revtothelimit - motorbike forum

Don't think I've done a thread for this bike. It's a 2007 Honda CBR1000RR that I bought in 2015 when it looked like this...



I rode it on the road for quite a while and then bought a ktm 1190 adv and started using that for road stuff instead of the honda. In the mean time I took it on track a couple of times and really enjoyed that. I bought some cheap chinese fairings for it and stored the nice ones away. After another year of track days I realised that I just wanted to use the honda on track so took all the road stuff off it, installed a quick shifter, a quick throttle tube and a slipper clutch and had the suspension rebuilt with ktech parts for the track. It now looks like this...



It's been like that for a couple of years now I think. I know it doesn't look as nice but I have all the parts to put it back to stock safely stored. Bizarrely it's worth more now that when I bought it that to the totally screwy used bike market. Mechanically it's really good and it rides like a dream. I suspect some people might say it's bland but it's a fantastic bike to ride on track if you're not very good because it's pretty much always predictable.

Anyway, today I was getting it ready for this year fitting a new rear tyre, changing the oil and filter, flushing and replacing all the clutch and brake fluid and cleaning the calipers. I even waved a sponge at it but because the fairing is unpainted it didn't make a lot of difference.





This is one way to break the bead on a tyre without any appropriate tools...

Having sold the kawasaki, the cbr needed some love to be ready for track days again. The plan was to change the oil, change the brake fluid, stick the racing fairings I bought on ebay on and bolt on the rearsets. I thought 2-3 hours tops and I'd go for a ride on the VFR. Nope, spent most of the day on this sorting out issues.

First two jobs were easy and quick to do, oil change and complete flush of brake fluid and clutch fluid.

I noticed while draining the oil that there were coolant deposits on some of the joins so they must have been seeping slightly. I've never taken these apart but couldn't leave them like that. So I drained out enough coolant to remove all the hoses, cleaned up the joints, put it all back together and refilled the system.

Next was the bodywork. The stuff on the bike was some cheap ebay chinese stuff which had got really brittle. I found some fibreglass race fairings on ebay and bought them and set about fitting them today. It was a bit of a pain in the arse and took a lot of time. Many of the holes didn't line up but the quality seems ok. They look fine when fitted. I do have a better looking tank cover than was on the bike but I left the old one as I didn't have any more self-adhesive foam to make tank grips from.

Finally I fitted the rearsets that I got from race spares that were made by pp tuning. These took a bit of adjusting but the quality is really good. They also come with an 'unbreakable' guarantee.

All looks ok I think...

Nice work. Will this be at Pembrey then?

tricol wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 7:05 pm Nice work. Will this be at Pembrey then?

Thank you. Yes it will.

Is it automatic?

I'm going to be putting this back to road trim and the wheels need powder coating. Do you think they would look best staying gold or changing to black. This is what it looks like with the road fairings on it...

Imho they look good in gold.

Gold looks good. Black would be better when mucky though. I'd go gold.

Yeah, I think the gold looks weird with the white track bodywork but seems to work with the road fairings.

Another for gold.

It's got to be gold so long as you don't mind cleaning them.Black if you're not keen on cleaning wheels.

The gold looks fine to me.