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CLASS at Infineon 2007
In 2007 I attended one of Reg Pridmore's CLASS days at Infineon and it was a blast. A sunny mid-May track day in NorCal is damn hard to beat.
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But he didn't state, "I topped it off last Winter for storage, and then the clutch was inop this Spring and the res was nearly empty." There would be fluid somewhere, and it would be on the floor.
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Brake fluid doesn't just vanish. Pull the slave cylinder. Could be a breached seal or corroded piston down there.
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A little rally prep on the VFRs and CB-1. Oil level checks. Chain adjustments. Coolant level checks. PSI checks.
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Sold the 2006 VFR800, and I have these parts left over 1. Passenger handles with bolts, washers, and cover caps 2. Took kit 3. Some kind of filter screen (?) 4. Fork protectors (?) (1) Complete passenger handle parts (minus the underneath spacers) for a 2006 VFR800. It should fit 2003-2009 VFRs, so I’m told (please do your due diligence). (2) nearly complete tool kit. I think it’s missing the handle to the screwdriver (3) also, some kind of oil (?) screen? (4) fork protectors? The 5 pictures show everything you get. If you don't see 5 pics, let me know and I'll email/DM them to you $100 OBO + $25 S&H = $125 IMG_1540.jpg IMG_1541.jpg IMG_1542.jpg
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That is the same technique I use. with tubing going vertical. I sometimes recommend the traditional way because sometimes people don't get what is being described, it def works, and the sudden release can help move / release bubbles. Either way can work, but the open/close technique is not always completely unnecessary. I did have to switch to the hold / crack method on my friend's clutch to start getting decent results. And then we just pumped, moving nice clean, solid fluid to flush. Also, turn the bars all the way to the right and get the clutch master as near level as possible. This will allow air bubbles to get up to the bleed valve (that is under that metal hood). I will even loosen that handlebar, slide it up on the fork tube a little so the limiting tab is not engaged in the triple clamp, and rotate the bar to get the master actually pointing downhill, lever end higher than the banjo end.
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Indeed! Rapidbike quotes 300usd pr sensor at dealers. I have taken your route twice and almost halved the cost. NOK/USD is in a very bad place ATM! The torocharger kit was 5400usd if I remember correctly 13 years ago at 6 nok/usd - today its 9! Since I am tuning this myself I don't want to trust used sensors as this is very critical information and I ran out of spare engines 2 weeks ago 😅
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You can love them. I removed all of mine as none of them sealed reliably. Bleeding brakes/clutch just isn't that hard. The Open/close technique is completely unnecessary (and a PITA) if you just allow enough vertical tubing after the bleed nipple to keep any air from getting back in. Air is usually a problem from caliper piston being bound. If they're moving, they're not going back in when you release the leve, but fluid is being pulled through instead...so no air.
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By tread depth or date code? Any bike that looks like that AFTER being washed certainly did not get extracted, new tires installed and then pushed back over behind the shed. Looks familiar. I bought a similar condition project a couple years back that I have been slowly collecting and restoring parts for. It sat in a driveway next to a cement wall outside with no cover for 7 years. The gauges and brakes looked almost identical, with the sight windows broken and full of water. I took the front and rear brake systems off, and the clutch master, and threw them in the garbage. Didn't even bother trying to harvest parts, they were TOAST. And I've restored some real boat anchors. That is a bunch of work right there. Look forward to following along.
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Spent some time working in the Strangford loch area in the 80s and fell in love with the North Antrim coast. Never got to the NW 200 course, but what glorious biking roads around NI. Thanks for sharing
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A bit cleaner, now the parts list starts
lastfleetadmiral replied to NHVFRGUY's topic in Earlier VFRs
Good. Luck the condition looks similar to what I started with. Cost can quickly climb but it's fun seeing something get rescued. Do look closely at the suspension as it's bound to be nasty and worth spending time money and effort on. -
All deliverd to me today is a 10 pin NC24 ecu straight from China that I'm going to see if it will work on a RC24 both bikes have the same 180 degree crank and the pins and connectors look the same. The ecu is sold as unrestricted with no rev limiter. So will it work. I guess I will find out later this week. However I have one question that I can't find an answer for. Does anyone have the advance curve settings for a NC 24 . I have them for a RC24 but searching the Web cannot find the data on the 400 for comparison. If anyone can help it would be appreciated
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So my wife's Nephew had asked me before Covid, if we could ride to the Isle of Man for the TT races. Unfortunately the world got in the way & so we were trying to do it this year, but as they say we missed the boat. So I suggested the Classic TT, but he could not get those dates. Next suggestion was the NW200 in Northern Ireland, where I used to live & still have some old friends. So my friend Leigh (Red VFR750 4th gen) Nephew Dave (Kawasaki Z900) & me met up near Birmingham & one overnight Ferry from Liverpool to Belfast later on Wednesday night, took a ride up the A2 coast road on Thursday morning, which is both a great road & has fantastic views & scenery. Stopping at a few places & at one of my favourite places Ballintoy aka the Iron Islands from Game of Thrones. Or a very good Place fishing spot 👍 Cut to the chase and we watched the Thursday evening races from my friend Paul's house on the course. How close to 180mph bikes do you want to be ? Watch out for the slip stream trying to suck you over the gate. If you see the helicopter shots from Thursday you may see the Blue & Red VFR's in his garden 👍 Friday, no racing, so a free day. Caught up with my sister & my 94 year old mother, (just to explain the random pic), paid a visit to the Joey Dunlop Memorial garden in Ballymoney & tried to get to Joey's bar (but the queue for the bar was 50 deep) then off to Magilligan Point, who knew they built a peer & have a ferry there now? When I was a teenager there was an old fella with a couple of DUKW's "Ducks" that he would drive over to the other side, if you were brave enough. Pics of the cliff I nearly rode my C90 off many years ago 😳 Saturday we viewed the races from Portrush along the coast road to Portstewart. Apologies for the camera work or lack there of 🤷♀️ A leisurely start to Sunday with a proper Irish Fry breakfast followed by 100mile ride back to Belfast via the west & south sides of Loch Neagh (the largest body of fresh water in Europe) & back via part of the Ulster GP course & pits. Ferry back overnight & a 200 mile ride home today along the England/Welsh border via Iron Bridge (I'd never been before). Best of all NO rain for the whole trip. Enjoy https://share.icloud.com/photos/046rSuWK5ScNKefUAItcKEqkQ
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That fact that you were able to push *some* fluid, is a decent sign. At least I would take it as such if I was in the same boat. My buddy's bike recovered, and it was a crystallized mess pushing nothing. Oh and so were his front brakes when he opened that up.
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Yep, throttle bodies were cleaned according to the manual. So today I’ve decided to take another look. Removed everything except for the TB per se and made sure that everything is in place again. Sprayed aerosol all over the air box, funnels and hoses to recheck for any leak, nothing found. Double check all the connections to the harness and back, same. Still couldn’t test the compression as I will need to rent one from someone first but power output wise engine runs well. Ive tune again the vacuum to other values: #1: 2.1 cmhg #2: 1.1 cmhg (instead of max 1.6) #3: 2.3 cmhg #4: 2.2 cmhg Runs much smoother but with pops and bangs as well as fire coming out of the exhaust on deceleration. So I will revert back to the previous values. Inspected the screw mechanism for all cylinder and they seem to work properly, #2 also as I can decrease the value but not increase it. One interesting thing, it seems that from the crankshaft breather there’s unburned gas (see photo), so this makes the speculation of being a burned valve even more plausible. Will get back with a compression test and hope for the best. Thanks again Grum!
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350 USD sounds very high for LSU 4.9 sensors. LSU 4.9s come on tons of turbo cars these days and you can either get them from a junkyard or order an OEM version such as this for way cheaper, assuming rapidbike uses the same connector for their oxygen sensors.
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I can try that. I'm wondering if I will be able to get any pressure at all on the lever. I'll give it a try.
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OK. Good feedback. Yeah, you're not "really" pushing fluid yet. It should be more fluid than that per squeeze. You can actually feel the resistance of a solid fluid stream when it is bled. Perhaps install a normal nipple and try a traditional bleed. Pump, hold, crack - close, repeat.
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Hey Cptn. Not a drop of fluid on/around the bike or inside the side panels anywhere. The fluid was in good shape, full, and clean when parked. Never had any issues at all with this bike on the clutch. I filled the reservoir and pumped and got fluid to slowly come out of the tubing at the speedbleeder all the way into the bottle. But it was slow...like 14 lever pumps got the fluid ot move .25" kinds slow. Last driven about...10 months ago. But it was hot in the garage I'm sure over that time. The little metal tab that sits in the bottom of the reservoir (circular with a tab on it) is in good shape. Not bent or floating around in the reservoir...its in the recessed hole in the bottom. Didn't have any butter in the reservoir and what was in there wasn't dirty. Just not enough to cover the bottom of it. Had a small bit in one corner. I love these speedbleeders but maybe it has failed and let air in somehow.
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Thanks 👍🏻 From what I can see, this was a UK limited run of 250 bikes in 1999. It celebrated 50 years of Honda road bike sales and is done in the 1960's racing colours.
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If that much fluid has leaked, it would be on the ground under the bike, and probably taken a bunch of paint with it. Have a buddy's VFR in the shop right now. He's not very good with maintenance. He rode it over, but after it sat at my place for a few days, when I pulled the clutch lever... nothing. Opened it up and it was nearly empty and what was in there was the usual apple butter. Cleaned it out, introduced fresh fluid and bled the system. Works perfect and absolutely no leaks. When was the last time (before you parked the bike) that you actually opened the clutch res and looked at the fluid? Not just noticed some kind of fluid in the window. When you recently added fluid and "bled" the system, did you get ANY air bubbles? Because you def have them now after pulling on the lever with no resistance on an empty res. If you didn't get a bunch of bubbles in the clear tubing and THEN get solid, clear new fluid, it's not bled yet. Your problems arose after sitting with a lack of maintenance, not from a breakdown or after doing a clutch job, so it is unlikely the actuator rod or anything like that. Not saying you don't need the master (and maybe slave) rebuilt, but I think you just haven't actually removed all the air. Also make sure the brass bush in the clutch lever is decent, as it is a wear item designed to be checked and replaced as needed.
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Hi. First thing first. Put the bike into neutral by hand then you should be able to move it around. You said the clutch fluid reservoir was nearly empty. Suggests a leak somewhere in the very simple hydraulic circuit. You have refilled you say - any sign of leakage either at the banjos either end or along the line? If no leaks in the line take of the sprocket cover and slave cylinder. They will often come off together so you don't have to replace the slave gasket. Is there leakage from the secondary piston on the backside of the cover? Be careful as you don't really want to pop the piston right out. If there is leakage a seal has probably failed. Check the actuator rod the piston pushes against - make sure it moves freely; you should be able to pull it out a way and rotate it without issue . If there was no leak in the clutch line or slave cylinder and the actuator rod moves freely, reassemble and bleed the clutch again. PS: you have checked that the clutch lever on the handlebar is fully intact?
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The shaft pushing the clutch plates via the slave cylinder, accessible when you take the slave off. No need to get air in the system. 🙂
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I mentioned my afr values was weird and my last start up showed nothing. Another "issue" with the header reveals itself. The LSU sensors have bottomed out in the pipe as the bung is not centered in the hole (pic1) and the bungs are way to long for this application. In an optimal world, without H2O inside the exhaust, the less protrusion of the sensors the better for flow. The bungs included on the vfrd headers are 22mm and my position on this is that they are to long when localizing sensors this far away from the source. It will accumulate water and it will kill your sensor, and of course the mechanical stress from hitting the tube on the sensor tip. Also another picture of the non-purged welds. Pic 3 shows an exhaust leak which can make afr readings wrong. I have now refitted the headers as best as I can but it is a really bad fit, at least this time i have was able to bottom the cyl3 pipe in the header to prevent a leak. Both pictures shows protrusion: Pic 4.is pre cutting the bung length. Pic 5 is with bung cut down to 12mm, which makes for 13mm bung including pipe thickness. This I critical for LSU life as water droplets will collect when sensor tip is completely covered in a bung(hole) and it will take longer time for these drops to get blown away by hot gases. Let's hope this solves it. It's 350usd every time the sensors go byebye... I should have inspected this closer pre install. Always confirm you own ideas even though professionals have fabricated something.
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Congratulations on the beautiful 5th gen. and welcome to the forum! 🙂
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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.
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
Tommy-knockers Brewpub Idaho Springs
Idaho Springs Colorado
Mashtuns and fermenters
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
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
Echo Lake at Mount Evans showing off my new plate
Elephant Butte Park and Denver
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Veefalo on Squaw Pass
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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
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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I think that you might not know how to post videos. You're in your YT studio in these links. You need the link to the actual video. -
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