"I Bought A Honda VTR1000 Firestorm Unseen For £1000! So What's Wrong With It?" Big V-Twin Gamble!
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2022
- Just a quick bonus video for you guys
Yet another Honda VTR1000 Firestorm on the channel!
Couldn't resist this One at the price it came in at
Hope you all enjoy this latest addition
There are still bargains out there to be had!!!
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Great bike.. I’d get rid of all the stickers and fake carbon tat. Definitely loose the seat and she’s good to go.
Cheers Andrew 😉
Thats your opinion. I like it’s personality and suggest you personalize any way you like.
Mine has been repainted in a deep blue paint with light blue fine metal sprinkled in. Honda red wheels, gold callipers, Corbin seat with red piping, Two Brothers carbon high mount cans, small LED signals and I re lettered it with red US Super Hawk 996 as I happen to like that name better. To each his own.
Blimey thats a lot of bike for a Grand! you did well here mate 😁
Yes still some amazing bargains out there if you look hard enough
@@Budget-Cars-And-Bikes I best get looking then 😂 nice video BTW 😉
@@allthatglitterz4564 Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed the content
Going rate at this time of year...just had a look,found 2 for a £Grand in the usual places! (October '23).
Shock looks like Hyperpro… if you are lucky it’s got the fork springs too as a Streetbox kit
Now that would be lucky! 😂
Seat's great I think. Bars look fine TBH, don't change. Upgrade the forks a bit and ride it.
Cheers Luke 😊
A bike that was always in the shadow of the Fireblade in the Honda line up, but you did well with this one.
Cheers Fella 😁
And I agree, it's a bit of an unsung hero the VTR (except maybe the SP1 and SP2 😉)
I compared the clip-ons to mine and I still can’t tell 😿 good purchase 👍👌👏
Thanks Ian, I'm still not certain either, and I've had 3 of these now! :)
Seat is crackin wouldnt worry about that👌
I ended buying a stock Black seat for £20, so I could choose which I preferred 😁
Nice bike well done
Thanks Graham, kind of wishing I had kept it now!
great bike , barain at 1k . clean it up make a profit , neext one again for gr8 content
Thanks Mark 😁
Regarding the top of the forks? A common tuning trick is to raise the forks in the yokes by 5-6mm. Doing this reduces the rake angle a little bit and it makes the handling crisper. I know I'm speculating, but possibly that's what we're seeing here.
Thanks for the info Ivan 😉
This bike does have risers most likely from VFR 750/800. I have both a VTR and a VFR.
Thanks 😁
Very underrated fun bikes.
Bit thirsty tho.
Hard to think about the MPG when you're roaring around on One of these 😂
@@Budget-Cars-And-Bikes I'm biased, because I actually own a 97 Storm. Mine is silver with just 24k miles it has a Maxton shock (spring same colour as yours, interestingly) and fork re valve.
I love the bike, more than enough power for the road and great torque too. I live in the Cotswolds, lovely twisty A and B roads out here, I jhst use 3rd gear and roll on and off the throttle, hardly need to touch the brakes, great fun.
@@rob.1963 Really is One of my favourite bikes, nothing else out there gives more grins per mile in my opinion (for the money) I think this was the Maxton shock too Robin, stay safe out there 🙂
Bit thirsty?I use to haven't a storm, had a hayabusa before that...the storm used considerable more fuel
@@petersajkic6749 Old tech in a V-Twin I guess? I don't ride too far these days, so it's a weekend toy for me, and I never worry about MPG 😁
F*ckn bangin vtr there👍
Best £1000 I ever spent!! such a good bike even at 3 times the price 😉
The pre-load adjustment on the front forks are not set equally by the looks of it
Thanks Malcom, I'll check it out :)
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And Cheers To You 😁
@@Budget-Cars-And-Bikes I'm looking at one of these right now.. here in my city... 2600 Canadian dollars...
@@ezgezg8618 Such great value for a big v-twin. Try to ensure the Manual Cam Chain Tensioner Mod has been done if you can, it's a very important modification on these old girls 🙃
@@Budget-Cars-And-Bikes Great content... definitely remember that..
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@@ezgezg8618 Thanks 😄
I looked at buying a 1998 a week ago - good paint, 55k kms, but I got frightened off by the carbs. 46mm x 2 and they are not amenable to being sleeved down. Makes for a thirsty engine 6-7 litres per 100 kms even if ridden moderately. Love v twins but.........
I honestly have never purchased a bike and even considered the MPG - For me personally (as a casual rider) a big bike like this is for putting a huge grin on your face over a few hours riding, so MPG doesn't come into it. And I wouldn't buy a big V-Twin for commuting anyway, so I just fill it up and roar off into the Sun 😁
Can’t worry to much about how thirsty it is. Actually if you keep the throttle hand under control they are fine. Hold on who can do that when it sounds so good to wring it out. Go with fun per litre is high so what the heck burn the fuel up.
I'll buy her, I'd rather have a 5th gen VFR tho if you know any?
I'm considering a VFR1200f as a new bike 😁
@@Budget-Cars-And-Bikes yea nice iirc they are DSG, I am tempted by the newer bigger Hondas but a gear cam has been my bucket list bike since I was a child hence the 5th gen thing (I'm currently on a KTM 450exc and a CBR 1000f), apparently they like a bit of boost and as I build custom turbo car stuff anyway I might do that if I'm short of power, it all depends how nice the bike is I am a bit of a purist sometimes and all out tuner others so it could go either way haha!
Anyway that's enough rambling for now, I've only just discovered your channel but it looks good so far. I'm looking forward to watching through some of your older videos tonight and I. Sure you'll hear from me again!
Stay safe and keep having fun biker brother........👍👌👍
My mate just brought a 03 in blue 29 thousand kays for 2 grand
Sounds about right, and a great choice 😁
Bargain,good bikes typical honda quality as well ,
Yeah you can't go far wrong with a Honda 😁
I actually traded my gas gas 250 EC dirt bike for my vtr1000 okay now my gas gas is not a cheap bike that bike was $10,000 plus new now I don't know if I got ripped off or if I made a good trade but I love the VTR .. my bike was used obviously I figured it was worth at least $4,000 my dirt bike.. but I see people picking these up for next to nothing so I don't know if I made a good trade
My cheapest VTR was £1100 (around $1250) that was in great condition with 26k miles, but that is UK prices, so I'm not sure what you guys pay over there 🤔
If you enjoy it you got good deal.
@@donziperk Love a big V-TWIN 😀
Yeah I'm happy with the trade.. I probably would have done better selling the dirt bike and then going out and buying one but they don't pop up very often so that's what I had and he was down to trade so I figured it was worth it it's the bike I wanted I always had a thing for the VTR 1000 it really kind of blows me away how hard these bikes pull for a V-Twin I really don't even understand it it just pulls insanely hard I don't even know if minus stock I wonder sometimes mine will come up in second gear pure power wheelie... other one I rode wouldn't do second gear only first so I'm pretty sure mine has been modified I just don't know what he did to it it's got mig pipes on it so I know it's been tuned pretty sure there's more to it than that though it's a quick bike it kind of doesn't make sense to me on how fast it is I also have a CBR 1000'08 of course the CBR is faster but the VTR is funner and in the twisties I'm just as fast VTR just falls into the corners I would almost go to save better than the CBR 1000 but not my 600 that's the best handling bike I've ever had 2008 CBR600RR those things are on Rails but VTR isn't far behind amazes me with those old style of shocks but I guess it's just that low center of gravity with that 90° V-Twin basically laying on the ground hard to find a bike that does fall into the corners like the VTR
@@flow_922 Check your sprockets they may have been changed.
But yes they are so much fun to ride. I have a RD 350 LC track bike and man what a difference it is to ride. Love them both, sound of a screaming two and a thumping V Twin.
where did you buy it from?
Gumtree 😉
@@Budget-Cars-And-Bikes Wow you did well their. See up the flag sometime.
@@cliffg4975 Cheers Cliff 🙂
You sold the seat yet? In the market for a vtr seat
Yes the seat actually went with the bike in the end Ryan
@@Budget-Cars-And-Bikes all good! Do you know what kind of seat it was? Corbin is a bit out of my budget
@@ryan3656 I couldn't say, I think it was just a stock seat, but with a custom cover?
@@Budget-Cars-And-Bikes awesome thanks for the info
@@ryan3656 No worries 🙂
Bargain. If you enjoy working on a bike to make it your own this is it . Socket set is all you need. No special tools or plug in just a good old spanner work.
That is One of the many joys of owning an older bike for sure 😉
Never liked the Firestorm. Return to stock as possible and move it on.
One of the best budget Super Sports money can buy though 😉
Thats your opinion and thats fine but a lot or riders out there thoroughly love their VTRs.
@@Budget-Cars-And-Bikes They are great bikes in my opinion. I have one and I am shopping for a RC51. I think you got a heck of a deal, enjoy it.
@@donziperk Thanks 😁
Back to original. Take off that fake carbon. Take off the lower fairing
Personally I think these look much better with a full fairing 😀