Best Honda paint schemes?
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Thought I would keep this alive with a lock down update.
The bike has been going through its makeover, including more money spent on HRC parts than I care to admit. The tank is currently being painted (the rest of the fairings I did myself with rattle cans)but the first lot of decals are on and it's safe to say I'm pretty chuffed so far
The bike has been going through its makeover, including more money spent on HRC parts than I care to admit. The tank is currently being painted (the rest of the fairings I did myself with rattle cans)but the first lot of decals are on and it's safe to say I'm pretty chuffed so far
tdm34 said:
neutral 3 said:
Look up Brent Hyde on Facebook I'm similarly crying "bulls
t" on someone making those sort of figures on an ancient naturally aspirated engine purely based on why it took BMW, Honda, Ducati et al. so long to produce the same sort of figures with their R&D resources on their halo models.Prof Prolapse said:
Pretty saw those 200bhp figures got pulled apart on here by one of our engineer types...
I'm similarly crying "bullst" on someone making those sort of figures on an ancient naturally aspirated engine purely based on why it took BMW, Honda, Ducati et al. so long to produce the same sort of figures with their R&D resources on their halo models.
Well there is always the question over how _long_ it'll make 200hp for. I'm similarly crying "bulls
t" on someone making those sort of figures on an ancient naturally aspirated engine purely based on why it took BMW, Honda, Ducati et al. so long to produce the same sort of figures with their R&D resources on their halo models.
I'm certain you could get 200hp out of any engine. Just not for more than a few miles. Honda et al need to do that *and* have it run for years with minimal maintenance.
It's an 70's engine and Honda ended up getting ~160 out of the 1980's VFR750 30 years ago, so an 80's engine in the same state of tune as Honda's race efforts with an extra 150cc on top would make 192hp theoretically possible... The VFR was rather more advanced than the CB though.
hucumber said:
chris4652009 said:
I always loved this
This my favourite by quite a long way! The Castrol livery looks good on the right bike tooThe Cabin Honda bikes and some Moriwaki schemes were lovely too.
Prof Prolapse said:
tdm34 said:
neutral 3 said:
Look up Brent Hyde on Facebook I'm similarly crying "bulls
t" on someone making those sort of figures on an ancient naturally aspirated engine purely based on why it took BMW, Honda, Ducati et al. so long to produce the same sort of figures with their R&D resources on their halo models.rear wheel power output of between 142-147bhp, this was at 1025cc and revs restricted to 10,500rpm those figures are from
a chap called Dennis Zickrick, who's he? The manager of the Works Honda AMA team that year, and he believes Brent.
Now Brents bike is 1225cc and revs to 12000rpm, his cylinder head flows over 200cfm (35% more than the works bikes)
Just because We now have roadbikes with 200+bhp that have to adhere to emissions standards, start on the button and last
50,000 miles without a rebuild, doesn't mean that basically a bike with an engine that "looks" like a 1982 CB900F motor can't get
close to the claimed figures, the guy is highly regarded on the models biggest forum, who's members would pull him to pieces
if his claims aren't accurate, the engine has every trick in the book and some more that you can't think off thrown at it and it's
right at the bleeding edge of what an aircooled engine can achieve.
Become a member of CB1100F.NET and look at Brents bike and what he's done over the years his handle is Captain.
Just because one "Engineer type" can't get his head round it doesn't mean it isn't true.
Just have a look for yourself.
tdm34 said:
Say what you like, i've researched this guy and I believe him, given a couple of facts, the 1982 AMA CB900F had a measured
rear wheel power output of between 142-147bhp, this was at 1025cc and revs restricted to 10,500rpm those figures are from
a chap called Dennis Zickrick, who's he? The manager of the Works Honda AMA team that year, and he believes Brent.
Now Brents bike is 1225cc and revs to 12000rpm, his cylinder head flows over 200cfm (35% more than the works bikes)
Just because We now have roadbikes with 200+bhp that have to adhere to emissions standards, start on the button and last
50,000 miles without a rebuild, doesn't mean that basically a bike with an engine that "looks" like a 1982 CB900F motor can't get
close to the claimed figures, the guy is highly regarded on the models biggest forum, who's members would pull him to pieces
if his claims aren't accurate, the engine has every trick in the book and some more that you can't think off thrown at it and it's
right at the bleeding edge of what an aircooled engine can achieve.
Become a member of CB1100F.NET and look at Brents bike and what he's done over the years his handle is Captain.
Just because one "Engineer type" can't get his head round it doesn't mean it isn't true.
Just have a look for yourself.
Until I've seen it run on a proper dyno I call bs on it. rear wheel power output of between 142-147bhp, this was at 1025cc and revs restricted to 10,500rpm those figures are from
a chap called Dennis Zickrick, who's he? The manager of the Works Honda AMA team that year, and he believes Brent.
Now Brents bike is 1225cc and revs to 12000rpm, his cylinder head flows over 200cfm (35% more than the works bikes)
Just because We now have roadbikes with 200+bhp that have to adhere to emissions standards, start on the button and last
50,000 miles without a rebuild, doesn't mean that basically a bike with an engine that "looks" like a 1982 CB900F motor can't get
close to the claimed figures, the guy is highly regarded on the models biggest forum, who's members would pull him to pieces
if his claims aren't accurate, the engine has every trick in the book and some more that you can't think off thrown at it and it's
right at the bleeding edge of what an aircooled engine can achieve.
Become a member of CB1100F.NET and look at Brents bike and what he's done over the years his handle is Captain.
Just because one "Engineer type" can't get his head round it doesn't mean it isn't true.
Just have a look for yourself.
Not saying it isn't class leading, but the previous dress down rendered it all but impossible to get those figures.
The last thread where Steve Bass picked it apart:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Edited by Krikkit on Tuesday 19th May 21:01
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