Hobie1dog

Yep, I took an extended break as Nick has the VFR now, and I've been without a bike for two years now. I will be changing jobs the first of June and was going to buy a 84,85,or86 Honda Nighthawk but my wife just lost her 80K/year job on Friday, so I aint buying crap now. I'm going to likely "borrow" my old VFR back and use it to commute with. I unfortunately sold the Helibars, Convertibars, and Spiegler riser bar setups, so now I'm going to have to try and locate a set of them, as Nick put the stock bars on it when he got it from me. I went and sat on it today where he has it stored and it's just too far bent over for me, now that I'm almost 58 in a week or so. I'll let you know if I start commuting with it.

Glad to hear all the old timers are still here.

I have a 94 Vfr 750 that im doing a rebuild project on with a custom rear tail piece and ehaust, but id like to redo the front too. Would you be willing to help me out with the bracket as far as plans and dimensions and the info to where you got your plastics??

Sorry for missing your question, as I've not been active on here for a long time. The first posts stated that I used the Sharkskin race bodywork.. I don't have any drawings of the rear subframe I made unfortunately. Sorry.

We still have the bike and are planning a new paint job for this year.

Sounds very tasty, wish it were longer & outdoors! :lobby:

Ask and you shall receive! :lobby:

I want to put that muffler on everything I own :lobby:

Here is a short video clip of the fire spitting VFR with it's unique Micron Ultralite Titanium muffler ( that weighs 1 1/2 lbs. ) :offtopic:

No comments on the video?

Here is a short video clip of the fire spitting VFR with it's unique Micron Ultralite Titanium muffler ( that weighs 1 1/2 lbs. ) :warranty:

the 97 is still on the original plugs....should be good for 80k or so. :offtopic:

Where in the world are you getting all this money to buy bike after bike? I envy guys like you who only have 1 hobby to devote all their money to. You're my hero. :biggrin:

That's easy - it didn't take a lot of money. I got very lucky - twice! :beer:

Hell, then lets start playing the lottery together. :beer:

It may be time for me to follow in Marty's footsteps as well. Just picked up a '96 that has no bodywork, and still have my F4i track plastic in the upstairs of my garage... :goofy:

With your fabrication skills, the only thing stopping you is the other 5 bike projects you have going on at the same time.

Ain't that the truth! I spoke too soon anyway - I got another 96 that's getting stock stuff and the first one is getting streetfighter naked treatment. :fing02:

Where in the world are you getting all this money to buy bike after bike? I envy guys like you who only have 1 hobby to devote all their money to. You're my hero. :ph34r:

Great bunch of work there...very nice for reference.

WOW! :laugh: NIIIICE!

Seriously inspirational job you have done there. Did you have do do anything special to use the Dzus fastners like installing new Dzus rails? did you have to buy rails for them?

The race bodywork kit has the holes already in it for the Dzus fasteners, so all you have to do is rivet the fasteners into the bodywork, and WALLAH....done.

It may be time for me to follow in Marty's footsteps as well. Just picked up a '96 that has no bodywork, and still have my F4i track plastic in the upstairs of my garage... :laugh:

With your fabrication skills, the only thing stopping you is the other 5 bike projects you have going on at the same time.

How do you like the Vaypor gauges? Were they hard to wire in and get working? There were a few here that tried to install the Koso gauges(I was also going to attempt this), but went with CBR 1000RR Gauges instead.

The Veypor is stupid silly easy to install and wire up. calibration takes a couple trips down the street while pushing buttons, but nothing major. It is extremely lightweight...I think it saved me about 5 1/2 pounds of weight and that is on the very top of the bike. Shaving the 65 pounds off the bike transformed it into a great handling bike, doesn't even feel like a VFR

hi everyone, im fairly new to bike riding, and i just got my first viffer...looking at bikes and ran accross this site, i got my bike for a steal, my buddy wanted to upgrade and was short on cash and sold me his viffer with all front fairings messed up from his laydown, ive taken off the plastics except the top one that holds the headlights, im trying to read up on how to make my vfr 750 look like a cbr f4i or 600rr and what all is needed to make the transition...anyone with advise or help email me please...thanks

Start at the beginning of this thread and you will see how to transform it to look just like the F4i. It was not that hard.

Just did the headlights, taillights, etc on my Suburban I'm restoring...my new son-in-law is a manager of a local body shop and we started out with 150 grit paper, working up to 600, then worked up to 1000, then 1500. After they looked like almost new again, he brought out the 3M Polishing compounds and then finished them off to a high gloss. Then we clear-coated them with some left-over clear from the spray booth. :fing02:

Congrats, super nice job. How does the new front end affect the handling?

Time for more bodywork changes....what's next? Sounds like you got pretty lucky not getting hurt.

Great job , keep the pictures coming.

Murray: Glad to hear you are still around.

Hey guys. My bike is for sale, and it is posted in the FS section.

Whatch ya gonna do now, get another one? Gonna get married? :biggrin: Babies on the way :pissed:

Oh, the wisdom of Mothers. :rolleyes:

Great looking work over there in Spain.....keep up the good work guys.

Hey Hobie, maybe we can meet up some time and I can check out your VFR in person. I live up the road in Troutman.

I just picked up a third gen that was crashed and would like to steel, I mean colaborate on some ideas.

cool, I just sent you a PM with my cell number.

Next week we are starting on making some side panels to fill in below the gas tank and seat area....stay tuned, will post plenty of pics. also will be respraying it in white gloss too.

I replaced my last filter with a Uni-filter as a weight saving device. Thanks for the link.