Editor’s Pick
2003 Harley Davidson Heritage Classic FLSTCI
The bikes the market did not know what to do with.
Freshly ingested from the Blackflag Moto scraper queue and waiting on editorial pass.
Weird Bikes
The Weird Lane
Two-strokes, triples, homologation leftovers, and machines with excellent bad ideas baked in. The stuff the market black flagged first and collectors rediscovered later.
No Reserve: 1969 Honda CT70 Trail
This 1969 Honda CT70 is the OG minibike that started the whole tiny-bike obsession—a fresh restoration in Candy Ruby Red with that bulletproof 72cc four-stroke that'll run forever if you just change the oil occasionally. At $3,200 no-reserve, you're getting the bike that made a generation believe small displacement could be pure fun, which is exactly what separates people who actually ride from people who just collect.
No Reserve: 2023 BMW R1250GS Adventure Trophy
A practically new 2023 R1250GS Adventure Trophy with just 5k miles hitting the auction block at $11k no-reserve is basically BMW's factory conceding the market won't bear full retail on even their trophy bike. If you've been priced out of the adventure-bike conversation, this is your shot at the real deal before some flipper figures it out.
No Reserve: 1998 BMW R1200C
BMW's cruiser experiment: the R1200C is basically what happens when Stuttgart tries to build a Harley and ends up with a 1200cc boxer engine that actually runs—3,500 miles on an Ivory beauty at $2.8k screams sleeper investment before the nostalgia tax kicks in. If you want shaft-drive reliability and German engineering masquerading as American iron, this no-reserve Thursday closer is your play.
1969 BMW R69US
This 1969 BMW R69US has barely 2,500 miles and a freshly rebuilt 594cc boxer engine—a bulletproof workhorse from the era when BMW *invented* the adventure bike formula. At nine grand with period-correct Craven luggage, you're buying a time machine that actually runs, not a museum piece collecting dust.
No Reserve: Pair of 1985 Honda Spree Scooters
Two untouched 1985 Honda Spree two-strokes with 1,700 combined miles and nearly 40 years of single-owner provenance—the kind of time-capsule pair that actually *stayed* in a garage instead of getting ratted out. If you understand that "useless" 49cc commuters are the new hot collectible for people who think vintage Japanese engineering beats everything else, no reserve means this is happening Thursday.
1978 Honda CT90 Trail
The CT90 is the kind of machine that makes modern motorcycles seem a little overeducated. Tiny, stubborn, geared like a farm tool, and honest in a way most machines have forgotten how to be, it was built for pit lanes, fire roads, bad ideas, and long afternoons that turn into stories. For $1,700, somebody bought not just a motorcycle, but a yellow little passport to the sort of trouble that still feels pure.
2003 Harley Davidson Heritage Classic FLSTCI
PRICE INCLUDES ALL BELOW: CHROME: Front end Engine Covers Front/Back Foot Boards Foot Break Arm Shift Arm Custom Shift Linkage Luggage Rack Front/Rear Fender Guard Bolt C
1974 Suzuki GT185 two stroke road bike
What’s not to love about a small-bore two-stroke road bike? The 1974 Suzuki GT185 is light, smoky, cheerful, and just dangerous enough to remind you that motorcycles used to have a sense of humor. It is not about outright speed. It is about the ring-ding soundtrack, the faint blue haze, the smell of oil and gasoline, and that wonderful old-world feeling that every ride, even to nowhere, might turn into a minor event. This one looks like a tidy little time machine—street legal, oil-injected, and ready for the kind of rider who understands that joy does not need to be fast or expensive to be real.
Yamaha YZ490
The YZ490 is the kind of motorcycle that still makes grown men speak in a lower voice. The KX500 and CR500 get all the love, and rightfully so, but these were a different kind of crazy—rawer, stranger, a little more feral around the edges. This is big-bore two-stroke lunacy from a time when manufacturers were still willing to sell motorcycles that felt like open acts of aggression. It is not refined, not polite, and certainly not interested in your comfort. It wants open ground, strong hands, and a rider who understands that fear and joy are sometimes the same flavor. Seeing one just sitting on Craigslist for $5,500 feels less like shopping and more like finding a lit stick of dynamite in the bargain bin.
VERTEMATI 570E BRAND NEW
The Vertemati 570E is the kind of motorcycle that makes sensible people leave the room. I raced supermoto in the unlimited class and had a few run-ins with these back in the day, and they were every bit as savage as their reputation suggests—brutally fast, exotic in all the right ways, and just temperamental enough to remind you that speed always sends a bill. This was never a bike for the faint of heart or the lazy with a toolbox. And that is exactly what makes this one so fascinating. A handmade Italian oddball with essentially delivery miles—just over a mile on the odometer, still sitting there like a loaded weapon that somehow escaped history untouched. It is part race bike, part collector’s piece, part mechanical dare. For the right person, this is not just a rare dual-sport. It is a near-new Vertemati, which is the sort of sentence you almost never get to say twice.
EX-Bandito, 1954 Harley-Davidson 74
This ex-outlaw 1954 Harley 74" FL bobber carries actual road miles and real history—the kind of provenance that can't be faked or added in a garage. At $27.5K, you're getting genuine patina and a bike that earned its scars, not some sanitized restoration that forgot what made these things matter.
2024 Honda XR
Brand-new 2024 Honda XR150L street-legal trail bike with clear title selling for $2,200—basically a new adventure commuter that's been genuinely ridden, not garaged. Cosmetic battle scars and a cracked speedo cluster on a sub-$2.5k bike that actually runs and handles? That's the deal people who ride *actual* bikes recognize.
Stories
Stories from the garage
The Weird Bikes Are the Whole Point
The motorcycles worth remembering were never the easy ones. They were the strange, fast, overbuilt mistakes that made no sense to normal people and perfect sense to the rest of us.
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Kids these days will never know the Hess station
How we accidentally lived through the last great motorcycle boom — when a GSX-R 600 cost eight grand, credit was free, and the Hess station across from Shepherd's was the center of the universe.
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Nobody was buying Aprilias in 2004
The dealer had two RSV Milles sitting on the floor for six months. He practically begged me to take one. I did. Best financial decision I ever made on two wheels — and I didn't even know it yet.
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The first track day will humble you
I thought I was fast. I had been riding for years. I knew every road around Tampa. I was not fast. I found this out on lap three, when a guy on a stock SV 650 went around me like I was a cone.
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