 excellent condition 12,194 original miles newer Michelin tires no issues WOW! 32 years old and looking damn fine if I do say so myself! Not me, silly- the CB-1! Besides I’m…
Moto Guzzi Daytona For Sale on Craigslist! Big, Beautiful, and Body Positive- I’d ride it! Even though Guzzi describes it as a “sport bike” this, 450#, shaft driven machine pales in comparison to today’s 200hp rockets, but it does have a certain mystique about it. I bet with a set of pipes the 992cc V2…
The Honda CB-1 is everything you have come to expect from Honda: exquisitely engineered, sublime build quality, wonderful ergos, reliability and performance. It also has a few things you might not have come to expect: it is missing bodywork (eek, it’s naked!), it is missing weight, and it is missing displacement. All of this equates…
Update: This bike has sold to an RSBFS reader! Congratulations to buyer and seller! -dc I’ve always been a “slow bike [and car, for that matter] fast” kind of guy, mainly because I could never really afford the fast bikes I wanted, but also because I’m pretty sure I’d have gotten into trouble riding something…
The Honda CBR400RR was designed to appeal to buyers in certain countries that were limited to bikes of smaller displacement because of tiered licensing requirements or heavy taxes on larger machines. Racing classes in those markets also existed to campaign 400cc motorcycles, and were hotly contested by the usual suspects: Yamaha, Suzuki, and Kawasaki also…
Performance motorcycles have gotten so powerful and fast that they’re only even rideable by normal humans because of sophisticated electronics. If 99% of riders need traction-control just to keep their 190hp superbike on the road, couldn’t it be argued that they’re too powerful? ABS and all the other safety systems are amazing, but should be…
No one is arguing that we don’t live in an era where “learner bikes” aren’t very sophisticated machines, but no matter how impressive the electronics found on modern small-displacement bikes may be, and no matter stone-axe reliable the mechanicals are, there’s something distinctly uninspiring about the weedy exhaust note of a single-cylinder KTM RC390. It’s…