[fs] 1990 vfr400r nc30

[gamgee]

Absolutely mint, I will ship, need to sell so I can buy a stationwagon, don't worry tho, I'm going to get a cheaper bike

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=86914351

[sAsLEX]

might need some fleshing out on the details......

[gamgee]

look at the auction, or do I need to add something?

[kneescraper]

Nice bike....bit to black isnt it? Best of luck...the new owner will get a awesome bike!

[gamgee]

Nice bike....bit to black isnt it? Best of luck...the new owner will get a awesome bike!

a bit to black??? :gob:
I've got some decals the new owner can put on if they want

[gamgee]

still for sale in case you were wondering :yes:

[gamgee]

price lowered to $5500

[gamgee]

make me an offer :yes:

[MSTRS]

On behalf of Cowpoos, and cos it's a Honda....$1.00

[gamgee]

On behalf of Cowpoos, and cos it's a Honda....$1.00

:nono:
but it's the best honda ever made (well apart from the rc30)

but seriously I need to sell this rather urgently to buy a wagon for my new job, so please if you're considering one of these make me a good honest offer and i'll get back to you

[Deviant Esq]

If you're looking for an urgent sale, I'm sorry, but the price is just too high for an NC30. There are an awful lot of them available on trademe (granted yours is the only one in shiny shiny black :niceone:), and if you want to sell it in any kind of hurry you'll have to compete on price with the others. The others have lower kms than yours, and look stock, which people like.

Sorry dude, not beating up on your bike or anything, I love NC30s - I'd happily tell you to look the other way while I made off with it... :chase:
Good luck with the sale all the same.

[gamgee]

If you're looking for an urgent sale, I'm sorry, but the price is just too high for an NC30. There are an awful lot of them available on trademe (granted yours is the only one in shiny shiny black :niceone:), and if you want to sell it in any kind of hurry you'll have to compete on price with the others. The others have lower kms than yours, and look stock, which people like.

Sorry dude, not beating up on your bike or anything, I love NC30s - I'd happily tell you to look the other way while I made off with it... :chase:
Good luck with the sale all the same.

gotta listen to what the people want... price lowered to $5000

[gamgee]

ok i'm a bit worried now, I haven't even had a bite, I will ship it anywhere in the country, so if your at all interested get in touch with me

[imdying]

5k is a lot for a crashed 400. But they're a nice model, someone will buy it, you'll just need to be patient. It sickens me that people will pay $6500 for a 1990 CBR250R (go Trevor Pierce :rolleyes:), and not $5000 for that!

[gamgee]

5k is a lot for a crashed 400. But they're a nice model, someone will buy it, you'll just need to be patient. It sickens me that people will pay $6500 for a 1990 CBR250R (go Trevor Pierce :rolleyes:), and not $5000 for that!

not so much a crash as a long slide, no structural damage, but I've replaced every peice of fairing and it looks straight as new

[imdying]

You know what I mean though... if you're looking for one of those, a nice mint factory one is what you're generally looking for.

[sAsLEX]

You know what I mean though... if you're looking for one of those, a nice mint factory one is what you're generally looking for.

Wonder if I could squeeze you muffler design onto my NC, looking and sounding good over on the other forum

[gamgee]

relisted:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=87776378

[gamgee]

I'm thinking about lowering the price to $4500 (firm) would there be interest from here at that price?

[gamgee]

bumpt anyone?

[gamgee]

This is as low as the price is going so I'm giving KBer's a headstart, $4500 the auction will be put up on tuesday, ask me for any details you want

[Sniper]

I'll pay you what you bought it for :shifty: :bleh:

As a side note. I have been and seen this bike and ridden it before gamgee had it. Its a great bike for the price....

[gamgee]

I'll pay you what you bought it for :shifty: :bleh:

haha smart ass, it's slightly better looking than when you rode it ;)
but cheers it is definitely a good runner, and no work needs done now that i've replaced chain, sprockets, fork seals fluids etc. just a set of tyres before the next WOF

[gamgee]

relisted:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=88934998

[hazzy]

Is it UK spec?

[gamgee]

it was imported from japan in 1993 so I don't think so, how would I find out? actually from memory I think most of our nc30's are grey imports same with the UK, and genuine "UK spec" bikes are extremely rare, I'm not sure if it's restricted to 180 or not either, why did you need to know if it was UK spec?

[gamgee]

just checked it out, and yes, i'm pretty sure it's a grey import, but I don't see what difference this will make to you

[gamgee]

oh I also still have the stock exhaust if the buyer is interested

[hazzy]

just checked it out, and yes, i'm pretty sure it's a grey import, but I don't see what difference this will make to you

coz they have more HP (bigger carbs), no restriction and 240km speedo

[gamgee]

they don't have more hp, the only diff is they aren't restricted to 180, I doubt you'll find a genuine UK import in NZ

[imdying]

coz they have more HP (bigger carbs), no restriction and 240km speedoDo you have a link to that info?

[hazzy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_VFR400

[gamgee]

5-6hp? sounds like a guess to me which means it's probably crap, the only power difference I've heard of is between the nc30 and nc35, the nc35 was restricted due to jap power restrictions

[hazzy]

up the top right:

Power: 59hp @ 12500rpm (Euro spec 65hp)

[gamgee]

ahhh well, I've got a guy coming down tomorrow night, bringing money, and most likely buying my bike for the above asking price, so looks like i'm gonna be waving goodbye to the best bike I've ever ridden tomorrow night

[imdying]

I wonder which ones are the 'later models' then? 1990 was the first year for the NC30, safe to assume all 1990 NC30s are 65bhp then?


Later models were restricted by power, with 59 PS (44 kW) being the limit for 400cc motorcycles, but this kind of restriction generally requires much more difficult power-increasing techniques to circumvent.

The NC35 (RVF400) has slightly smaller carbs (1mm IIRC), perhaps those are the later models they speak of?

[gamgee]

thats what I thought but can't really be bothered arguing about it...

[hazzy]

ahhh well, I've got a guy coming down tomorrow night, bringing money, and most likely buying my bike for the above asking price, so looks like i'm gonna be waving goodbye to the best bike I've ever ridden tomorrow night

grats on your sale :)

[gamgee]

well she's gone, nearly bought a tear, the amount of work thats gone into it, the guy sounded like it'd be treated well, it's back off to christchurch, so you chch kbers might see it around the streets soon

[Deviant Esq]

Took a little bit of time, but you got the sale in the end. Well done. Still, always sad to see them go when you've put so much work into them. On to the next step in the master plan? :yes:

[easyrider]

Looks like your dearly beloved is back on trademe due to the buyer having "two near misses". What a waste.

Guess she might be doing the rounds in Christchurch for a while!

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Sports/auction-89519674.htm

[gamgee]

oh man, to be honest I'd rather he sold it if he can't handle the jandle, I don't want to see it smashed up, there were a few people contacting me once I lowered the price, so he shouldn't have any trouble selling it

[imdying]

Ahahah, what a pussy.

On another note... I saw a black NC30 parked on the side of Strowan road, Friday I think... instantly thought of yours, although this one had a big white spider graphic on the side. Didn't look half as ghey as that sounds!

[hazzy]

Ahahah, what a pussy.

On another note... I saw a black NC30 parked on the side of Strowan road, Friday I think... instantly thought of yours, although this one had a big white spider graphic on the side. Didn't look half as ghey as that sounds!


is this the one?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=88643631

[imdying]

Could very well be! I thought it looked like a big ass spider, but could very well have been some ugly Honda logo!

[hazzy]

yeh im thinking of buying it but i'd rip that stupid crap off, how did it look? i'm down in dun so can't veiw really...

apparently its been raced for 4500km's would that effect it much?

[gamgee]

yeh im thinking of buying it but i'd rip that stupid crap off, how did it look? i'm down in dun so can't veiw really...

apparently its been raced for 4500km's would that effect it much?

yeah I was looking at that one a while ago, the worst part is it was raced for the first 4500km, plus I wouldn't trust the milage on that, those were the main things that put me off buying that one originally

[Deviant Esq]

Seems the guy who bought it is having second thoughts:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Sports/auction-89519674.htm

[gamgee]

that is one seriously good deal, he's selling all his riding gear with it for $4300

[hazzy]

that is one seriously good deal, he's selling all his riding gear with it for $4300

damn that is good, hope nothing happened to it on the trip back up to chch i might buy it now. anything i should know ;)?

60,000km's is getting up there though... hmmm.... how many km's would this get before it starts having problems?

[gamgee]

damn that is good, hope nothing happened to it on the trip back up to chch i might buy it now. anything i should know ;)?

60,000km's is getting up there though... hmmm.... how many km's would this get before it starts having problems?

nothing that I know about, but, as you say, something could have happened on the way back, but he never said anything, and i've been in regular contact with him until yesterday
60,000km is nothing for one of these engines, they'll go to well over 100,000 i've even seen one still running fine at 120,000

[hazzy]

nothing that I know about, but, as you say, something could have happened on the way back, but he never said anything, and i've been in regular contact with him until yesterday
60,000km is nothing for one of these engines, they'll go to well over 100,000 i've even seen one still running fine at 120,000

yeh, what would resale value be like at 100,000km+

if it was regulary serviced, always garaged never dropped etc

[gamgee]

dunno, that one with 120,000km sold for about $2000 or it might have been $2500 can't remember, it was about 6 months ago, it was at least $2000 tho

[nc30vfr400]

just read that link from hazzy sezz that you just need to bend a tab or soilder in a 2.2k resistor sounds interesting just wondering if any1s done it or knows any more about it?

[gamgee]

he's just lowered the price for the bike to $3700, farrk thats insane, can't beleive no-one has bought it yet, it's probably gonna sell today, if i hadn't just bought a wagon i'd be going up there and buying it back~!

[easyrider]

Yep, thats right, I bought it yesterday. Pity you didn't finish the 'project' off though, warped discs and needs a new front tyre. plus I don't know what you did to the forks but they are sagging alot and even bottoming out (strange ho this is doing it with supposed 15w oil in). For an NC30 this is not a very nice setup but shouldn't take much to fix it. Otherwise its a nice quick bike. Haven't ridden anything like it. Nice paint job and don't know if you did the fibre glassing on the fairing but its good too. I guess I probably wouldn't have it if it didn't have the flaws :D