Free 1986 Honda VFR 750 F! Can we get it to run and ride after 7 years outside?
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- I'm on holiday in Belgium, but clearly I need a holiday project!
Can we get this free 1986 VFR 750 F to run and ride?
#classicbikes #willitrun #honda #vfr
The level of engineering that Honda pulled from mid- late eighties to early nineties was pretty much unmatched. Those of us that owned a Honda from those years can testify to this. Finding an unmolested, bone stock bike like that, with stock exhausts, indicators, etc., is even more astonishing. Thanks for the video!
That’s a fact them and Yamaha, always innovators
Have owned and ridden many many bikes since I was about 10 years old...Only one bike I still cry over and that was my pearl white VFR 750. Put about 150k miles in it before I crashed it. In my opinion the best bike ever built. The day Honda brings back the VFR, I am buying! It is said, no matter the price you pay for a VFR, it is worth twice as much.
The legend lives on
Why am I not surprised :) It is a Honda after all..I've had 4 VFRs so far, they were all excellent, the last one i sold with 232 000KMs..
That is what KTM and Ducati can only dream about..
Currently at 45k mi on my rc24, has started making some top end noise, but I know it'll still happily keep kicking to 100k lol
I recently added a 1991 VFR750 RC36 to my small collection.. It’s white, 14k miles, and all original..including stand fairing, exhaust and seat cowl.
Never owned one before.. the closest I ever got was owning a VF400F way back in 1990..
Honda VFR’s are built different.. compared to my other bikes, everything feels quality
Congratulations, I got a black one myself from the same year. Truly admirable machines :))))))))))))
Of course it will run its a VFR! 😁
Lot of budget went into developing/engineering that era of VFR to erase the embarrassment of the earlier chain driven cam VF 750s eating their cam lobes. The result is a wonderful testament to 80's Honda engineering.
My Hoda VFR 750 F 37(!) years old, and works perfectly! 🙂
VRFs are just fantastic .....
Can’t wait to see the progress and how you get it back to the UK. Love that colour with the black exhausts
Mine ran after 21 years lying in a hedge, yours will be golden 😁 Love this bike, good luck with the resto!
I've had a few bikes, they have one thing in-common all Honda's. It might sound boring but they jusr work, and if i'm covering any sort of distance its always reassuring it will make it back.
Honda for life.
Have had nearly all hondas since I was a kid, haven't had a single one fail
@CharredSteak Likewise...Started on CD 200, MTX 50cc...around 1986/7 Those bikes got thrashed, then was handed over to my younger brother, who thrashed them, then used for University transport, first jobs etc. Crashed them, slid them, revved them, rode pillion on them...They just never quit. Sold them in running condition 20 years later. Honda VFR 750 (best bike ever built) did 240 000 km before crashed. Same with all my Hondas over the years. And they are not boring. You get to love your Hondas, they make lasting memories. Currently on a Honda and my next bike will be a Honda.
@truthandjustice6838 spot on, well said 😊👌
I'm STILL driving my VFR400 NC30... it's 33 years old! Show me a bike built today that will still be running perfectly in 33 years time...
As you say, a testament to the engineering of the VFR. Honda splashed a lot of cash on the VFR: the old saying was "whatever you paid for it , it was worth twice that". I've still got a late 750 I bought 23 years ago.
I've always been fond of the HONDA VFR750, right from the beginning. I remember reading eagerly the first test in 'Motorrijder'. Love at first sight, it was, especially the blonde one - white. ;-) Now, as a 56-year old, I've got my own 1996 in black - my preference changed from blonde to black meantime. I live not so far away from Leuven, where this neglected beauty has been stading on a pedestal outside Moto OUlet for so many years. I was thinking of asking wether it was for sale, or not, but you got to it first. Congratulations. Hope to see it live again, and be ridden.
Great to hear from someone who knows the bike!
This is what makes a Honda, a Honda
That was almost as easy as your average spring start up! Nice.
Had the same color 87 VFR but a 700cc version in the US in the late 80's.. Bullet Proof!
Excellent, always wanted a 750 VFR.
for every honda-lovers...the bike worked after 7 years after being in the exterior not because it's a honda...it's because technology of the 80's is flawless...so Suzuki, Honda, Kawasaki and Yamaha from this decade are pretty much the same.
I totally agree with you
Good work boys.
That’s pretty awesome
Thanks, I appreciate it 🙂
That was bloody impressive. What an engine the V4 is?
Not my kind of bike, but an incredible testimony to Honda engineering and design. Well done you fellows👍. Can we see a bit more on your LDT bike now?😆
Haven't done anything on the Dalesman in a while, I ought to enter something!
@@whatsintheworkshop4478 yes please! That would be great watching. Les
I’ve seen bikes that have been garaged for a couple of years cause more trouble than this….
I had that exact model. A wonderful bike except for the headlight ! it was not safe to do more than 30 mph at night!
Definitely got a spark there! Like looking for a gas leak with a match :)
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Honda’s best effort..
lol the flames funny
We certainly found it had spark 😆
What a terrible thing to do to a VfR!
Nice one lovely bike, i watched this video on my big TV UA-cam. My best wishes to you from the Philippines ❤️💪👍🙂😉😀😁🏁🛺🏍️🐑🇵🇭🏴
The guy on the front should have grabbed the front wheel and lifted it up right away then would have came down first thing
Brilliant
How much did it cost? I'd sure love to make a find like that!
I had same bike - the gear driven cam failed! The one part you wouldnt expect to go wrong...
the early ones were famous for it ....................
What bit failed ?.
@@raymondo162 the early what? The VF was famous for eating cams, but the VFR wasn't.
@@paultanton4307 theres a idler gear cassette between the crank and cam. the bearing failed and it sounded terrible. I stopped and had it recovered...
@@adeypop1 Yes ive seen the cassette arrangement and the bearings only in pictures,it must have been a rare failure.
Poor thing, left outside like that!
Nice job, isn't it best to flush and change fluids before starting an old bike?
The oil was nice and clean, but we did change it as soon as we had run it up, just didn't record it 🙂
are you from belgium? the people in this video taking the bike of the box talk dutch.
He's not, I am. He was here on holiday. So yes, you were hearing both Flemish and English. This happened in the area of Leuven
Now I know what the F stands for “Fire”
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didn't they have a single sided swing arm once?
The next model, the RC36 did indeed.
Crap way to treat a gd bike wtf were they thinking r they worth 3p
Brake Clean? Are you nuts? Can’t you get starting fluid in your country? You’re flushing lubricant out of the top end. Crazy.
having put oil into the bores before starting, I'm sure the brake cleaner wouldn't have had too much negative effect. it would have been burned off almost immediately..
On
"Bike was standing outside during 7 years, with wind, rain, snow, cold...but it started easy-peasy with no carbs cleaning, nothing, but a screwdriver as key".
Yeah. I 'm not buying that.
You don't need to buy it. But it is the truth, we put a battery on it, brake cleaner in the carbs, and she fired up. Then some fuel with 2 stroke, and she stayed running. She did keep leaking from one carb but even that cleared up after a while. It was a really pleasing bike to work on because it all just did what it was supposed to do. It is all in working order now. As I know the previous owner, I asked the history. It was serviced before it was put on the plinth, and it was only put on the plinth as the owner had more bikes than he had space for. Strange, but true.
What can I say, I'm a lucky man!
when honda built good bikes!.......now ,they are shit.