Vintage Sportbike Timelapse Restoration - Yamaha FZR 1000 

Yep, I had a 88 FZR1000... rebuilt it with a 750 bottom end making a 911cc machine, had it it Superbike magazine ridden by the late Sonic against a YZF 750 with an exup motor in it in about 94. Loved it until it tried to kill me.

@@jamest5149 Cool, a destroked 1000 I bet it reved up quick!

Exactly.

Ow01 here I feel your pain

You're still around man.. Life is right here right now. Right where you at. Jump on that bike and go my good sir!

theres an '89 sleeping in dust at my local dealer... less than 3k miles and mint condition, tucked away in the back waiting for me to rescue it. wish me luck!

I crashed one on a race. Bloody tankslap worsened by bad road. But bike is fine, only needed new forks, triple clamps and engine side cover(idler gear side)

FZR1000(3GM) was take me to over 250km world .

How was it?

@@proelitjump1355 I owned the FZR 1000 back when I was 17 years old, this was back in 1992. The bike had so much power and really stable on high speeds. I owned the bike for 4 years.

Thanks man :) they do that time indeed, and money... :P

The Bike of the 80's!

The GSX-R1100 is about 2x the price of an FZR1000 where I live in equal condition. Is it really the 'cult' factor? I dig both and would love to get an FZR after I finish my VT1100 rebuild.

@@Nightingale1887 same everywhere the gixer was and still is a cult bike and holds great value .FZR great bike too and your right it can be bought much cheaper. 👍👍

I was absolutely CRAZY about the first couple of years GSXRs. Wanted one SO freaking bad but couldn't afford it. Bought an FZ700 instead. Never felt I had a lesser bike after that. It was one hell of a motorcycle. Still look at them once in awhile.

More like 105 hp stock, but yeah they were good bikes.

Any tick tick noises

Nice that was my first bike too

RD350 , Fzr 600 😉

@@alexandert696 Nope!

@@fredz6 Good taste!

Where do you live? The US seems to have an inexhaustible supply of mint 80s bikes, FZR1000 included.

This is pure art !

@@andreqwerty123 it really is

Vintage, as a general rule of thumb, is older than 30 years. This bike just scrapes in. I wouldn't have considered this bike vintage at first glance either. Classic? Yes. Vintage? Only technically.

@@James_Sovereign That works for me!

Hows it coming along? I'm restoring an 87 FZR1000.

Its interesting how the twin light style came about, in the early to mid 80s the race replica craze was about to kick off big time. Racing was big, in particular endurance racing, Endurance races quite often go into the night or even 24 hrs, so the bikes need lights, most endurance racers had a single headlight mounted to the left or right of center line. When the Japanese factories started making race replicas, they used the endurance racer bikes for styling cues. They would have copied the single offset headlight, BUT most countries had rules and regulations about headlights and in a lot of places rules said they had to be in the middle or symmetrical. So they went with symmetrical double lights. :-)

no he did not

FZR750? Or the FZ750R?