Need a postage friend for a spare part from France who wont post to the UK

[Laverdaroo]

Hello all, I have a desperste plea for somebody to take delivery of a center stand for one of my other bikes. The business is in france but wont post to the UK, is there anybody in France on the forum willing to accept delivery and forward to me? There's only two for sale the world that I can find as they were an optional extra on this model. I need to act ASAP as the watchers are growing if anybody  is willing to help on this most vital issue (as I'm sure you can appeciate) Proper unicorn plop thios one.

fingers crossed

RSVP

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

I sold a part to a member here who lived in France, ATM can't find the name as I have deleted a lot of my old PMs.
I do some searching later today  and let you know if I can find the user name.

[AshimotoK0]

How about this member .. worth a PM maybe ?

https://www.sohc.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=15723

[Laverdaroo]

Cheers you two, I have another avenue I’m praying at the min through Bristol Badger with the 759 chop, but that’s a great shout Ash, Ted


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[Laverdaroo]

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[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Just an update, I've been searching my PayPal account - I can't belive how many odd bits I've sold or given away (postage only) in the last four years.

It's really bugging me that I can't remember what the part was I posted out even though I completed a customs declaration form. I'm hoping it will come back to me.

I'll keep digging and racking my memory.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Remembered the part it was a 550 steering column it was member  alexdecker wrong country though he lives in Denmark......sorry Roo.

Will they post to Denmark it's in the EU so might be worth a PM to Alex.

[Rozabikes Tim]

Shame Roo we would normally be over at our place half term but family illness means we aint going.

[Laverdaroo]

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[Laverdaroo]

Ok, now sorted,
a pal called me off here and he's over there now, travelling back next week, he's gonna pick it up and bring it home with him.

Thanks to all concerned for the replies, you're a top bunch. I haven't seen  this stand for sale before in such good nick and back in the day they weren't standard and only fitted from the parts book if requested. Nobody did and those bikes that have filtered down have had their's broken and or removed so they are super rare. This one is brand new old stock so a minter and a bit of a unicorn. It doesnt help that the bike was only made for three year so you can understand the rarety. It also means I now can do my fiddling a great deal easier, wheels, maintenance etc better for a 240kg bike.

Thanks again everyone, superb response.




Bought a week ago off the Bay of Fleas, 31K, full stamped honda service book by honda bar one, new 'Burton' fork internals, new rear shock (YSS), new stainless high lift conical headers and a period Remus twin outlet pipe fitted. New boots slid on, (Bridgestone so Im gritting my teeth a bit) put on 200 miles ago before I bought it. Serviced filters, fluids and serviced in September also
Proper swiss watch, I ran it home from wales with Multiman Tim and his lad on his 600 for a run out. I knew they were good but it was the one I never had, shes' an  absolute babe, starts with just a whiff of choke and is awesome on the road, reallypositive, rock solid on its side and quick for an old girl. AWESOME sound track as an additional extra, I defy anyone to  say gear driven cams are a bad sound! The  soundtrack is simply encourageable and a proper grin inducer.

To that end, I've christened her 'Betty' with reference to Betty Grable as, and I quote, 'She's got some legs'


Bad points:-

The PO was terribly proud of the fact that he'd fitted new braided lines both front and back and a new line to the hydrolic clutch. Sadly he chose orange 
He also said they were the best brakes he has ever had on a bike and blah blah. Well all i can say is he must have ridden some proper donkeys as the fronts are like an on off swith with no progression, feel or power with a two stage lever action

They never had good brakes when new and only a twin pot double set up on sliders at the front but these are terrible.

What doesnt help is the rear being super hard and locks up at a whiff so they're getting changed and bless him, he's got one of the brake lines and the clutch line mixed up so the NS front line is ablut 6" too long (to allow the distance to the clutch)
Hes welded a big blob to the side stand as it has one offa later 1994 on it and its hard to reach the tip to get it down using your boot. It looks vile so Ive an original coming from Australia, again NOS so not doing badly as yet.
 Just some extra gubbins to buy to complete tha centre stand hardware but sorting those in the next week or so....fingers crossed.
Few chips in the paint at the front but no dents, all OE panels, everything works, one decal missing on the tail but an interesting colour, it almost has a flip flop pearl about it.

You can just make out the grey circles he's fitted to the sides and rear so I have to investigate those but all in all a fantabulous buy and an unmolested  example that with a bit of a tickle should be bob on. £800, why wouldnt you?
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Thanks agai to all who've PM'd and posted, you lot are ace

[Laverda Dave]

Well, everyday is a school day Roo, I thought a centre stand was fitted as standard to the VFR . My800Fi has one and I dont remember paying extra for it but maybe it became a standard fitment with the 800? 
The Remus can looks very smart, I had a Remus fitted to my old Viffer, great sound when wound up. You can't beat that beautiful cam gear drive sound and exhaust note, very addictive. You have a bargain there with Betty
As for France, I'd love to be over there now just to get out of this rain!
Enjoy the USA, are you going for the fishing/parts finding again?

[Laverdaroo]

Yeah my pal has twisted some vertibrae as a consequence of falling over and brewaking his ankle and femur the daft sod so as its harvest time out there for teh carp, Ive 123 ponds to organise drain downs and netting, about 750,000 show quality Koi.

No pressure then

Im going to have a bit of a parts search, I might as well and it's a day out, I've already contacted my scrap bloke out there and hes sending me a key to get in as he'll be shut down for two weeks during when i can get a chance to get to him. inbetween netting etc...........thats trustr for you eh? Lovely fella he said to just leave him some cash and the key when im done .

Yeah, the RC36 has two flavours, this one whuch is refered to as teh RC36-1 and the later one from 1994-97 pre 800Fi was the RC36-2
The center stand was an additional extra in the brochure for the 36-1's and then standard after that on the 36-2's moving on. Who'd have thopught they would sell them like that, personally I love a center stand and been searching and searching for one this last ten days only to find only two. On all the forums they are heavily sought after as i can only presume that they werent aware of them being so hard to buy from a limited run, on few bikes just built over three years and got caught out also.

At least we're getting there, I reckon with the brakes at the front, lines, pads and a bit of faff, I should have her mechanically spot on by Feb once I've finished playing fish for the year. Budget? £400, all in I reckon minus any paint etc.......cheap bike. Just saw one with double the miles, older and in crap nick go for £2199, i think ive done well here, its a hell of a lot of bike for what should be £1,200 ish once done.

She's a belter Dave, just rides like a new bike, rock solid, dead predictable, responsive, just awful stoppers

[Johnny4428]

Nice one Roo! No knowledge on these models at all but looks a nice steed, quite a lot of bike for the money. And you’ve got your centre stand sourced too! 👍 You’ll soon have it maintained and serviced to your standard. Happy days!

[K2-K6]

You're right Roo, those V4 sound so nice and bet the pipe really enhances that too.

The brakes, I think you'd get good odds on the caliper seal grooves being properly gummed and holding aluminium corrosion to give that effect.

You'd normally feel  braided lines only under more extreme load and not initial touch.

If gummed, the seals don't retract the pistons when released and make the lever travel short with very wooden progression.  That'll also polish the pads like a French polished piece of Chipendale furniture, giving naff all overall bite when you get into them with more leverage.
Likely they'll be dragging slightly in constant too tight contact, produces heat all the time and gives a right old polish to friction surface of pads.

A full strip out and clean of the seal etc makes a huge difference. Using silicone grease to reassemble keeps them particularly on point afterwards.