Picked up this beauty after 2 yrs in the vfr800fi wilderness. 2000 model. Under 40,000kms. Fastest colour.....
New pr4 tyres. New chain and sprockets plus the must have highrise staintune pipe. Oh how I've missed the gear driven camshafts.
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Very nice bike. Welcome back to the 5G fold.
sweet, enjoy :)
Beautiful bike, never let her go!
Nice :cool: . The last of the Pure cam gear driven non Vtec VF motors with a complimentary Staintune sound track and in red. very nice.
Hope to see and hear it at the "Pie in the Sky" or "Road warriors" Café on the Old Pacific Highway sometime.
Nice work! She's Purdy.
Nice work mate, that looks very clean.
Beautiful. Reminds me of my '01.
Nice. It pains me to look after my 98's sprocket dumping incident the other day. :unsure:
Finally got to go for a run. Took a day off work and headed south from Sydney. First stop was Bald Hill.
Bike was faultless but I feel a suspension upgrade happening soon.
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You're not an Aussie bloke if you don't modify a perfectly good bike.
I started with doing the pair valve block off.
Up next was the R1 regulator rectifier and new wiring.
Then I thought I would do front springs, I then had to do the CBR954 rear shock.
This made the front feel much worse so I did the front compression gold valves and shim stacks next.
Couldnt get it right, so I also replaced the rebound valves and redid the shim stacks at least 4 times until I was happy.
This was followed by GSXR coil on plugs.
I again took to the front with VTR fork caps and rebound adjusters.
Next came the brake delink with RC51 front calipers, CBR600RR front master and braided lines using the VTR fork lowers.
I also internally drilled the rear calipers to use the three pistons and mated it to CBR250RR rear master.
Recently I replaced the exhaust to get rid of the cat, I already had the Staintune muffler.
My wife is asking what was wrong with it? Why did I buy a bike that needed so much work?
Its impossible to explain. I just tell her it broke and cop the flak with an inner smile.
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All right Oz!
My own journey started with adding 0.90 kg/mm fork springs and a compression valve from Daugherty Motorsports, quickly followed by a modified CBR929 shock from the same vendor. Not being one who could leave well enough alone, I followed up with rebound Gold Valves, then bought some lightly bent VTR1000 forks and poached the fork cap and rebound adjuster.
After I had a little lie down on some oil I got the tinkering bug again and bought CBR600F4 calipers and matched these to a CBR600RR master with EBC pads and went about delinking the brakes. I used the VTR1000 lowers on the VFR fork tubes, and cobbled up brackets to hold the guard to the VTR forks. For the back brake I bought a CBR600F4 master, and re-used both the stock brake hoses on a common long banjo bolt at that master which leaves the back caliper completely stock and fully functional. The brakes are outstanding now, not that the linked brakes were poor at all.
But I kept wondering...would stiffer 43mm forks with adjustable compression damping be better??? A set of 6th gen handlebars came up on our local auction site and I won them for $10 and that started the ball rolling, next was a set of slightly bent CBR600F4 fork tubes from eBay Europe, plus a set of 6th gen triples from the US. I got the forks tubes locally straightened, and swapped the compression and rebound valves into the new fork, then purchased a set of 0.9 kg/mm springs for a 43mm fork. The rest was just bolting it all together, I found the 5th gen mudguard was a good fit to the CBR fork front mount, with an aluminium stay riveted on to meet the mounts behind the CBR leg. I had to shim the ignition lock down lower with washers so the steering lock would work, but the bike looks like it came out of the factory this way.
My wife has wisely not asked questions about the upgrades; I don't ask questions about handbags and shoes. She's a keeper (the bike and the wife).
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Good going Cadbury.
If I had my time again, I would wait to save up for an Ohlins rear shock or similar, and the 43mm front as you have done.
I have three daughters, and they suck up any spare cash.
I only have 2/3rd the amount of daughters Oz, and they are expensive enough!
The CBR929 shock is pretty good, but I can't get it to feel as nice as the refurbed Ohlins on the back of the VTR, which has a plusher yet well controlled ride.
Have to ask, did you notice much difference between the 41mm and 43mm forks?
Yeah, they don't fit in 41mm triples!!!
Honestly I made quite a few changes in one hit; different bars, triples, springs. I'd be lying if I said that my finely-tuned senses could detect a night-and-day difference. I would say the forks feel more supple and responsive on ripples and bumps, and that could be due to less binding in turn due to much bigger bushing surfaces compared to the 41mm fork, or maybe due to improved stiffness of the tubes themselves, who knows? The bike also feels like it steers more easily.