For Sale via Moto Borgotaro: 1-Mile Ducati 996 Sport Production Special!   The Ducati 916 and its successors — the 996 and 998 — remain some of the most iconic superbikes ever made. They were the work of the “Michelangelo of motorbike design,” Massimo Tamburini, who would later design the MV Agusta F4. The 916/996/998 family featured liquid-cooled, fuel-injected 4-valve desmo 90° V-twins in trellis frames with single-sided swingarms, underseat exhausts, and USD forks. These 4-valve Ducatis didn’t have the outright horsepower of the Japanese superbikes, but their wider torque curves and ..read more

All Photos: Drew Perlmutter Wildsville is a private “moto-fun-camp” in rural Georgia born from the moto-loving mind of our incredibly talented friend Chastin Brand, one of the country’s most highly esteemed hand-painters and pinstripers. Chastin and the Brand family have created one of the sweetest places on earth for people who love two wheels. Wildsville is an atmosphere and attitude as much as a place — a laid-back, vintage-forward Neverland where good times, family, and friendly competition go hand in hand. If you want the closest thing to On Any Sunday in 21st century America, this is the ..read more

Make your 1990s adventure fantasies a reality…  The BMW R100GS Paris-Dakar remains one of the most iconic adventure bikes of all time. The 980cc boxer-twin GS was an evolution of the original R80GS, which won multiple Paris-Dakar Rallies en route to birthing the modern multi-cylinder adventure bike class. The special edition “GS PD” took inspiration directly from that 21-day, 7000-mile rally — the most extreme test of man and motorcycle on the planet. It featured a gargantuan high-impact plastic gas tank, solo seat, frame-mounted fairing, aluminum skidplate, and more. Truly, the PD look ..read more

A Pristine Homologation Special Straight out of 1989…  In 1987-88, Yamaha’s YZF750 Genesis factory racer boasted successive wins in the highly competitive Suzuka 8-Hours endurance races. Learnings from the YZF would be directly incorporated into the development of Yamaha’s new World Superbike racer, the FZ750R, which featured an all-new aluminum “Deltabox” frame, 5-valve DOHC inline four with titanium connecting rods, 6-speed close-ratio gearbox, and Öhlins suspension. The 1989 Yamaha FZ750R was built to compete against limited editions such as the Honda RC30 and Bimota YB4. Of course ..read more

For Sale: Matt MacVittie’s 1977 Honda CB550 “Sapphire”…  If you had to choose one vintage Japanese motorcycle to serve as the base for a café racer project, you’d be hard-pressed to improve on the Honda CB550. While the larger CB750 obviously had more displacement and power (68 vs 50 hp), many riders then and now agree that the 550/4 was one of those rare, superbly balanced machines in terms of power, weight, and charm. Our friend Ben Branch at Silodrome has called the CB550 a “Goldilocks Bike” for this sweet spot character, while a recent ride on a restored CB550 even managed to soften ..read more

Magic Middleweights: Two Suzuki GS550s from Poland…  In 1977, Suzuki introduced the GS550, a smaller sibling to the GS750, which Cycle World called “a lithe and hot-blooded tiger that’s our pick for Best of Breed, 750 cc, and a solid contender for Best of Show, 1977.” That’s a tough act to follow for a little brother, but the GS550 soon proved its own mettle as a capable, fun, rock-ribbed middleweight contender: “Suzuki’s 550 Four goes fast, looks terrific, and stops hard.” –Cycle, 1977 While the GS550 didn’t have the flash and outright sex appeal of the high-powered two-strokes or fo ..read more

  For Sale: Ultra-rare MV 750S America from Moto Borgotaro…   Four years after the Wright brothers made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk, Count Giovanni Agusta built his first aircraft, the AG. 1 biplane. In 1923, the count founded his own aircraft company, Costruzioni Aeronautiche Giovanni Agusta S.A. — known simply as “Agusta.” Agusta AG.1 biplane For a time, the aeronautical company flourished. After World War II, however, peace treaties forbade Italy from producing aircraft, so Count Domenico Agusta — son of the late Count Giovanni — pivoted to manufacturing motorcycles, foun ..read more

“A vintage race bike without fairings…but for the street.”   This was the vision Jesse Crane (@crane_moto) had for the 1975 Yamaha RD350 café racer you see here. You might remember Jesse from his ’71 Yamaha R5 350 we featured last spring, which he bought as a seized-up basket case and transformed into a 295-lb (fully fueled) rocket ship — a bike he took on the storied Tail of the Dragon last fall. Lightweight Giant-Killer: Yamaha R5 350 Café Racer Jesse works as a Chassis Engineer for a major motorcycle manufacturer, and he and his son both race in the Road America Supermoto seri ..read more

Cus’Tom Motorcycles rebuilds his father’s RD…  The Yamaha RD350 was one of the great giant-killers of the two-wheeled world, a two-stroke street machine with a race-bred bloodline. In AMA Class C racing, the RD racers regularly blew away machines with twice the displacement, making the 350 a favorite of club riders around the world, and a 70s Yamaha advertisement showed a downtrodden 750 rider at the bar: Don’t feel bad. You’re not the first 750 rider to get blown off by a Yamaha 350. While the two-stroke parallel-twin made just 39 horsepower in stock trim, it was ripe for modification ..read more

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