Looking For Cbr900 Fireblade Stock

Another tip for discoloured headers is get some Harpic Max toilet cleaner fro a quid in your local pound shop (its the one in the black and orange bottle) and a couple of pairs of nitrile gloves, squirt it on the headers and watch it fizz, agitate it with a scotch pad then wash off and if you want the headers to look like the SV above, get an old t-shirt, tear it into strips then wrap a strip twice around each pipe with some solvol and pull the strip back and forth around the pipe then buff off. It'll take you roughly an hour and will look like the ones above.

The R1 Before



and after

 

I’d have that if it is genuine but having put my daughter in a car inc insurance and getting the new MT10 thewallet is empty!

 

Cheers dude. Maddest thing I’ve ridden!

 

I've rescued a couple of 1990's Honda's. they make good winter projects (although it's a labour of love, as there is very little profit in them), they come apart easily and have superb build quality. The last one was a rattle can painted track day shitter.



which I turned into this. (I sold it earlier this year)



I'm currently on the search for another. Watch this space!

 

Took about 9 months and lots of swearing and grazed knuckles. I also did a CBR600F at the same time which wasn’t the brightest of ideas, but when one comes along at £500 it would be rude not too!

 

That sums it up nicely!

 

I take it you grabbed the one in the earlier post with all the NOS parts?

 

I’d never buy one in pieces, you can easily blow £500 in OEM bits that are missing (or vital missing parts are no longer available). Always buy a complete bike, never buy one that’s been sat outside, and never buy a non-runner. Thems my rules!

 

2500 a year is really not high

 

Ironic, that I've just been reading your thread on the Fireblade.org site and posted that it was a pity about the loss of the old pics.

Nice job.

 

I Was supposed to have purchased the stripped project from a few pages back today. Had over 30 pics from the guy in kidderminster of all the NOS parts he had to go with it and agreed to purchase it today and although he seemed up for it and made the right noises, when the time came to get his address I couldn't get a reply from him. Strange!

 

He had a LOT of new old stock parts and everything that wasn't new was re-plated!

Think I have just found a 97 RRV for the right money. Not perfect but ok. Pretty clean and only 19k on the clocks.
If it happens I'll stick some pics up.