Click on image for the Iconic link What: 2016 RC213V-S
Why: Honda's pinnacle sport bike
Where: Dublin, Ireland
Price: Reserve auction ends Feb. 14
UPDATE: No sale: bid to $250,000, reserve not met.
Back in 1992 Honda offered the most expensive production motorcycle available, the NR 750, priced at a cool $50,000. Fast forward to 2015 when Honda announced their new MotoGP contender, the RC213V (spoken R-C-twenty one-3-V), a 1000cc V4 with the potential to produce something over 200 HP in factory race tune. If you qualified for the exclusive buyers' list it would have cost you $184,000 in 2016, which converts to about $247,000 in today's U.S. dollars. Honda also offered a Sports Kit (-S option) which added several go-fast parts and an additional $12,000-$15,000. Auction sales of this model have exceeded $300,000. The factory planned to build 250 street bikes but the Fukushima tsunami cut that to about 125 actually produced that first year at the rate of one per day with as many as 300 eventually built.
This example, available through Iconic Motorbikes Auctions and located in Dublin, Ireland, is a collectors example of the highest order, even including the Sports Kit. The seller is the original owner, stating; “When I got it I had to ride it just to experience the best motorcycle ever built. I rode it on quiet country roads on the outskirts of the city, then stored it in a temperature controlled garage with a few other iconic motorcycles.” Thus, the 33 miles showing on the odometer and in "immaculate condition."
The RC213V remains Honda's MotoGP weapon, though with major changes, particularly in 2022. An upcoming rules change for the 2027 season will likely mean the end of the line for the model.
What's your guess for the final selling price, assuming it meets the seller's reserve?
(thanks to Bazza for the listing heads up)
Why: Honda's pinnacle sport bike
Where: Dublin, Ireland
Price: Reserve auction ends Feb. 14
UPDATE: No sale: bid to $250,000, reserve not met.
Back in 1992 Honda offered the most expensive production motorcycle available, the NR 750, priced at a cool $50,000. Fast forward to 2015 when Honda announced their new MotoGP contender, the RC213V (spoken R-C-twenty one-3-V), a 1000cc V4 with the potential to produce something over 200 HP in factory race tune. If you qualified for the exclusive buyers' list it would have cost you $184,000 in 2016, which converts to about $247,000 in today's U.S. dollars. Honda also offered a Sports Kit (-S option) which added several go-fast parts and an additional $12,000-$15,000. Auction sales of this model have exceeded $300,000. The factory planned to build 250 street bikes but the Fukushima tsunami cut that to about 125 actually produced that first year at the rate of one per day with as many as 300 eventually built.
This example, available through Iconic Motorbikes Auctions and located in Dublin, Ireland, is a collectors example of the highest order, even including the Sports Kit. The seller is the original owner, stating; “When I got it I had to ride it just to experience the best motorcycle ever built. I rode it on quiet country roads on the outskirts of the city, then stored it in a temperature controlled garage with a few other iconic motorcycles.” Thus, the 33 miles showing on the odometer and in "immaculate condition."
The RC213V remains Honda's MotoGP weapon, though with major changes, particularly in 2022. An upcoming rules change for the 2027 season will likely mean the end of the line for the model.
What's your guess for the final selling price, assuming it meets the seller's reserve?
(thanks to Bazza for the listing heads up)
Honda's 2026 season RC213V-S MotoGP contender, pictured with factory rider Joan Mir.
RSS Feed