Royster81's rides and projects .

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Re: Royster81's rides and projects .

Post by craigs23 » Sun Dec 03, 2017 12:40 pm

Liking the colour matched TSR badge to the bike's paint scheme ;)

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Re: Royster81's rides and projects .

Post by royster81 » Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:37 pm

Just a quick update on whats been happening in my shed.

The red/black VFR400R got a new rear shock around the start of the year courtesy of Mr Yakama and a fibre glass hugger to try and keep it clean. Since fitting that I've spent a lot of time trying to get it to ride the best i can, I'm no Rossi but its funny how you pick up on changes and their effects once you really start looking for them.

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The CBR400RR is on the road! Toward the end of last year I thought to myself, what the f##k am i doing with these bikes if I'm not riding them, either I start riding them or it's time to sell up, so i started prepping one or two to join the CB400SF and the VFR400R on the road, the CBR400RR was the first one, so once the oil/oil filter/petrol/tyres/plugs were changed I had a go at starting it... and it did start,on 3 cylinders.

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So with a bit of time and trail and error ( and a few other bits i wasn't expecting to have to replace !) i got it running (finally), insured it and rode it to the mot centre, where it passed as expected but I couldn't tax it !

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I rang the DVLA who told me that it looks like it dropped of the system when coleraine merged with swansea years ago,nothing i can do but more waiting required but finally I got it taxed and get my first experienced of riding a CBR400RR.

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Re: Royster81's rides and projects .

Post by cbr400rrn » Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:08 pm

You haven't said what you thought of the ride on the nc29? Looks in good condition, did the water coupling at the front of the engine fail? From memory I think daveznc29 had the same problem not too long since

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Re: Royster81's rides and projects .

Post by royster81 » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:30 am

cbr400rrn wrote:
Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:08 pm
You haven't said what you thought of the ride on the nc29?
Honestly, the first ride was a bit of a let down. Mainly due to a hesitation around 5-6k rpm. I think I've got it fixed or at least I think I know how to fix it and since it's running better it's a real joy to ride, completely different to what I'm used to with the V4s, I really hope I can completely iron out the issue so I can really enjoy it.
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Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:08 pm
did the water coupling at the front of the engine fail? From memory I think daveznc29 had the same problem not too long since
It was leaking out a bit, nothing major but now seemed the time to do it as I didn't want it leaking properly once I have the bike in the road, I suppose I could have tried a bit of a cowboy repair to keep it going a while but £100 or so has it fixed and hopefully I'll never need to worry about it again
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