Ive completely cleaned the hub from gunk, polished and re greased, bearings were fine. ZX14shock fitted, needed little to fit, -tiny bit of filing on the bottom shock bracket abd the top fixing, the frame needed also filing a touch for the reservoir. Front forks and bearing fitted.
 

NEw life in the VFR- RC36TWIN

 AFter a long time- lots has happened in 7 years since I last update this!

 After selling my trx from my other blog I'm goin gback to the VFR. I have 4 now, 2 RC24 and 2 RC36's, I'm going to start again and with lots of spares create 2 rc36 twins. I'm not sure if anyone reads this stuff anymore, might go to videoing as that seems the place to be...dunno though

I'm going to create a twin, I already have enough bits to do this, I'll get out all the bits at some point and run through.

First thing is I have a spare engine and frame, Learnt lots of lessons from the last RC36 with stuck bolts etc. Removed the engine and frame from my spare which has been sitting in the shed for 10 years. Removed the special adjuster bolts that were seized - a common problem with the lower engine mounting.  Once out I did a general clean, scrape off old muck and then run a angle grinder and fiece brush over it, lots of brake cleaner.

rusted bolts- bit of home electrolysis to de-rust stuff - first test- will create a bigger system later.

Back in the shed

Had some time to sort out the shed, haven't really done this since last year when next doors tree fell through it. Just popped the r1 seat on just t see if I would work. It will need a bit of think, use the sub frame I made but lowered down, or cut part of the original sub frame . Why does honda spend all that money creating an aluminium frame and then putting a nasty steal frame for the rider and passenger.

The photo doesn't really give the proper angle but it is interesting to see how it looks. Much too high so imagine it dropped shout 50mm.

New seat

I have bought 2 seats, one for my Trx and one for the Vfr, this blue r1 2006 model grp is a bit battered but I'll use it for a new rear seat sub frame I will make. The current seat height is far too high which gave me too much load onto my arms, lowering the seat height will solve this. So as you are aware I'm fixing 2 bikes, checkout my other blog, trx850racer, link on page.

Found a start line video of me! pity you cant here the sound of the vfr but the overall noise of everything makes thuderbikes the noisiest!

New Years resolution, to fix both Vfr and trx....Cbr if I can find an aluminium welder!

Its been a long time, just haven't had any time to do anything on the bikes, but this year,I hope to do something, I've got to get the trx working again, then get the Vfr back but both will need a lot of work. I have to sort out the shed to do this. Last year we had some nastily floods and high windy we weren't affected by the floods but the ground water and high winds caused a neighbours copper beach to crash down on my shed! Flattening half of it, missed the bikes but ruined some of my spares.

Back again!...sometime

Well if you've followed my other blogs, the trx850 racer ended up in the tyre wall at Donington bending the front end, having taken a while to recover I've come to the conclusion I still should try and develop the Vfr too...it's only sat in the shed. It's never going to be that fast but sounds a whole lot better than most bikes. I may try and develop this and keep both bikes as race bikes, my first blog cbr640may be a little long way off resurrecting but  I still have my cbr640 FH engine probably the most bullet proof honda engine ever. 

So I've got lots of stuff to do round he house but I'm going to have a rethink about this bike and see what I can do...may take a year or two.