Thursday, October 28, 2010

easily distracted...

So, I should be working right now, but well...
Anyways, I know Ben and I have talked about 'em before, but I've always been a huge fan of the Honda Hawk (RC30). It's a bad ass bike. Even badder when done up in my favorite style. beat to shit race bike with no regard to purist cliche'.
Bottom image from Sideburn (Stevie Cole) and top is from internet randomness.

I like the bottom myself...
me want one.

10 comments:

aaron said...

yeah, I like the bottom.

RC30 was a 750 v four though

tom said...

my bad. it was the RC31.

Dave-O said...

yep, definitely the bottom one...looks like it wouldn't take much $ to make that happen either.

tom said...

nope. He made the tank himself and now it has a different swingarm and spoke wheels and thats prob a grand-ish. The bikes themselves are pretty spendy tho, not many of them around and only made for a couple years. Precursor to the RC51.

Dave-O said...

Eh...shows what I know about 'em...nothing.

tom said...

no! not what I meant! maybe 3k into that bike total, thats not much at all! (esp. for a competitive race bike.) I'm a honda nerd fo sho.:)

Dave-O said...

Ahhhh...dang interweb confusing what we say! Very cool though..

aaron said...

I was surprised it'd have an RC number, since I'd always thought it was for race bikes only, like the RC45 and RC51. Turns out, according to wikipedia, even the pacific coast had an RC number!

Ben said...

Take a look at this link:
http://www.vsource.org/VFR-RVF_files/BHondaPCNs.htm

It seems like the letter part of the Honda code has something to do with displacement. But the RC51 breaks that idea. Now I am obsessed with finding out what these codes mean!

Ben said...

So the answer is right on that page, but you can't see it because the text color is set to the same as the background color. Great choice.

Apparently these comments have a limit of 4096 characters, so I'll put the text that explains what the hell Honda model numbers mean in a different post...