1992 Honda MC22 - 20,000rpm

1992 Honda MC22 - 20,000rpm

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Krikkit

26,536 posts

182 months

Thursday 28th February 2019
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Looks fantastic, I've got my eye on an NC30 in future, V4 at 15k. biggrin

Paul S4

1,183 posts

211 months

Thursday 28th February 2019
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Not into bikes...but that design does not look 30 years old to me...if you had not mentioned it in the text I thought that they were new bikes...!!

CousinDupree

779 posts

68 months

Thursday 28th February 2019
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Krikkit said:
Looks fantastic, I've got my eye on an NC30 in future, V4 at 15k. biggrin
Oh yeah! The firing order of an RC30 would make it perfect.

Dr Imran T

2,301 posts

200 months

Thursday 28th February 2019
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No need to apologise for the 'bikey' content smile it's certainly an interesting piece of kit. I actually really like the idea of a small capacity fun bike being exploited to the limit!

Doesn't look too bad at all but the twin headlights place the bike of a certain age.

I always thought about doing my CBT but just love my pushbikes too much, however if I ever do get round to doing it - I'd be more than happy with one of the beauties smile


Matt Cup

3,162 posts

105 months

Thursday 28th February 2019
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22000 rpm wow! Are these air or water cooled?

Love the lack of chicken strips too!

Rocket.

1,517 posts

250 months

Thursday 28th February 2019
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Very cool little bike, I am trying to think how small the pistons on this thing must be...

magooagain

9,999 posts

171 months

Thursday 28th February 2019
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I'm loving them! I know nothing about them but they seem like a great deal of fun from you're posts.

They look good too.

PorkRind

3,053 posts

206 months

Friday 1st March 2019
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LOve these 2 stroke hondas, surely a mot failure over here now?!

Brads67

3,199 posts

99 months

Friday 1st March 2019
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PorkRind said:
LOve these 2 stroke hondas, surely a mot failure over here now?!
Eh? for one thing they are 4 stroke, and why MOT failure ??

darkyoung1000

2,030 posts

197 months

Friday 1st March 2019
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Absolute beauties (although as an NC30 owner, I'm biased about living the styling).
I knew the baby Fireblade was a screamer, but I didn't realise how high it went!
I agree that focused smaller bikes are a splendid thing, you can really ride them on the road hard without getting to silly speeds or situations.

ChocolateFrog

25,442 posts

174 months

Friday 1st March 2019
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Brads67 said:
PorkRind said:
LOve these 2 stroke hondas, surely a mot failure over here now?!
Eh? for one thing they are 4 stroke, and why MOT failure ??
Vehicles don't retrospectively get banned even if it was a 2 stroke.

OP the bike looks ace, it must sound amazing. 62.5cc cylinders so not as tiny as you would imagine.

MDifficult

2,054 posts

186 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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I used to own a VFR400 NC30 so can completely see the appeal of these, particularly for sub 6 foot riders.

The small Hondas of this era were beautifully made, little Swiss watches. I can’t imagine they ever made any money on them because the engineering was totally top notch.

But having two is just greedy laugh

Zarco

17,886 posts

210 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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There's a bloke who commutes across Reading in some kind of old 400 like this (they are before my time so I don't recognise exact models!). He always looks like he's having a laugh pinning it away from the lights. It sounds fantastic.

ecksjay

328 posts

153 months

Sunday 11th August 2019
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how you getting on with the bike chap? Just got myself one, awaiting delivery of it. Quite literally the only one thats been for sale in the uk for many months, so they're extremely rare. Cant wait !

Shadow R1

3,800 posts

177 months

Monday 12th August 2019
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Looks great. smile

Agree that you don't need loads of power, if the bikes weight is right.
Anything modern is 200kg before you start.

D1bram

1,500 posts

172 months

Monday 12th August 2019
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I absolutely love that!

Never had a 'babyblade' but for a summer in 2007 the now ex and I had a RGV250 and GSXR400RR SP2. Brings back great biking memories of those and bikes friends owned.

ecksjay

328 posts

153 months

Monday 2nd September 2019
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AceOfHearts said:
Was that the black one that was on ebay a month or so back?

I have been having trouble with the shipping company and HMRC so still waiting to be able to register it frown

In the meantime though I have turned it back to the colours it left the factory in back in 1992 cool



Nah it was the blue one that was on there last week. I've been trying to buy it off him for years. Hahahaha. Rode it back from basingstoke on friday and it was amazing. Needs some work to get it back to a decent condition but it rode great and is surprisingly perky when you get it up to speed. The chassis was also very surprising, these must be a hoot on track. I'm going to try to source some new fairings to get it the white and pink scheme, broadly similar to that beautiful one you have. Did you get it resprayed etc or source new original / aftermarket fairings? It's not an original scheme as is so will keep my eyes out for some fairings. Once its had a good service etc I'm gonna book onto a track day I reckon. May have to pick your brains if thats ok, once I start to pick it apart . Currently needs a new rectifier / stator as it ain't charging properly, plus I wanna get the carbs cleaned and balanced etc over winter.

Edited by ecksjay on Monday 2nd September 22:46