TedJake

Selling my solid 2005 VFR800 and wanted to post here first since this forum has been so good to me - Very Good Condition - bought her in Nov 2015 with 8,900 mi; now has 69,000. Selling this as well as my 2009 BMW F650GS to consolidate to a single bike. Asking $3,000.00 -Fork seal refurb completed 6/23 -Chain/sprockets replaced 3/24 -Radiator hoses replaced 5/24 -Battery replaced 6/24 -Replaced Stator and Mosfet RR 4/25 -Oil & Coolant changed 4/25 Additional items: -R&G Frame Sliders -K&N Air Filter -Voltmeter w/USB installed -Have tinted Zero Gravity windshield I will include -VFRNess installed -Color matched pillion seat cover -Have Power Commander V for an additional $100 -Have single-can Two Brothers exhaust I will include I am located in the KC area. Thanks for the consideration!

Thanks again - as always, very educational - I'm going to run a tank or two as-is, then try reconnecting the O2 sensors to see if it throws a code. If not, I'll ride for a few tanks and see if that'll get me closer to the 200-mile range my '03 had but this bike doesn't... Didn't want to replace both O2 sensors @ $150 each after refurbing the electrical system!

Finally an update on my starter relay connector project! First, thanks again to all for the helpful advice and details. The parts finally came in, and I had ordered a replacement gasket for the Stator, and when I pulled that, it looked identical to the pic Lorne posted above. I went ahead and ordered & installed both a new Stator, and R/R as well as a VFRness, just to cover all the bases. After putting it all back together, and changing the oil since I had her all taken apart, she fired right up! I can say, thanks to you all, I did it RIGHT, but I can't say I did it WELL, lol... While I have you experts together - I found two things unrelated to the issue on this thread. Mind if I pick your brains one more time? Thing 1 - I noticed neither of my O2 sensor connecters are together, and both seem to be intentionally blocked - 2 pins jumpered on the bike side, 2 pins plugged. My guess is that this might've bypassed an error message, but I hadn't found anything like this in the forums. I've owned the bike since it had 8400 mi and it has 44k now, so other than bad gas mileage, there is no apparent downside to this. Thoughts? Thing 2 - there's a small female connector right by my right-hand ECU/fuse box. I cannot find another lonely connector - my bike has ABS, but perhaps this goes with another optional feature, as it appears OEM & not aftermarket. Thoughts on this? Again - thanks for the assistance on this - getting the bike back just in time for Spring, and now my track Daytona can go back to being a track bike.

All outstanding tips & pics, so thank you! Since it's not exactly riding weather here, I may take that alternator cover off in the coming weeks. DannoXYZ - for that connector, do you recommend any parts site for that connector? The one I ordered on WireMyBike doesn't exactly look identical to the one I have, although it does come with the 4th wire it says I may/may not need, and searches net me a red connector that doesn't specify VFR800, and shows 15A instead of 30A.

If there's already a thread on this, I apologize but couldn't find it. My '05 has just over 40k miles on it, been a reliable bike, but after starting recently, it quit, and electrics went dead. Pulled the seat off, and next to the battery is the starter relay, and the connector and relay were melted, especially to the larger-gauge red wire. I bought a replacement starter relay connector, and just found & ordered (on wiremybike.com) the connector. I am surprised that searches on sites like BikeBandit or Amazon net me zero results for the connectors. The optimist in me wants to think that assuming I make this repair correctly, I should be good to go. The pessimist in me worries that I need to continue down the electrical system - what say all of you, with the above information - are there checks I can do on the R/R or stator, and should I start that while my connector is en route?

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There is a great track called Heartland Park in Topeka, Kansas, about an hour from my house. My brother and I caught the bug about a year ago. Missed a couple of days this year, but caught the last track day of the season last weekend. My wife and daughter had gotten me a GoPro for my B-day, which I outfitted for my helmet. This is the last session of the day, so traffic was lighter and I could get some good laptimes. Bike is a 2005 with a PC V and Two Brothers exhaust; otherwise stock. The GoPro split the 20-minute session into three clips and I left the first part off where I left the paddock as much of the time is me just sitting waiting to get on. Had a blast as I always do, and the Veefer holds her own to the many liter bikes in the Novice Group. Looking forward to bumping to Intermediate next year, hopefully!

Great - thanks - I saw that other thread, but your link is the best looking one I've seen...Appreciate it!

What's the make/model of that dual-usb voltmeter, and did you say you'd just do the voltmeter and the relay, not the switch?

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Agree - when you throw ADV riding into the mix, the bike that tops the list there is the Triumph Tiger 800 - about as fast as the VFR (in the right hands), and opens up all the unimproved roads the VFR can't go on. I have a brother in Wichita that got a VStrom for that reason - had ridden all the straight roads he could on his Valkyrie, and thought, as he rode past all the jeep trails outside of town - I need a bike that'll take me down THOSE roads! VStrom did the trick, and we even did a trip to the Dragon - me on my VFR, him on his VStrom, and both had a blast...

Teeing up a softball, here I think! I bought this knowing I can only get one bike, and there is no other bike that can do it all; possible exception is a Triumph Sprint. This year I've done an Ironbutt from Wichita to Kingman, AZ, and an about to do my 2nd track day. Zero disappointment in either. I put no fewer than 10k miles a year. It looks great and feels great. Living in the midwestern US, the heart of Harley country, when asked why I ride this instead of a Harley, I say, because MATH....It costs a quarter as much as a Harley, goes twice as fast, using a third the gas...No. Freaking. Brainer. Can I name any one bike that can beat the VFR in any one thing? Of course. May just be me, but can I name one other bike that can do it all? Um, no.