Location: Charlotte, North Carolina Mileage: 9,994 Price: Auction, $3,600 BIN Well, another clean CBR1000F has popped up (that’ll make two this week) and I just had to write this one up too. Again, very clean, low mileage and looks original. And as mentioned in the previous post, this bike wasn’t the edgiest machine available at…
MZ is an old German bike manufacturer that can trace its history back to 1906. They are noted as an East German manufacturer due to their location ad after WW2 of course they ended up in the east. The MZ name is actually an abbreviation for VEB Motorradwerk Zschopau and the company has had a successful…
Location: Saltville, Virginia Mileage: 33,000 Price: Auction, BIN $4,000 In the 1990 liter-bike world the CBR1000F (or Hurricane until Honda pulled the name) wasn’t the most aggressive model on the market. The GSX-R 1100 and FZR 1000 were more track focused, edgy machines. However, the CBR brought a lot of things to the table that…
Location: Staten Island, New York Mileage: 1,076 Price: Auction, starting bid $6,000 Okay, so maybe technically not the cleanest ever, but it’s got to be in the ballpark. The Honda VF1000F took the popular Interceptor line to the next level by making it a liter bike. And with the larger displacement came more power, 113…
Location: Canton, Georgia Mileage: 31,600 Price: Auction, no reserve I have written up a few of these (I believe this exact bike here) and this remains one of my favorite bikes of all time. Something about the design. Or maybe it takes me back to when I first got into bikes and stared at that…
Location: Dover, Florida Mileage: 15,642 Price: Auction, currently $2,025 The history of the GSX-R 1100 has been documented here on RSBFS quite a bit through postings of clean, early versions. The legendary, bullet-proof 1100 cc air-cooled motor. The brute power that overwhelmed the early chassis (essentially the same as the GSXR 750 when first introduced).…
Location: Alameda, California Mileage: 16,460 Price: Auction, BIN $3,499 How about a liter bike that weighs and handles like a 600? Hasn’t the goal with the sportbike always been to create the lightest and most powerful package you can? Power to weight. That’s where all the secrets lie. Well, the CBR 900RR was Honda’s effort…
Location: Lynn, Massachusetts Mileage: 53,000 Price: Auction, Current bid $1650 Honda has built its fair share of V-4’s and most of them have been in the sportbike world have been in the 750 or 800 cc range. Well, here we have the VF1000R, a 998cc V-4. This bike was introduced in 1985 at a time…