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Hi, no I haven't. Stopped looking because I got in a pretty bad accident. 6 broken ribs and a ton of blood and fluid around my lung. Still healing. Those are pretty cool.

I'm over 86,000 more so far. Still running!

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Madison. Just north of Nashville.

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Just moved to the Nashville area. I'll definitely reply to this again when I can get out there! The Dragon is a fun road.

So about 6 weeks ago, I hit sand in a turn and lowsided my 3 week old fairings. Gear protected me, except the hit on the ground fractured a rib. My Chinese fairings shattered. I need new ones, or good looking used ones. I know I can order some off of eBay etc. Just thought I'd ask if anyone has some, hopefully to save some money after moving from California to Tennessee. I prefer red, but I am open to all colors. My tank is faded and needs paint anyway. Please let me know if you can help.

I'd like to do this with a CBR tail section. So sexy!

Wow!!!

I've found this, but I don't know anything about them. https://www.bonanza.com/listings/141-Shims-7-48mm-Valve-Shim-Kit-1998-2008-Honda-Interceptor-800-VFR800-VFR800F/524046814

Does anyone have a lead on where to get the shims? I'd like to have an assortment in advance if possible, so I don't have a long downtime. I've read other brands sometimes work with other brands. Any idea if that is the case with the 5ht gen engine? It always seems like the OEM parts for Honda are made out of some ridiculously expensive rare metal that they have to double the price for.

I wanted to revive this thread to say thank you, nearly sixteen years later, as I need to check my valves. My 99 has nearly 82,000 and it's never been checked by the previous owners. I guess I need to do this. Thanks HispanicSlammer!

Yeah, that's the one my bike chewed up. Part of it got eaten up when the PO didn't lube the slide pins, the other part when the center piston wasn't moving freely and it ate through the pads and ground the rest of it up. Tha's my fault.

That's good to know, thank you. I'll get a white paint pen and mark the cams. I've replaced a timing chain set, including pulling the head to get machined, on a Saturn SC2 dohc car and I've done head gaskets on a Chevy 350, so I should be able to measure, etc to shim the cams.

Thread from the dead, but thanks to Google, I found this. I'm glad it survived the troubles because it's going to save me a bunch!