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I backed my '98 up nearly a whole foot...to get the track bikes out to the trailer without having to move a car. It hasn't moved that far in too long!

In preparation for my spiffy Woodcraft clip-on risers, I decided to take apart my throttle and see if my new Vista Cruise works well... ooh ahh... cant wait.... Well... despite my belief that my VFR has the snappiest throttle in the garage... this is what I found: 😧 CODE RED. NOT BUENO. I guess that's what 62k hard miles will do to a throttle... Thank goodness for the used market though. Copped a used set (only 13k on the donor bike) for $25 from Sun Coast Cycle Parts, as opposed to shelling for new-new stuff. I am also replacing the throttle tube... because... I mean look at it: Could I jam the new cable in there? Sure... but I ordered a new nylon tube from Motion Pro that should suit me fine, and I have a spare set of grips on the shelf collecting dust bunnies... All this because I just wanted to play with the Viffer in the garage today 😭

Any "while I'm in theres?" (j/k) -- Post up your Woodcraft install when you have that going... 🙂

I'm usually pretty unimpressed with powder coaters. All assembled, your stuff looks great. I had some front and rear calipers and brackets (for my forthcoming last 86 VFR RestoMod... or so I say) powder coated by somebody that specialized in motorcycle components and did RestoMod / Restorations. I had just came off of restoring about 4 complete sets of brakes one after another and I was just fucking tired of it. The masking was perfect, the finish sublime and the colors killer. What it wasn't was cheap for 6 fairly small components. Good-Fast-Cheap-pick-any-two still intact. In the future I will restore them myself like I always have done. Glad the drill thru went smooth. Keep it up! There's only 17 more while-I'm-there's left. 😉