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Garage days, riding, and the occasional off-road excursion.

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Cleaning Up The Old (new To Me) Girl; 1999 Vfr800 Fi. Part 2

Time for another update! Granted, I haven't gotten much done since I last posted, or at least not a lot done on the bike. lol When last we left, I was waiting for my buddy, and all around VFR guru, Tony to come by to help me with a valve check. I'm confident enough to do the valves, but have never dug into this generation VFR and I know Tony knows all the shortcuts. ...waiting for him proved to be well worth it. Though I had remounted the forks to facilitate removing the rear, there was st
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Cleaning Up The Old (new To Me) Girl; 1999 Vfr800 Fi. Part 1

For those of you who saw my blog of going to pick up the '99 in West Orange, NJ you might recognize the old girl. ...she looks pretty good doesn't she? Well, pictures lie my friends! ...they lie, and they'll break your heart if you let them! Not one to let a perfectly good bike die a horrible death, I felt it was my duty to rescue her from the clutches of the east coast, salt-air weather, and bring her back to life as she started, in sunny SoCal. So, once I had her back here, it was ti
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Cleaning Up The Old (new To Me) Girl; 1999 Vfr800 Fi. Part 3

So when last I left you, I had just finished up the valves (with the help of my buddy Tony) and needed to get some additional wiring taken care or while waiting for my exhaust to get back from Jet-Hot. ...well, Father's Day weekend was as good a time as any to wrap up my project! :fing02: It started Friday with a call from my girlfriend that I had "missed" a delivery from FedEx. "Crap! ...that's my exhaust!" After a couple calls to FedEx (the first being a very rude lady telling me I woul
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Cross Country In 6 Days (new Jersey To La). Part 3

Days 6 – 7 Where was I? ...oh yes, Spearfish, SD. After visiting the local brew house for a burger, fries and a much needed beer, I walked back to the hotel and began going over my route through Wyoming. There seemed to be no way around it, even if I stopped only briefly at Devil's Tower, I was still looking at a 12 hour day to get across that big-ass state! Lol So I ditched my originally planned northern route to the tower, which would have been up 85 to 34 just before Belle Fourche, the
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Cross Country In 6 Days (new Jersey To La). Part 2

Days 4 – 5 Day 4 started off like any other, except that it was windy, and rainy, and the forecast was for severe thunderstorms with hail and tornadoes across the Midwestern region. ...oh joy!!! Undaunted and equipped with my new FroggToggs rain suit: frogg toggs® - Choose Product …and a belly full of homemade biscuits & gravy, I hit the road around 10am (hey, I'm on vacation). A short run up the Rock River towards Rockford found me on US 20 heading west. It was gloomy and had the oc
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Cross Country In 6 Days (new Jersey To La). Part 1

Days 1 - 3 I doubt everyone wants the gory details, but here's my (not so) brief account of my cross county adventure. I should preface this report by stating that this whole thing came together in about 2 weeks time, and with much help from my awesome girlfriend, Karisha. On little more than a whim, I agreed to purchase my buddy Marc's VFR, and purchased a ticket to Newark airport, arriving Friday May 8th. Of course, I threw my back out the Wednesday prior to leaving, and as of the day befo
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