A post relating to a motorcycle barn find
The great Honda CB1000! Over the past few years we’ve seen lots of of reboot retros appearing on the market, for example the Kawasaki Z900RS and Yamaha XSR900. These are great bikes and bring back lots of memories for me when starting to ride bikes in the early 1990s, however Read more…
If you search for the awesome Honda VFR750 on google you’ll likely get hundreds of bikes for sale in various condition and prices. When Honda launched the VFR750 in 1986 they absolutely went all in to ensure the VFR750 didn’t suffer any of the reliability problems when killed the VF750 Read more…
The Yamaha SZR660 was never a big sales success for Yamaha. Whist the idea of a big single cylinder engine in a lightweight good handling chassis makes a lot of sense, the quirky styling probably put a lot of buyers off. MZ also had a similar approach with the Scorpion Read more…
The Suzuki RG500 is a fairly common sight on most auction websites these days, whilst browsing ebay I could see around 10 examples for sale ranging from almost mint original bikes to rough projects. This particular auction listing raised my interest because it was for two Suzuki RG500 motorcycles, one Read more…
This week’s awesome barn find is the interesting 1989 Norton Commander. Whilst some manufacturers dabbled with production motorcycles using the wankel rotary engine, for example the Suzuki RE5, these were short lived due to poor sales when compared with their more conventional line up of motorcycles. Norton started developing their Read more…