Rivals! Featured Listing: 1987 Suzuki RG500Γ and 1985 Yamaha RZ500 for Sale

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…

Honda VF1000R

Featured Listing: Freshly Restored 1985 Honda VF1000R for Sale

update: Sold for $12,250 Honda’s VFR750R may have codified the company’s endurance-racing formula, but the often-forgotten VF1000R laid the groundwork for that iconic machine. Designed for the same purpose, to homologate the platform for production-based racing classes, it included a raft of features that improved the bike’s competition prospects. This example has just undergone a…

Rare Zoot -1985 Yamaha RZ500

Originally available in Canada as one of those morsels of forbidden sport fruit taunting US riders from just over the border, this 1985 Yamaha RZ500 now resides in the US of A down Florida way and is looking for a new home. Sporting updated expansion chamber pipes, a steering damper and a few more stickers…

Rules Do Not Apply: 2023 Ducati V4 SP2

One could be forgiven for rolling their eyes at another ultra desirable, rare, and insanely fast motorcycle coming from Ducati.  Those that are close to the motorcycle industry know there is no shortage of dream worthy machines coming out of Italy.  But that should not diminish the raw performance, engineering excellence and marketing genius that…