Fzr400

[Morespeedvicar]

Hi, i just been for a trundle on my 3EN1 tonight, its still a great bike and handles well. If you like pottering about with old bikes or want to learn how to do it there a great bike to start with. Get it all serviced and enjoy your work when youve done it!
But if you just want to get a bike to thrash to death get a cheap R6, but id rather have my FZR (and me VFR) over some modern thing that doesnt like real pottering about in the real world at the speed limit cos they dont wake up till silly fast.
Cheers
Ian

[Kayla850]

Nope

It's a cheap bike. Lets say for sake of this disscussion it costs £500.
you'd need the R6 fairing complete, the rear panels complete, the saddle and pillion seat or cover, the lights front and back, the subframes and the screen ... possible cost £400 if your lucky. Then you need to fit it you might need to some welding skill or pay somebody to do it. Then you need a bit to fit over the hole by the saddle (cos the rear doesn't fit propperly). It looks odd though like somebody wearing clothes just a little to big.

So you pay another 500 to do the conversion, so now your bike is worth .... £550 if you can sell it, if you actually finish it.
A cheap R6 is £1200.

So as said before ... buy it, ride it, take your tests ride it a bit more and sell it.

Hello

I think it's one that was local to me, and was advertised for £400 on Gumtree (if it's the 1991 one I'm thinking of!) I thought it might have been a late registered 3EN2, in which case it'd have been a crime to f- about with the looks. It's a (very) late registered 3EN1, there was some cross over at the DVLA when they were importing them- you'll find 3EN1 registered after 3EN2s, and 3EN2s registered after 3TJs. My bike is an H-reg 3TJ, so your bike (J-reg) might have been registered after mine, or maybe the DVLA mixed up the 'import' date with the 'declared manufactured' date. It's not a big thing as long as the numbers on the bike match the numbers on the V5.

Any mods you make to the bike won't increase its value when you come to sell it, because people like to buy standard bikes, unless the mods have been done properly and are a known 'thing' that people do to that particular bike (like a 3TJ wheel/rear end in a 1WG for example) and even then they don't add much to the value of a bike.

If you hate your lovely little 400 that much, I'll buy it off you to save it from a fate worse than polished aluminium. You should just enjoy the bike and concentrate on getting through your test ok, then learn how to go round corners

[Blindingsun]

will rc45 fairings fit on an fzr 400?

hey kayla it's around the corner from me off gumtree aye,...

picking it up tomorrow..

I didn't really want to change it much I just don't like the rear lights and i don't like the tank shape.

other than that it's sound...

oh and P.S i can ride. Just never bothered to take my test =D

[Taggyd]

there's knowing how to ride, then learning how to go round corners on one of the best handling 400's!
I've got a few bits and pieces left from a broken bike so if you need owt let me know and i'll have a look see.
All bits going cheap to clear some space!

[Blindingsun]

well I'm defo missing rear indi's for a start =D

[Evilchicken0]

will rc45 fairings fit on an fzr 400?

Not the RC45 but the new Triumph street tripple's will.

[Blindingsun]

will rc45 fairings fit on an fzr 400?

Not the RC45 but the new Triumph street tripple's will.

what? the bellypan?

[Evilchicken0]

Do you know the propper way to lube the chain .... ???

[Blindingsun]

I've done bottom end bearing rebuilds. think I'll manage on lubing a chain thanks..

never dealt with Fzr's before, no need to treat me like a noob =D

[Taggyd]

indicators went a while back sorry!