Oooh errr missus - RC45 for sale. Minter too.

[HenryDorsetCase]

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/motorbikes/motorbikes/classic-vintage/listing/2773874871?bof=HQEWecC9

[malcy25]

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/motorbikes/motorbikes/classic-vintage/listing/2773874871?bof=HQEWecC9
All up I read closer to 1000 produced worldwide over the full production runs....

A bit like OW01's every one says 500. But that was in 1989 and then more in 90-92...

RC30's are well over 3000 all up (and more built than OW01's).

R7 OW-02 Yamaha more like the RC45 volumewise I think and already pricing up ahead of OW01's.

[JimO]

bargain....

[husaberg]

For all the hype, i have always prefered the look of a RC30.

[actungbaby]

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/motorbikes/motorbikes/classic-vintage/listing/2773874871?bof=HQEWecC9I prefer Honda rc 30 .as it has racing
Pedigree .

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[actungbaby]

For all the hype, i have always prefered the look of a RC30.Ditto .looks better .still I never afford either. Love a vfr 400 .

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[Blackbird]

It may belong or used to belong to a chap who was a specialist engineering contracor to the pulp and paper industry. If so, he also has or had a Ducati 851 superbike still in its crate, a few other unridden bikes of that era and a perfectly restored E-type Jag - early one with the aerodynamic headlight covers. I must have paid too much for his services :yes:

[F5 Dave]

Couldn't believe when I saw one in a shop new, when the UK for werk.

Oh. They have two of them. -Pah! Common as muck.

[actungbaby]

Nice one that's cool info
Awsome these bikes are here
Think 61 grand to much
For 26 grand uk pounds can
Get Honda rc30 the orginal always
Best if not in reality .in looks yes
And racing history.

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[husaberg]

Ditto .looks better .still I never afford either. Love a vfr 400 .

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Yeah funny enough same with the NC35 vs the NC30
not sure why as the styling clues are so simimilar i guess one of the few things that adding some gentle curves don't improve
IMO the 916 was also streets ahead in the looks of the RC45 as well.

The NR was maybe what the 45 should have looked like.

[actungbaby]

Yeah funny enough same with the NC35 vs the NC30
not sure why as the styling clues are so simimilar i guess one of the few things that adding some gentle curves don't improve
IMO the 916 was also streets ahead in the looks of the RC45 as well.

The NR was maybe what the 45 should have looked like.Very true .funny how we can pic
A bike by looks .yes been close buying a vfr 400 .was just one I was going buy was missing on one cylinder .I never picked it.mate rode
It .I didint want risk it.later sold way cheaper price .for me elgant
Less is more .great bike got bit open
Space lol .mind my friend as manx norton .that's cool machine.
Even for Honda fan boy.i appreciate.
And motorcycle that's purpose built.

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[actungbaby]

There's cool write up.in bike magizine
British mag forgot tittle.
On rossi's MotoGP bikes.from Honda nsr 500 Honda rc 211 v to yamaha s
Feel qoutes Jeremy burgess.and yeah intresting .I read at library
For free cheap skate.

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[rastuscat]

In 1989 I worked briefly with a guy who bought a VFR100RR.

We all told him he'd kill himself on it.

Three weeks later it turned out we were right.

[pete376403]

Didn't a new RC45 get stolen while being taken for a test ride (in Christchurch IIRC) never to be seen again?

[HenryDorsetCase]

Didn't a new RC45 get stolen while being taken for a test ride (in Christchurch IIRC) never to be seen again?

I believe that it was recovered some years later being stropped around south Auckland having been painted matt black. I understand its the one now owned by Brendan from Honda Country Ashburton. He was at a trackday I was at and its an impressive sounding bit of kit.

[mulletman]

I believe that it was recovered some years later being stropped around south Auckland having been painted matt black. I understand its the one now owned by Brendan from Honda Country Ashburton. He was at a trackday I was at and its an impressive sounding bit of kit.

That one got a hole cut in the frame for a gun or something ?

[HenryDorsetCase]

That one got a hole cut in the frame for a gun or something ?

Apparently - at least it was cut up a bit. TBH I dont know the story really - its very much in the realm of hearsay.

[malcy25]

Apparently - at least it was cut up a bit. TBH I dont know the story really - its very much in the realm of hearsay.

There was also this well known Akld art thief....he was also well known through the racing circles in the 70's here and Aussie...

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/288338/art-thief-sentenced-over-luxury-bike-grab

[F5 Dave]

The horrific cost to the taxpayers of keeping chaps like that in jail. . Is worth it in my opinion. Clearly they will just continue to be a blight on other people.

[Kickaha]

There was also this well known Akld art thief....he was also well known through the racing circles in the 70's here and Aussie...

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/288338/art-thief-sentenced-over-luxury-bike-grab

Why is that cunt even still allowed to live ?

[jellywrestler]

Why is that cunt even still allowed to live ?

it's not his fault, someone gave him a wedgie at school and he's been a cot case ever since.

[malcy25]

it gets better!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12195614

[jellywrestler]

it gets better!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12195614

he'd fit right in, looks like he could easily tear an air filter with his bare hands, run an illegal ecu, illegal brakes etc....

[husaberg]

he'd fit right in, looks like he could easily tear an air filter with his bare hands, run an illegal ecu, illegal brakes etc....

Who was he back in his day anyone know it says he took his russians wife surname.

one of the aka's was Ricardo Sands.
was there a Richards Sands racing in the 70-80's?
he was jailed in 84 so its before then........
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/72719344/notorious-bank-robber-sentenced

[pritch]

Who was he back in his day anyone know it says he took his russians wife surname.


I thought it mildly interesting that his wife had the same surname as the late lamented Russian royal family. Of course there were all sorts of distant relations about the place, but Singapore?

That may, or may not be relevant as to why she was not granted immigration status. If our civil servants had determined that it was unlikely she was who she claimed to be, that might create a problem?

[husaberg]

I thought it mildly interesting that his wife had the same surname as the late lamented Russian royal family. Of course there were all sorts of distant relations about the place, but Singapore?

That may, or may not be relevant as to why she was not granted immigration status. If our civil servants had determined that it was unlikely she was who she claimed to be, that might create a problem?

often like attracts like I would suggest she to had a past that a new name might help hide.
i never realised until the other day that that 7 years clean slate doent apply if you wish to emigrate or do a declaration for a visa or similar.
we had a guy we can't hire yet in a few years we can..... Yet if he was to be hired by our Aussie branch he never could.

[BMWGSER]

In 1989 I worked briefly with a guy who bought a VFR100RR.

We all told him he'd kill himself on it.

Three weeks later it turned out we were right.

I traded in a VF1000R in Manukau for a CBR1000F
Should of kept the VF although not to fast ,drank fuel and was heavy but tracked well .Starting to be collectors items now.

[BMWST?]

flatmate had a vf750s??? then a vfr 750 then a vfr1000 the vfr 750 was a much better bike than the other two,but the vfr100 had an awesome ENGINE

[pritch]

but the vfr1000 had an awesome ENGINE

Good enough to win the Castrol Six Hour.

[BMWST?]

Good enough to win the Castrol Six Hour.

Was a great engine to live with too if you know what i mean,just the right ammount of vibration,just the right ammount of low down torque,revvy enought etc etc...

[F5 Dave]

Good enough to win the Castrol Six Hour.
You must have dreamed that. Was Jesus riding it? as neither of them exist.

[husaberg]

You must have dreamed that. Was Jesus riding it? as neither of them exist.

Confused...........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrol_Six_Hour_(New_Zealand)

Castrol Six Hour (New Zealand)


Five time winner Dave Hiscock standing ready about to run to his machine for the start of the 1980 production race [1]
The New Zealand Castrol Six Hour Race was an endurance motorcycle race that was held for fifteen years at Manfeild, Palmerston North from 1974 to 1988. Many of New Zealand's top international riders competed at the Six Hour race; winners included Dave Hiscock (5-time winner), Neil Chivas (4-time winner), Graeme Crosby (3-time winner), Aaron Slight (2-time winner), and Ginger Molloy (first winner).[2] The race was characterised by its exclusive use of unmodified standard production motorcycles and a running start where the racers had to run to their machines before they could start. There was special provisions that the machines were no older than 3 years old, which was a boon to the motorcycle industry in New Zealand at the time which saw a dramatic rise in the sale of Motorcycles after these events.

Winners
1974: Ginger Molloy (solo) – Kawasaki Z1-A
1975: Graeme Crosby (solo) – Kawasaki Z1-B
1976: Graeme Crosby (solo) – Kawasaki Z1000
1977: Graeme Crosby and Tony Hatton – Kawasaki Z1000
1978: Dave Hiscock and Neil Chivas – Suzuki GS1000EN
1979: Dave Hiscock and Neil Chivas – Suzuki GSX1100ET
1980: Dave Hiscock and Neil Chivas – Suzuki GSX1100T (Black Pipe)
1981: Malcolm Campbell and Mick Cole – Honda CB1100R
1982: Dave Hiscock and Neville Hiscock – Suzuki GSX1100SXZ Katana
1983: Bill Biber and Phil Payne – Honda VF750F
1984: Alan DeLatour and Dave Martin – Honda VF1000F
1985: Dave Hiscock and Neil Chivas – Suzuki GSX-R750F
1986: Aaron Slight and Rob Doran – Yamaha FZ750
1987: Aaron Slight and Wayne Clark – Yamaha FZR1000
1988: Tony Rees and Dave Hicks – Yamaha FZR1000

flatmate had a vf750s??? then a vfr 750 then a vfr1000 the vfr 750 was a much better bike than the other two,but the vfr100 had an awesome ENGINE
oh I see VFR1000 lol
I would have thought it was the VF1000R that won. rather than he cooking F

[BMWST?]

Confused...........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrol_Six_Hour_(New_Zealand)


oh I see VFR1000 lol
I would have thought it was the VF1000R that won. rather than he cooking F

the R was just a fairing and paint work i think

[husaberg]

the R was just a fairing and paint work i think

I have a comparison here from back in the day I haven't read it though lol
next time I trip over it I will post it.
Were both Gear driven cams or just the R?

[FJRider]

the R was just a fairing and paint work i think

His eyesight must need work ... It was the VF1000 that won in 1984.

1984: Alan DeLatour and Dave Martin – Honda VF1000F

The only other Honda to win the NZ six hour was the CB1100R in 1981.

[FJRider]

I have a comparison here from back in the day I haven't read it though lol
next time I trip over it I will post it.
Were both Gear driven cams or just the R?

The VF1000F had chain driven cam's and the VF1000R had gear driven cams.

[F5 Dave]

And none of them were a VFR1000. :bleh:

[jellywrestler]

I would have thought it was the VF1000R that won. rather than he cooking F

nah plain old VF1000F, think by the time the R was here they chopped down to 750 outright and later went up again but the R had been and gone.

[jellywrestler]

The only other Honda to win the NZ six hour was the CB1100R in 1981. I'd lay good money on a CBX550 winning somewhere along the way, if not twice.

[FJRider]

I'd lay good money on a CBX550 winning somewhere along the way, if not twice.

Not mentioned in the outright winners list for the Castrol 6 hour series. A class win maybe.

I was there in 82, the Hiscock brothers were doing 16 second pit-stops for a tank of gas and new back tire.

[FJRider]

nah plain old VF1000F, think by the time the R was here they chopped down to 750 outright and later went up again but the R had been and gone.

The VF1000R came out in 86. The rules allowed up to 3 year old bikes.

It was mostly dealers running the teams, but to win they must finish. Often teams pulled out of the race for minor unexpected issues slowing them down. Or major issues like crashes.

[F5 Dave]

think I went to 86 with the FZ where some wag in our party suggested the FZ had 20 valve. Has to drop one of them. How wrong he was.

To be fair sitting on wooden benches at minefield, it did drag on quite somewhat.

[Kickaha]

This was the car/bike park in 1986, spent as much time wandering around there with a bottle of purple death as watching the racing

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[jellywrestler]

Not mentioned in the outright winners list for the Castrol 6 hour series. A class win maybe.

I was there in 82, the Hiscock brothers were doing 16 second pit-stops for a tank of gas and new back tire.

doesn't mean they didn't win fair square though.

[malcy25]

This was the car/bike park in 1986, spent as much time wandering around there with a bottle of purple death as watching the racing

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VF1000R at the 6 hour is in the bottom left corner of the photo

[husaberg]

VF1000R at the 6 hour is in the bottom left corner of the photo

Shit it Is too, you can see the funny Trac colours on the lower forks.
next to a Kat and a Slabby. another Kat further along.

[HenryDorsetCase]

no one mentioning the CX500 Turbo in the middle of that row? VF750F too. Couple of nice Dukes on the right hand end

[husaberg]

no one mentioning the CX500 Turbo in the middle of that row? VF750F too. Couple of nice Dukes on the right hand end

I thought it wasat first glance but then thought it looked more like an GSx1100ese?
GPZ 1100? at the end of the second row.
looks like an LC in the middle next to a CB N (not sure now looks like a 4t

A frz250 Phazer? a FZ750? and then a Slabby by the commerdore.
Over the back to the left of the commodore behind another slabby it looks like another Kat


two bikes before the ducks is a plastic maggot i think.

[F5 Dave]

And on the top right I'm pretty sure I see a VDue next to, is that a Britten? :gob:

[Bonez]

I thought it wasat first glance but then thought it looked more like an GSx1100ese?

two bikes before the ducks is a plastic maggot i think.You obviously need reading glasses.:rolleyes:

Going around the bike parks/pits was the best part of the Castrol 6 hours.

[husaberg]

Two RCV45's for sale atm on TM

[F5 Dave]

Common as muck. Did I mention i saw a couple in Peterboghorror bike shop in 90s?

[husaberg]

Common as muck. Did I mention i saw a couple in Peterboghorror bike shop in 90s?
i am not convinced they were the same ones;)

[merv]

His eyesight must need work ... It was the VF1000 that won in 1984.

1984: Alan DeLatour and Dave Martin – Honda VF1000F

The only other Honda to win the NZ six hour was the CB1100R in 1981.

Don't forget Bill Biber and Phil Payne on the VF750F in 1983.