HONDA RVF750 RC45 | 1996 WORLD SUPERBIKE

For the 1996 World Superbike Season Carl Fogarty (GB) joined the Castrol Honda World Superbike Team, after winning the Championship twice previously in 1994 & 1995, with the factory Ducati Team. Here we see him and team mate Aaron Slight (NZ) at Phillip Island, Austrailia, during preparations for the season ahead.
Launched in 1994 The Honda RVF750R RC45 was a 750cc V4 homologation special, produced in limited numbers for Superbike Racing. It was the successor to the VFR750R RC30 and like its predecessor, featured a DOHC liquid-cooled V4 4-stroke engine and a single-sided swingarm with gear driven cams, but unlike the RC30 it utilized electronic fuel injection instead of carburettors.
HRC (Honda Racing Corporation) produced a comprehensive race kit to convert the standard road bike into a full on superbike and made a number of different kits during the span of it's existence, each being an evolution of the previous one.
The bikes seen here are the full factory versions built by HRC

[@bg9318]

Watching this doesn't feel that long ago but it is time goes really fast in my 40s now and remember this so well brilliant racing todays racing has so much tech its unreal

[@markwinchester3005]

Yes it does. The RC of today > kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqfSoKRpqZZlnck

[@watsisbuttndo829]

World supers was really a hell of a show back then.

[@johnnyrvf]

I have a RC30. I’ve ridden the RC45 and if I could afford to buy one I would! Both sound fabulous but the 45 seems to have a sharper exhaust note. The 30 is different to ride in many ways than the 45 but both are sublime.

[@dazmos_65]

Still to this day beautiful machines! Thanks

[@mikeyerke3920]

Dream machines. Modern classics, for sure. 🏁🇯🇵

[@jeongyeonkim3929]

Thank you💚

[@dazmos_65]

🙏 🙏

[@Luke-Harno3]

Wonderful... thanks ! ;)

[@dazmos_65]

Thank you!

[@Team-fabulous]

Joey Dunlop had his RC45 on display hanging from the roof of his pub. In 1999 he took it down, brought it to the Ulster Grand Prix and put mouthy David Jeffries in his place on a much faster Yamaha R71...

[@pauloshea3741]

"There's old riders, and there's bold riders, but there's no old bold riders" Comment from John McGuiness!

[@johnhhu2804]

John...Shu 👍👍👍👍🏍🏍🏍

[@alistairthompson2750]

I mean they were trick as hell those rc45 especially the suzuka 8 hour bikes but when Honda went to the sp1 twin slight and Edwards realized what they'd been missing same power but the twin therefore ducati as well 30% more torque

[@alistairthompson2750]

Is that the season foggy left ducati and went to Honda and hated the v4 Honda and went back to ducati and bossed it again

[@dazmos_65]

👍

[@michaelescobar3134]

Is that Chuckwalla?

[@dazmos_65]

🤔

[@user-li3nd6iw3q]

本田最高です、好きだよ😅カコイヨ,ｻｲｺ🌟☝️☝️✌✌💐