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Personally I would favor RSBFS for what you have for sale. RSBFS primarily touts only bikes listed directly with them. They are no longer dominated by listing bikes listed elsewhere. I sold a Ducati 900SL on RSFBS earlier this year for a friend. Were it my bike I might have sold it on BaT, but since it was someone else's bike and I had limited knowledge and history with the bike, I did not want to deal with all the questions which might get raised on BaT. BaT is to be avoided if you don't want to or can't answer a lot of questions about a bike.

The auction formats of BaT and Iconic are advantageous for bikes with significant market demand as auctions only work when there are enough interested buyers to bid up the price. The demand for an RC51, 9X6 Ducati, RZ500 or similar bikes everyone wants is high. The demand for esoteric bikes like the ones you are looking to list is narrower, so there is a greater risk of not achieving a good price. Of course, if you're willing to accept whatever the bid price is, BaT, Iconic and even Ebay will deliver this price.

GLWTS.

If you want one looked at in the Twin Cities message me. I used to own a 900SS SP and currently own a Bimota which uses the 900SS motor. I've got a number of Ducatis and am pretty familiar with these. I also know pretty much all the service techs in the area and if they've serviced the bike I can usually get their take on the bike.

Street only. Grandpa age. Don't bounce well anymore....

Tried to wake this up when I woke the others up but it wouldn't start. Dug into it a bit over the weekend and figured out the aftermarket petcock had some off positions the OEM didn't. Dohhhhh! Fired up on the first kick once I got the petcock in the right position. Warmed it up fully and then shot this video.

I thought the V Due would sound way cooler than that.

Agreed. It was the first video I watched and I like the sound of the RG better both at idle and with a bit of revs. I'm also sure the Vdue would sound better moving at a spirited clip or at least I hope because....Well I just turned 46 earlier this month and I remember a time long before the internet when the Bimota 500 Vdue was a huge sensation within the sportbike world. I used to be a subscriber to the Cycle World magazine and they had a really nice write up on the bike when it came out. For me personally it was new and different and growing up with a drivers license in the USA in the nineties we the public just didn't have street legal two strokes. At the time I really didn't know much about what was already out there like the RG500. I think the only bikes I was faintly aware of were the RZ's and mostly at the age and time of life all I could afford was a beat up KZ550 and then there was  the CB500T. I eventually aspired to own a 84' Ninja900 when I was like 22.  LOL but the point is street legal two strokes were kinda exotic and expensive and I just really didn't know much about the seventies bikes. \

When I saw that VDUE for the first time though, it was a dream and all I could think about was how awesome it would be to legally ride a two stroke motocross bike as that's what I likened it too.

I think the engine sound is impacted by the engine configuration and the cylinder displacement. The V Due is a 90deg twin. Compare any 4 stroke or 2 stroke parallel twin to a 90deg twin (eg. Duc V twin to Triumph twin) and you get a very different sound signature). In the 2 stroke world imagine a Suzuki T500 versus the V Due. I've got an Ape RS250 (70deg) and it definitely doesn't have the edge of say a RD250 in sound. The RG500, being a square 4, gives you twice the signature sound of a 250 parallel twin making it particularly sharp sounding.

Love the collection you have created for yourself.
The V-due would be the top of my street 2 stroke list....If I could find one of the last carb versions 
Are you considering adding some homologation 250SP TT/F3 strokers in the mix?

Thanks. Gotta work at being comparable to what you've got.

Carb V Dues are common compared to FI bikes. The vast majority of V Due production was returned to the factory, bought out of bankruptcy by a Bimota engineer, their problems addressed and converted to carbs to make them run right. I'd be surprised if there are more than 30 FI bikes in the world.

Bid on a beautiful TZR250SP at Mecum earlier this year, but there are some crazy buyers out there. On my list, but so are a bunch of other bikes.