If you’re a fan of legendary Japanese sportbikes from the 1990s, then you may want to check out YouTube channel Race & Retro’s new series. They’re diving straight into a 1994 Honda VFR400 NC30, and of course it’s got plenty of marks both for and against it, right from the drop.
Like an extremely smart group of bike-obsessed friends, they’ve apparently bought it “in the dark,” as they put it—which means they didn’t take a good look at it before the cash and the keys changed hands. In this introductory video about the particular machine that they’re tackling, we find out that they did know it had been dropped at some point, and you can see that the footpeg hanger on the right side is bent in pretty badly.