Few more pics from the Hull Marina RD meet

Mainly non-RD but still strokers:


http://www.yamaha-rd.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2291

Enjoy.

 

Sorry, can no longer enjoy due huge amounts of slobber issuing forth.

WTF is that Kawa? and can I have it please?

 

Sean fascinated us all by saying...

KR250, tandem twin[1] IIRC, circa 1983-85. Mate had one many years ago,
very quick and handled like it was on rails. If that's the bike I think
it is[2], then it's a beauty.

[1] One cylinder behind the other, 2 cranks.
[2] used to belong to the guy who ran the spares division of RD Owners
Club.

--
Lozzo
ZZR1100D, GPZ500S, CB250RS
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, two#49, MIB#22, TCP#7, BONY#9,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, KoBv#3.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
www.mjkleathers.com

 

http://kr250.org/KR_home.htm

 

I thought it was an AR125 with a TZR250 engine fitted at first. Wonderful
looking piece of machinery.

The silver one on the website looks fantastic. Certainly different to the LC
and RGs that were doing the rounds then. Hints of GPz900 in there too.

Hope the guy manages to do a full resto on it, then rides it like it was
meant to be ridden . Wish my wife would buy me a stinkwheel.

 

Oooh, nice. Wouldn't mind one of them in the garage.

 

Preferably not running and I'll leave it that way for months and months you
mean? ;o)
I'll bet spares are in really short supply for this baby.

 

Heh..... just like my hom cage, you mean?

I know that feeling well......

 

Met a bloke today riding one of those original Honda 750 V-4's. 1988
conventional swinging arm hydraulic clutch RCSomething. Rather nice.

 

Hog fascinated us all by saying...

It's not the actual bike I was thinking of. Nice all the same, but he's
had his fair share of problems by the look of it.

--
Lozzo
ZZR1100D, GPZ500S, CB250RS
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, two#49, MIB#22, TCP#7, BONY#9,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, KoBv#3.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
www.mjkleathers.com

 

It's for sale too,
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2433976386

 

Hm. Could be an RC30. The early V4s (VF750F) were discontinued in
1984/85.

 

The Older Gentleman fascinated us all by saying...

Could have been a VF750F, the model designation is RC15 on those. The
VFR750F also has an RC prefix, as does the VF400F, 500F and 1000F.

--
Lozzo
ZZR1100D, GPZ500S, CB250RS
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, two#49, MIB#22, TCP#7, BONY#9,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, KoBv#3.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
www.mjkleathers.com

 

Really? I didn't know that.

 

RC30 was mono sided swinging arm

 

RC15, don't think so. It had an almost spondonesque ally beam frame.

 

Hm. All the VFs were monoshock. They did a few horrible custom things
that might have had dual shockers...

 

Hog fascinated us all by saying...

The only 1988 (ish) Beam framed Honda V4, with conventional s/arm I can
think of is the VFR750F, similar to this one[1]

http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/060475/

[1] Ok, so this is a 1987 model with 16 and 18 inch wheels, but the FJ/K
model didn't look that much different in every other respect.

--
Lozzo
ZZR1100D, GPZ500S, CB250RS
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, two#49, MIB#22, TCP#7, BONY#9,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, KoBv#3.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
www.mjkleathers.com

 

Hey that's the one and in these colours
http://home.hetnet.nl/~teakeboogaard/mybikes/vfrachterzij.jpg
Twin piston sliding pin front callipers.
Given that it was a year older than my SOBeemer I thought it was a
remarkably nice and well sorted bike. Well ahead of it's time. Are they
reliable?

The frame was like the first extruded section aluminium beam frame that
Spondon did for the 1000EXUP.

 

Hog fascinated us all by saying...

<snip pic url>

You sure it wasn't an American import 700 Interceptor? Not quite as fast
as our 750 version, but everything else was the same.

It's a VFR, do bears shit in the woods? Is the Pope a catholic?

Of course it's fucking reliable. One of the most reliable bikes ever
made, in fact.

--
Lozzo
ZZR1100D, GPZ500S, CB250RS
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, two#49, MIB#22, TCP#7, BONY#9,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, KoBv#3.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
www.mjkleathers.com