Question on which Honda for F3

**gav** · 16th September 2008, 20:25

Well, warming it up for at least 10 minutes in the pits was probably a little uncalled for!

You were lucky I didnt come over and silence it for you.

J/K I was in the van next door, racing the FXR in the 150's.
Sounded good, use to have a few V4 'onda's me self.

**lostinflyz** · 16th September 2008, 20:39

Originally Posted by gav

Well, warming it up for at least 10 minutes in the pits was probably a little uncalled for!

You were lucky I didnt come over and silence it for you.

J/K I was in the van next door, racing the FXR in the 150's.
Sounded good, use to have a few V4 'onda's me self.

haha i would usually agree but its been throwing plugs lately and gets very very grumpy if it doesnt get a nice long warm up. Ive got it sorted now but i wanted to be sure as saturday was the first day it ever got to the track and actually ran first click (first practice ever, its quite strange)

Im tempted to make some deflectors for it for warming up so it isn't so stupidly annoying and loud in the pits. why cant everyone else jsut have an obnoxiously loud bike.

i get all self concious when everyones looking at me

**glice** · 17th September 2008, 19:09

Originally Posted by lostinflyz

what ever you do DONT do that. that was my thinking. 1700 quid for one in not too bad knick with fairings done. just needs a few things done. about 2 grand later its nearly sorted.

In the end you need tyres just about always but a road bike is more than likely (i.e. 98% chance) gonna need a new rear shock (or a rebuild at least) and the front end stripped and rebuilt (more than likely resurfaced). then itll prob need a tune and the lot. plus stands and the hassle of changing out bobs and bits (drilling sump plug ect.). fairings could be a pain to, dunno.

If its good for the road then its worth to much to turn to a race bike (my old NC21 is worth over 2 grand. as a race bike id be lucky to get even half that). If its too crappy for the road itll take to long and too much money to sort out.

Ill be happy to have a look at something down here for you if you like if it ever comes up. i'd offer you the one i've been doing but its not quite there yet. but maybe soon.

sweet, I'll deffintly go for a race ready bike in that case. that sounds good, what area are you in?