NC30 VFR full update... what do you think?

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find here https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/K-CONVERSIONS-VFR-400-rc211v-ROAD-RACE-FAIRING-KIT-NC30-/250770587978?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item3a6317814a#ht_15301wt_1026


Have been eye balling a nc30 vfr for my first "BIG" bike , and now with this available i'm really interested, could even buy a poor cosmetic VFR and whip off the fairing and sell it then buy this? Comments?
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Well it's crap.

Buy a more modern bike, rather than ruin the looks of a VFR400 for me.
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[Fisty]

So you buy a tatty (read bolloxed) NC30.

You remove the (bolloxed) fairings and sell them on Ebay for less than £100.
You then spend another £400 refreshing the bike before the new fairing arrives.
Finally after spending 7 weeks at customs and costing you another £175 in vat and taxes you get your new £500 fairing home. You then realize its unpainted, ill fitting and looks shite next to your tatty tank.

So you decide to get the lot resprayed, a nice job at dream machine setting you back £1300.

After fitting your newly sprayed plastics you drop it on your first outing.

The cycle begins again.


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[Teflon-Mike]

Take one £400 VFR400
Add £400 worth of aftermarket plastic
Add £400 worth of paint
You have an almost tidy £500 bike that has cost you £1200, which the insurance co will moan over for non standard cosmetics and paint, at the very least.... even if MOT man is happy
And you could but what? For the same money?
No hassle off Insurance
No loss of resale value or marketability
Makes no sense to me at all.
Modding bikes to suit personal taste, yup...
Fitting non-standard stuff for ecconomy in repairs, yup
But this is neither... this is trying to tart up a twenty year old 400 to look like a ten year old 600 which you could buy for the same money as making that look even half decent....
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[alun111]

£500 for that ill-fitting piece of shit?

Seriously - look at the pictures. The mudguard is held on with fucking zip ties! The bare fairings are dirty and covered in imperfections!

on one on the pictures it is evident that the nose piece is missaligned too.
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[HD]

I always loved the idea as pretty much the only reason why I like vfr's are for that sound. Dont really like the square back end and cant stand the headlights.

But Im 16
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[Digitalize]

I'm 17, looks shit.

Friends also 17, he owns an RVF, beautiful bikes, classic styling
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[warped one]

Is it me or is the mudguard on this pic, Slightly misaligned?

https://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/af136/jdmmodifications/CIMG38391024x768-1.jpg
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the mudguard isn't symmetrical, and the nose isn't straight
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[Billing]

We discussed this on the 400gb forum, conclusion was K-Con stuff is pretty shit, as seen their demo bike has cable ties holding the mudguard on.

One lad has gotten hold of a cheap set of rear plastics, and they need spacers to fit. Tyga stuff has really come along in recent years, and is widely regarded choice if you want modern looking fairings, they do an RC211V style fairing which is really good.
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[craigs23]

As mentioned, Tyga is better quality, but not to everyone's tastes. After I finished sorting a previous half-arsed Tyga job a couple of years ago, I realised that the fibreglass kit covered all the hard work I'd done. And caused too much attention, and didn't relate to the quality that lay beneath.

There is nothing good about that K-conversions kit whatsoever. The fact that you'd actually have to spend money to let them make your bike look sh*t is ridiculous.

[pits]

Mate has an VFR400 which he bought with a Tyga kit already on it, and the kit fits really well, complete arse to get it on and off the bike though, I love the original look of the VFR400, but I also like the Tyga kit, personally though stock VFR400 please.

[The Tot]

Wasn't there a bloke off here that ruined an NC29 with a K-conversions kit? Fahd or somebody? To be fair it looked VERY GASH. Why waste that money. People buy antiquated 400's because they want to relish in the late 80's, early 90's nostalgia. No point in trying to make a bike look like something it's not. If you want an RC211 clone, then get a 600RR or a Blade. If you want an RC30/45 clone, then NC30/35 it is... If you want the looks of an original blade but can't afford the insurance, prefer corner speed to top end, then the choice is obvious.

These things are made in south east asia, and I've seen plenty of kits like that in Indonesia... the mark up is ridiculous and their quality is shocking! Their ABS is probably made from recycled lego! And their fibreglass? Try those bags that they use for stuffing 10-20kgs of rice in!
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[N cee thirty]

there was a guy with white tyga kit on one of the aprilia forums i was on and it looked shite.
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[Blau Zedong]

[clancy]

the point of owning an old 400 like an nc30 is its classic styling and what it is. dont ruin it, if you dont like the look of the bike....buy a different bike.

you can buy original vfr fairings from honda for £500
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[clancy]

yeah they are amazing handling bikes, check my signature


and big_ham the £500 set arent original sets, there replacements but they are from honda. so there pretty much originals, better than most anyway
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[pinkyfloyd]

The only way to make an NC 30 better is to restore it so it looks like this.

https://www.visordown.com/review/images/products/fullsize/VFR400-NC30.jpg

Sure its square, sure its old looking but that was the charm. When this bike was made it was cutting edge and perfect and from where I'm sitting you cant improve on perfection.

What you have done is take an icon of the time and remove every piece of character the bike had. Might as well remove that single sided swing arm and place a lighter double on there. After all if your going to ruin it might as well do it properly.

Sorry but just my view and from reading the above seems to be everyone elses too.
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[Faisel]

Please just stop.

You are ruining what is a classic bike the VFR 400 NC 30, those years produced the lasts bikes that actually looked good and had exemplary engines to date (testament is their fine running after so many years).

What you are doing is desecrating an icon, turning the bike into something that looks just as boring and generic as every other modern bike but does not have the same performance.

An analogy of what you are doing:

You are pissing on the grave of "Michael Jackson", only to then dance on it and proclaim that "Jakwob/Chrispy's" dubstep remix of "Thriller" is better than Jackson's original.

Please just stop.

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