The 1984 Yamaha RZ350 was the last street legal 2 stroke motorcycle to be produced for sale in the U.S.. They were also the last iteration of the 350cc Yamaha liquid cooled 2 cylinder 2 stroke motorcycles introduced in 1980 to replace the air cooled 400cc RD bikes. The bikes featured a quarter fairing, Yamaha […]
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1984 Yamaha RZV500R
Built to celebrate the 1983 Yamaha 500GP V4 2 stroke OW69 which Eddie Lawson used to win the championship in 1984, this bike featured a 500cc V4 2 stroke engine (two parallel twins with separate cranks ganged together in a 50 degree V orientation) in a hand built aluminum frame. Produced for the Japan market, […]
1984 Bimota SB4/KB3 Nick Ienatsch Motorcyclist Magazine Build
The 1984 Bimota SB4 and KB3 shared a common frame and running gear with different engine mounting plates for the Suzuki GS1100 engine or Kawasaki KZ1000 engine. Different subframes were also made to make use of either Suzuki or Kawasaki gauges. With fiberglass bodies, complex small tube space frames, and top notch suspension components, these […]
1982 Suzuki GS1000SZ Katana
The 1982 Suzuki GS1000SZ was a single year version built to meet Superbike racing displacement limits around the world of 1000cc., while regular production versions had 1100cc engines. Purportedly 3500 of the 1000cc bikes were built, with 1500 coming to the U.S. market. The engine was a sleeved down version of the GS1100 4 cylinder […]
1983 Kawasaki KZ1000R2 Eddie Lawson Replica
The 1983 Kawasaki KZ1000R2 Eddie Lawson Replica is the second year version of a bike Kawasaki produced to commemorate Eddie Lawson’s 1981 and 1982 AMA Superbike championships on the KZ1000S1 race homologation model. Painted the same color with the same quarter fairing, the KZ1000R2 featured a Kerker 4 into 1 exhaust, piggyback style shocks, race […]
1979 Suzuki GS1000S “Wes Cooley”
The 1979 GS1000S was a sport version of the standard GS1000 Suzuki introduced in 1977. GS 4 stroke models were Suzuki’s move away from the 3 cylinder 2 strokes of the GT model line. Technically it was similar to the GS750 which was introduced the same year. Both featured 4 cylinder DOHC 2 valve motors […]
1998 Bimota V Due Editzione Finale
One of 50 V Due built to the this spec. Jolly Moto exhaust chambers