Lot details Registration No: N/A Frame No: RS125RF-8911074 cc: 125
For the 1988 the FIM introduced new regulations for the 125cc class restricting machines to a single cylinder and six speeds in the interests of costs and encouraging larger grids. Honda, who were already offering a 125cc two stroke single cylinder "over the counter" racer in the form of the RS125RW, featuring an engine derived form the firms motocross model, which was successful at club and national level but outclassed in GPs, had been running a prototype machine confirming to the impending regulations during 1987 with considerable success.
Unlike the earlier RS, the new model had "square" engine dimensions of 54mm x 54.4mm and an alloy beam frame with monoshock rear suspension. Braking on the production machines, introduced for the 1988 season and clearly based on the previous years prototype, was provided by a single disc on each wheel. The new model quickly proved itself to be competitive at all levels and has gone on, with development, to provide the core of 125cc racing grids around the world at all levels.
This example was purchased by the vendor in 2004 from BAT Motorcycles, who had found the unused machine in a warehouse in Japan. Apparently dating from 1989, the last season that machines left the factory fitted with "wire wheels" it has never been raced and is still in "the white". It is consequently described as being in new unrun mechanical condition with new, slightly shop-soiled, bodywork and fittings.
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