http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Yamaha-FZR-400-RR ... 335fdf586f

a nice addition to a collection but it can't be worth that much..........can it?

nick wrote:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Yamaha-FZR-400-RR ... 335fdf586f

a nice addition to a collection but it can't be worth that much..........can it?

Nah. It is nice, and I love those colours, but they're having a laugh with that price and trying to create a market that just isn't there (yet- give it time, the rose-tinted money brigade will be along shortly to spoil 400s as well as strokers )

Nice but I'd say a grand overpriced.

call me cynical but if its so mint why did the foot controls/fork legs need polishing?why dont the mileage numbers line up in the centre of the console,where are the hero blobs on the footpegs? course i could just be an untrusting miserable old bastard who cant see the good in anything! its easily a grand overpriced but it sure is pretty.if it was a 3tj2/6/7 then it would be worth that all day long.but hey who thought lc250/350s would be changing hands for 3-4 grand or grown men would be collecting fizzys or restoring superdreams and motogp would be as exiting as f1-strange world

cagiva996 wrote:snip ...grown men would be collecting fizzys or restoring superdreams...snip

Ahem, this 38 year old grown man is now slowly pushing his SS50 restoration project out of sight....

now that is a pretty 400/4 boris, where have you been hiding it all this time,i can almost forgive the ss50 resto after seeing that! by the way go out immediatly and buy some curtain hooks for your curtains or some one may catch a glimpse of the the ss50 resto and go on for hours about the one they had 25 years ago

^ Too late, it has already been spotted by my next door neighbour who had a brand new SS50 when he was 16. He asks me how the resto is going everytime he see's me, and after about 50 requests i reluctantly agreed to let him have a ride on it when it is finished.

I have spent about 5 years and over £1000 so far sourcing the parts to get the SS50 back to showroom condition and i will have reservations about riding it myself, never mind someone who hasn't ridden a bike in 30 odd years.

I have enough spares to make a rough 2nd bike, which will be more likely to see some action than the good one, which will be taking up residence in the living room when its finished.

I bought the 400/4 in 1992 ... I do a little every now and then and it's been totally rebuilt.
Never ridden it though ... never started the engine !!!

in all seriousness its good that people are still prepared to keep old stuff (i include fzr400s in that) out there to see and enjoy (at sometimes great expense),nothing gets me more excited a tidy rd400 or x7 or 400/4(must be getting old) make sure you both post some pics when theyre done.i wanted to restore a 250/350lc but then i made the mistake of riding one a few years back and it really destroyed the memory of the great times i had on them as i had no fewer than 6 over a period of years back when i had more teeth and hair,but got tired of crank rebuilds and seizures.i realised how much everything had moved on and it felt slow,cumbersome and underbraked which 15 years after the last one i owned it was after diet of light pokey modern stuff.maybe i need a few more years yet- i could see meself in 2025 when im nearly 60 restoring an r6 though!