Bike World Dream Rides | Honda VFR750R RC30 Ridden 

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I remember looking at an original Z1 brand new in 1973. I think I was 18.

For a 750 it looks a nice manageable bike.

My dad got one way before I was born. He should've known I was coming, and kept it.

mmmm Gear driven camshafts.

buy a cheap rc36. i spank mine and cant blow it up

I got a silver vfr got it for £550 retirement project..ha back on road 3 months later 3 years ago immaculate put less than grand into it... carb clean, tyres exhaust hi level,service all new fluids new caliper seals and pads.Starts on the button rides great im 59 not as mental as i was back in the day but a long straight 120 no problems 😁

I had a 2003 VFR and in retrospect wish I had changed out the stock exhaust to get more of the great sound that engine made. And after the VTEC kicked in (yo) it became deeper and throatier.

@@mikejohnson5900 had a VTEC 2005, still prefer the 5th gen. The VTEC was a bit scary when being harsh on throttle in sharp curves 😂

You are soooo wrong. I have ridden an RC30 many times (brother had one for many years) The first gear a so tall it is like taking off in 2nd or 3rd on most other bikes. So you are bogging on tight corners.. 2nd, the gears are so close depending on the roads its annoying as you shifting much more frequently. 3rd compared to twins I.E. Ducati's etc.. If you do a group ride as a typical pace you can't keep pace unless you jump into high rev's with almost any Ducati/twin you have much much more torque with no having to hit 7K RPM to keep up. Even a 900SS has much better torque for a group ride. 4th-One piece fairing ver sketchy to remove without cracking it + nighmire to clean carbs etc... Is it a sexy fun to ride bike, yes on the perfect roads at the pace you pick it is absolutely euphoric, but on 90% of the street rides you might go on its not really designed for.

@@markr5132 I have not had the same experience as you, and perhaps the few rides I had were on better roads and circuits, better suited to the strengths of the RC30. But on long flowing mountain passes (where there are few really tight corners), which are typical of the sorts of rides we have in South Africa, it was simply stunning, and more than capable of not just keeping up with, but leaving the much more modern superbikes in its wake. Yes, 1st is very high, but once rolling on flowing roads that becomes a strength. I realise too, that as I have been in a wheelchair for 23 years now, (although my memories of those rides seem like yesterday, as they were such fun), I am comparing it to superbikes of that era (end of the 90’s), and I now realise some present riders will not have even been born, let alone riding at that time! So please take my comment with that in mind. I used to race vintage and historic bikes, but the few rides on the RC30 stand head and shoulders above anthing else built (in the last century!). I have absolutely no knowledge of bikes since 2000! So you are right; I am wrong now. But I was once right!!

we never really do grow up....now do we? 😁

The pit stop was most amusing.

I had the h1 ..bought it on the dole!! never used it sold it...what a mistake...

I own an 86 with supertrapps that I just bought from a buddy a couple months ago… Couldn’t be the same bike?? 🤪

Makes you want to take a long one in the throat too?

Just helping a mate finish building one, alongside a pair of 1000R's... Super excited for a ride when they're up and running.

Haha me too, have the Tamiya RC30 and NR750 kits still boxed, might get to make them one day 😮

To really make you sick, I keep the RC30 brochure I got from the NEC show in 1987 in the box with my unmade Tamiya RC30 kit!

You mean 45 surely.

The RC30 had 17"front and 18" rear. The RC45 had 16" front and 17" rear.

They’ve already done the RC45, 9 months ago. Here, fill ya boots 😂 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MwLDK-ozXeI.html