Hey all Hurricane enthusiasts, I have been hanging around the forum for a couple of weeks and decided to introduce my beautiful girl, 1992 1000F CBR.

I sadly don't know the full history of the bike, but I know it pretty well from the 2002 onwards. The bike was imported from Germany into Finland in 2001 and my dad bought it in 2005.
My dad's a hardcore motorcyclist and he has owned +15 bikes in his youth. Toured all of the Europe and so on. He sadly had to give up motorcycling when me and my sister came to this world and money was scarce. My mother also wasn't that fond of those scary killer machines around her little babies....

Luckily, when the kids were a little bit older my dad had the audacity and budget to get this wonderful bike. The beautiful flow of things is that I actually rode first time in my life on a motorcycle on this particular bike when I was 9 years old. I remember the motorcycling trips with my father being the best part about short Finnish summer. That's where I got hooked to the sport.

Years went on. Fast forward to 2017. My dad got older and started to search for a new, more relaxed bike. He was about to sell the old girl and I couldn't let that happen. Luckily the prices of 1000F's were quite low here in Finland and I got my dad to sell the bike to me at a manageable price. (By the way my dad still relied on Honda's and drives a '09 Pan-European these days)

And now this beautiful, beautiful bike is mine. I love it dearly and named it 'Hollyann' a while ago. Nevertheless due to the stupidest motorcycle-licence-laws in the universe of motorcycle-licence-laws, I'll be getting my full-power-motorcycle-drivers licence not until the start of August. Nice way to kill the hobby, Finland!

Now when I have this idle time before getting my licence, I'll be devoting it to restoring and fixing some minor things in the bike. That way, when I get my licence, the bike will be ready to go and hungry for the road. Also this is largely due to my sanity, because when the bike is in bits, its easier to tolerate the pain not riding on beautiful summer days...

Bored yet? Let's get to the juice so to say...

My dad always kept the bike tidy e.g. washed it, lubricated the chain, changed oil and so on. But he still mostly liked to ride and when time went on some spots went uncleaned or untended for a while. Most visible ones were the rear wheel, rear swingarm and the exhaust system.

Here's photo of the bike in the condition I got it.



As you can see, it's in wonderful condition, but closer inspection reveals grimy gunk in many places. Like I said I needed something to do to keep my mind occupied on the evenings so I started to fiddle around the bike. First things first, I started by thoroughly washing the bike so any loose dirt and filth would come of.
Then I removed the baggage rack because I didn't like the looks of it. After that took the rear wheel off and went to work with the rim. Holy **** what a worksite it was to get even a tiny bit of original paint to show. +25 years of chain lubricant and road dirt + pitch is a hell of a combination. I tried all kinds of solvent washes - nothing. Then WD40 and let it sit for a while - still nothing. Then my uncle suggested I try xylene we had lying around. That goo was the breakthrough. It still didn't clean up easily, but at least I was making progress. I spent maybe couple evenings alone on cleaning and after that I coated the rim with color-enhancing black wax and polished the whole thing. Overkill maybe, but I hope that my efforts ease up the cleaning process in the future and the dirt won't stuck that well anymore.
Heres the starting condition:





And here's the finished product:






Next up was the sprocket and the piece underneath it. It was filled with the same gunk




(This is the same **** the rear tire was covered in before the "treatment")

But now I knew the tricks. Add some xylene and hour of painstaking scrubbing and I was left with a clean piece. For finishing touch I added some metal polish and voilá, I wonder if this part shined this bright even in the start of 90's...





When the bike was sitting on the center stand and the rear tire was removed, I jumped on the opportunity and also cleaned the rear part of the exhaust system, mufflers, swingarm and rear mudguard.

I waxed the swingarm and the black exhaust covers. Also cleaned the chainguard



I polished the custom chrome muffler-wrappers (those are a nice touch. Almost looks like a custom exhaust)



Then there was only left to put everything back to part again and I would say the back end looks mighty fine now!








Some items I still have on my to do-list before the 3rd of August:
-Remove front wheel and do same operation as with the rear wheel (I might throw in new brake pads too, they are quite run down)
-Remove the throttle cable and replace it or lubricate it (Throttle handle movement is sluggish, I want it to be lighting fast)
-Considering this job, is it tough one to pull of, meaning, do I have to strip of half the bike to get to the cable?
-Maybe change clutch fluids
-Some ideas or suggestion what I should do?

For now, the girl looks like this









Thanks for reading! If you have any comments and/or questions I'd be happy to hear them.

Cheers,
Matt

 

She's a beaut! I think she'll serve you well for many seasons (short as they are)

The cables are an easy job, but you will have to lift the tank. You might want to try lubricating them before tossing 'em, but aftermarket sources should be plentiful. I got a set out of Germany that worked perfectly

Good luck with your license, and watch out for the top half of the tach. These old rockets still go plenty fast for a new rider, and even though going fast is easy, it's not always advised

 

bloody hell you are making a dam good job on it