How do all,
long time lurker here who has just become a new owner.
While I have always preferred the looks of the original VF1000 model, I’ve just bought an 87 VF1000FE.
Having seen some of the jobs where modern running gear has been grafter onto a VF1, I’ve always wanted to do something similar.
Then a few years ago, I was at a track day and saw a CBX1000 with a CB1300 front end and a monoshocked rear, and it looked the dog’s.
So I thought the same should be possible for the VF.
However, a job, a wife, small kids, a house, a garden and lots of other things that take up one’s attention left me looking at classifieds and not much else.
Then I spotted something that I couldn’t ignore.
It was a VF1 that was the personal machine of a dealer in Germany who used it to showcase stuff he was doing at the time in restorations.
It is completely rebuilt, from polished, balanced crank, matched pistons (oversize) and rods, nitrided cams and a top end oiling kit, down to Wilbers suspension all round and high precision bearings in every application.
It also has 1000R tail lights set in a single seat set up that actually makes the back end look very nice, even though I prefer the look of the original model. The single seat actually works really well and improves the lines over the standard FE.
My logic is that it is probably the best ‘jump on and ride’ VF1000 available to me, but even with everything he has done to it, it does not preclude me doing the modern running gear job later, should I so desire.
Best of all is, it was cheap for what was done to it, and next year, even counts for classic tax and insurance.
Also, it was bought by this guy from the original, from new owner, so I also have its complete history - no small thing with a three decade bike.
It took a bit of organising to get it from Germany to Ireland, but it should be arriving here in about a week.
I cannot wait.
I’ll post some proper pics when it arrives.
A