VFRBulldawg

All of your hard work and years of dedication are appreciated. This has always been the best motorcycle community on the internet. I met so many great people and have so many great memories that I never would have had if not for you and VFRD. VFRD has directly and indirectly enriched the lives of countless people. Thank you.

Basic maintenance? Plugs, air filter, oil and filter, coolant flush, brake/clutch fluid flush, brake pads, head bearings (Don't know your mileage, just throwing them all out there...)

Heated Grips

Good idea. I'm at 23,000 miles so it's almost time to replace the coolant, brake, and clutch fluid.

I've thought about heated grips before. Do you have a recommendation on a set that will work with the throttlemeister?

Steibel Horn

Scott Chain Oiler

Voltmeter

A chain oiler and voltmeter would be nice to have but I think I'll put those off for now. The steibel horn sounds like a good idea. I'll look into that.

^ this .... have good time 'dawg .... sounds like a lot of fun .... methinks you've got an understanding wife

I'm single so I get to spend my expendable income how I want to. Good thing for some recent OT.

This. Also, while checking out your leaky clutch cover issue at TMAC, I noticed that your girl could use a little TLC as far as cleaning... always good to do and easier when the bike is already apart for other things.

A very good point. I plan to give her a very thorough cleaning. So many times where I think about washing her I end up taking her for a ride instead.

Ok, I have torn down the suspension on my bike and already shipped off the forks and rear shock parts to Jamie Daugherty for a custom rebuild. Since I've got the bike apart I'm doing lots of mods. See below:

Mods completed prior:

Corbin Gunfighter seat

Throttlemeister

Motovation Frame Sliders

Givi V35 side cases on standard Givi PLX-166 side racks

K&N air filter

Lobstenders

Mods I will be doing over the next few weeks:

Having Jamie Daugherty rebuld the front forks and rear shock

Laser X-treme Exhaust

Installing a VFRness with a fuse block

Speedohealer

Kanadien Ken's Fender Elminator

Signal Dynamics Diamond Star Head Light Modulator

Signal Dynamics Back Off XP Tail Light Modulator

Installing Front and Rear Accessory Power Outlets

Installing Luggage Electronix Connectors to my tank bag, tail bag, and V35 side cases

Swapping out the Givi PLX-166 standard side racks with the Givi PLXR-166 quick release side racks

I would like to install a power commander but I have decided to put that off for a bit due to cost since I want to get a PC-V with autotune. Since I've got the bike all torn down for a few weeks can y'all recommend any other mods I should consider?

Ah, I see. AC voltage test it is, then. Will do shortly. Apparently you and I are the only ones interested...

Nope, I've been tracking this thread the whole time.

I sent MOTY and email this morning. Brian Harris got back to me real quick. They are going to send me a replacement battery. I've gotten nothing but good customer service with MOTY in all my dealings with them. Hopefully I just had a dud battery and the problems go away with the new one.

I am having similar problems with my MOTY battery. It started right up when I first installed it. Then the bike had to sit for a while due to knee surgery. On two different occasions where the bike sat for 2-3 weeks without being started the battery was totally dead and I had to jump start it. The first morning at TMAC the battery was too weak to start the motor but there was some power I had to get a push to roll start it. Then last week I was giving short rides to some of my cousins up and down the street. I had been riding fairly slowly 25-35 mph with frequent stops for about 30 minutes when I shut the bike down. I triedvto start it again 5 minutes later and had to roll start it again.

I was excited about this battery, but it's not working well. Far too unreliable. I intend to email MOTY about it next week. I hope they replace it. They seem like a new company and perhaps their quality control needs some work. Even though I got a discount on that limited number VFRD group buy I expect the battery to work for the $130 something I paid for it. If they don't replace it or the replacement has the same problems I'm going with a Shorai. I haven't seen anything but good reviews on those so far.

I believe that the vtec does give a 6th gen more low end grunt. Two valves per cylinder usually gives you more low rpm torque but chokes the engine at high rpm. Its really late where I am but I recall it has something to do with keeping back pressure or static pressure high enough through the exhaust system which is why you don't want to just open an exhaust wide open without making other changes to the engine because it decreases low rpm torque. I'm sure one of our engine experts will be along to explain further or correct me soon. If vtec cuts low rpm torque then why would honda put it on the bike? That's kinda dumb.

I've always been under the impression that the vent on the bottom of the screens was to induce a little high pressure in the cockpit area... help spoil the low-pressure turbulence that would normally be seen from the air rolling off the top of the wind-screen? the laminar lips would just be trying to do the same thing... just 'extending' the turbulance further back... I dunno.. I'm just moderately versed in this stuff.

I agree, it is there to help with flow under the windscreen and to help reduce turbulence behind the screen. In all likelihood, without it you would get a low pressure vortex up under there. I had a long day at work and my engineering brain is shot at the moment. I'll be having some beers with some old college buddies who did aerospace engineering with me later tonight. Perhaps we can hash this out and come up with only a mildly beer influenced psuedo scientific answer.

It's early, but I'll take a SWAG at this. As an aerospace engineer I just can't help myself.

First, your description of laminar flow over and airfoil is a little backwards. When talking about a typical wing shaped airfoil the the curvature makes the upper surface longer than the lower surface. This requires the airflow over the upper section to have to increase velocity relative the airflow over the lower section to move the same linear distance from leading edge to trailing edge. Fluid mechanics tells us that when air flow increases velocity while holding temperature constant that the air pressure drops. I know this can sound counter intuitive to some people, but higher airflow velocity means lower air pressure, but don't confuse air pressure with drag forces caused by airflow moving around an object. Drag force is primarily a function of the airflow velocity squared, not air pressure.

I don't think your laminar airfoil flow model really applies well, here. There is a very small opening at the front of the windscreen letting in a small amount of airflow under the windscreen relative to the amount of airflows over it. I can't say for 100% sure, but I feel pretty confident that the area under the windscreen is a low pressure pocket, and not a high pressure pocket, relative to the air pressure moving over the windscreen. That small amount of airflow from the inlet spreads out to cover a greater volume as it moves back.

Well, I have to run at the moment. I'll try to come back later.