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  2. ummmitscaiden
    I was never a fan of the plate mount options, so i spent a bit of time designing one myself, my plate is able to mount securely and clears the exhaust, and also has a hole for a license plate light if you are so inclined. im gonna have it laser cut from aluminum and powder coated matte black, i can get a decent discount for a bulk order so i figured id ask here if anyone is interested, looks like i can probably do them for $25 and shipping
  3. arrow
    Hi arrow, Thank you for your donation of 5.00 USD. We look forward to improving the forums with your donation. Thanks VFRDiscussion
  4. JZH
    As mentioned in the Torocharger thread, this bike did make it to Rotterdam, but it is still locked in a warehouse, and the Dutch shipping agents seem very reluctant to just let me have it and take it to the UK. I have imported US bikes into the EU a few times over the last 30 years, once was even into NL, but those were bikes I was riding around Europe as a "tourist". This one is missing things like the battery, fuel and oil, as well as "green card" insurance, but I could supply those things... No doubt the EU's importation rules have tightened over the years, so I will have to be patient, and may need to to wait until the bulk of my US stuff is imported in connection with my move to NL. But the good news is that I appear to have bought a big garage in Leiden (with a nice house on top for the missus), and I'm scheduled to get the keys for it in July. It's a traditional, 18th century "canal house" which has not been converted (as so many of them have been), and the ground floor is still a big open space with a 12' ceiling. It will still be a challenge to get all my bikes (not to mention the van!) inside, but I have some ideas about how I might take advantage of the height to do that... 🤔 Ciao, JZH
  5. arrow
    Sorry to hear about your health problems, I hope you get better soon. Nice to hear from you in any case. There’ a dyno shop in Goes Netherlands -Tovami, owned by Fredrik Ruud- which tuned my SC bike with Rapidbike back in 2010. That SC kit is in Seb’s bike now. It’s apparently 15 hours away from your hometown by riding (including a ferry). It’s not practical for you of course but hey it would be and adventure 😄… Here’s the video of my dyno run by the way: I don’t think anyone here will say that your project is unnecessary, I think it’s wonderful that you are chasing your dream. Looking forward to hearing from you, good luck!
  6. JZH
    I thought there was a way to re-code HISS keys, but if not, you could probably buy a second-hand US-spec ECU, as they never got HISS. Ciao, JZH
  7. kenthom2
    So my VFR keys got stolen and I'm left with an old key that turns the engine but doesn't fire. Honda dealer says they can't help and it needs a new ecu with matched keys which is obvs discontinued now. Any ideas how I can get it to run? Can HISS be disabled? Hoping you guys can help, I love the bike and she is too good to lose!
  8. Ughandi
    Homie on the dyno definitely turned up some gains on the results for ya to make you happy. I'd go somewhere else to pull. FYSA. I made 114 hp only after WILD headers & a staintune can, Wide band O2 sensors on each cylinder to tune each cylinder independently, a lightweight flywheel, 520 chain conversion, coil on plug conversion, pair & flap, and a hi flow filter. And my baseline dyno was at 73hp lmao. I was down a cylinder and in desperate need of a valve clearance (baseline after we got that addressed was ~100 hp, sans headers, COP, flywheel and 520 chain)
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  10. Captain 80s
    /s
  11. Gaz66
    Totally agree Captain 80's, age of post is irrelevant imho. Most members on here, me included are here for some good banter/chat, help others in their struggles & I feel it's my duty to call out the obvious Bull 💩erzzzzz that waste any of our time, drain the collectives energy when genuine help is offered in an easy to follow logical/methodical manner....Oooo get me with the the big words on a Friday & I aint even had a beer yet. Howz the riding weather over your way? Still sub 10 Centigrade & mostly wet here in the UK.
  12. Captain 80s
    The post was over FOUR YEARS AGO. Way to call them out. Statute of limitations doesn't expire on this level of BS.
  13. Gaz66
  14. Gaz66
    I smell Bull💩 No bike details in Dyno print? No base dyno run to work from? No dyno operator re-maps an ECU without 1st doing a base dyno run of stock BHP @ wheel. Must be "lets make shit up week".
  15. Dutchy
    Sounds great, but I didinot get to put in any bank account details... I'd understand if Donald doesnot want euro trash money, but come on!!!
  16. Dutchy
    Hi Dutchy, Thank you for your donation of 25.00 USD. We look forward to improving the forums with your donation. Thanks VFRDiscussion
  17. slo1

    Touring

    Images added to a gallery album owned by slo1 in Member's Gallery

    Finding epic roads in far away places is the best
  18. Captain 80s
    Recent issues from the last 15 years also speculate that this is the year they release the RVF1000R-R!!!!!!!!
  19. Captain 80s
    This little rascal sitting on a shelf in my shop has a different take...
  20. arrow
    Recent issue of Motorrad speculates that the first version might be a naked model…
  21. boOZZIE
    Was just thinking the other day that there was still no reply Hope things turn around for the better, shortly It's that last 5% that will make it all worth it 🍿🍿
  22. Worfje
    Very interested in the update (and upgrade). 11137A is 3.5 bar 11142A is 3.0 bar Which year of the CBR929 injectors are compatible with 5th gen? Nevermind, probably 2000/2001 since that are the only years it was sold.
  23. maxredline
    Staintune is a classic exhaust where you will never have problems with the law or neighbors regarding a loud pipe.
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  25. squirrelman
    not the cdi getting hot, its a pulse generator
  26. FromMaine
    Hi: Don't know when or if PayPal will be an option. Apparently new rules require PayPal and others to report anything over a certain total as income. Which sucks as obviously the board is not run for profit. There is an option to send a check or money order. Click on the donation options and click on the check/money order and Miguel's details will be there. I just sent a check yesterday. I'm sure Miguel would appreciate anything right now until he figures out a a way to recieve donations electronically without being taxed on them.
  27. andykb
    Just a quick update on this for anyone with similar oddness happening. I tested the battery and the reg/rec and both were good. The reg/rec had already been replaced so I would have been annoyed if that turned out to be the culprit. Having checked those and knowing that I needed to replace the oil anyway, I decided to take a look at the pulse generator (thank you squirrelman for the suggestion). It turns out that one of the wires to the pulse generator had been squashed into the gasket and flattened by the casing when it was tightened up. It was flat with exposed wire, because i'd been stupid and not noticed the potential for damage on a previous ocassion. I bought and installed a replacement pulse generator and now the bike will run for more than 10 minutes without cutting the engine 🙂 It still has a problem with cold starts so it's not completely solved it but I'm pretty sure that the badly wired pulse generator heating up was responsible for the stalls. It fires up beautifully when warm now, but overnight it turns back into a pig to get running.
  28. WackenSS
    Hi Bumpers and Bumperettes! I am fine, thanks for asking guys. My health is still getting worse by the year and that was kinda what happened last year. Combine it with the let down of first block not being tunable by me and the fact that i had to start weekly purchases of LSU`s to keep up i just said fuck it. There is no Dyno close who will do RapidBike so the math stoped making sense with all i have to redoo to get shit proper and reliable. Some will say this project never made sense - i DO NOT AGGRE! All one can ask for in life is the ability to do something you love, and have the money to do it nomatter what it is and in a perfect world everything else should be shown the door! 298 days since my last post there is at least some news. I have ordered 2 more MyTuningBikes and enough sensors to sniff all 4 cylinders. I will have to strip her again, remove the headers and weld in 4 bungs. But first i will have to dyno my aprilia sxv and get her ready for a new owner and complete the FJ1100 restauration also going out the door! Getting rid of all the "noise" aka bikes i do not intend to use any longer will be necessary for me at this point in life. well, selling two and added one - cagiva Mito sp525 in very good shape, nothing major and a bike that is so rare i could not help myself, but the VFR will take presedence! To be continued - until completed!
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    1. HispanicSlammer

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      Juniper Pass

      I took a day off from work and also from my bicycle training to take out the Veefalo one last time before the weather turns ugly, supposed to snow the rest of the week and possibly start sticking to the ground along the Colorado Front Range. I took a leisurely pace up hwy 105 toward Morrison and got reacquainted with the bike since its been over a month since I took any sort of twisties on it at all, hwy 105 is a scenic ride along the front range between Denver and Colorado Springs, its mostly easy fast sweepers and lite traffic so its a favorite road of mine when going north. Then I have to negotiate a bit of traffic near Highlands ranch and up hwy 470 into the mountains. I decided to take the Morrison Exit and try either Lookout Mountain or head up Golden Gate Canyon - this time it was Lookout Mountain, I was sort of making it up on the fly as I went along. Lookout Mountain is my old bicycling haunt from my days while I was working at Coors, its a killer ride and all uphill - I don't think I could do it today If I had to, not quite there yet! I saw a whole bunch of riders doing it though and wished I was in shape enough to be there doing it as well. 30 more lbs and I will be able to do it! On this day I would do it on the Veefalo instead.

       

       

       

       

      I took a video from the gateway to the top at the Lookout Mountain State Park, getting past riders, the guy in the green jacket actually pretty much astounded me with how far he had gotten in the short time it took me to set up my camera, some 3 miles at least and up to the gateway from the turn off at hwy 6! Amazing I thought. I took the first two turns slow then got more comfortable as I went up further, till I was doing well, I made some gearing mistakes and took the tight 15mph marked hairpins in the wrong gear so I lugged it a bit on one or two. Still enjoyed it though and then got off at the top and hiked over a rock outcropping for an overview of the road for the pictures below.

       

       

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      Lookout Mountain - Golden Colorado

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      Lookout Mountain Park top of the mountain

      From there I headed up interstate 70 to Idaho Springs for a beer at the Tommy-knockers brewery, I was the only customer in the joint - slow day for them so they treated me like a king! I got a nice tour of the place sort of impromptu, they made me a nice Pastrami sandwich on rye and with the brown ale it was fantastic. I must say the beer is much better there than in the bottles - its always good at the brewery. I am glad I stopped

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      Tommy-knockers Brewpub Idaho Springs

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      Idaho Springs Colorado

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      Mashtuns and fermenters

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      Rows of fermenters

      I finished my lunch and since the road to Mount Evans is right there I headed up Squaw pass hoping to get in some nice pictures I wasn't expecting what I found, ICE IN ALL THE SHADY PARTS

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      Icy patches on Squaw Pass definitely taking it easy on that road

      There were some section where the ice covered the whole road for 300 yards or so I had to roll through it with my legs out to help keep the bike from sliding and falling over, I took it real slow. A Ford pickup was right behind me so I pulled over to let him pass but the guy was going slower then even I was so I pressed on - in places where I could see I just cut over to the oncoming lane and out of the ice where the sun was shining on the road more, but some places there was not alternative so I just had to go slow, good thing it wasn't slick but rather they tossed some gravel over the worst parts so I had some traction!

      I did stop for pictures in all the best spots

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      Echo Lake at Mount Evans showing off my new plate

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      Elephant Butte Park and Denver

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      Close up

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      Veefalo on Squaw Pass

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      Juniper Pass

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      Juniper Pass

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      Mount Evans

      My route A is home B is Tommy-knockers

       

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      I Am Back !

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      Not that it matters and not that I expect anyone had noticed, but to those who sent me "where are you?" I would like to say I am back. Not only that I am officially returning to VFRD after nearly 2 months break but I have also ridden my Hawk last weekend and had FUN! Let me restate that; I had major fun riding! Something I have almost given up on.

      Most of you have been riding your whole adult lives and riding is not only a hobby to you, it is part of you. But I started riding three years ago and even though I have encounter some setbacks, till this spring I loved riding with whole my heart. However, I have always considered riding as my hobby. As a hobby which suppose to make my life better, more fun and more rich. Life is too short to do something which we don't fully love.

      My love of riding received a first major scar this spring: I lost a friend on the racetrack. He was a total stranger who offered me his help after I lowsided at CMP track last year. I still remember hearing his "Hi, my name is Todd, do you need help?" while I was duct-taping my roadrash from ripped jacket. He helped me straighten up the shifter and we kept in touch. The next time we saw each other was the day he died.

      With 9 months delay, I can say that Todd's death shook me more than I have realized. It rooted fear in me which was fueled by seeing and hearing about others getting hurt over and over again. If I was to summarize this year - it would be one big accident report. I became sensitive to every broken bone, every roadrash, every lowside. And even though I did 10 track days this year, I became slower and slower and slower. Suddenly, I have acquired this 'grandma' riding style on the road, frozen with fear that behind every corner there is car standing in my lane, or major sand trap or deer staring at me ... I was crippled with fear not only for me about also for my fellow rider.

      So, at the end of this year, I rode more and more by myself. I could not bear the feelings of responsibility for others on the road and my lines were crippled by my own fears. It all culminated this fall at WDGAH. In a freaky accident Love2rideh82crash was taken down by a truck crossing into our lane. I was done. I finished the weekend, locked the VFR into a garage and took a break.

      Until the last weekend, I pretended that motorcycles do not exists. As a last instance after 2 months break from riding, I decided to go to CMP track to see if I can still have fun. I also felt like I should go for the memory of Todd. I went and I had fun! I had much more fun than I expected and the most fun on track I can remember. Suddenly the whole track connected into an uninterupted line of turns and I felt one with the bike riding around! I was giggling like a little girl in my helmet and keep on giggling ever since smile.gif

      Granted I was not the fastest one and through out the weekend, I have never exceeded about 60% of my riding abilities, but I had no "oh-shit" nor 'blond' moments. I could have maybe go faster, I could have brake later for the turns and I could have lean further, but I am no Rossi nor Stoner. I decided to ride for fun and I had amazing blast riding well within my comfort zone.

      I was proud of myself when, after bandaging Ricks arm, I was able to distance myself and go back to riding without the year-long fear. I did feel bad for him but the feelings were not crippling my lines nor my mind. And when a total stranger came to me and said "Hi, my name is Todd", my heart stopped for a minute though but I suddenly knew that my life went a full circle. I probably will never win MotoGP :idea3: , but I am back! :wheel:

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