Project NSR

A bloody age ago (curse of  too many bikes) I swapped the flywheel to advance my ignition. Then Mr money bags went and bought an HRC card... If you want one, don't waste your life and money hanging on for one on eBay. Go to Buyee.com  and you will find plenty for sale on Japan's Yahoo auction site. The website acts as a middle man and for a reasonable lump of cash you get a shiny HRC card, I got the older P-010 dry program card with no key as who wants to open their boot when in race mode? Two things are needed to make this work on your bike: A wire splice - Nice and easy Reprogram the key - Previously impossible but not so anymore! Wire splice In an ideal world this part shouldn't be needed as you bought the race wiring harness with your HRC card.  The idea that a convenient card swap can completely change the way your bike makes power is what attracted me (and many others) to this machine. However the fact that you need to change the entire wiring har

Everything looks better in Carbon fiber Well not exactly a correct statement as I have seen plenty of bikes ruined with carbon effect decals and the like but it is hard to deny that a good bit of carbon fiber here and there helps make things look pretty exotic. As it happens I decided to spank Jap4performance 's website before coming home so had lots of shiny carbon fiber bits to fit to my bike. Some of it is very complicated and well made by Tyga performance. Other bits are fairly straight forward but look substantially better than the original. There was only one panel I had to drill to get it to fit other than that they were all straight swaps. This one isn't too wordy as the pictures do the talking. The stock clutch cover is pretty cool as it is with it's Honda racing logo.  This will be staying in my kit box with the rest of the part removed. Clutch pressure plate looks like new after a quick clean. The Tyga cover looks great and w

The NSR came to me dressed like it had hurriedly jumped into the first thing it could find on the factory floor. The bike was supposed to be a Red white blue but had the forward fairing from a blue white red bike, a fiberglass mudguard and what bodywork it had was tatty. The bike was in need of a respray which left me the tough choice of "which colour?". After much procrastinating  I chose to stick with the Blue white red. This would require the wheels to be powder coated white to match but as per the rest of the bike they were in need of something regardless. Fairings I had been offered a good price on a respray but it was on the condition the shop was quiet to do the work and this was very slow coming. In the mean time I managed to get a full fairing set from xx-moto for just £350 sprayed in the factory blue white red. This wasn't something they originally offered but on describing what I wanted they were very helpful, sending photographs as things were

Water cooling is cool, if you are an engine, but what is uncool is manky old cooling hoses. Enter super cool blue (which is a cool colour) SAMCO cooling hoses! I had ordered a full SAMCO hose kit for the NSR with the HRC conversion front hose from JAP4performance along with some nice, shiny Tyga performance parts. The hoses were to arrive seperately decause the custom hose had to be made special but they proved to be very slow coming with the initial excuse being 'they had already sent one' changing to 'they hadn't made one yet'. This continued for a year before Gavin from Jap4Performance sent me a genuine HRC hose with the standard SAMCO kit as a good will gesture to tide me over till SAMCO pulled their fingers out. Changing hoses isn't rocket science: You just take a hose off and replace it with one of the same shape. If you haven't drained your coolant you might want to do that too. The new hoses don't just look good. The old hoses were sta