90s sports bike, 2 round backlights?

[Vinc]

Hi Guys.

I saw a bike a month ago, it looked like a 90s style japanese sportsbike. It was white with purple/blue/red-ish paint stripes. The backlights are two red circles placed side by side.

Do you know which bike it might have been?
I thought it could have been an FZR, but in all the pictures I find, they are rectangular lights on top of each other.

Cheers

[ChrisCurvyS]

What's with the censored swear word?!

Did you mean to put 'white' but hit an 's' key instead of a 'w'?!

[Vinc]

Hi Chris. Yes I meant white. Don't know how I messed it up.
Thanks for pointing it out. Do you know the bike?

[jambo]

Opening guess:
1998 - 2002 ZX6R G/J/A1P.

The G1 & G2 models had some red/green/purple colours. The rear is not technically 2 round lights, it's one piece, but some owners fitted a piece of plastic trim to cover the join so it would give 2 distinct round lights:
http://www.motorcyclesupermarket.com/images/bikes/images/10159.1366292539.SDC11937.jpg

Trim piece fitted (green undertray not required)
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRl1f0-lwAZn1i3POh5w2enrdJVTwD4X_jiY1Gf7jLe-0AstSxF

Failing a ZX6R, I'll go equivalent ZX9R C/E model

Jambo

[ChrisCurvyS]

Hi Chris. Yes I meant white. Don't know how I messed it up.
Thanks for pointing it out. Do you know the bike?
I was going to say the same as Jambo - often comes in those colours. Lots of 90s sports bikes had twin brake lights IIRC.

Thought it was a bit harsh describing it as a 's hite'!

[Vinc]

It was much like the example you found, but the lights were perfectly circular, not parabolic

The paint scheme was like this one:
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1040/720660227_49c91929a7_z.jpg

[Vinc]

With white rims I think

[Whitty]

Cbr400, gotta be? See item 230967479735 on eBay.

[robh539]

Sounds like most 90's jap sports bike to me. My zx9r E1 had them... still my favourite bike.

[Geodude]

Honda NSR?

http://www.fourwheelperformance.com/streetbikestuff/forsale_nsr250_rvg250.jpg

[Vinc]

Hi Guys.

I think you nailed it.
It was exactly the lights Whitty and Geodude showed.
This is the exact paint job that I saw, and the bike in this picture is a CBR 400 Baby blade, so my guess is, that is what was. Did they do 600s aswell?
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l99/brooklyn2376/bladeDesktopResolution.jpg

Thanks for helping me out.

I think the Honda CBR will be my first project, when I am ready for one. For now I am still trying to pick rictus01's brain and learn all I can from the org.

[stuR]

Baby blade! My dad had been thinking about getting one recently, had a look at one. Nice bike, but if you dont want to pay silly money, they need cleaning up a bit. The tri arm are alot more saught after than gull arm too, and have a price to reflect that.

[squirrel_hunter]

The tri arm are alot more saught after than gull arm too, and have a price to reflect that.

Really?

[rb8989]

Also a common thing on zx7rs.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-KAWASAKI-ZX750-P5-GREEN-/290903760975?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item43bb37204f

[stuR]

Thats what we found when we looked into in but theres not many about to give you some good examples, only 8 on ebay in uk of both varietys

[Braindead101]

Baby blade! My dad had been thinking about getting one recently, had a look at one. Nice bike, but if you dont want to pay silly money, they need cleaning up a bit. The tri arm are alot more saught after than gull arm too, and have a price to reflect that.

Interesting thoughts. When I started looking for a bike again, I thought about a CBR400, having had a tri-arm many years ago, bought on the basis of a polaroid taken of the bike in Japan.
Some of the reasons I decided against it:
They're now 25 years old & despite having a bullet proof engine (gear driven cams) they are going to be on the worn side!
In the 20 years since I bought mine, I've put on a bit of weight & these are small bikes!
They're not that cheap - around the same as a much younger SV650.
Not that easy to find.
On the plus point, the tri-arm is unrestricted, there's just a red light on the dash to tell you you're going too fast, unlike the later model.

The round lights could definitely be from one of these.

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/honda-cbr400rr-cbr-400-rr-nc23-nc-23-tri-arm-BABY-BLADE-fireblade-mint-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjAw/$%28KGrHqZ,%21l4E+uPCvMIhBP+yS1Oll%21%7E%7E60_12.J PG

[squirrel_hunter]

On the plus point, the tri-arm is unrestricted, there's just a red light on the dash to tell you you're going too fast, unlike the later model.

No, the Tri-Arm is restricted. It's been sometime since I played with one but there is a restriction in the clocks and the red light coming on is as I understand basically showing when the restriction kicks in.

The Tri-Arm can be derestricted either by disassembling the clocks and removing the restriction or by fitting a KPH-MPH converter as that will lower the needle enough to not activate it.

There is also two standard types of CDI the less powerful blue and the more powerful gold. Though off the top of my head I can't remember the exact numbers or effect if still running the bike in restricted mode.

They're now 25 years old & despite having a bullet proof engine (gear driven cams) they are going to be on the worn side!

Engine wise they should be fine (though my original one did drop a valve). It's really the plastics that show the age, depending how well it has been cared for, much like every other bike out there though.

They're not that cheap - around the same as a much younger SV650.
Not that easy to find.

As for price and availability there are lot around and varying prices. Roughly the same as an SV in my experience. Of course I could find a very cheap one, but you would get what you paid for, much like a SV...

[Braindead101]

No, the Tri-Arm is restricted.

I'm sure mine wasn't restricted, and I don't mean it had been de-restricted. It's been a long time, and I can't remember the details now, but I'm sure that the Japanese 400s initially only had the warning light then sometime around 1989 were limited to 112 mph. Mine was a 1988 model, perhaps that explains it.