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Hello Everyone! I am new to this forum and wanted to stop in and introduce myself. I am new to the vfr world but not new to riding, have been riding the street for roughly 10 years with a small mix of different motorcycles. My friend has a 97(I think ) that I borrowed a few years ago. I had the bike for a decent ammount of time and fell in love with it. Soooooo I purchased a red 1994 vfr750f this monday from the second owner, it had 13,005 miles and is to date the nicest example of a almost completely unmolested vfr I have ever seen. It has never been dropped and has lived life in the garage its entire life. The original owner put about 6.5k miles on it and the second owner purchased it in 2001 and put roughly the same miles himself. Obviously the carbs were clogged so just a quick clean up as soon as we got home and everything is perfect!!!

Hi gents. Im refurbishing a much neglected 94 VFR750. Mostly complete. Before i got stuck into it and pulled it all apart to service i noticed it had tank wobble and would rock when you put pressure on it mostly the the left hand side. pretty noticible rock too. I'd forgotten about it till now when its been time to fit the tank back on. Its secure , its not going anywhere, it just annoys me and I dont think it came out of the Honda factory with that wobble at all. Ive pulled the tank back off and had a look and my question is did the tank have black rubber clips/stabilisers? I flipped the tank over and found a small square black strip of thin foam rubber glued to one side and on the other side the glue residue and the black piece missing. but it was stuck on the silver bike frame. from having a bit of a look on Ebay at tanks i can see some of them have like black rubber clips (which would make sense) My guess is previous owner has lost those clips at some point and has glued bits of foam on to attempt to stop the rock. And one of those bits has slipped of and restuck to the frame. idk heres some pics love to hear your experience or opinions on this cheers Metalicr (Ben)

Just when I thought I was done wrenching, the VFR needs a front tire (I have one here already) and apparently clutch plates replacement. 1st gear is fine when ridden hard to redline, but 2nd gear has it surging and slipping and sometimes grabbing pretty much every time @ 10k before I can get to redline. 3rd-6th is OK, and I can even get 2nd to get to redline occasionally if I get there gradually and not when I'm accelerating hard. The 2nd gear thing feels like someone is taking the spark plug wire off and then putting it back on....power up till 10k, then surging and bucking. I can upshift pretty much from 1st to 6th without touching the clutch lever too by just briefly rolling off the gas. I've also had 2-3k miles of sorta "slingshotting"....I'm behind a car that I need to get around, so I grab a handful of throttle, never touch the clutch, and it sorta spins up the engine noise for a second without much more forward momentum, then catches and slingshots me ahead. It feels like I was losing traction on ice or something where I was spinning the back tire in a straight line, and then it suddenly gained traction. If it was a nitro Busa I could say it was lighting up the rear tire with hp. But it's not. It's a 18 year old, 100 hp bike with 55k on it. I am pretty sure, based on knowing the previous owner, that it's the original clutch plates. 55K on these currently. Granted, I ride this thing hard. Really hard. Pretty much every launch is a hard launch, redline, shift, redline, hard on the gas, etc. I know I should take it easy on the old girl, but it's so much damn fun and sounds so damn good it's hard to resist. So..sound to you like a new batch of clutch plates (steel and fiber all the way around, or re-use the steel ones?) and new springs as well? Do you recommend OEM, Barnett, EBC, others? I plan on tearing it down this week to see if I need JUST the fiber plates, or the fiber and the steel plates. Apparently from what I've been told sometimes you can get away with re-using the steel plates if they are not blued from heat and are not warped (tip: lay them on glass or a mirror to check). So, before I order everything, I suppose I need to check into it to see exactly what I need. I'm told to get new springs, but...is that all: What's with this judder spring thing...should I swap them too? And here's my main question, which concerns how I drive this thing: I gather that the small squares of pad material on each friction plate is what keeps the clutch engaging/disengaging...am I to assume that when a clutch slips, those small pads have worn away, leaving that particular clutch plate smooth (or smoothER that it was when new)? I'm asking b/c I'm wondering if it is normal when a clutch starts to slip that it slips in only one gear like mine is doing in 2nd? I guess I have worry creeping in my mind that the dogs on 2nd gear are gone and I may have to undercut the tranny gears on yet another motorcycle on yet another 2nd gear. I've done this on another bike...kinda a PITA. It seems odd to me (and lends me to think the tranny might need to be undercut) that only 2nd gear slips. And now it seems to be slipping & bucking at a different RPM than before...then: 10k. now: 8k. Again, 1st and 3rd - 6th still pull solidly like a freight train, just 2nd has me a bit worried now.... your thoughts?