VFR800rr

Thursday, 14 August 2014

Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Bike Complete

Finally Finished!!!

All fairings back on, fully vinyl'd and decal'd up, taxed MOT'd and insured.

There are a few things that still need to be done like bar ends and a dash surround, but these can be added as and when. I have also purchased a racing lithium ion battery to replace the standard lead battery, which will make a nice weight saving of 3.6kg :)

The bike needs some new tyres too as theres no need for the front wet, and the rear has a nasty flat spot from motorway rides before all the modding.

Apart from that she's salt and peppered!

A grill made for a down pipe protector...

All in, what ive calculated so far is a total weight saving of 24kg's; there are still weight saving mods that could be made, yet as the bike stands now, it still makes for a usable day to day bike with all the convenience I would need so im happy with the current amount of weight saved.

Before...

After...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Colour scheme

Originally the side fairings I planned to just spray black, but a friend had given me some left over anthracite coloured vinyl wrap, so I decided to give the stuff ago to add some colour variation to the black.

Vinyl wrap, i found to be infuriatingly hard to get good finish with no air bubbles on such an undulating surface as a motorcycle fairing but i think after a lot of tested patience i achieved a pretty good result.

With the result i achieved i really like the anthracite colour on the bike but i felt the change from black to anthracite was a little harsh between the front cowl and side fairings and so thought to use some design to blend the two. My idea was to to have a checkered flag effect to blend the two colours and so had a fading checkered flag decal made up.

Friday, 25 July 2014

Side Fairings

So the plan is to use VTR sp2 side fairings to give a sportier look and match them up to the new cbr600rr front cowl. The advantage of using vtr side fairings is the fact that the vtr also has side mounted radiators, so the air vents will allow a good amount of air flow to the vfrs rads.

Firstly by mounting the front fairing i could work out where the side fairing would sit best in terms of ground clearance, ventilation to the rads, access to the coolant filler, room for the collector pipes, and matching connection to the front fairing.

The SP2 sides fairings taped on into a rough position to see how compatible they were.

The fairings needed to be hacked into to make room for coolant filler and collector pipes.

Next matching the side fairings to the front was the next problem as there was a big difference between the two. When temporary fixed on, the difference could be assessed.