Pinned So what have you done to your bike today?

Registered my zxr yesterday , bolted the plate on and went to roll it out of the garage and the brake lever went to the grip , aregghhhh

fitted a spare master cylinder and bled or up, by then it too late for a ride , hopefully get it out this arvo

 

Test ride finally done. Grinning from ear to ear , it rode really well, but I have a few things to sort out , Speedo seems to be out , I was riding in 80kpm traffic and the Speedo was over 100, certainly felt like 80 to me. Will get my wife out and follow her at 60, 80 and 100 and see if it’s out. There is a slight throttle hang , but hot damm it felt good to be back on a screamer

 

My 22 is coming along nicely

 

now I have to repaint my wheels, I traded for a fairing kit , this scheme is next level cool


Moto went in yesterday exhaust is on, but I need a oem muffler
Has anyone got an oem mc22 exhaust they would sell

 

good news, it is alive , albeit on 3 cylinders. Carb clean to come.

It is going under a sheet for a while as it is going to be a few weeks before my tank gets painted I am so tempted to fit the fairings, but I want to keep them clean and dust free. Plus it will free up the lift and I can see if my latest acquisition runs, a 1979 GS850G, I have been secretly hoping that @Suzukititan would sufficiently fall in love with his new Kawasaki Z900RS and sell me his GS1100GK, but alas I think he likes his GS1100 more I will be selling a kidney to fund this resto, this kidney had a fair workout in my teens and 20's, this tapered off in my 30's and now rarely processes any alcohol, except for Friday night beers at the shed ( all are welcome) or the odd beer after mowing the lawn because I earnt it.

 

Interesting day, I broke some 2 of my golden rules today, but in a good way

let’s take this back about 8 weeks or so, I popped out too @James Mclaren storage shed to check out his bike collection. I got to have a look at his nc35 rvf400 which was last on the road and running 12 years ago. While I was there I removed the inspection cover and checked to make sure the engine wasn’t locked up. Good news it spun freely.

fast forward to today, James brought me his rvf400 to get running , normally if I had a bike that hadn’t run in 12 years I would pull the plugs, strip and clean the carbs, change the oil etc, do a compression test , replace the plugs , gets the coils etc then try and start it, I half heatedly said, let’s see if she fires up …. I checked the oil which was at a good level and still looked mid brown so I hooked up a jump pack, hooked up my trusty sauce bottle containing fresh fuel, blocked the vac port. Jim knows I detest using start ya bastard and asked if we should use some, normally I’d say no, but thought let’s have a crack we cranked her over and she coughed a bit so we added some starting fluid and after a couple more cranks and she fired up on 3. Plenty of smiles all around and we upped the idle a bit and let her warm up , eventually the 4th pot fired up and she purred all 4. For the first 10 mins or so, she blew a very small amount of smoke, but cleared her head and idled nicely and revved cleanly to 8000 rpm once she was up to temp. #stoked


This bike like this is a testament to Honda’s engineering , such an amazing machine.

James has some major plans to build this up as a very original nc35 to match his mint nc30, now he knows it has a healthy motor, let the rebuild begin. Massive amount of job satisfaction today , even if I didn’t clean the carbs and used that evil start ya bastard stuff

time for James to start a build thread

anyone got a stash of rvf parts, he is are going to need headlight, tail light, sub frame , rear infill panels, air ducts etc in order to undo the tyga fairing conversion

 

Picked up this old girl , 1980 z250a , all there but been sitting for ages

if anyone is interested in a resto project bike , PM me, I am in Brisbane