Best looking race motorbike

RGV250 in a tyga skin

I had an RGV250 and really wanted Tyga stuff. Had it tuned with an RS bottom end, lots of mods and Nikkon race pipes. Pushing 73bhp at the rear wheel when finished.. by god, didn’t it go and handle well 😀

The Britten is stunning 😀

Still think this is a lovely looking bike, very competent as well.

Has to be a 250 2-stroke, like:

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

Classic 500 2-strokes you say 🙂

The Britten is stunning

Still think this is a lovely looking bike, very competent as well.

Agreed, but a competition bike, not a race bike if you’re being pedantic about it 😀

Agreed, but a competition bike, not a race bike if you’re being pedantic about it

I’m a pedant, but I don’t know the difference with respect to the Britten- enlighten me. 🙂

Trials isn’t a race.
😀

But it’s a beautiful bike all the same.

(I assume he’s referring to the Fantic!)

ah, I thought he was referring to the Britten.

I’m not a Harley fan at all, but I’ve always liked the XR. So much so that I think it’s worth looking at the other side

1980s YZs blew me away as kid (still make me salivate today)

We have a winner.

This needs a mention though…

1980s YZs blew me away as kid

Drum brakes…how did we ever survive ? 🙂

The yellow and black (American) YZ’s always looked so trick, when you saw one over here you almost had to speak in hushed whispers 🙂

2 Ducatis and the Cagiva, I’m off to clean up.

Even though not strictly a racing bike, can we include a Kenny Roberts 350LC? Just because…..

Is there anything more fun than a tuned Elsie? 😀

Even though not strictly a racing bike, can we include a Kenny Roberts 350LC? Just because…..

Yes, but only because it’s a 2-stroke and there is plenty of love going on here 😉

This is THE YZR500 paint job.

Hmmmmm I had an RD250LC – “B284 BOK” where are you now?

I checked now and it was last Taxed in 1997 and hasn’t been scrapped. That must mean it’s stored somewhere just waiting for me to find it again 🙂

Moto Guzzi MGS-01

How can we have got this far without the most successful and influential (to Britain at least) race bike of recent times? How..?

EDIT
That’s a bloody awful picture.
Try again

Bit better…?

Here’s one that bloke from the jungle had something to do with

Lovely PP, I’ve owned 3 Ducati 916’s, along with 2 748’s and a 749 🙂

Pic below is my old race bike. Blueprinted and gasflowed engine, STM slipper clutch, 50mm exhaust, Marchesinis, etc etc

What the terminator shoulda been riding!

Rusty Time and Observation trial could be considered a race 😛 na na neh na na 😉

For me

500cc MV Agusta – I think this is the triple – with the legendary Ago on board.
I hear that bike in my dreams 🙂 – nothing ever [or since] sounds that good.

@rustyspanner
my dad made that!

made this too;

RM125..

Here’s one that bloke from the jungle had something to do with

He only went to the jungle in the hope that people would forget about that.

500cc MV Agusta – I think this is the triple – with the legendary Ago on board.
I hear that bike in my dreams – nothing
ever [or since] sounds that good.

Saw & heard the MV at Olivers Mount way back. I’ve never heard anything like it to this day.

I never saw Ago at Scarborough but I remember seeing Phil Read on the works MV there and – of course – the incredible noise as hammered it’s way though the trees

Happy days 🙂

I was lucky & saw them both! Ago didn’t do too well, got beat by Jarno Saarinen (?)

The classic bikes around Oliver’s Mount, winding it on out of the hairpin and up the hill made a spine tingling noise… I feel a Google for the date coming on, it’s Gold Cup weekend not Cock o’ the North isn’t it?

I did however see Ago win both the junior and senior TT in 1970
For the senior we were at Quarterbridge and again, the sound of that MV heading out of town was amazing

Not sure, never been for about 25 years!

Yeah, I think it’s the Gold Cup meeting in September that has the classic races

my Hayabusa….9.3 second quarter

watch that exhaust scrape…………..

The yellow and black (American) YZ’s always looked so trick, when you saw one over here you almost had to speak in hushed whispers

A lad in our schoolboy MX club had a yellow Yamaha 80 with a full DG convesion kit.
Almost as trick as Jason Bonhams watercooled Mugen Honda.
Looked just like Johnny O’s bike.

Seems money could buy you a works bike.

3 pages & no RC30?!