Best looking race motorbike

we’ve had the best F1 cars so how about the best looking race only motorbike?
I’ll open with the YZR500 of John Kocinski. 500cc, 160bhp 2-stroke mentalness

Can’t argue with that..

This is quite nice though, still counts!

Britten.

It’s a tough choice between my old formula 400 RGV250N and my VOR 503 😉

Probably the rc30, or various incarnations of the TZ 250 for me.

Quite like this

Guzzi endurance racer

or

CCM 500 Motocrosser..

If you are talking retro bikebouy,I have to agree 🙂

Are some of these not race only as asked for but derived from road bikes ?

Weeksy

That Suzzi looks like a commuter not a race bike 😉

Not the prettiest but I really like it. Looks like it’ll try and kill you as soon as you touch the throttle 🙂

The Yamaha MotoGP bikes looked lovely when they did the speed block paintwork too.

I was looking at that when you posted ^^ 🙂

[Spooky ninja edit]

SNAP

Mine (Aprilia RS125), with me on it earlier this year-

It’s gone now. Sold a couple of months ago to a fella for his son to progress on.

I know it’s not the best looking, but it was still jolly nice to look at and ride 😀

Any ’90s two stroke GP bike is worthy of a mention too-

edit- and the lines on this TZ250 are perfect-

stevied, why is the name Wayne on the screen? The number one plate kinda gives it away 😉
My vote for best looking race bike is this ➡

A stunning bike with not enough development or money to make it truely competative.

Is that your scooter Rusty Spanner?

Robert Dunlop’s Rotary Norton from around 1990

Britten

That’s Wayne raineys bike!

kayla1 – Member

Is that your scooter Rusty Spanner?

I wish!

If I’d been sensible in the 80’s and bought all the old, knackered Vespas & Lambrettas slowly decomposing in local sheds and gardens I’d be a very, very rich man now.

Same with British bikes too – we used to buy them for a song and scrap them when we’d ruined them.
😐

stevied, why is the name Wayne on the screen?

My googlefu has failed me, I slunk off with head held low 😳

Didn’t work!
Aprilia RSV4.

Typical British bike then the Norton, looks like oil leaking from it 😕

Almost all the bikes here are lush, but Kev made his suzooks look **** awesome by lifting the front and drifitng at the same time. Just awesome.

Some lovely bikes on here, the CCM is just stunning. Always liked Mitch Paytons efforts, not a huge fan of Kawasaki but his bikes always look clean.

Older Speedway bikes are very, very beautiful too:

Beaten to it on the Cagiva. But lets have another picture of Randy putting it through its paces

And while we’re looking at lovely red things… the original 851. Lovely…..

manx norton… thats the end of the discussion in my view.

that ccm crosser is really sweet though.

Someone was always going to post a Britten but jesus christ no.

RGV250 in a tyga skin

Ah, the 851/888, the last Ducati built by engineers rather than styled by designers 😀

I don’t know if they were ever raced, but blink my flipper, the Supermonos are nice-

Someone A kiwi was always going to post a Britten but jesus christ no.

HL500/ Aberg Yamaha

XR750

My contribution. I was a young Biker when this was launched. I am a big fan of the 2-stroke 500’s 8)