1981 Yamaha RD350LC Kilometers: 1,859 Clean Title Listed Price: $9,999.99 Or Best Offer Listing Ends: Jan 10, 2025 1981 Yamaha RD350LC for Sale on eBay at $9,999 US fans of this site will no doubt be fans of the RZ350, but may not be as familiar with that bike’s predecessor, the Yamaha RD350LC, as it…
1998 Honda RS250R NX5 Miles: n/a Starting Bid: $22,000 Buy It Now Price: $29,500 Auction Ends: November 9th, 2024 Reserve Not Met 1998 Honda RS250R NX5 Race Bike for Sale on eBay There’s very little incentive for manufacturers to use catchy or evocative names to differentiate between their competition models, compared to their roadgoing bikes,…
Here in the US, 250cc machines are often derided as “learner bikes” or intended as budget commuter machines, but in other markets the 250cc class was extremely competitive, and the little bikes featured cutting-edge technology matched with razor-sharp handling. The highly-strung two-strokes made surprising power, but accessing their full potential required skill as, in spite…
Today’s Featured Listing is a 1988 Honda RS250RF, a bona fide production two-stroke Grand Prix racebike. The RS250R first took to the track in 1984 as a development prototype, with machines made available to privateers and customer teams in 1985. It wasn’t intended for Honda factory teams: they were equipped with the even more exclusive…
Today’s Featured Listing spotlights a matched pair of bikes that were effectively rivals both on and off the track: Suzuki’s RG500Γ “Gamma” and Yamaha’s RD500LC. Both were Grand Prix replicas that used 500cc liquid-cooled, two-stroke four-cylinder engines, although Suzuki used a square configuration, as opposed to Yamaha’s vee. Suzuki’s design philosophy hewed closer to that…
A rare sight here in the US, today’s Yamaha RD350LC is a lightweight, performance two-stroke the likes of which haven’t been seen here in a long time, as emissions legislation effectively killed off road-going “smokers” in the 1980s. It’s a shame, as two-strokes are naturally lighter than four-strokes of equivalent power, and are mechanically much…
Here in the US, new riders dream of 600cc sportbikes they’ve been told make “great learner bikes” but, in most of the world, taxes and tiered licensing make machines like that impossible for new riders. Overseas in Europe and in Japan, small-displacement two-strokes like today’s Featured Listing Aprilia RS125 were designed to offer a sportbike…
1998 Yamaha TZR250 1KT Kilometers: 23,783 Clean Title Bid at post: $5,823 Auction Ends: July 29th, 2024 Reserve Not Met 1988 Yamaha TZR250 for Sale on eBay Introduced in 1986, the Yamaha TZR250 was the company’s entry into the fiercely contested 250cc sportbike class that was popular almost everywhere… except maybe the US. Here, there…