not a vfr but....

Sweet! Congratulations on your new bike! When should I come over and take her for a ride? I really need a vacation and Hawaii is one of my favorite places to visit. Of course you'll need some time to get her fixed up so just let me know.:smile:

For the record, I am very jealous. One of these was for sale here in CA a little while ago in roughly the same condition and it was going for $2,800.00! (non operable). Another one was in slightly better shape and was going for $3,500.00 (operable and with small mods). IMO, You got a steal my friend!

 

1K for a Hawk!!!!!!!!!!!! You lucky bastage........

Yeah, I had to.............................arty2:

 

Hey we already discussed this picture situation! I didnt pick it up yet...my friend just paid the man and took the keys and title and what not lol haha Ill get you your pictures!

 

A good friend of mine was able to borrow motorcycle ramps and a big pickup truck and we are picking the Hawk up tomorrow! Pics to come!

 

That's awesome! Great find and good luck on the restoration.

Cheers!

 

pictures as promised

Definitely needs some work on the rust and corrosion..Any Ideas? My friend got me a can of "Never Dull" Which is already working a little on the chrome parts - But im open to any other suggestions. Thanks!

 

Far Out!!! Man you guys have some serious corrosion problems, and I thought Florida was bad...There are other people that will chime in here, but if I were you I would take those covers off and wet sand them with maybe 600 grit? What ever cuts the porosity corrosion off basically without gouging up the metal. Once you do that maybe you could clear coat it again? I am spoiled as I am not too close to the ocean and my bikes are always garaged, if I leave them outside they are covered with a bike cover.

Should ditch that pipe and get a proper two into one aftermarket set-up...I had a two brothers which was loud as frick! Maybe you could get a pipe off Ebay that was taken off years ago. Good thing about older bikes is the great magnitude of parts floating around. I got a pair of stock pipes at a flea market for my bike that were brand new take offs that replaced my rashed up ones. They were 15 bucks amazing deal!!!..

 

That girl looks pretty good!! I have to agree with rider, you're gonna need something more abrasive for the serious corrosion. 3M scuff pads will work, as will steel wool. Use your discresion as to how rough you want the aluminum to turn out as the rougher the abrasive you start with the more you'll have to clean up to get it back shiny. Or you could just take off the cases, media blast em and then have them powdercoated. Many different options and directions you can go with that depending on your taste, wallet, and time. There are many different chemicals on the market to remove corrosion too, but most of them will end up striping ALL the finish off the cases, frame, etc.

Either way, I say you stole that bike and I'm a wee bit jealous, been wanting to score one of those myself for a while.

 

Cool bike, but ditch the disk lock!

 

ok 3m scuff pads and steel wool...I will be looking into this stuff. I got the bike undressed today and drained that old 4 years old gas - looked like some pale ass piss - cloudy yellow. I just picked up my son today and will have him for a few days so I will do some cleaning up then when he goes back with his mom im thinking about getting down on them carbs. I got some tutorials and forum posts. I feel pretty confident about it. I want to do that first, then get a battery and see if it will start. Then eventually worry about the new chain, tires, exhaust, and getting her all shined.

As far as the disc lock I use one on my vfr now - only when leaving it in my condo complex when im gone and I never forget about it! But youre right - if someone wanted to take it, it wouldnt hold them back.

 

Hey good call REG, good cheap trick there, I forgot about the foil trick. Good cheap and fast way to get of the heavy stuff.

As for the disc lock, I stopped using mine a while ago cause I had the same mentality that they would take it if they really wanted it. In some recent reading I found out that putting a disc lock on the REAR disc would actually be a better deterrent as it is much harder to remove the rear rotor quickly. Thereby making the disc lock far more functional of a deterrent to theives. Allthough, I'd think you'd (or at least I would) be more likely to forget about the disc lock on the back and ditch it as a result. Never ditched mine with the lock on the front, but I allways used the traffic orange tether/reminder with mine too.

 

Ill try that foil and water trick..But really Im considering this two brothers setup one of you guys mentioned - so that would leave a lot less rust to worry about. It would mostly just be corrosion on the engine and s few other parts. Took some never dull to the levers today and it works pretty good for just hand power. I was also considering taking off the sub frame and sanding the tiny rust spots off that then re-spraying it with the similar gray/silver it already is. Ive been looking closely at everything attached to it and taking some pics so I can disassemble it. This is my first project so im really just slowly trying to build up confidence in taking things apart lol

 

I thought this would be a good place to post this...1988 Honda Hawk GT -- NT650 Runs Excellent!
Unfortunately I am on a "spending freeze", so I'm out, anyone else interested?