1996 Honda VFR750SF (part 2)

Another fork in the road... frame in hand, about to install on the freshly painted motor... leave it stock, or do something different with it? Hmm... Something different it is!!

At this time I also had some neat ideas for the forks. Knowing they were super short, I rebuilt them with heavier springs for my weight, and lengthened them internally by about 1/2". I also rebuilt the compression shim stack to my liking, and prepped them for paint.

While the carbs were still off, I opened them up to install new rubber and a Factory Pro jet kit.

I had a set of Vortex frame sliders kicking around from my CBR600, so I modified them to fit the VFR frame

With visions of John Player Special livery dancing in my head, I set about dosing the CBR forks with some House of Kolors magic...

Pagan Gold Kandy on the sliders, Orion silver on the bottoms. Custom decals by Throttlepimp (Kevin Sigler @ Switchblade Designs) - he is my go-to guy for custom graphics and he's been great for years!
Wheels were sent out to a V4bbs forum member who totally botched them, then they were re-done by a semi-local shop.

I attempted to wrap the tank with black fiberglass, but that was a miserable failure.

Luckily, I was able to realize my error quickly, and peeled it back off before it really turned into a lot of work.

A bit of reassembly to cheer me up

Rear down tubes were wrapped with black header wrap and stainless ties

It took a bit of fanagling to get those tubes in place properly

Then this crazy idea happened... CRF250R exhaust can

Then another (much more infamous) idea:

continuation.....