The Honda RC-51 was Big Red’s answer to Ducati’s twin-powered attack on turn-of-the-century World Superbike, with a big v-twin stuffed between the generous alloy framerails. The big-bore twin immediately paid off for Honda, with Colin Edwards cracking off to the 2000 World Superbike Championship on the bike’s first try. It won the WSBK crown again…
Here we go. RSBFS comfort food in its finest form and coming from one of our most trusted allies in Moto2 Imports. Like a big bowl of mom’s mac and cheese, there is little that can sate us like a pristine 1989 Suzuki RGV250SP. If you have followed us for any length of time, you…
Gary in Utah has several bikes Featured on RSBFS right now. Check them out too: 1995 Honda RC45 2003 Aprilia RS250 MK2 1992 Suzuki GSXR400 GK76 Good luck to buyers and seller! -dc Update 5.15.2019: Now on eBay! As prices of Honda’s V4 homologation bikes climbing ever higher with every 0-mile example that crosses the…
Gary in Utah has several bikes Featured on RSBFS right now. Check them out too: 1998 Honda RVF400R NC35 2003 Aprilia RS250 MK2 1992 Suzuki GSXR400 GK76 Good luck to buyers and seller! -dc Our friend Gary in Utah is back, and he’s picking right up where we left him — offering up a slew…
Update 5.10.2019: SOLD IN 4 DAYS! Congratulations to buyer and seller! -dc In the heady days of the late-1990s, people were buying sportbikes left, right and center and roadracing was so popular that there were two all-in series in the U.S. alone. If you couldn’t get a superbike ride in AMA, you could turn your…
With the general level of competence from modern sportbikes, along with rules that don’t seem to favor limited-production homologation bikes, it’s easy to forget just how special some of them are. Bikes like the Yamaha OW01 might have looked nearly identical to the regular production machines from ten feet, but were often hand-built to a…
Update 4.27.2019: Sold in just two days to an RSBFS reader. Congratulations to buyer and seller! -dc The Ducati 851 is the father of modern Ducatis, from the world-changing 916 to the astonishing Panigale V4R. Without this boxy, lithe very red machine, those bikes would not be. The 851 arrived in 1987, with a very…
The 2018 Ducati Panigale 1299R Final Edition is the Italian way of quitting while you’re ahead. Have you developed the most-powerful twin-cylinder engine ever to be authorized for street use? Great! Number the top triple clamp, ’cause we’re only putting it in bikes for a year. But what a run of machines. The 1299R Final…
