flavadave

i look forward to seeing your reports........

Seb Are you buying these? I would like to see video close up of your first impression when you crack open the box. I am interested in hearing your thought on all of those joints and pivots. Do the send instruction to used a thread lock? Is there any play in the slide, how well is it machined or cast?

This bike was damaged 29123_10150209142020537_814435536_12609701_7045100_n.jpg So I bought a second bike mainly for the plastic and other repair pieces (after I got pushed over by a driver on her cell phone). And ended up with a mess like this !B8iL-,Q!Wk~$(KGrHqQOKkQEzJ49mJl9BM3Vfmdz7g~~_3.jpg IMAG0758.jpg Which is killing my single car garage BTW So I mentioned here on this site that I am looking for a renthal bar set up because I really don't want to have to exact bikes to roll with, and someone responded. Now I am horse trading for parts. I got an idea I wanted a VFR-Supermoto-Daily Driver-Dual-ish Sport like thing. I really want to narrow the bikes back end (no wider than the seat) and make the front end all about business. I will make air ducts and a small fairing to cover the back of the cluster and remount the head lamp. Also add some racks for pelican of military aluminum boxes. Here is a copy of the letter I sent my house trading pal tonight in regard to removing the bars, cables, and triple clamps. Him-Did the process go smoothly? Any hiccups to look out for when I pull mine apart? Me-Yes, there are a few things. Here is what I remember. I removed all of my plastic. You may not but the view helped. there are two star drive bolts under the ignition on either side of it actually. You can loosen all the upper clamp bolts but may need to use a ball pein hammer to tap it up, I did. This is of course after you remove the bar ends, the grips, clutch and brake, and last throttle. Then you will need to tip up the tank and take a look down by the sticker on the frame. you will see the round throttle cam with bith cables. To the left you see both little screws that hold the bracket holding the cables. You will need a 90 degree bent number 1 phillips screw driver to fit between the frame and bracket. The angle was too steep to go in and not strip the screw. The screw is small and soft metal. Dont drop it! Once you take the cable free you can do as I did. I taped a wire to the cable before pulling it back through. That way I can pull the cables back in the same way. The cable drops from the throttle down the sanction and around the front of the right sanction. It then goes behind the brake line on the left side, behind the left sanction. then it starts follow that mess of wires in behind the frame headed right at that cam and bracket location. I really do not know how you will be able to see without removing plastic, it is dark and deep in there. You may need an LED taped to the end of your nose. Any other questions let me know. Here are the pics I took to follow the Throttle Cable Set ((TCS) I just made that up). IMAG0844.jpg Tank up IMAG0845.jpg TCS and cam pointing to the front of the bike. NOTE the tight little space for acces to the screws. IMAG0847.jpg Loosened IMAG0848.jpg IMAG0849.jpg Face view of bracket IMAG0850.jpg Bracket flipped IMAG0851.jpg Tape holding chase wire to TCS IMAG0842.jpg TCS as it travels directly back behind frame IMAG0841.jpg TCS as it travels out of frame towards front behond the brake like and sanction IMAG0839.jpg TCS travels between the sanction and around the outside or front of the right sanction IMAG0838.jpg Sorry turn your head to the right, this is a top down shot of route of TCS I will try to keep good records and try to be clear about my goals and steps to get there. Everyone feel free to help bump my in logical directions when I need it. And be kind this is my first BIG post on this (less the "Did Honda get it wrong"? I posted). David "Livestrong" Chamberlain Source: Frank-N-Motard

Not to long ago before the snow hit on a Friday afternoon it was 45 degrees and sunny. It was time to get in my last spin on the bike and fill the gas tank. I rolled my bike out, fired it over and warmed her up for a few minutes. We rolled down the driveway. At the stop sign (less than one quarter of a mile from my house)at the end of the street I live on I sit waiting for traffic. I was flat footed looking right and left just waiting. Next thing I know I am grabbing at the brake lever trying to stop the bike as I am now moving out into the road while traffic is still flowing. I am squeazing for all I am worth as the ass end of the bike starts to kick out to my left side. I do not have the rev's up I am not cracking the throttle. What is happening? Then I feel something in my right hip and lower back and I turn my head back to see a car, a fender, door, and window. This stupid women was on her cell phone driving me right out of her way. She stopped either at the intersection or when she saw my helmet in her window, I am not really sure which. When I got up off the ground and picked up the bike she was out of her car. She spoke no english (at the time anyway) as one guy was yelling at her "what are you f**king thinking". The damage down the side was sad to look at. Not really bad but more like someone took a grinder and stabbed at the side of the plastic and the engine case. The brake lever was curled and the mirror pushed hard enough on the fairing it snapped my Zero Gravity windshield. Oh and the Staintuned pipe got scratched. After i got my report number from the cop I did not even bother to get the gas. I rode straight home. A couple of days later the claims guy gave me a check for 50 dollars less than totaling the bike. Soon there after I found another bike to buy for parts to repair mine. It made sence I got a whole bike for parts rather than just a few parts. Well now I find the bike is in better condition than I had thought and I am torn as to what I will do. Do I make one a street fighter and box all the extra parts? Do I make the newest bike set up with bags and a Garmin? Do I leave them both as is? For now I really just need to replace the brake lever. I can repair the right turn signal with epoxy. the fairing I think I will replace with a new set of fairings because I do not like the color match from the newest bike. I am still guessing.... I think I would like to put a straight bar on the factory triple tree but I need an converter. To think I was so happy to tell my friend that I bought the bike from the good news that his old bike was in a calender and it was wrecked almost all in the same day. :goofy: :goofy: