I thought I would use this to keep a log of my adventures on my 93 CBR600F2. Thank you CBR forum for all the knowledge I've already gained from being a member for only a little while!

So a couple of months ago I decided to get myself a bike for the first time. I used to ride scramblers and quads when I worked on a farm years ago, but has never had a license or owned my own bike. As luck would have a guy that works with my wife got himself a new bike and put his 93 f2 up for sale. A quick test ride around the parking lot, £800, some paperwork and a handshake later and she was mine!

First night as mine, just after buying!



So next thing to do was to start working on me getting a license! I did my CBT through Alpha Rider Training in Gravesend last week, went really well and was surprised at how quickly I got used to being on a bike again seeing that it has been more than 10 years since the last time! I was a bit worried about how it would feel riding in traffic seeing that I only ever used to ride on farm tracks, but it was surprisingly less scary than I through it would be. I did my theory test yesterday and will be booking my DAS course tomorrow!

Here are a couple of pics of my baby out in the daylight, there are a couple of small cracks in the plastics which can't really be seen here.





Seeing that I can't take her out yet and the weather is pretty crap anyway, I've decided to get the plastics off so I can address those couple of small cracks.

The offending items:



Naked girl:



The plan for now is to repair the cracks with fine fibreglass cloth and 2 part epoxy resin from the back. I'm not going to respray anything now, I just want to stop the cracks from spreading and ride her as is for the summer. Next winter I will strip her down completely and do a complete respray, I'm thinking of maybe a Repsol colour scheme? Ideas, anyone?

I think that will be enough for today, I'm about to go and jump in the bath with the plastics to try and get most of the muck off before sanding the back to provide grip for the epoxy!

 

euro bikes have some really cool paint schemes. do you not like whats on it now? the repsol is a cool design, but i think it belongs to the 1000rrs. but thats just my opinion....

what else do you have planned for it? it would look really cool with a blue under glow.

 

keep up the good work mate

 

Now, I would be a hypocrite if I said you should leave it original, because I have not done so, though, if my OEM fairings didn't have need of so many small repairs, and a lot of expensive and hard-to-find OEM graphic bits replaced, it would have been a lot easier to keep it original.
Anyway, yes, we all understand the feeling that the F2's color schemes can seem a bit dated, but as mentioned above, yours does look pretty sweet, and far less "retro" than others....good luck with whatever you do with it!

 

Rep the original paint scheme! That bike looks hor

 

looks nice fella i'd say keep it as it is

 

whats the deal with that sticker on/under the windscreen? does that need to be there or can it be covered?

 

+1 to keep it oem scheme...it's next to none when changing it....one thing I learn is not to overkill...sometimes in life when you try to make everything so perfect, something else goes off...The bike look great as is but unless there is significant damages that leads you to repaint entire scheme.....

 

Jank, were you goin' for "hot" or "horrible" there?!?

 

Great lookin' bike. Congrats on the good deal. Also, congrats on getting your license. Be safe out there!