Honda RVF750R (RC45)

[pasmith73]

I took a ride out to Rye at the weekend and took a few pictures whilst there. I took a photo of a lovely-looking Honda RC45 that was parked-up near my bike. Just been reading about them on tinterweb and it seems only 200 were ever made! Is that true? Was the bike I saw really one of only 200?

[Dare2Fail]

200 seems very, VERY low.

[anonymous-user]

Definitely on my dream bike list. I know the RC30 was a more successful track bike, but there's just something about the RC45 i love. Must be all those weekends as a teenager spent watching Dunlop, Slight, Edwards, Kocinsky (and a brief Foggy cameo of course) et al thrashing those lovely Castrol bikes around the roads and tracks of the world.

[Dare2Fail]

Done some digging and the 200 figure comes from the RC45 wiki page. A post by someone who seems pretty knowledgable states that in total 186 were brought into the UK and just under 1000 were produced in total (including race bikes).

[UnluckyTimmeh]

Well according to this http://howmanyleft.co.uk/vehicle/honda_rvf_750 you were standing next to one of 11 currently taxed on our roads.

How many left is supposed to be a very good source too

[bob1179]

I wouldn't mind one of those.

Stunning looking bike.

[bogie]

lovely bike...and in many collections, stashed away as investments no doubt...hence only 11 of them taxed

[UnluckyTimmeh]

bogie said:

lovely bike...and in many collections, stashed away as investments no doubt...hence only 11 of them taxed

24 sorn'd I.e. in storage/collections/museums.

[Fleegle]

UnluckyTimmeh said:

Well according to this http://howmanyleft.co.uk/vehicle/honda_rvf_750 you were standing next to one of 11 currently taxed on our roads.

How many left is supposed to be a very good source too

That's a great site.

[UnluckyTimmeh]

Isn't it just

I can lose hours of my day just firing makes and models at it.

[Fleegle]

Less than 65 Laverda 750S Formulas sorned/taxed.

Looking at the numbers from the beginning of the graph, it appears that there has always been less than 100 in the UK


That makes me

[Fastdruid]

I'd love one. Prefer the headlights on the NC35 though.

[Carrera_C]

It's a lovely bike, I didn't know there were so few around. It does explain why the one I saw for sale on the MCN website is up for £20k.

[dingocooke]

Had both in bog std road trim, RC45 quicker with better brakes, but RC30 more fun somehow, nice pic; reminds me of my old bog standard 45 whcih went Rye hastings area some time ago...everyone should have an RC once in their lives :-)

[podman]

Stunning looking bits of kit. .theres an article by Tony Scott in one of the mags this month discussing the 45 engine,basiclly said the 30 was a 'proper' exotic race engine in design and construction,easy to tune and get power from but the 45 was 'just a v4 roadbike engine' and hard to get gains from. . .not that it'd put me off one but interesting anyway.

[obscene]

http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/twowheeldeal.htm - I met this guy at Laguna Seca who if you read that page had a very interesting story how he acquired his.










He was willing to let anyone who asked sit on it. Real nice guy

[dingocooke]

Here's my old one...

[spareparts]

I would really love an RC45 one day... the RC30 and 45 summarise everything HRC stand for imho and are just fantastic machines. Surpassed by modern machinery in terms of raw performance, but they are just special special bikes.

[new_bloke]

And the noise - don't forget the noise! Just sublime! I had a little taster of it with my NC30, but the bigger engines sounded even better!

[blade7]

If I was ever in the position to have a "collection" of say 10 bikes the RC45 would be one of them.