HONDA RVF400 (NC35)

Certain smells, tastes and even engine notes can warp you back to times long gone. My adolescence was spent thumbling around with a V4 powered grey import that made just over 50bhp and looked scabbier than a child’s grazed knee. My VFR400 was no stunner, but it engrained in me a passion for the exotic motored pocket bike. Of course, the dream was to own an RVF400 (the fancier, newer grey import that came with a 17” rear, weighed less and had a shorter wheelbase), but even with my seven paper rounds, the money I made from selling fags at school and whatever loose change I could pilfer from my older brother, I had about as much chance