My new bike

Yes, another bike thread from me I'm afraid guys. I was trawling ebay tonight, and saw the following for £620 with 45 minutes left. I put a bid of up to £750 and snagged it for £700. It's only just up the road from me, so am picking it up tomorrow.




Spec;
1989 Honda CBR400RR
399cc 4 stroke 4 cyl engine
Gear driven DOHC 16v
55BHP as standard revs to 14500rpm
183kg giving a power to weight ratio of 300bhp/tonne

more pics after i pick it up

nice looking bike

My missus is impressed lol

nice find!

a couple years ago, a guy i work with picked up a CBR600, but had to let it go due to money issues. nice red bike that was....

Cheers guys theres a few bits need sorting, few cracks and chips, but its 20 years old, I expected it to be a bit tatty to be fair, quick vid of it, just need to fix the speedo before i ride it (after passing my test)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE5LMRVRjYc

When ya getting the SBR stickers on it mate? lol

looking good...

nice bike buddy! Great sound

Thanks! thatvids only up to around 7500rpm out of 14500!

No SBR stickers I'm afraid Slider, I'm going to try and keep it as original as possible

I got more pics as promised, here they are

Sam Billing1991 wrote:Yes, another bike thread from me I'm afraid guys. I was trawling ebay tonight, and saw the following for £620 with 45 minutes left. I put a bid of up to £750 and snagged it for £700. It's only just up the road from me, so am picking it up tomorrow.




Spec;
1989 Honda CBR400RR
399cc 4 stroke 4 cyl engine
Gear driven DOHC 16v
55BHP as standard revs to 14500rpm
183kg giving a power to weight ratio of 300bhp/tonne

more pics after i pick it up

alright time to pack it up and go to Isle of Man....

LOL! As soon as I get my test out of the way, I'll be arranging a trip to go around the TT circuit, I think it would be fun, even if I just cruised round

Also I'm in the process of resizing the photo's to 640 X 480 instead of massive X huge

Speedo cable was shot, was seized solid in its casing XD £10 for a new cable and it should be ok the plugs for this are £5.73 EACH! so ended up spending £22.92 on plugs!

New vids one showing hows easy it starts from cold and one of the bike hitting 11kish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNeBFDM9a8I&feature=channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL_9u9oVIto

Nice bike Sam, I have always liked the Baby Blade

I used to have an NC30 and was lucky enough to go to the IOM on it a few years ago for the TT and it was a hoot riding it around the.

400s are great tools to hone your skills on and I wish I still had my little VFR. When i can get it on the road, I now ride a '00 ZX6R (hence the Ninja in my GT!)

Awesome, in all fairness I wasn't looking for the CBR, but was insistant the bike I got would be a 400 because it would be closer to 33bhp I looked at vfr's, gsxr's and fzr's.

Got some news I brought the bike inside lol It spent a few nights being cleaned and then my mum got annoyed I also passed my theory test on wednesday, so am 1/3 of the way to getting my licence pics soon

Well done on the theory

Are you booked in for your practical yet?

Not yet, I'm going to ring on monday to book it, I've been working til 6 since thursday so havent had a chance

My new pillion seat turned up today, I'm going to try using boot polish to restore its shine, when I get the pics of it I'll include ones of the bike indoors should be about 8.30 tonight

I forgot all about this thread, I've sorted my test, I just have to do the module 2 and then this will be on the road I passed module 1 first time with one minor I've got a set of spare panels on the way, I was going to respray the bike in luminous yellow in true SBR style but have decided on something a little less lairy. Got a few pics, will leave you guys to guess what I'm going to be doing





When the bike was indoors