So I just bought a 1996 MC28 SE about 2 months ago in Repsol livery. It's my first two-stroke street bike and was just a blast to ride but was down on power. When I got it, I had it dyno'd and it made 36whp. I installed 2 degree woodruff keys, Tyga airbox, Tyga Hi-flow Reeds, completely cleaned the cards and ran #155 jets. The bike ended up putting down 54whp after all this. I was hooked!! While looking for another NSR for a buddy of mine, I ended up sourcing a CA registered 1990 Cabin Racing MC21SP which I ended up buying for myself. The previous owner completely restored the bike and it has a brand new bottom and top end. He provided me with a brand new complete set of OEM Cabin Racing bodywork including a tank that has never had fuel in it. Though the price of the bike was quite a bit more than I paid for my MC28, I knew my MC28 was going to need at least a top end soon as it had about 22k miles on it, brake pads, clutch, etc...and I knew these were going cost me some good money to get it all done not to mention all the additional items that I wanted to purchase for it which the MC21 already had. Anyhow, the upgrades included with the new bike include the following:

RVF400 Front end

Tyga Rear Sets

WP Steering Damper

M-Max de-restrict box

Jha Pipes

HRC rear brake reservoir

Braided brake lines front and rear

Brand new bottom and top end. Kevin Murracy MCE racing did all the bottom end work and the previous owner did the top end. It only has two heat cycles on it.


The following stuff is what is new and zero miles:

Crank bearings, all seals, gaskets, clutch steels and fibers.

New pistons, rings, bearings, reeds all gaskets etc etc.

Carbs haven just been gone through and cleaned.

New oem throttle cables

oem clutch cable

new Daytona brake pads on front, EBC on rear.

Chain and Sprockets (maybe 100 miles)

Coils, plug wires and spark plugs

New hand grips

Tyga Carbon Silencers (for either set of pipes)

All fluids, brakes, trans, injector pump

All bearings and seals pulled cleaned and lubed with redline synthetic grease.

Every nut and bolt and little odd and end was cleaned, de-greased, ultrasonically cleaned or painted etc. All the hardware was cleaned up on a wheel or painted or replaced.

Small plastic parts were cleaned, rubber re-juvenator was used on small rubber bits that needed it etc etc.

So basically the bike is near 100% new, the engine is zero miles fresh, front forks just freshened up with new Motul fluid and seals. I just ordered a new Ohlins rear shock for it .

The bodywork is all new, still in OEM packaging. The guy bought what he thinks is probably the last set out of the UK about 7 years ago complete with tank...extremely rare.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to start it yet as it still needs a radiator which he will bring to me next week and help me with getting her fired up.

The bike also came with the following spare parts:

extra good PGM3

Two complete top ends

Lots of clutch bits, coils, plug wires, plugs

base gaskets, head gaskets lots of new little odds and ends still in oem packaging

Stock pipes and passenger pegs, extra bits and pieces.


I also purchased a ton of parts for the bike already which are:

Tyga RSW street front and side fairings

MC28 welded rear seat cowling

MC28 tank (thanks Leigh!)

Misc carbon pieces

New black and red extendable levers

New Pirelli Supercorsa's in 110/70 and 150/60

Tyga airbox and new main jets in various sizes for when I dyno tune her.

I have a spare rear head and just purchased some new shorty plugs and caps to run when I do the HRC head conversion.

I really like the Cabin Racing theme, and plan on painting the new RSW bodywork and MC28 tank to match. I also ordered up a track set of original look plastics but had them ad some racing decals below the Honda decal on the fairings. I just don't want to use the stock fairings and tank and plan on keeping them stored.

Needless to say, I'm very exited and can't wait to get her up and running as I have a track day event on January 12th.

Happy Holidays everybody!! I know mine will be

Here are a couple pictures of the bike and the OEM fairings as well as a little mock up I did with the MC28 welded rear seat cowling and MC28 tank (thanks Leigh!). The MC28 rear seat cowling does not really fit right, the rear HRC brake reservoir seems to be in the way of where a custom mounting bracket needs to go. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE PUT AN MC28 REAR SEAT COWLING ON AN MC21, CAN YOU HELP WITH WHAT I NEED TO DO TO GET IT TO FIT RIGHT??








Here is my old MC28 that I ended up selling 45 minutes before purchasing the MC21.