Anyone that has been around the motorcycle community for more than a few days can figure out how desirable some of the Ducati models can be. It is easy to understand why the R models command respect and large checkbooks. The connection to the racing bikes is more than just a marketing ploy. Homologation rules…
1997 Honda VFR750F Interceptor Miles: 21,488 Second Owner Clean Title Starting Bid: $4,500 Auction ends: December 8th, 2024 1997 Honda VFR750F Interceptor for Sale on eBay In 1994, Honda introduced this: the final version of their extremely competent VFR750F Interceptor before displacement was increased for the VFR800. The styling was conservative, as was appropriate to…
1994 Honda RVF400 NC35 Miles: 15,341 [24,690km] Clean Nevada Title Current Bid: $1,525 Auction ends: November 9th, 2024 Reserve Not Met 1994 Honda RVF400R NC35 for Sale on eBay Today’s Honda VFR400R NC35 represents something we haven’t really seen here in the US for the most part: a cutting-edge sportbike with less than 600cc. While…
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…
1984 Yamaha RZ500 Miles: 22,000* Clean Title Listing Price: $24,000 Listing Ends: June 14th, 2024 1984 Yamaha RZ500 for Sale on eBay Today’s 1984 Yamaha RZ500 is from the two-stroke era of motorcycle performance, when Grand Prix grids were the exclusive playground of snarling, smoking, lightweight machines running on fragrant premix. Motorcycles have always been…
1986 Honda VF1000R Interceptor for Sale Miles: 28,762 Clean Title Listing Price: $14,500 Or Best Offer Listing Ends: May 24th, 2024 1986 Honda VF1000R Interceptor for Sale on eBay Built between 1985 and 1986, Honda’s VF1000R laid down the template that would later be used to build some of the company’s most iconic sportbikes and…
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…
So-called “race replicas” have always been popular amongst the sportbike crowd, an expression of the “race on Sunday, sell on Monday” philosophy that drives the motorcycle economy. Most have just been paint and graphics packages designed to make the bikes in question more closely resemble their racing counterparts. A few were actual homologation specials, created…