Comments by "Uhtred" (@uhtred7860) on "RRC Restoration" channel.

  1.  @r6stu  I gotta get me one of those too, i'm still using an old type that goes "clik-clak" at the right torque, but on low setting its real easy to miss.
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  2. Yeah, i'm going to check on the price of those here in NZ. I'm pretty sure i will need to be sitting down when i get a quote :-))
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  3. What year VFR?
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  4. Have you got a proper Honda factory manual for it? If not, try and get one. I was having similar problems with my 87 FZR1000 restoration, until i found a genuine Factory Yamaha workshop manual, beautiful clear line drawings showing exactly where every cable, wire and loom goes, from side front and above view points, and how and where they are fastened to the frame/subframe etc. So much better than the Haynes one i was working with.
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  5. Nice, I have a 01 GS 1200 SS which is based on the Bandit, same engine, but with styling more like the old GSX1100R, I think only us (NZ) and Japan got them from new, so they are quite rare.
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  6. Hows the FJ resto going? I'm about 2/3s of the way through my 87 FZR1000 restoration, I'm having difficulty finding some engine parts i need, namely exhaust valve springs (and valves). Loads of bits for the later EXUP motors, but the 87/88 are a different engine, based on the earlier FZ750.
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  7. They are great bikes, I have no idea why they go as cheap as they do, here in NZ you can sell early GSX-R750s all day long for silly money, but clean VFR750s of similar vintage go for less than half the price. I have my eye on an 86 VFR750F (In white) with only 36,000 km on the clock, the guy who owns it has it sitting in the foyer of building, never rides it anymore, its pristine. Ive almost got him convinced him to sell it to me.😄
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  8.  @AlexHemarios  Nice! I'm trying to convince a guy i know, to sell me his white 86 VFR750, its only done around 36,000km, and is pristine, he doesn't ride it anymore, it just sits in the foyer of his office.
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  9. In the mid 90s i saved up and bought as SS750, a half faired one with the engine showing, I was rapt. Until, a few weeks in, the issues started, and never stopped. it ended up being such a pile of crap, that after 6 months of the dealer trying to sort the bike, they gave me a full refund. I know that was (probably) a friday arvo bike, but it put me off Ducatis for years. :-(
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  10. I'm restoring an 87/88 Yamaha FZR 1000 Genesis, and are wondering about the factory finish on the alloy DeltaBox frame, was it bare alloy, or painted? Mine looks bare alloy and my bike although old and seen better days has not been "modified" or messed with, but ive had people swear that Yamaha painted the alloy silver at the factory. This might have been true for the 600s with the steel frame, and possibly the later Exups, but i'm pretty sure the first gen 87/88s had bare alloy. Can anyone in the comments help with a definite answer??
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  11. Love these little V4 Hondas, one of the best bikes i ever owned was one. Back in the early 2000s while passing a car yard that used to import 2nd hand cars from Japan to NZ, i spotted a bike sitting at the back of the yard, i could see it was a RVF400, the model after this one. It was mint, but what caught my eye was the full TSR (Technical Sports Racing) exhaust with under and over mufflers and a Suzuka 8hr style single offset headlight fairing. They said it had just come in with a container of vehicles. It wasn't running, but they said they were going to look at it "when they got around to it". I made a ridiculously low offer, and he accepted. Got it home and was blown away, someone in Japan had spent serious Yen on this bike, apart from the trick exhaust and bodywork, they had fitted HRC ecu, airbox and jet kit, and bigger top and bottom radiators. The only thing i had to do was clean the carbs, (it had been left to sit with fuel in them, hence why it wouldn't start) and fit a Nitron shock and fork springs to suit my weight, they come with soft suspension for smaller Japanese riders. That bike was amazing, down a twisty road it was stunning, and no slouch down the straights. Was dynoed at 68hp at the rear wheel, I ended up selling it to a guy who had pestered me to sell it to him, the whole time i owned it, big mistake. Can't wait for this resto.
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  12. What media do you use in the blaster for the casings?
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  13. What is the solution the rotor and bolts are in @ 15:42 anyone know??
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  14. I once found an NC45 here in NZ at a car sales yard fresh out of a container from Japan, that had been pampered, and someone had spent a LOT of Yen on it. It was dripping in HRC kit parts, the car yard guys had no idea what they had. I got it so cheap because it wasn't running due to gummed up carbs.😄
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  15. Yeah i thought Suzuki wheel as well. :-) Actually on closer inspection i can see Suzuki cast into the wheel at 11:08 :-)
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  16. One thing i love about restoring different bikes, is seeing how different manufactures designed their bikes. I'm into 80s bikes and the big four were really trying everything and anything back then, each had their own approach and style.
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  17.  @Jonathan_Doe_  Thats because they were allowed to be 250cc larger in displacement, and in the early days quite a bit lighter too.
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  18.  @johnnyrvf  I remember when RC30s were affordable, around 2000 i was looking for one to buy here in NZ, found one for 17,000 NZ dollars, it was a Japanese market model and had glass fibre fairing on it painted up in purple Rumi colours. Then i found a OW01 in my local Yamaha dealer, bog stock and mint, for 12,000 NZ$ (about 5,000 pounds back then) so i got that. Years after i sold it I saw it in a Brit bike magazine, an American had bought it, shipped it to the states and fitted it with loads of Yamaha Kit parts he'd bought from all corners of the globe. Fred Merkle lives here in NZ, ive talked to him a few times about his time in WSBK at track days. :-)
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  19.  @johnnyrvf  I recall the Bimota's with kitted Yamaha FZ engines were the bikes to beat in the first year. You mentioned you also have a Z1, The local classic and vintage bike I'm in just had a show and Graeme Crosby brought down some of his Z1s, he's got a business now restoring them and building race bikes and replica race bikes.
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  20. You're a fan of a Global petrochemical Company? Kind of a weird thing to be a fan of, but Ok. :-)
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  21.  @sahabatbonsai8864  What KTM motorbike???
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  22. Soichiro Honda HATED two strokes, and yet his company made some of the best to come out of Japan.
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