7.28.2017: Sold to an RSBFS reader in Mexico! Congratulations to buyer and seller! -dc 6.6.2017: Price drop to $12,495! Good luck to buyers and seller! -dc It’s sometimes hard to get excited about the bike often referred to as “Tamburini’s Masterpiece” these days: the 916 and its derivatives have appeared in countless forms in popular…
Update 6.2.2017: Sold in just 12 hours! Congratulations to buyer and seller! If you have a rare sportbike for sale, model years 1980ish to 2004ish, consider our Featured Listing service for $59. Email me to see to get started: riding@rare-ones.com When you think of Yamaha’s homologation specials, you probably picture their extremely exotic OW01, but…
Today’s Featured Listing Suzuki RGV250 is part of the rare and weird collection that the seller has been liquidating over the past few weeks. It may not be museum-quality, but it has obviously been well cared-for and would make a great weekend rider, assuming you live somewhere it can be titled. Rare and desirable here in…
Intended for the Asian market, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an NSR150 SP for sale here in the USA before. As with the bigger NSR250, this was not a budget commuter, and included plenty of high-tech components to match the Repsol race-rep paint job. Obviously, style is key for a first bike that will…
A little brother in terms of displacement and a virtual twin in terms of style, Honda’s NC30 packs the same technological punch as the famed RC30 in a smaller package. And like the RC30, the NC30 was designed to homologate a motorcycle for racing, although in this case it was for classes with a 400cc…
In the 90s, Ducati captured the imagination of race fans and road riders alike with their exotic, race-winning v-twins, and the Japanese were forced to play catch up on track in in the showrooms, as they’d largely been relying on highly-developed, but less emotional inline fours in World Superbike and endurance racing. The rules of…
With prices of Suzuki’s RG500Γ “Gamma” through the roof right now, fans of 80s two-stroke exotica have had to look elsewhere for their smoky thrills, and today’s Featured Listing RG400Γ might be just the ticket for collectors seeking two-stroke performance on a less extravagant budget. Certainly, values of the Japanese-market RG400Γ have been below those of…
Update 4.12.2017: Sale confirmed with seller. 3 hours from published to sold! Congratulations to buyer and seller! If you have a rare sportbike for sale, model years 1980ish to 2004ish, consider our Featured Listing service for $59. Email me to see to get started: riding@rare-ones.com People often tend to think great visual design is the…