This bike is in Poland so I don’t think any Bike-urious reader will be rushing out to buy it any time soon but I always get caught off guard when I see a bike that’s been modified for the Swiss market. Why? Because lots of beautiful motorcycles with dual round headlights had to be converted to have a single square headlight and it looks crazy!
One of the most egregious examples of these Swiss-market shenanigans would be the Honda RC30, one of which we sold over at Iconic Motorbikes. The winner of the auction is a friend in Southern California – a couple of years after he bought it he was riding on Ortega Highway when a parked car made a u-turn without checking for traffic and he ended up t-boning the car. Thankfully he wasn’t hurt and there was a silver lining: because finding the replacement parts for the Swiss model were way too difficult, his insurance company was fine with us fixing it with US parts and the much better looking dual round headlights.
Hopefully an accident will not be the fate for this YB6, which was one of Bimota’s better-selling machines. It took a Yamaha 1000cc engine and surrounded it with a beautiful and capable frame. Weighing 440 pounds with 140 horsepower, this bike could lay down a 11.2 second quarter mile time on the way to a top speed of 155 miles per hour. Something notable was that Bimota canted the FZR1000 engine backwards 7 degrees to allow for a shorter wheelbase. Yamaha may have been inspired by this because they soon made the same change on their production bike.
This example is said to be #365 out of 567 and it has 36,500 km. The seller states that it is in “perfect technical condition – it starts, rides, and is fully functional.”
Find this YB6 for sale in Warsaw, Poland for 40,000 Polish Zloty (roughly $10,775 USD) here on Facebook Marketplace.