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OK folks, my bad but I'm sure I will be forgiven shortly. I was supposed to update everyone who bought headers yesterday that their package was dropped off at FedEx and should be on its way to them. Unfortunately this applies only to the domestic shipments, as we use the USPS for international shipments (much cheaper) but getting to the Post Office has been a challenge (see below). Rest assured we will do our very best to get ALL shipments out this week. I'm multi-tasking at the moment, as I'm working from home, like I typically do ironically, but for some reason today and yesterday got real busy with conference phone calls, emails and support calls. So I may not get you a PM with your tracking number until later today. That being said, stay safe and healthy and let's hope this pandemic will blow over soon! Cheers, D

Brilliant and makes me feel really good. Why? I have a VFR750 I bought new in the UK in 1988. About 338,000kms, or 210,000 miles and I have couriered on it, raced at Brands Hatch, been all over Europe and then bought it with me to New Zealand, where I now live. Bought and engineering business afew years back and we do bike and car engine rebuilds. Classics, V8s, diesels, trucks, anything. And the guy who runs it is a mad biker, with 13 bikes. So who better to work on it? Back in the UK I had a bike shop specialising in VFRs are started the VFR Owners Club back in the mid 1990s. SO I know a little about them. Took it into be looked over and anything that needed fixing was going to be done. Like you, everything checked. Very slight wear on the barrels, just need a hone out. Rings fine, compression fine, carbs fine. Been dynojetted pretty much since new and got a race Renegade system on it with K&N air filter. So we'll do the hone, replace the rings, (be silly not to) and replace the clutch basket bearings as they are a little rattly. But apart from that, everything is fine. So moral of the story is use your VFR. They can take it and their reputation as one of the best made over engineered bikes ever made is well deserved. I'll do many more miles on mine, I reckon I'll stop before it does! And I had a new 1998 VFR800 as well. Much quicker, smoother etc, but prefer the old 750. Like a pair of old slippers, after 32 years, we're kinda mates now and can't see me binning it! Thanks for your story, makes me feel that we haven't missed anything on mine. These really are frigging good bikes......

Awesome to hear! Thanks for your feedback badelman! Far too often, you never hear from the guys that are happy with their product and only hear from the guys that are having issues. So it is great to read about your positive experience! Anyways, the best thing about the new Rapid Bike Racing is that you don't need to spend $250 on a dyno session with every mod that you do. So right now your bike is tuned for your stock setup. Then after you put on the pipercross filter and maybe do the snorkel and flapper, the rapid bike will tune for that after a few hundred miles. If you ever feel like putting slip-ons and maybe a catless header on sometime in the future, you can do so, without ever having to worry about tuning ever again. Just ride around for a few days and a few hundred miles, then do one hard high speed highway trip with lots of high gear high throttle pulls and then go home and apply the fueling changes. I wouldn't get too wrapped up in constantly applying changes, because they will always be a little different based on the weather conditions at the time that you were riding and your riding style that day. Just move the mapping over once or twice and let it be until you do another modification that would require different fuel mapping. Also you should save your maps before applying changes, jusy in case you don't like the changes that were made, so you can revert back to how it was.