This is a picture of a Honda RVF400RR - my Honda RVF400RR!
I've finally got round to putting some pictures onto this page, after a couple of years of saying I would!

My RVF has been derestricted by fitting an M-Max power box which bypasses the advance/retard limiter, a Sansei aluminium (race) exhaust and the bike has also been re-jetted to cope with the extra fuel requirements of these modifications. The bike hasn't been dyno-tested, but it does go off the clocks (past an indicated 200kph) and round underneath the "K/P/H" marker at an estimated 145mph! This, of course, is on a testing track :-)

I've just had a pair of Bridgestone Battlax BT-010 tyres fitted which are the replacement for the BT56 tyres. These have been superb so far and feel much more grippy than the BT56s I had on the bike previously.

26/12/00
The bike is now stored inside the house while we go off snowboarding in France for two weeks as it's far more secure. I hope it doesn't leak or drip oil onto the carpet! See the pictures below...

03/08/01
It's been all go this week, as lots of parts I've had on order all turn up at once. The carbon-fibre yoke protector (from Busters) turned up, but didn't have a hole for the Honda logo to show through, so I modified it by cutting out the right shape for the logo to show through.

Secondly, I've repacked the end-can because when I took it off to give it a good polish, I noticed that a couple of rivets were missing, so I decided to pull it all apart! The can came apart easy enough after drilling out all the rivets, but it was quite a mess inside. I removed the burnt/coked up wadding (approx. half in thickness) and put it all back together. My new rivet gun (Stanley, £14.99 from B&Q) did a sterling job with 4mm rivets and it looks better than it was before. The sound is nothing short of awesome - not too loud but much, much deeper lower down.

Finally my single-seat unit turned up from Pyramid Plastics after waiting for a month, although they did tell me this when I ordered. It was £49.62 in total, but doesn't come with the mounts so I'll take the ones off the seat for now until I can find a scrap seat to get the bits from. It's made of fibreglass and came with a black finish, so I've painted it white and bought some matt-black vinyl sticky sheet that matches the seat unit from the local sign makers, which only cost me a couple of quid for a metre square!

24/08/01
Just back from a fantastic track-day at Snetterton, courtesy of 100% Bikes. Excellent fun throwing the little RVF rounds the corners, even if I didn't manage to keep up with the bigger bikes down the straights! Plenty of knee-down action round nearly all the corners and lots of tyre blistering due to the very hot weather on the day. Top stuff, can't wait to do it again. See the pics below (more to follow) - I look quite professional!

02/12/01 Updated!
The RVF is now For Sale if you want the chance to own this machine. I've also just managed to get hold of an ART Carbon exhaust for it as well, so you now get the choice of two end-cans if you buy it - the Sansei Aluminium and the ART Carbon.

10/01/02
The RVF has now been sold and the next bike awaits ... a Ducati 748S!

Photo Gallery - click image to view
Left-hand side	Left-hand side	Tail unit	Right-hand side	Right-hand side
Clocks and yoke	Bike at home!	Bike at home!	Me at Snetterton	Me at Snetterton
Peeling Tyres	Ready to Race	They're Off!	Me in the Pits	Unpainted single seat
ART Carbon Can

Want to know more? Have a look at the RVF400 (NC35)'s big brother, the RVF750 (RC45) at the Castrol-Honda Superbike Team web site.

• James' RVF Pages - an RVF owner in Cyprus with lots of excellent pictures, news and plenty of modifications.
• Steve Birring's Pages - includes how to derestrict your RVF400 the easy way and without spending any money!
• Haynes VFR/RVF400 Manual at Amazon.co.uk - the book every VFR and RVF shouldn't be without.

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