Bimota’s 10th model with a Yamaha engine, the appropriately-named Dieci was built between 1991 and 1994 with just 224 examples leaving the factory. An even smaller portion were equipped with a passenger seat and pegs. Bimota scooped up the engine from a FZR1000 and then tweaked it to yield nearly 150 horsepower.
1991 Yamaha Super Tenere XTZ750
Right now you can walk into a Honda or Yamaha dealership and get a modern Africa Twin or Super Tenere. But in the US, the same couldn’t have been said a couple of decades ago. You can occasionally find ’90s examples of the AT and ST thanks to grey market imports, but the latter is much harder to source.
Race Report – The Honda Grom Prix, Part 2
The teams were set, practice was done, the bikes were ready, and the air horn had sounded: it was time for the three-hour endurance race that Honda was calling the Grom Prix! Time for you to guess how I finished…and then you can read on to see how accurate you were!
Race Report – The Honda Grom Prix, Part 1
View PostNo Reserve Black Bomber – 1966 Honda CB450
The Honda CB450 Black Bomber is easily one of the most significant motorcycles to ever come out of Japan. Produced for just three years, it was the company’s first ‘big bike’ (and the first production bike with DOHC). At the time, it was considered to be one of the best bikes ever built, though it didn’t sell as well as …
1979 Suzuki GS850
A few weeks ago I shared some photos from a visit I took over to Jeff Skinner’s place, Best West Fasteners. The first bike I shared was an interesting Suzuki GS850 that had been painted to look like a Wes Colley Replica…and now it’s for sale!
7/11 With No Reserve – 1994 Suzuki GSX-R750/1100
A popular mod with 90s GSX-Rs was to shoehorn the 1100 motor into the 750 frame – the resulting creation was often referred to as a “7/11”. According to Old School Suzuki, the first 7/11 “was built by Bradley O’Connor and it was featured in the September 1992 issue of Performance Bikes magazine.“
1967 Bridgestone GTO 350
The Bridgestone GTO 350 was the scrambler version of the absolutely incredible GTR, a bike that could leave 650 and 750cc bikes in the dust in the quarter-mile. What did Bridgestone think would be required to turn a street bike into a scrambler? The only change was the high exhaust pipes. The GTO was the much rarer variant of an …
Jetski Body – 2016 Honda PCX 150
The seller of this contraption has a heck of a description: “this is the pinnacle of engineering, you literally can’t go anywhere without strangers throwing themselves at you. Lee Health has asked me not to ride this because it’s breaking peoples necks trying to look at it. If you want to own a piece of what makes this country great, …
1967 Bridgestone 175 Dual Twin
One of the many high quality (and somewhat pricey) small displacement bikes from a company we now only associate with tires, the Bridgestone 175 Dual Twin was basically a baby sport bike with two of their 90cc single engines merged together.
1988 Yamaha TDR80
Never sold in the US, the TDR80 is a mini version of the awesome TDR250…that we sadly didn’t get here, either.
No Reserve For Solly Mervis – 2023 Honda NSF100R
As I noted when sharing a recent press release from Kramer, over at Iconic Motorbikes we currently support two young American motorcycle road racers: Kensei Matsudaira and Solomon Mervis. This week we are donating one of our Honda NSF100Rs to Solly – we’re auctioning it off with no reserve and we’ll be giving him the amount of the winning bid!
1987 Honda Super Magna
For the 1987 model year, Honda added some dragster style to the Magna to compensate for the slight displacement reduction due to the ’83 motorcycle tariff (which expired in 1988). In other markets, this generation of the Magna was offered with a 750cc engine, but Americans got a 700cc motor. I’ve featured a couple of these before and both times …
Interesting Project – 1993 Yamaha GTS1000
If you’ve been looking for an interesting platform for your next custom (or maybe you just want to restore a rare bike), there’s a Yamaha GTS1000 sitting around in New Jersey that has some potential…
What Do You Want To Know? 2025 Honda Grom
Tomorrow morning I’m hopping on a plane to head back to one of my favorite places in the US: the Barber Motorsports Museum. Every year they put on something called the Small Bore, which is a “weekend-long celebration of small-capacity motorcycling and culture.” This year, Honda’s piggybacking on the festivities to introduce the newest version of their popular small bore …