Featured Listing: Very Clean 1990 Honda VFR400R NC30 for Sale
V4-powered sports motorcycles are all the rage now, but they were long associated with just one manufacturer: Honda. Their homologation RC30 set the standard for “exotic” in the late 1980s and 1990s:...
View ArticleFeatured Listing – 2008 BMW HP2 Sport
Mid-2000's BMW knew the air-oil cooled line had to come to a close, and developed a brilliant 4-valve engine to cap their 90-odd years of boxer twin development. Though the engine was built into an...
View ArticleGrand Prix in Miniature: 1993 Honda RS125 for Sale
Growing up, my only experience with two-strokes was in leaf blowers: I didn’t ride dirt bikes, and two-stroke sportbikes were long gone by the time I got into motorcycles. A thudding v-twin sounds...
View ArticleFeatured Listing: Very Clean 2001 Ducati 748S for Sale
Update 7.22.2016: The seller has renewed the Feature Listing for this 748S and has dropped the price to $5,500. Thanks for helping to support the site Brett and good luck to potential buyers! -dc...
View ArticleBack to the future: 1985 Honda VF1000R with under 500 miles
I have to admit the VF1000R was a bit before my time; my memories of 1985 are more about flying Deloreans than 1000cc sportbikes. For anyone else who doesn't remember, the Honda VF series of bikes...
View ArticleThe Sum of Its Parts: 2000 Bimota DB4 for Sale
Bimota’s successful line of Ducati-powered bikes seems a bit unconventional for the brand, considering they'd always been about creating machines that fused powerful, well-engineered Japanese engines...
View ArticleNo Reserve Import: 1989 Honda NSR250 MC18 for Sale
Styled to resemble the RS250RF race bikes, the Honda NSR250 used a gorgeous aluminum twin-spar frame, triple disc brakes, and a whole host of lightweight, mass-centralizing tricks you’d normally...
View ArticleRare Team Green Two-Stroke: 1988 Kawasaki KR-1 for Sale
Well this one’s pretty exciting: the recent influx of two-stroke sportbikes has been notably lacking in Team Green Kawasakis like this KR-1, thought by some to be one of the best, or at least the...
View ArticleVivid Green Oddity: 1984 Kawasaki KR250 for Sale
Well here's a real curiosity, another bike from the era of experimental engine configurations. Prior to the introduction of the KR-1 featured earlier this week, Kawasaki’s quarter-liter two-stroke...
View ArticleWon’t Wait 4/1 – 1989 Yamaha YSR50
Usually relegated to the holiday or April Fool's page at RSBFS, the YSR50 was built by Yamaha 1987-92 for the kids and pocket-bike market. This eBay offering is undamaged, never modified, and stored...
View ArticleUnobtanium alert: 1996 Honda RVF750R RC45
Back in the 1990's Honda introduced new technology to the sportbike world at a truly dizzying pace. From 1990 to 1999, Honda USA introduced sportbike riders to the RC30, RC45, RC51, CBR600F2, VFR750,...
View ArticleRev. 1.0 – 2000 Triumph TT600
Taking the sportbike fight right downtown, Triumph's all-new 600 made a valiant run at the big four. Light weight, nice handling, and quality components, it unfortunately had to be shipped before the...
View ArticleItalian Unicorn: 2004 Moto Guzzi MGS01 Corsa for Sale
Relisted from last November, with a 20% price reduction - Martin In the early 1990s, Moto Guzzi was trying to revitalize their staid image and appeal to a younger, more sporting audience. Famous Guzzi...
View Article2nd Year But Still Classic: 1994 Honda CBR 900RR/Fireblade
1994 Honda CBR900/Fireblade on ebay When we first started posting the CBR900RR on RSBFS a few years ago, some readers complained that it didn't belong on RSBFS.com. The comments ranged from it not...
View ArticleDon’t Quote Me On This: 1989 Yamaha TZR250 3MA for Sale
The TZR250 was Yamaha's entry into the hotly-contested quarter-liter class wars that raged throughout the 80s and 90s. Early TZR250s were powered by a fairly conventional liquid-cooled parallel twin,...
View ArticleFeatured Listing – 2001 Ducati 748R
The Ducati 748 was built from 1994-2002, in three variants - E, S, and R ( with factory racers identified as SP or SPS ). Though the E can be a biposto, and the S a base model with upgraded...
View ArticleStunning Gamma: 1988 Suzuki RG500Γ MK14 Race Bike for Sale
The road-going two-stroke fours from Suzuki and Yamaha normally tend to look a little awkward to my eye. The wheels and tires look too skinny, the brakes too small, the fairing bulbous and a little...
View ArticleNearly New: Ultra Low-Mileage 1989 Yamaha FZR400 for Sale
Smaller versions of big bikes are often built to a price. Even if they are serious sports machines, they can often lack some of the shiniest bells and whistles of the top-of-the range bikes. But not...
View ArticleShow Hawk – 1989 Honda NT650 Hawk
Slightly ahead of its time, the NT650 Hawk was an interesting mix of solid powerplant, sportbike architecture, perimeter frame, and lack of a fairing or for that matter much pizazz. But its features...
View ArticleThey seem to come in waves:Another 1994 Honda RC45, this one with under 900...
We just had a nice RC45 here on RSBFS last week and given the rarity of these it's a bit of a surprise that another one has popped up for sale so soon. While the previous bike was a gray import bike...
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