The 1992 Yamaha FZR600 Vance and Hines was little more than a garish factory-applied graphics package to celebrate the two manufacturers’ AMA Supersport partnership. We’ve covered a few of these things over the years, and I might be the only person on the RSBFS team who legitimately digs heinous ’90s graphics packages. 1992 Yamaha FZR600…
Update 1.5.2018: Seller has notified us that this bike has sold! Congratulations to buyer and seller! -dc To say commemorate its wildly popular, fast and cantankerous carbureted 900SS as fuel injection approached in the late ’90s, Ducati put the old beast out to pasture with a worldwide run of 800 bikes with special paint and…
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…
The days might still be hot here on the East Coast, but they’re steadily getting shorter, and the evenings have the familiar cool snap. Summer is nigh over, but here at RSBFS we are just gearing up for one of the best seasons to get out on a sportbike and relish the crisp temperatures and…
MV Agusta spat out a raft of tribute bikes based on its insane F4 1000R in the mid to late aughts, but perhaps the closest to the company’s heart was the F4 1000R Senna, named for Ayrton Senna, the late three-time Formula 1 champion. Senna had been a close personal friend of Claudio Castiglioni, MV…
Before it was clear that Erik Buell’s attempts at a comeback after a messy divorce from Harley Davidson would come to naught, he gave the world a string of wild, no-holds-barred open-class sportbikes that only he could have dreamed up. 2012 EBR 1190RS Carbon Edition for sale on eBay Bucking convention as was his way,…
Most of the time, limited edition means “this one has a stripe,” or more likely, “this one says ‘limited edition’ on it.” That was not the case with the 1986 Suzuki GSXR-750 Limited Edition. 1986 Suzuki GSXR-750 Limited Edition for sale on eBay The LE model was the bike built to homologate the GSXR-750 for…
For many, the classic Yamaha race livery will always be the bumble bee yellow and black, an iconic combination forever immortalized by King Kenny Roberts. It is a color scheme that has adorned many models – from the TZs and RZ racers of the 1970s to the RDLC and RZ350 editions in the 1980s. It…