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nice to see you back on 2 wheels mate, ive always loved the 7r since walker and co used them in WSB.

Good to see you back mate :thumbsup:

Excellent bike, the 7R and SRAD, proper bikes with love handles in a world full of size zeros ;)

That, sir, is a proper bike. I love the proper fairing, you could hid form a nuclear blast behind that windscreen.

How does it compare to the toher bnikes you've ridden? WRC sixty three (Dan!) told me on the AR this year he much prefered the handling to that of the SV, said it felt more sure-fotted at the front end

Love the Vid "nneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeYOWP" , and the Knee down vid was funny , especially the second lap with the knee slider scrawping off the roundabout :D

Thanks guys :)

ASH, to be honest matey I really can't remember how the SV felt! If anyone wants to trade at the next AR then that's cool, would be good to feel what an SV is like again :D I much prefer it to my mate's SV thousand once I got used to the bars moving at low speed. However the bike I had before it, the NC30, I got on with straight away, within 50 miles or so I was right back in the swing of things again after an 18 month break, never gelled with any vehicle so quick, fantastic little bikes, really glad I owned one of them. Here it is with my old car for good measure;

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68...tt/crxvfr1.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68...tt/crxvfr2.jpg

Gotta love old school Hondas :D

But yeah, a local lad offered me about £150 more than I'd paid for it a few weeks after I bought it, and I'd about got used to the power so I agreed. Looked around on ebay, originally wanted an SRAD 600, but I found I could insure a 7R for about £8 more a year, and they were about the same price and (IMO) look better.

Picked this up off ebay and to be honest hated it for the first 100 or so miles. I really thought I'd gone the wrong way with it, just felt like a big heavy barge, brakes weren't as sharp as the VFR, felt huuuuuuge to sit on, besides it having double to power it had nothing going for it. I got used to it by the next tankful and now it feels normal. After I swapped the squared off 190 section rear with some 180 section rear it feels loads better, really flickable compared to how it was. I've done about 2.5k on it and it just does everything I ask :D

Falc, you're not wrong mate, she's a big girl but I'm a big lad so I don't look out of place haha!

Oooh nice CRX Matt - are they genuine TE37s??! 8)

No mate, they weren't unfortunately, they were Rota Grids.

Here's a couple more :)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68...att/VFR008.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68...traight005.jpg

Dyno run (watch the bird on the right when it hits vtec haha)