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I like my staintune.
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heres an old vid of mine. sounds the same today.
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File Name: PC5 on a 5th gen VFR
File Submitter: VFRBenny
File Submitted: 30 Jan 2012
File Updated: 07 Feb 2012
File Category: Power Commander Maps
Hi all, here's a map for the PC5 on a 5th gen VFR. As you can see from the pic, the air box has been hacked up pretty good. Using a PiperCross filter, Staintune hi mount, Pair's disabled and o2 sensors disabled. Runs like a batt out of Hell.
Enjoy.
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Funny, the first Honda Hoot I every went to was in 2000. I signed up for the "Sport Ride"(what a Joke!) and I was solo, so I rode around the parking lot full of bikes looking at Chicken Stripes and found two bikes with the smallest ones. It was a pair of BMW riders, I asked if I could tag along and we hard a decent ride for the most part. There were not fast, but had good skills and didn't stop for the turns. Ended up going solo again sometime after lunch as the One Turn in the first half of the Sport Ride was just too much for me and a 50 bike follow the leader wasn't my idea of fun. :huh:
This was my first time to the area and when I split off I ended up finding the Dragon and a BUNCH of great roads to ride for the next few days.
Never went back to a Hoot and returned to the TN/GA/NC triangle as often as possible! :fing02:
BR
Does not play well with others! :laugh:
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...very dissappointed: I cant see pics only red x's...
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What is the camera POI's?
Something TomTom gives you free but Garmin wants $35. a year for! But this site offers them for $5. or $20. per year and they seem to work better than TT or Garmins stock stuff.
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How do you like the Garmin vs. the TomTom thus far? I've a cheap TomTom One and the thing is great about not telling me what lane I should be in until it's basically too-late. There's some other things like that which I'm not too excited about either...
The XL 335s is many years ahead of this Nuvi550. In a car, the TT is much much better. If you need routes, waterproof, a big mph display and a few other things, the Garmin is the way to go.
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Not only do I like your GPS install. That's another great idea, using velcro to capture keychain parts.
Could be tuned to eliminate all key associated damage.
Ya, I like Velcro! Will see how the mount holds up. I'm going to safety wire the cradle to the mount(just in case).
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So I got caught in a heavy rain storm and my $100. TomTom got real wet and started flaking out! So I went on the hunt for something waterproof. I found REI had a demo of the Garmin Nuvi 550 for $210. Also bought a Gamin scooter mount for $25.
Got the Camera poi's for $5. and it's working well.
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How much $$ for the HyperPros? Did they base your springs on your weight (I'm about 220 too) or are they just one set for anyone with a Y2K VFR? Thanks for the info...:rolleyes:
$139. and they are a one size fits all.
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That's exactly why they recommended the 20wt IMO. In reality the valves should be done to compensate for the firmer springs. Curious if the heavier oil alone will have any side effects. Glad that it feels great though.
The Hp springs had 8 more coils, I guess the valving change is the heavy oil.
More coils doesn't necessarily mean stiffer, do you know the actual kg rating of the springs. Curious on your 1200# rear spring, what do you weight?
I'm about 220. The springs are rising rate and I dont know if the have a single kg weight, I counted 11 different coil rates.
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Thanks for the info
I'll assume stock is 100 mm (typically is)
I spoke to them one time, to find out whether their spring was stiffer than stock. They wouldnt answer or give me oil heights or weights they were using.
The stock vfr is a progessive spring, typically I would expect about 20mm less oil height using a 20 weight over a 10 weight). in your case its 30 mm.
To me it sounds like those two springs are real close, being there's no valving change.
The 20 weight oil, is more the key of improvement feel IMO , that weight really would stiffen the valving. The question is the rebound qualities, this normally takes large succesive hits, to see if rebound is adaqute, not as important on the street since its pretty smooth.
Anyone want to dabble with a 20 weight on their stock springs?
The Hp springs had 8 more coils, I guess the valving change is the heavy oil.
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I seek wisdom from the sages.
Upon disassembling the rear suspension on my 2001 VFR with ~39k miles (which was probably the first time the rear suspension's been taken apart as I've owned it for only two years and the guy whom I bought it from was an older gent who didn't do much modding or tinkering), I noticed that the inside of the linkage triangles have gouges in them; in other words, some of the aluminum has been scraped off due to rubbing against the dogbone and shock pivots. This can't be normal wear. The collars within all the pivots seem to be creating the appropriate spacing, but somehow there's some scraping going on. Unfortunately, I didn't take any photos; I'll be sure to take some soon when I install a rebuilt shock. Anyway, just want to know if anyone else has had a similar experience and can provide some information. Thanks for your time.
Mine had no wear marks, as I removed them an cleaned when I did my shock swap. Maybe the chain/wheel was out of alinement or something?
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I dont know if there the best or not! I do know the bike handles like never before(in a good way).
No oversteer, no understeer, no wallowing, no excessive dive under braking, all this and a smooth ride!
I was hesitant to use the 20wt oil, but it turns out that the folks at HyperPro did there homework, as the bike handles like a dream.
Also got my Penske shock dialed in. I'm ready for some all day twisty tours!
2o weight oil?
what is stock oil height on your 2000 model, and what oil height did hyper recommend?
Dont know stock height. HyperPro is 130 mm.
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Did you revalve the forks or just put new springs? What rate rear spring did you use?
Glad it's working out, proper suspension makes it like a whole new bike.
No revalve, just springs and oil. The Penske was from my old gsxr and I had it reworked for the VFR. 1200 lb (21 kg) spring.
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I dont know if there the best or not! I do know the bike handles like never before(in a good way).
No oversteer, no understeer, no wallowing, no excessive dive under braking, all this and a smooth ride!
I was hesitant to use the 20wt oil, but it turns out that the folks at HyperPro did there homework, as the bike handles like a dream.
Also got my Penske shock dialed in. I'm ready for some all day twisty tours!
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Been waiting on this one to get built, I got it in with little to no pain. Going to install my HyperPro fork springs in the morning.
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OK laugh if you will, but I saved 935 bucks and I am navigating.
This GPS is on Ebay and they go from between 65 and 80 bucks. It comes from china. As far as I can tell it is either someone else's GPS remade into a plain wrapper, or some Chinese fela has figured out how to make em cheep.
It came with maps of North America on a 2 gig SD card. It plays mp3, mp4, flash, jpeg, has 8 games, a unit converter,a calculator, a blue tooth cellphone command head and it is touch screen. Has day and night colour options.
It is just a little hard to navigate the menus, but it seems to have all the features of the more expensive jobs. It is adjustable for 2D or 3D viewing and has time to destination, arrival time, speed, average speed, time stopped, average driving speed and tels you when you go over the speed limit. (this can be disabled). You can choose among 16 languages and there are 5 choices for english (sadly, no UK female in english).
It powers up quickly, aquires quickly, and is accurate.
Perfect for tossing round if you have a valuable cray super-computer on your dashboard for adventures. For what I need it for, it is more than enough. I actualy really like it.
Screen Size
4.3’’ TFT LCD Touch Screen
Dimensions
120*80*15mm
Weight
About 180g
Main Language
English, Cestina, Dansk, Deutsch, Espanol, Finland, Francais, Greece, Italiano, Magyar, Nederlands, Norsk, Polski, Portugues, Roman, Russian, Slovenka, Suimi, Svenska and Turkce
Skin
Black with white edge
CPU
ATLAS Ⅲ AT640 400MHz
Memory
64MB SDRAM
Operation System
WinCE 5.0
Antenna
Built-in folded antenna
Memory Card
Applicable for a Maximum up to 8GBSD card
Screen Color
65K colors
Dot Matrix Display
480*272
Extension Slot
SD
Battery Type
Built-in Li-Polymer Battery
Battery Capacity
950mAh
Thanks man! I just bought the 3.5" model, as it looked to be a bit better built? Will see. For $66., if I dont like it, I can regift it!
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here one in action. The Kung Fu is in a smaller case and is black, but the program and display is the same. (in english with a US map, mind you)
Reminds me of my days in Praha!
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I have a set of the Angel's I got the other day sittin in my dinning room waiting for the snow to clear out of the yard. Don't say it, the wife reminds my enough. Not risking pulling the bike out just to slip or spin it in the snow. I would love to give a ride report on them. Got them from motorcycle-superstore for $268 shipped. I have to be honest, they are almost too good looking to use.
I've got 4k on my Angel ST's with no sine of wear. They feel great!
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Let's not let this thread die!
I just changed the oil to RedLine Motorcycle 10/40. First thing I noticed was the oil pressure light now shuts off just before the bike starts. With the old oil(mobil1 4t with 3700.miles)the light would flicker a couple of times than go out, but after the engine started( did the same thing with Rotella Syn). 2nd thing I've noticed, is the bike shifts like a hot knife thru butter. Shifting is better than with mobil1 and as good as Rotella(but the Rotella went to crap in less than 2000 miles). Will see how long the RedLine last.
Update! Just got home from a 100 mile ride. I've noticed a couple of more things! the bike is now running 200 rpm higher at idle. I'll need to adjust down to 1300 in the morning. Also, the bikes temp is running at 172~173f*(lower than I've ever seen at crusing speed. Before the RedLine it was running around 177~180f* I'd say that So far this RedLine oil is worth the money(if it holds up for 10k).
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Hi All. Came across this on ebay. It's a different (new?) Delkevic "Mini" can for $149. I've seen the other mufflers that Delkevic offer and heard a couple sound clips on youtube and they seem to be a good value. This is the first time I've come across this one though.
A couple of those puppies under the tail would look sweet!
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I grabbed the wrong bulb off the shelf at the shop and ended up with this. Any benifit in the right one being yellow. (there too hard to change, so it stays regardless)
Yellow is better in bad weather, on a snow packed road they give very little back flare off the ice/snow. The French once passed law that required all French plated vehicles must use yellow head lamps.
As a side note, HID systems are very poor for ice/snow packed roads.
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I don't think I've seen reviews of this alarm before. A quick search just shows that it's been bought/rebranded Clarion. Any chance you can give a quick write-up on the product?
There no point in a review as this model is no longer made(for over 15 years now). In the early 80's I got a after school job of installing alarms. There where a lot of junk alarms on the market, how ever there was a company in palo alto, Ca. that made an alarm called the UngoBox (I cant remember the company name). These alarms were hand built with cutting edge designs. The systems cost $200.~$500. Some time in the mid 90's Clarion bought the ungo name and designs and made ungo alarms for about 5 years. After that time Clarion had DEI(Directed Electronics)make there alarms
Today 95% of all car alarms are made by DEI.
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Just change the oil, and ride the piss out of it. Would not hurt to check the axle nuts/wheel lugs, and change the brake fluid. Maybe the coolant as well.
I had some of the hard to get to coolant lines split on mine(PITA)repair.