THERE are two ways of looking at the wave of nostalgia for 1990s sports bikes. On the one hand, it’s great: the bikes were interesting, they were awesome to ride but still not too perfect for the average bloke to get his head round, and now they’re cheap as (until the bandwagon really picks up speed). In fact the only people who aren’t loving the 1990s revival are those who missed it first time round, and for whom new, modern bikes are still where it’s at. Which is fine. Someone has to buy them.
For the rest of us skint, forty-something, kids-growing-up, got some spare cash, think I’ll buy me a rat-arsed GSX-R750 off the ‘Bay and fettle it in the garage-ers, here are the bikes that make up some kind of top ten in a decade in which there wasn’t a bad sports bike (apart from Bimotas).