Honda 87 CBR600F Hurricane, project

[nvr2old]

I hope I don't come off as criticizing, Bill. The last thing in the world I want is to sound judgmental or superior. All I have to do is look at pictures of your Suzuki track bike to know you have a good understanding of the process. How did you strip the rest of the tank bare, w/o stripping the paint over the filler? From what I can tell, there looks to be 3 different plastic fillers on there. The 2 sections that concern me are right under the body line and the spot in the front. That's a really strange color. To feather all of those areas out may cause you to sand enough off to make the spots low, and then require another skim coat to bring it back up...which is OK as long as the filler that is there is stable. If you deem it to be so, then..onward.

[Buffalo Bill]

Larry, when I say criticism, I take it as sincere advice, not some hurtful aggression.
The shape/contour of the old fillers is quite good. I'm doing this one step at a time. As for those fills pealing later, well I'd like to see it happen and figure out why.
Those different color fills, well they are the oldest, 20 yo or more.
I began with some brush on stripper I had on the shelf, but it only takes off one layer at a time. So I detected those fills immediately.

I started the body panels. They seem to have only the orange with gray primer over the base white.
So I'm doing a quick brush on of stripper to dissolve the orange, then wipe it off leaving the gray primer intact.
I'll follow that up with a soap & water wash, sanding and on to primer.

[Buffalo Bill]

Body panels_one is fiberglass???

Ok, this bike's been around the block.
Right panel is plastic and can use Larry's plastic epoxy repair EZ.
Left panel has been repaired with fiberglass, that's ok because the whole panel is fiberglass!
I thought it might have been be made by AirTech, but their panels are quite different, all one piece.





fiberglass panel

[nvr2old]

Boy, parts can sure be ugly before they begin to look pretty again, eh..? That's a handful ya got there, Bill. I'll look forward to the turn-around.

[Buffalo Bill]

Yeah, this not a collectable level bike after all the abuse.
Still, I am gonna do my best to make it a user collectable.

[GS1150Pilot]

Regarding fiberglass, at least on my old VF1000R, the factory fairings were fiberglass.

[GregT]

A lot of people made replacement panels in fiberglass for the CBR's. Several years back I went to look at an ex race bike for the owner. It was only after I'd sorted through the multiple sets of race glass with it and found one set I recognised that I was able to ID the bike.

[Buffalo Bill]

WOW! How many times has it happened, you waited a long time for cool bike in your price bracket, you buy it. Then a couple weeks later a WAY BETTER BIKE shows up for less money!!!
Just came across this beauty on CL:
Honda CBR 600 F Hurricane - $600 (Ann Arbor)

[GS1150Pilot]

That IS a beaut! Did you buy it?

[Buffalo Bill]

That IS a beaut! Did you buy it?

It's an impulse, but I got my bike already. Bike or woman, almost the same issue can appear.

[B.C.G.S.]

Ha! that happens to me, too. Dammit!

[nvr2old]

$600 is a RIPPIN" deal for that bike if it runs as good as it looks. Holy cow.

[Cipher]

um buy it make the first a parts bike.

[greg78gs750]

srsly i'm tempted to call on it.....wife would divorce me tho....

[Buffalo Bill]

Ok, took a couple full range test rides today. Looked really ugly with just the front cowling on and in primer gray.
Low speed high speed, this bike is FAST! Has good torque at 35-40 mph in 6th gear.
Wound it out hard from a rolling 1st all the way up to 115mph in 5th, 12,000 rpm. Did that in the same space my GSXR1100 does 130mph in 4th.
Sounds like acid/metal rock at 11,000 rpm!!!
It's not a scary bike at all, power comes on in a steady even way, it just sounds SO WICKED COOL!
Has slight stumbling/surging at steady speeds. Have not touched the cabs yet, that's probably where the issue is.
Mirrors are full size, excellent rear sighting.
Seating is for people smaller than me, I'll probably have to reshape the foam so I can slide back a couple inches and recover the seat.
Bike is really lightweight, so EZ to move around the garage. If it fell over I could probably grab it and pull it back up before it hit the ground. Last bike I did that with was a Kawasaki EX500 twin.
No way I could do that with a 750.