VFR750 RC24 6X

If it didn't fit in anywhere in any previous blog entry, I actually bothered my ass to do it and it was done during the months before the 2018 season: it is here. During the winter of 2017-2018 I had decided to give myself the job of building up the now TZ framed PC250 classed RD250 and superstock VFR750. There was no danger of being bored or having money to spend on anything else here. I have many plans for the VFR but many will have to wait for later in the season as funds trickle in. In the mean time, everything that was deemed necessary, or the parts came up cheap, got done. Going keyless Keys are a pain as you can leave them in the bar or they can fall out of the bike on track which sucks, even if the stories that come out of such things are rather funny. This will require an ignition switch mod and fuel tank cap swap. Fuel Cap First to get the chop was the fuel cap.  The stock fuel cap it retained by a triangle of three bolts that are accompanied by four mo...

The Stock VFR footpegs are low and need to go. It's time for some rearsets. This is no simple task as nobody makes any for the RC24 VFR750. There is a very good reason for this: they are asymmetrical. For reasons only known to Honda. After a false start where I made a very tidy little bracket for the left side only to notice that this would leave the right side with no ability to move further forward; I made a start on a bracket for the right side first. I had picked up a set of very cheap Taiwanese rearsets off of eBay which actually look pretty tidy and would save me completely making a set of rearsets which I didn't have time to do a very nice job of. These rearsets came with pegs, levers and even the rear brake bracket. All of the hinge points were ball bearing too, backed up with brass bushings where needed which should make for a nice action once everything is bolted up. I had a bit of a faf getting the rear brake master to line up with the rearset bracket but thi...

The VFR was in need of some clothes and those old plastics were not going to do the job. I had sold them anyway which surprised me but people really want original plastics no matter how grotty they might be. New bodywork was needed and Ragged edge racing were to be my supplier. After a brief conversation with Spike, he had agreed to provide the fairings with the correct shade of blue added as a pigment to the fibreglass giving them a rugged, great finish right from the start. Fitting the fairings is fairly straight forward. They are designed for an F J/K Rc24 so if you have one of those they are very straight forward but my FH was going to need some custom brackets to enable fitment of these fairings. Most of the fasteners between the panels and some holding it on are Dzus fasteners. These are versatile, quick to remove and tidy. If you want to know how to fit them, I did a bit of a write up on the NSR250 MC28 build. First to go on was the nose fairing. I wasn't planni...

Fitting new exhaust systems to my motorcycles is nothing new to me. I even mix it up a little like what I ended up with on my RC46  but this one was always going to be a bit trickier. My VFR750 RC25 GH had the standard four into two exhaust which was now mostly made of oxides of metals long since departed and exhaust repair tape.  I very briefly toyed with the idea of making this into a four into two into one system but thankfully a stainless Motad system for a FJ/K came up on ebay. Looking online told me that nobody was saying this could be done, neither were they saying it couldn't and knowing the engine hadn't changed, I went a head with the idea of fitting it. The can that the system came with however was too heavy, restrictive, low and on the wrong side. Something would need to be made to sort that out. Off with her head[ers] The first job was to get the old system off. This involved lots of heat and penetrating oils. Hammers and swearing also got into the m...