On my way home from work today, I noticed the exhaust note being a bit more growly than normal. Sure enough, upon inspection when I got home, the exhaust pipe is cracked. Teh suk. Shortly after getting the bike, I noticed that the exhaust can had been rubbing on the rear brake caliper, to the point …
In general the paint on the NC23 is in pretty good shape. I don’t know how old it is, but the blue and white is not an original scheme. However, it’s pretty clear that the bike went through a “severe event” at some point. The left-hand middle fairing is not an original piece, it’s thicker …
This is the second and final installment about the NC23 headlight retrofit project. In the first post, we compared the beams of the old headlight and the new projectors. Now we’ll see how it turned out. The final mounting of the projectors in the headlights involved making a mount to screw it in using JB …
After moving back to CA, I decided to get a motorcycle again. (I actually got two!) They are both 1990-era 400cc “grey bikes” that were never officially imported into the US, so quite hard to find. One is a 1988 Honda CBR400RR NC23 and the other a 1992 Honda VFR400R NC30. Owning a 20+ year-old …