11/20/22
Cycle World’s editor-at-large Blake Conner is currently suffering from a bit of an obsession: The rare, exotic, and just plain cool sportbikes of the ’90s. For the past few weeks he’s been reminiscing through a series of articles on some of those bikes. So far he’s covered a handful of machines, but he’s nowhere near finished. As he works on the next article—will it be the game-changing Honda CBR900RR? The much-loved Ducati 916? The Oh-Yeah, That-Existed Suzuki Goose?—check out his first submissions.
For me, reading Blake’s look at the Cagiva Mito 125 brings me back to my teenage years, wearing out 1990s issues of Cycle World with my eye tracks, pining for a small two-stroke ripper. “Maybe, just maybe, my parents will let me have one, since it’s not a huge four-cylinder sportbike…” Maybe.
For pure racer-heads, the 1999 Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 is a good place to start on this series. Fan of the weird? How about the 1993 Yamaha GTS1000? And for those into something a little more exotic, we’ve got the 1992 Honda NR750. Finally, read about the spectacular failure that was the Bimota Vdue.
As always, there’s more than we can fit into this email. Check out cycleworld.com for additional tests, reviews, and news.
Ride on,
Justin Dawes
Executive Editor
