Estimated Price: £60,000 - £80,000

  • Developed by Honda with one aim in mind - to win the World Superbike Championship
  • Built with a twin-spar alloy beam frame, 16-valve V4 engine with gear-driven cams, close-ratio 6-speed gearbox and 4-pot front brake calipers
  • Famously ridden to victory by Carl Fogarty in the TT World Championship in 1988 and 1989
  • Twice as expensive at £8,499 as its other 750cc race-replica super-sport rivals
  • Bike Magazine wrote 'No other bike from the late 1980s is lusted after like the RC30'
  • This machine started life as a standard bike in 1991, imported from the USA and stripped down by the Honda race team in Louth
  • Built up using factory NLOB race parts with the frame being modified to Formula 1 specification including flat-sided carburettors, full race Tony Scott tuned NLOB engine and kit radiators
  • Modified with a shortened rear swing arm and larger upside down front forks
  • Steve Hislop competed on the bike during the 1991 season, finishing second behind Carl Fogarty at Oulton Park
  • 1992 saw the bike fitted with E7D forks and was used by Nick Jeffries on mainly road racing events, including a 4th place in the Formula 1 TT and 4th in the Senior TT at the Isle of Man
  • In 1993 Joey Dunlop took ownership and raced the bike in Northern Ireland with a best result of 2nd in the Ulster Grand Prix
  • Presented in mostly unrestored condition
  • Forming part of a large private collection and may require some recommissioning before use
  • History file included, containing amongst other paperwork, a copy signed letter from Neil Tuxworth and a copy invoice from Honda UK
  • Great opportunity to own a piece of Joey Dunlop history

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