Just discovered this site through Facebook
Last night I went to pick up my latest project from darkest Cheshire, a 1985 VF1000f. It will need a healthy amount of work to get back on the road again but after only paying Ā£400 I didnāt expect too much.
Iāve got a little experience with the VF range having previously owned a VF1000r about twenty years ago and I also built a Vf750f Freddie Spencer rep a couple of years back which I still own alongside a TRX850 Sarron rep and a BMW R1100sā¦
The poor VF will have to languish in the back of the van till the weekend until I get chance to clear a bit of space in the garage so I can strip it and see whats what
It wonāt be a quick rebuild but I intend to get it up and running on a bit of a shoestring budgetā¦wish me luck.
Cheers
Rich
hi cakeman,
welcome to the forum, good luck with the vf, im glad theres someone else out there who thinks it cool to drive around for a week or two with a vf for company in the back of the vanā¦note to myself āi need more garage spaceā
Cheersā¦ After a very quick inspection (in the back of the van lol) the main parts that need addressing (apart from cosmetics) appear to be the fairing frame, that for some strange reason has been hacked about, and the silencers are well and truly shot, Iāll have to wait until I have a bit more space to strip it and see what state the cams are inā¦fingers crossed.
Hereās hoping Iāll try and dig out a picture of my vf750 Freddie Spencer replica I built a couple of years ago that had a feature in Practical Sportsbike magā¦ Hereās a pic of last years project, my TRX850 Sarron Replica.
Richard, you can be justifiably proud of your TRX and VF750, they look superb. The way I look at the VFās is that its only a matter of time before the āClassicā brigade ( or sheep if you like) realise that the VF 1000ās and VF500ās are still sitting at their ābike valueā and not yet been inflated to āinvestmentā status - whatever that means. The 750 has gone already even though arguably that model was what started the VF slide from favour all those years ago. I used to buy CX500ās for a couple of hundred pounds with people looking at me sideways as I did. Now of course they have become collectable even though nothing has changed about them.
Keep it up fella.
Marmite
Iāll try and dig out a picture of my vf750 Freddie Spencer replica I built a couple of years ago that had a feature in Practical Sportsbike magā¦ Hereās a pic of last years project, my TRX850 Sarron Replica.
