1996 Honda VFR750SF

This is what started it all... a spare motor obtained in October of 2009...

By December 09 it had gone through a couple iterations...

I originally saw it having clip ons and being more of a track animal
By January I had changed my mind a couple more times...

That evolved into a bit of rolling my own

Got some schmancy controls

I modified an RC51 SP2 front wheel to fit in the CBR forks

Added some PAIR block off plates - Hayabusa parts from ebay fit perfectly

Sold the FOX shock I had and picked up a nice Wilbers 641 with a fresh rebuild

It was around this time that I changed from clip ons to dirt bike bars

In September 2010, a friend picked up a 96 parts bike, and as it had lower mileage than the one I had, we negotiated a deal for the motor. Easiest way to drop 30k miles... the "new" lump has only 14,093 miles on it.

I decided that I wanted to paint the motor black. To accomplish this, I started by degreasing and washing the motor. I followed that with a soda blast, primer, and high temp ceramic black engine paint.

I am going to end up skipping around a bit in the timeline. The project took a bit of a turn 2 years ago after I was hit by a "lethal lefty" on my maiden voyage with my CB900F. That accident really messed with my head as I had put a lot of effort into that bike and it was difficult to see it laying on its side within 2 hours of putting the license plate on it.

It greatly influenced some decisions regarding this project - mainly the rear bodywork. I was planning to make a big deal out of creating some one-off bodywork, and I decided against this in favor of parts that I could adapt to the bike, and therefore also replace with relative ease if the worst case were to repeat itself.
Along the way, I found some rocking horse shit... Two Brothers full system!

This photo marks the end of the "make everythign from scratch" phase, and the beginning of the evolution into the bike you see at the top of the page.

With the freshly painted motor ready, and a spare swingarm that I sent out for powdercoat, I set about rearranging parts.