High mileage vfr & been on 'the ring' ?

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I'm after a bike more suited to touring scotland this year and have come across this vfr:

https://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x13/fronterapics/hondavfr.jpg

Heres what the guy had to say about it:

[St0rmer66]

How much is it?
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[instigator]

If it's a grand, I'd say it's worth it.

That's based on my educated assumption that you can pick up a replacement vfr engine for £500 or slightly under. And fit it yourself too!

[Ghost]

Bear in mind it's had a fairly major off at some point in the past as well, judging by the paintjob.

The only reason someone would spray a bike all black with a few cheap stickers is if they'd sent it down the road.

And Rossi decals on a VFR further indicate the owner is a complete numpty who probably couldn't find his arse with both hands.

Avoid.

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[MattEMulsion]

130k???

That bike must be pretty tired all round...
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[dabigginger]

Is the engine cover paint supposed to look like that? It looks like someone threw paint at it...

https://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x13/fronterapics/vfr800/P3280053.jpg

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[Itchy]

130K isn't high miles for a VFR its a flagship pre 2003 bike (when Honda turned evil) and thus it will go to the moon and back twice as it is super heavily over engineered.
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[Al]

I have no idea what kind of miles VFR's can reach,
but I wouldn't really read into the fact that its been around the Nurburgring a couple of times. Its only 15 miles long and I doubt if he was going that crazy if he had to ride it back home to the UK.

Also I kind of expect that a bike thats done that many miles would have been dropped or slid down the road once or twice in its life time.
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[MattEMulsion]

[MaybeGuy]

id take it.
have a good listen for any knocks and stuff, and any bad stuff.

if it runs fine, theres no need for anything to go wrong, and if theres proof of the ''major service'' then your laughing.

with that sort of milage, you'll want to be looking for the shims being done 2 or 3 times, and other than that, nothing really.

buy new clocks with a lower milage
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Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

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Well i had my mate round tonight to check it over for me.
(he's a technician at kawasaki)
He said the engine sounds sweet as which he expected anyway.

Problems with it are: fork seals needing done (probably 'cos it's stood a while,fair weather bikers ) and head bearings need nipped up a bit.

It's hard to tell for sure as it could be the fork seal leaking down but it looks like the brake pipes are leaking from the banjo bolts.
It really does look like they all have stainless steel washers on them instead of copper ones so it could be that?.
But like i say it could just be the fork seals *fingers crossed* but no biggy either way.

EDIT:
Brake pipes weren't leaking and neither was the fork seals
It's just been covered everywhere with (i assume) muc-off.

So all that needs doing is the head bearings needing nipped a bit (10minute job)
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[MattEMulsion]

[lonner]

vfr's are fantastic bikes and if looked after oil and shim wise will be good for 100k+

this was 8yr old when i got it and superb

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Yup,
Been doing a lot of reading up on them and heard nothing but good things (even very high mileage models)

It's going to be a pleasure to ride round scotland on this year,considering last year i done it on my cb500
Noticed aswell that i dont have a main stand .That would have been handy.


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DRZ-400sm

[proximity]

How much did you get it for?

Mines got 50k on it and its sweeeet i love it. Need a louder can though to drown out the whine a bit (not to say i dont love my geared cams)
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[lonner]

[proximity]

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I swopped it for my slr650 which stood me £600.
Bargain me thinks

I didn't think the handling was too bad actually,for the first time in my life i have nearly lost the rear chicken strips without even trying
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DRZ-400sm

[proximity]

Shit bargain of the year that. The can alone would fetch 100 quid on egay. Have fun with it. Remove the airbox snorkel for a better intake noise And have a read about PAIR valves if your fuel economy goes crap.
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[Blue_SV650S]

deffo worth the £600 swap!!

Please FFS take those gash stickers off it though .. it really lets the bike down!!
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