Honda RS Series

The Honda RS is a range of competition motorcycles from the Honda brand. It comes in 50, 125, 250 and 500 cm3 sizes, and all use a two-stroke engine: a single cylinder on the 50 and 125, a twin on the 250, and three or four cylinders on the 500. These are customer competition models sold through the brand's dealerships but not approved for public roads. The RS 125 is light, at 71 kg dry for the 1998 model, and very manoeuvrable, with 44 horsepower and a speed of up to 220 km/h, while the RS 250 weighs 100 kg for 90 horsepower. They are meant for national, continental and international road racing championships and serve as bases for the best Grand Prix teams. A 500 cm3 version called the NSR500V was produced as a customer racer, a two-stroke V-twin with 127 horsepower and 103 kg dry.