Post Listing Update: The asking price was lowered to $2,000, but then this XR was pulled off of eBay (final sale price unknown). Though this Honda was once full of glory, competing in the Baja 1000, it’s now sitting in a pawn shop. Here’s hoping someone can get it back on the dirt!
300 Miles in Canada – 1985 Honda Elite 150
The Honda Elite is one of the most common scooters of the 80s. It was introduced in 1984 as a 125cc model, though the next year it became a 150. It was sold in the US for another three years. The “Elite” title was given to a family of models ranging from 50 to 250cc. It was known as the …
D’Hollander Built – 1979 Dholda Honda CB900F
Post Sale Update: After being relisted, this Dholda sold for $4,050 after 7 bids on eBay. Dholda is the name of a custom Belgian race shop founded by Jean D’Hollander – he got the moniker by blending his last name with Honda. He also happened to be quite successful, with victories in multiple endurance races at Mugello, the Bol d’Or, …
Swiss Army Bike – 1974 Condor A350
How often is a great product held back by a single component? Car makers, musicians, and companies throughout history sometimes could have made something great if they had outsourced one piece of their product. An amazing guitar player sometimes can’t write a great song to save their life, but if they play someone else’s great song, they might have a …
1970s Gemini SST 50
Post Listing Update: This Gemini did not get any interest at the BIN of $2,300. Imported for just three years, the Gemini SST 50 was much faster than a Honda 50 thanks to a licensed design of Yamaha’s rotary intake valve engine – last time I featured one of these, multiple commenters said it was faster than the Honda 70, …
Pick Your Color – 1972 Honda CL450 Scrambler
Restored by Bighouse Choppers (which from what I can tell, started inside a Nevada State Prison), this Honda CL450 has bodywork in both Magna Red or Planet Blue, so you can mix it up and pretend like you have two bikes.
2019 Quail Motorcycle Gathering – The Winners
View PostOne Owner with No Reserve – 1982 Kawasaki GPz1100
Post Sale Update: This GPz sold for $5,226 after 7 bids on ebay in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The last air-cooled large-displacement twin shock bike from Kawi, the GPz1100 was a superbike with a cockpit fairing, fuel injection, and lots of incremental upgrades over the Z1000 that it replaced.
1960 Moto Guzzi Galletto
Post Listing Update: This Galletto was pulled off eBay due to an error in the listing. Carlo Guzzi was one of Moto Guzzi’s three co-founders back in 1921, and he was the brainchild behind a scooter/motorcycle hybrid called the Galletto (cockerel in Italian). Over approximately 15 years of production, 75,000 units were sold.
Italian Two-Stroke – 1957 Moto Guazzoni
Founded in Milan in 1935 by one Aldo Guazzoni, a seasoned mechanic, engineer, and motorcycle dealer, Moto Guazzoni was a moped, trike, and motorcycle manufacturer operating into the late 1970s. The company first got its start making mopeds, but eventually pivoted to producing utility three-wheelers (think Italian H-D Servicar)—churning out utilitarian trikes similar to MV Agusta’s Motocarro and Moto Guzzi’s …
Video Intermission – 1969 Honda CB750 Sandcast Restoration Timelapse
Three years ago, I interviewed Sam Roberts, the man behind Ujeni Motors. I occasionally see him at events like the Quail Motorcycle Gathering and the Mecum Las Vegas auction, and I saw him at the latter this January when he mentioned that he was about to restore a CB750 and film a cool timelapse of the restoration. I loved the …
Picture Intermission – Dogs of the 2019 Quail Motorcycle Gathering
This was my fifth straight year at the Quail – each time I go I can’t help but notice all kinds of awesome dogs at the show. So this time around, I figured I’d share a few of my favorite four-legged animals that happened to be chilling near motorcycles. I realize this isn’t actually motorcycle-focused, but who doesn’t like dogs?
Thunderstorm Heads – 1997 Buell S3T Thunderbolt
View PostWhat Do You Want To Know? 2019 Ducati Scrambler Icon
Ducati brought back the Scrambler name in 2015 with a bike that was so successful that it became its own model family and spawned a lineup of 400cc, 800cc, and 1100cc machines. Though the Scrambler has been around for 4 years, I still haven’t had the chance to ride one. That’ll change today as I head up to the Bay …
Classic Japanese MX Collection in Arizona
Not much to say here – a seller in Phoenix has a collection of 8 gorgeous Japanese dirt bikes from the 70s-80s that he’s looking to sell as a unit.