Next Saturday, Arts Parts is auctioning off 450 bikes from the 60s through the 80s. There’s actually going to be two auctions – one for in-person and internet bids and a separate auction of 128 bikes just for internet bidding.
Three Mid-’60’s Honda CL77 Scrambler 305’s
The Honda CL77 (aka the Scrambler 305) was the more off-road oriented version of the popular C77 Dream. While these machines never really fell out of popularity, the recent spike in all things Scrambler has undoubtedly made the CL77 a more coveted find. The Scrambler 305 is considered a fantastic little runner with its 305.4cc parallel Twin power plant that …
NUVIZ Head Up Display – 1 Month Update
NUVIZ has announced that they’ve started shipping units, so I thought it’d be a good time to check in with an update of how my experience has been. I wrote a way-too-long First Impressions piece after a couple of weeks with the NUVIZ, so head on over there if you have no idea what this is. Otherwise, here’s a much …
Ending Soon – 1969 Kawasaki H1 Mach III
Post Sale Update: After 68 bids on eBay, this Mach III sold for $15,191! The H1 Mach III was easily the fastest 500cc bike around when it debuted, and it quickly garnered a reputation for being unbeatable in a straight line and unmanageable otherwise. 50 years of stories may have led to some exaggeration here and there, and not everyone …
1986 Honda CR500 Street Tracker
Thornton Hundred Motorcycles is made up of just one kid in the U.K. in his early twenties who has some impressive building chops to say the least. Jody Millhouse (who is Thornton Hundred) has a father who is also an established player in the building world so it’s not too surprising to see the apple hasn’t fallen too far from …
New Sportbike King – 1998 Yamaha R1
Post Listing Update: This R1 did not get any interest at the opening bid of $5,000. The 1990s had three defining sportbikes – Honda’s CBR900RR started the revolution by being 76 pounds lighter than its lightest competition. Soon after, Ducati released the 916. It was technically competent with fuel injection and even an adjustable steering head angle, but it’s best …
Craig Vetter’s Masterpiece – 1973 Triumph Hurricane
By the late 1960’s, Triumph’s outdated 650 and 750 twins were facing increasing pressure from the Japanese. While beautiful, the Triumphs were being pushed aside by models like the groundbreaking CB750 from Honda. In an effort to compete, BSA/Triumph came out with an inline triple engine. At 750cc, it was competitive in racing, especially in Rob North frames, but the …
1 of 600 – 1997 Bimota YB11
Bimota bestowed the name of “Super Leggera” on the YB11 – you can probably guess that the phrase translates to “Super Light.” How light is super? Dry weight was 403 pounds, an impressive 32 pounds lighter than the bike that the motor was taken from: a Yamaha YZF1000R Thunderace. Snagging a Japanese 4-cylinder motor and wrapping it in an exotic …
“Scrambob” – Ducati 750 Super Sport Custom
I’m a big fan of Scramblers that are a little different, and this Ducati Super Sport 750 turned scrambler is just the kind of thing I fancy. The Ducati SS is a great donor bike for builds as it’s cheap and fairly versatile when it comes to the extensive possibilities builders have when working with one as demonstrated by this …
Two-Wheeled Threesome – 1948 Whizzers
In contrast to the heavy-weight, large displacement American motorcycles of the mid-twentieth-century, Whizzer bicycles were as lightweight and small displacement as two wheelers get, being nothing more than small power plants mounted to your average bicycle of the era. Most were sold as kits that customers would fix to a bicycle themselves but as time went on several companies started …
In France – 1967 MV Agusta 4C6 #001
View PostMild Custom – 1950 BSA B33
Per the seller, this example was originally a dirt track racer owned by a BSA dealer in New York. But it’s street legal, so you could enjoy city streets as well. What would you do with it?
825 Miles – 1989 Yamaha FZR400 Genesis
Thanks to low miles and a pristine set of OEM bodywork (race replica panels are currently installed), this show-winning FZR400 looks excellent.
1 of 300 – 2002 Husqvarna NOX
I’ve mentioned this a couple of times before, but my favorite bikes to share on Bike-urious are the ones I’ve never heard of before. So here’s another one I enjoyed researching – the Husky NOX. It’s basically a supermoto race bike with the bare minimum that the feds required for a motorcycle to be street legal, and just from looking …
New In Box – 2004 Honda CB50R Dream
The micro-displacement CB50R is a rare little racer. According to the seller of this example that has never been uncrated from its original box, only 440 units of these early 2000’s CB’s were produced, (other sources confirm this) making these surprisingly rare for how relatively new they are. These stripped down racers are extremely lightweight are at the bottom end …