hunterz Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 Hello all! I'm Paul (everyone calls me hunterz) from Melbourne, Australia, and have just got my hands on a 1995 VFR750. It has done many kilometres and I am really looking forward to settling in and doing some stuff to this bike. I'm sure I'll have a tonne of questions along the way so looking forward to getting to chat to some of you over the next few years. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer MaxSwell Posted July 4, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted July 4, 2016 Welcome to the asylum hunterz from the opposite side of the world. Hope your new machine brings you much joy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterz Posted July 11, 2016 Author Share Posted July 11, 2016 I thought I would add some more information on this. I found my VFR on fleBay for a good price and it had a good mechanical history but the outside was looking a little shabby and faded. Exactly what I was after! Got it for a remarkably low price as it had done a few Km's - around the 80,000km mark. I live in Victoria and picked the bike up from a location in Canberra (Some 550 or so Km's away) and decided with the wife we could treat it as a bit of a weekend away and ride the bike back. So we left at 6am on the Saturday and got up to pick the bike up at about 1pm. Did the needful, emptied my wallet and straddled the back of the "new machine". It was comfortable and sounded amazing. It did, however need some motion lotion so the wife and I stopped at Yass (about 40km from the pickup). All was going well. And then..... After leaving the servo and heading south for about 50km the needle on the speedo dropped to zero for a split second and picked back up. Strange, I thought. A few minutes later it did it again, twice. Concerning. I had done a lot of research on these bikes before I decided to pull the trigger on it and I immediately thought I had a dodgy Reg/Rec. Anyway, the bike kept going intermittently dropping the speedo and then it died. I pulled over, checked all the wiring connections, disconnected and reconnected everything, pulled some hair out (which was difficult given I'm bald) and then...Vroom. Phew, I thought! Kept on motoring and almost like clockwork some 50 more km down the road - the same thing. I stopped and tried to emulate my previous attempts and fiddled and played with all the wiring. Same sort of time frame and she started and we were off again. Only this time it didn't fix the speedo at all. Some 10km more up the road and the bike dies for the 3rd time. At this point I will point out I did not have a contingency plan or the funds to get the bike towed some 400km back home. I was in a bit of panic. I rechecked all the wiring and then wife said she noticed she saw the wire on the positive side of the battery move. Haha! I thought. Went to tighten it up and the thing was as tight as it would go and had no movement. 3 or 4 minutes of quiet panic when I thought "I better check the negative, too, just in case". Bingo. The negative terminal was all but hanging off. Tightened it up and the thing ran like an absolute dream the remainder of the trip. TL/DR - Always start with the basics. I usually do - but was convinced I "knew" what the problem was. This should have been the first alarm bell as I very rarely "know" anything. I'm not blaming the bike for this at all - entirely my fault and I am chalking this experience up to an impromptu "getting to know you" session..... Here she is, safely at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer CornerCarver Posted July 11, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted July 11, 2016 Good on you for rescuing this beaut! Glad you made it home safely as well as enjoying the rest of the ride. Welcome aboard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Dutchy Posted July 11, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted July 11, 2016 Red NACA's are the best!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Switchblade Posted July 11, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted July 11, 2016 WELCOME .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer LangoPTC Posted July 12, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted July 12, 2016 Very nice! Welcome from the ATL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestOfBen Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Welcome from only a little bit North of you! A mate of mine has a black 4th gen in Melbourne also. Love the story attached to the pick up. These things can suffer some niggles but once sorted they are rock solid. I think mine has an R1 style R/R from way back. If you need her serviced, my mate (who originally owned mine) is a gun qualified mechanic and specialist with these things. Ride her up and catch the train back down, vice versa. What kind of pipe does yours have? I am ordering a Staintune high-mount pipe for mine, which will leave me with the Staintune low-mount pipe to sell for a reasonable sum to the right person. Sorry to go all salesman on you, it's not about that :) Happy riding and maybe see you about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogman Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Hi, I am in Adelaide, this is my 95 750, I have done a fair bit of work to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestOfBen Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 @dogman I can't see any mods... no no no mods anywhere! Tasty! Back to @hunterz bike. I think I saw yours on Ebay and thought that would make a nice project since I am not that far away. I don't have the $$ right now though. Hoping in the future I will be able to pick another 4th gen up for a good price as a restoration/mod platform. They are such a good bike. What have you ridden before this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterz Posted July 12, 2016 Author Share Posted July 12, 2016 @WestOfBen the bog standard Honda exhaust! As far as upgrading at this stage I'm keen to just get it back up to registration - it really doesn't need too much - so I can ride it around with my wife who has just got her license. Hopefully around Christmas/New Year I'll be getting my "new" bike (a Fat Bob) and this will spend about 12 months or so being totally rebuilt from the ground up. I'm really looking forward to giving this thing a new lease on life. Before this I had a Virago as my first bike and then borrowed for a while a mates GSX650F. Had the last 18 months off, sold the bikes and have been saving for a house. Now that that is out of the way I'm restocking the 2 wheeler's in the garage. I have a crazy idea which I'm not 100% sold on yet but may end up doing to this bike, haven't made up my mind yet but if/when I do I'm sure you'll all be the first to know. Thanks again for the warm welcome everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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