It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the spring of hope. It was the winter of despair... Hold on, wrong story. Ease your eyes over the quintessential Italian wrist ...

Learn about the superbike that arrived to put Ducati in its place and remind the world which Japanese manufacturer does it ...

In the late 1990s, Honda decided to go for the throat of Ducati in making a sportbike for the specific purpose of winning World Superbike Championships. In 1999, the RC51 (full name RVT1000R) was ...

It seems eager to prove that mileage is nothing more than a sequence of insignificant digits. Also known to U.S. buyers as the RVT1000R, Honda’s fierce RC51 boasts more street-legal WSBK pedigree than ...

PRAËM’s 4,000 hour, wire mesh, RC51-based custom is a masterpiece. Full-faired sportbikes are pretty rare in the customs scene. As a whole, sportbikes don’t necessarily lend themselves to wild ...

The Honda RC51 had a short but eventful life before the Japanese manufacturer discontinued making it after only six years. In 2000, its first year out of the factory, Colin Edwards rode it Victory in ...

With experience of handling leading global sites like ZigWheels, Punya is an avid motorcyclist who has been in the industry for over half a decade. He is always up for a ride to the canyons or the ...

October 14, 2004 On September 19 this year, Minnesota (USA) motorcyclist Samuel Armstrong Tilley set what is believed to be a world record for speeding on public roads. No doubt people have gone ...

The Honda RC51 was Honda’s first attempt at building a superbike with a V-twin motor, and they sure hit it out of the park. Ducati dominated WSBK in the 1990s with powerful V-twin engines against four ...

The 2003 MY Honda RC51 (aka RVT1000R) comes equipped with a race-bred 999cc V-twin powerplant, featuring four valves per cylinder head and a compression ratio of 10.8:1. This ruthless piece of ...