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