Our fans have recently been treated to a fairly steady stream of small-sports, most often nice and sometimes in mint shape. But what if you could pick up a high-mileage rider and restore it on your terms ? This former daily driver didn’t garner any bids last time out and is up again with a…
Suppose you managed a specialty motorcycle shop and were smitten with particular exotic high-performance model ? Easy access to aftermarket enhancements and ready hands might result in a farkle-fest like this 2006 MV Agusta Brutale 910S. 2006 MV Agusta Brutale 910S for sale on eBay MV Agusta’s brilliant in-line four was an natural fit…
Often overlooked since it wasn’t the raciest gray-market selection, the CBR400RR was available in Canada where this one lives. The NC29 or Baby ‘Blade as it is sometimes known, was a lightweight solution with a free-revving gear-driven cammed four. Despite limited information, it looks complete and ready for a light restoration. 1990 Honda CBR400RR for…
Cagiva bought the rights to the shuttered MV Agusta in 1991, and in 1998 introduced their first new motorcycle in fifteen or so years. Designed and built to set the world on its ear, the F4 750 had many race-derived components and a pricetag to match. This Oro is number 227 of 300 and has…
An iconic product of the WSBK race series, the Yamaha FZR-750R or OW01 was an homologation special which sold for more than twice what a more streetable FZR-1000 fetched, and cost Yamaha zillions. Rather than a tarted-up road machine, Yamaha built the race bike – poorly suited for the road actually – equipped it for…
Giving K-bike riders an S of their own, BMW introduced the K1200S in 2004 and never looked back. The K1200S was BMW’s first transverse inline-4, a development project on the road to the S1000RR, but a great supersport and rival to the Hayabusa and ZX-12. In late 2005, a stock K1200S famously set records at…
After Nicky Hayden’s see-saw MotoGP championship in 2006, Honda’s occasional race livery special edition for ’07 was a lock. The 2006-07 model was the second generation of the CBR1000RR, with many updates and lighter weight than the 2004-05 model. This example has been carefully stored with the factory’s break-in oil still in the crankcase and…
Most of us can probably count on one hand the times we’ve seen small displacement super-sports in the flesh, outside of an auction or show. Grabbing the most power out of a quarter-liter, two-strokes predominate – but here is an inline four from Suzuki, with 2-inch pistons and a sound like few other boy-racers from…