Stunning original and well travelled Honda CB900.

From the days when supergikes were interesting!  For quite a few years this was a wildly unappreciated bike.  I remember them piling up at the dealerships as Ninja’s and VFR’s came out.  It’s great to see such an excellent survivor that seems to have travelled a long way to it’s new owner!

Stéphane writes in:

Hi!!

My name’s Stéphane and I’m from south of France ( Nice ). I’ve bought this CB 900 f SuperSport ( Bol d’Or in Europe ) last October.
It came from NY City where it spent 25 years in a shop, just for decoration purpose… It had 3500 km ( 2174 miles ) when it arrived
in France, bought by a collector. Then he drove with it until 5000 km ( 3106 miles ).
And here I’m !! He decided to sale it for 2500 euros ( not much for this beauty ). I’ve just changed few things like carburator gaskets, etc…
Now, every morning, I take that fat mama for a daily ride , going to work or just riding it with friends.
Next project : a 350 CB ! but it will change a lot… Brat ? Dirt ? we will see… =)
I send you some picts of last sunday, in the old part of my city, and I hope you will find it cool ,

thanx for the website, keep riding ;

Stéphane

One hell of a “waiting room” from Rick Booth

Nice

This one of our waiting rooms where customer bikes are waiting to be modified for whatever reason…they are all different….Rick Booth

I knew it looked familiar!

That bike had been ringing a loud bell for me so I hit my archives and bingo! I remember where it was from. I took these at the Riding Into History motorcycle show a few years back. Looks like there’s been some upgrades since I took these. There was a drum front brake on it back then.

Follow up on a spectacular XS650 Tracker.

Thanks to Andreas Mikkelsen for the follow up pictures to this post that had a nice video cataloging the build. Great shots by the way.

Sorry about the light posts this weekend..

But I was a bit distracted.   North Florida in March is close to heaven on earth…   Back to the bikes!

Christini AWD update. This is some nice engineering pRorn.

I’d done a post on the Christini AWD bikes a while back and I always want to see it closer up.  Well a big thank you to Colin for the message board link over on Dirt Bike World where these were located.  This is the sort of technology that just stops me in my tracks and get me staring. Amazing how compact it really is.  I’d think the weight would be easily offset by the added traction.   Ant that  KTM 300 is already a rocket ship!  Really brilliant.   I’d love to ride one someday.

Mystery Solved!

Wow!  I mean holy freaking WOW!

Got this in my inbox.  Hey Rick I’m sure there will be requests for progress and/or build pics.  Please keep us posted!

Rick Booth

This bike started our a 1950/ ZB34/ BSA…all that’s left is the crank,barrel and trans, the rest I made except for the tires, rubber is hard to work with…it’s been in a few shows a usually gets attention wherever I show it ….later Rick Booth

And Congratulations to Elena Myers First Woman to Win at Daytona!

As the father of a 10 year old girl who wants to win all the races I think this is fantastic news and just terrific for the sport. Nicely done!

Elena Myers made history once again, winning the second of two AMA Supersport races at Daytona International Speedway. The win was Myers’ second professional AMA victory and gives her the distinction of being the first female racer to ever win a professional motorsports race at the famed Daytona circuit.

Don’t feel bad gentlemen. She’s shown promise for a while now and I suspect you won’t be the last to feel her sting.

Crop from the previous post. Here you go folks.

Since this is getting some attention… Pretty serious build! I like the tanks on the seat!