Millertm

I miss those day, I had the castle in my backyard when I was in Pueblo West, it was just under 100miles round trip from my house.

Yep the stock springs are useless for guys > 100K. I myself bought a set of the racetech 1.2K springs along with the G2-R gold valves. My bandit also has the Ohlins rear SU-714 and it was under sprung at 170 N/M so I got the 180N/M spring and had that same issue you did. Now my preload is all the way out and my bike is a bit taller but it fits me fine and does not dive as much under hard braking. I was also told that once you springs "bed in" you will loose some preload ability, talking about your last trip and now. Mark

Not speaking Dutch, what happend to the rear tire? Or since it is in Dutch what happend to the rear tyre? Mark

I have used Silkoline 10W-40 and 15W-50 4T, it is costly but works great. You can get it at any Duk shop. Mark

Wow I thought the dealers were costly here in NM, the most I pay at the Duk shop is $80 and hour. The Suzuki, Kaw and Honda shops are $75 and hour. Mark

Yep, I had a great time and yes your bike is a bit faster then mine, well for now anyway. I am looking at some 12.5:1 pistons now (kidding), anyway I did enjoy you bike very much, it is quite smooth and very fast when you get on it. Yea Honda is still making some very cool bikes and You and RedDog are fun to ride with since I can not find many fast guys down south. Anytime I can get up North I will glady join you and whoever. Mark

I sent an email to power commander about the 1st & 2nd gear limiting & there response wasn't conclusive on the way honda have gone about doing the limiting, my guess is fueling will have no effect so fitting a pc alone won't help the 1st & 2nd gear limiting & it is performed with the timing. What you have said makes sense but it would be nice to know exactly what Honda have done. I found this dyno map that has a 2nd gear run over layed onto 3rd & 4th gear run, you can plainly see the dip & 20hp odd less power in 2nd gear. yeah that dip doesnt look like fun... funny this who time i thought the limiting was done with the throttle bodies, not just pulling back igniton timng. well it makes sence, honda does it to the cbr1000rr and 600rr. anyways if its timing its a simple fix that any of these companies can make for the vfr... just look up : dyno jet ignition module, TRE bazzaz z bomb. all the tuning companes have solutions for this. almost every suzuki bike has restricted timing. and honda pulled almost 10 hp off the top of the new us model cbr1000rr to meet noise emissions: http://www.motovation-accessory.com.sg/index.php?act=article&id=6 http://www.bazzaz.net/bz1/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=vmj_genx_img1.tpl&product_id=138&category_id=26&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=181 http://www.ivansperformanceproducts.com/tre.htm In looking at your hp chart I noticed that you tq and hp did not cross at 5252 rpms, That leads me to beileve that there is some issue with the valididy of this chart. Hp is defined as (tq X rpm)/5252, therefore the TQ and HP lines must cross at 5252 rpms.

Man I miss the castle run, I used to live very close and it was about an hour round trip to the castle and back. Oh well, like the vid and pix's. Thanks for reminding me of what I no longer can do Miguel. :)

Yea it is too bad that you did not get that pipe untill after our NM ride. Oh well, there will be next time I guess :) It does look much better and now you can at least hear it (better).

good write up as you always seem to do, sorry I missed it.

BR I think its half a dozen here and 6 the other. The Ohlins has a beefy spring diameter but it also has two more coils than the oem so I think its a wash. Pretty close to OEM I suspect. I was going to go calcualte it out but did not as of yet, same coil overhead diameters around the shock body. The OEM has 4 coils and the Ohlins has 2 more, so the Ohlins might be even less spring rate. More coils = less spring rate. Thicker coil wire = more spring rate. Wash I think between them. I was told that the Ohlins has smaller diameter springs but that they are stiffer due to the way Ohlins manufactures them. This is why they are so sought after. They are lighter and stiffer then the other guys.

Nice, how does it handle now. My Ohilns seem to want to bring up the front end more then the stock one did, did you notice this as well?

Looks very clean. Great Job.