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The gauges turned out nice. This is what I did to the controls before I started memorializing my adventures on this forum; Every contact and mechanicals in the controls was full of gummed-up gunk...cleaned! The start button was broken, I drilled out and re-pinned. Ignition key switch was attacked with a screwdriver; the little dust door was folded in half and I had to create a new spot for that pivot pin in the switch housing. Turn signal switch ... I think someone used chain lube on all this shit....anyways its all cleaned and working. (I don't expect the key switch dust door to last long...:( ⚰️ New sight glass and rebuilds for the hydraulics. Now just waiting for the shock to come home from rebuilding, assemble the rear and pull the carbs. I have the o-rings to refresh the coolant plumbing as well.

Just got directed here from the fb group, I'm super psyched they are back in production! I just sent in deposit 🙂

Yeah, that did come out nice. Great job.

So, track day. Didn't embarrass itself and I rode it a lot (because the track bike developed a misfire). Didn't do anything to it over the two days other than check stuff and add fuel! Something still isn't right with the clutch....but...it's not unusable. Still enough drive to hit 130-135 on the clock down the back straight & start finish straights at Cadwell Park. For context I've seen 140 there on a 1999 R6 and 138 on a 1997 CBR600F. With less clutch oddity/issues it would be quicker (and to be fair if it had more ground clearance and I could enter faster). Pegs touch down early, unsure what touches down next and its a road bike not a track/race bike so full length hero blobs left on and treating them as the limit! Massive hanging off to avoid pegs down which resulted in a first of getting my knee down on it! 🤣 Just to set expectations here, it's always been a road bike, track/race bikes are for knee down (and I've done plenty of it) but on the VFR I've never ever even *tried* to get my knee down! Brakes worked well, only pootling round in the intermediates but its such a stable platform and the suspension improvements have let me really use them to their best. Good enough on the brakes to embarrass a few much, much newer bikes though! Need the longer shock before I try again though.