SilverVee

Great, thanks. I have a small impact driver that your wack with a hammer to break the bolt loose. Used to come in handy on my 1980 CB750F to break loose the phillips screws holding the motor side covers in place. The steel screws liked to seize up in the aluminum block. One more question about setting fork oil level. I believe this is set without springs installed af full compression. Do I just leave it on the center stand and let the forks compress with the front tire resting on the ground? The impact driver I used was a small butterfly air impact wrench which is where I got mixed up with the on off direction. Don't know if the hammer type impact driver will work. Oil level is set with forks fully collapsed, springs out, pump the damping unit to get all the air out. Oil level was set to 10 mm higher due to angle of the forks, there was a previous post that explained why 10mm, has to do with the angle of the forks. Did all the work with the bike on the center stand, jack under the exhaust and because I was afraid it would roll forward off the stand when the forks were fully compressed used some half inch iron pipe and pipe clamp bits to keep the center stand from folding under when checking oil level.

Absolutely, did mine that way last year. Just a little tougher getting that Allen head screw out at bottom of the fork. Used a small impact wrench to break it loose. Just remember which way is OFF. (Don't ask) Righty Tighty Lefty Loosey when you're looking right at the screw. Just watch for the oil dripping onto the brakes, masking tape makes a great diversion for the oil coming out of the forks. A good upgrade. Adrian

Glad to hear the gear worked.

I've had a couple people with '04's report no problem. Seems that map-by-gear didn't start 'til '06, through you'd be the first '05 to report. Please use -12 (note negative, not positive) if you could please. By the way, my '06 has a rear wheel speed sensor attached to the rear disc. Your '05 doesn't have one? Hummm Well paint my face RED :wheel: just went outside (nice and cool finally) crawled under old Silver and there they were hydraulic lines and a jacketed set of sensor wires going to you guessed it, a sensor and ring. soooo. Looks like there would be no interaction between the speedo healer and ABS since data is read at the wheels for the ABS. Ok like you said minus 12 (that's what I meant to say)

ABS triggers at a specified difference in speed between the front and rear tires. Front tire speed detected by the sensor ring will always be in the same ratio to ground speed with some variation due to tire circumference and related wear. Rear tire ground speed is detected at the drive sprocket sensor and will vary in direct proportion to sprocket changes. How much effect this will have on the VFR ABS is not known. If the ABS triggers at 'near' lockup (Bonneville SSEi) the effect is likely negligible. Haven't had a chance to do the +11% check on my 05 yet, it is running well with a 7% correction. (finally finished the #@%%&* roof, more time for ole Silver now) Adrian

Hi Tim, Have had my GenMars on for about a week now, like others first time took a while, next time would be five to ten minutes max. Check to see if the throttle cables get chafed by the bottom of the ignition assembly when turned to the right, mine did so added spiral cable ties just like in the low beam/high beam mod. Would I buy them again? Maybe, didn't notice a great benefit, have them full back now will try them full forward later, no clearance issues either way. SilverVee