restoring & adding a modern touch to a 86 vf500

hows yours coming along?

 

17" wheel conversion

I have a good jump on it. The front wheel is ready to go, new bearings & spacers (I am using CBR600F rims) - the rear wheel is getting there.

I have the rear brake carrier finished (I am using a Brembo caliper) and the CBR sprocket carrier is being machined.

An interesting side note to the rear wheel - after much measuring, I found the outmost spacer surface on the sprocket side - to the wheel's centerline - to be 2mm more than from the outmost surface of the brake carrier. I am not sure if this is a tolerance issue but I will be keeping as is. I have read that British bikes, back in the day, ran with up to a 1/4" rear wheel offset so I guess 2mm (about 1/16") is not that big of a deal.

I look forward to seeing a photo of the custom front caliper carriers you are making for the larger F/F2 rotors!

 

Lookin good Matt.....but get some stands guy!

 

oh yes i need one bad!!

 

I'm waiting for the post that says he has matching wheel colors

 

I plan on redoing the front of my bike but I've just been waiting on a stand that lifts the front of the bike from the steering area

 

sorry guys i have nothing new to report right now things have slowed down to a crawl at the moment but the F2 wheel, after market coils carb swap and a few other things will be under way shortly, then i'll be able to give ya'll a ride report on how those new forks work out

 

You need to hurry up! Once you get those forks on your bike I'll have a reason to one-up you!

 

haha you can never beat me

 

howdy folks long time no talk or see, heres the update got the 85 carbs off to billy carr spoke with him today he's saying 10 more days untill i have them (sweet!) got the f2 front from jamie order my new tires (BT016's front & rear 150/60/17 & 120/60/17) and just ordered some aaccel coils for the bike as well! sorry for the lack of pictures my camera died on me but i will have some pictures of all the mods up very soon!



side note: i am looking to buy a corbin seat for the 500 if any one has a nicely used corbin seat please let me know thank you

 

anything new?

 

I do believe there is......

 

yes sir, sorry for the lack of photos they will be coming soon. i've got the front wheel mounted the carbs should be here this week and so on i will update everyone with some photos this week

 

heres some pictures of how its coming along. the accel coils take the car style spark plugs so no more screw style

 

hey...at least you have the same color wheels now........

 

So did you eliminate tthe CDI boxes?

 

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/mcy/1722617517.html

IF I can talk this guy down to $350-400 on the bike I'll sell you that corbin cheap..

 

Thank you for the post. It is nice to see the F2 wheel up front.

It is a bit hard to tell in the photos - were you able to work out the custom brake caliper mounts to allow you to install the larger diameter rotors?

Please keep us posted on the coil upgrade - looks interesting.

 

no didnt eliminate the CDI boxes.. i've done some home work and found the the non cdi coils not pull as much ohms as cdi coils.

 

hell yea dude let me know man