Bologna showed off the bike that would become the 2002 Ducati MH900e at the 1998 Intermot show, on the 20th anniversary of Mike Hailwood’s comeback win at the 1978 Isle of Man TT. In true Italian fashion, it took another two years before the bike was ready for orders, which opened online at 12:01 a.m.…
Somehow, whoever owned this 2001 Honda RC51 managed to keep it mostly off the road in its 18 years, showing remarkable restraint in the face of a bike that built a legend for itself under the likes of Colin Edwards, Nicky Hayden and Joey Dunlop. Fast, reliable and uncompromising, the RC-51 took the fight to…
Sixteen years after Ducati’s original run of bikes celebrating Mike Hailwood’s return to form at the 1978 Isle of Man TT, Bologna kicked out a Pierre Terblanche-penned update to the much-lauded MHR900. The MH900e, where ‘e’ stands for evoluzione, was a much more exclusive machine than the original MHR900, with just 2,000 rolling off the…
To celebrate Mike Hailwood’s stunning 1978 win at the Isle of Man TT, Ducati wrapped special tricolore bodywork around a bevel-head 900SS and cranked out one of the first true race replicas, and inadvertently launched a machine that would carry them more than halfway through the 1980s. 1985 Ducati MHR Mille for sale on eBay…
As homologation specials from Italy go, the 1998 Ducati 916 SPS isn’t the rarest of them all, though the seller claims only 50 were ever “officially” brought to this country. As a matter of fact, this is the second of the 1,098 1998 916 SPSs that we’ve featured this week. What sets this example apart…
If you stop through this dusty corner of the Internet often, you have by now figured out that our buds at Iconic Motorbikes pull no punches when it comes to lining up the finest wares for their museum/dealership. It’s easy to say that they deal in the best or nothing, but a cruise through their…
Getting your hands on this bike will land you in a rarefied class normally reserved for the likes of the Barber Motorsports Museum and a few (very) well-heeled collectors. Once again, it comes from our friends at Iconic Motorbikes, whose collection of killer, historic bikes is both for sale and display. At present, though, this…
This 1990 Honda Interceptor 250 might be the nicest example of its breed that we have ever seen, and it certainly takes the prize for nicest Interceptor 250 we’ve seen in the last couple years. Down to the paint on the engine, the bike appears to be spotless, and is a final-year example, which means…