fabio222

Good call. Maybe return the wiring (PC and 02 stuff) back to stock to help with your baseline and then crack on from there. Maybe the fuel stabliser hasn't quite done the trick and the injectors are gunked up. Would be worth trying an injector cleaner at a high concentration and see what happens.

Probably better off making a new thread. This one is verry old and the title won't be of much help to people in finding your query.

I wonder might it just be the battery. Bad batteries can do very strange things at times.

It IS terrifying! However, I didn't bother getting the "proper" replacement bolt. The M8 bolt I fitted with the nylock nut, as in the picture above, has been doing fine. I give it a visual check every now and then and it hasn't moved.

There isn't really a riding season in Ireland, it doesn't snow much here and it rarely freezes for longer than a few days but the flip side is that we deal with an awful lot of rain. That said....I pulled in to take this pic on my commute to work a few weeks ago and it felt every bit like minus three (Celsius):

Happy to report that the love story is continuing! The new levers have really helped me to bond with the bike a little more and have taken away that wooden brake feeling. I have a 30km commute home from the office, it's now dark outside, and its pissing down with rain (has been for days...apparently we've gotten 300% more than our average rainfall for this month so far). To be honest, on evenings like this, I do like the DCBS and the ABS as a comfort blanket. Never have needed it...but it's nice to have it.

Meant to come back to all of your good folks on this... I took the nice milled aftermarket levers off of my VFR 750 and put them on the 800. Man, the levers made all the difference! I'd already cleaned and greased the calipers so I knew they were in good shape and the fluid is fresh in both brake and clutch reservoirs. The new levers allow me to use the clutch far more effectively and the new front brake lever is more adjustable but, more importantly, allows for far more "feel". I can now feel how much brake pressure I am applying. The brakes, as they always were, are plenty powerful for me, but I now know what they are doing too. Simple as that, new levers! By the way, these are the levers. Cheap and cheerful. I've had them for about 7 years now and they've been very nice to use on my RC36. Generic Chinese levers, nothing fancy.

Original rubber lines. I'd like to avoid changing those if at all possible due to the expense and time involved.

Hi folks, Anyone else not entirely happy with the feel of the brakes on the 6th gen? They work well, they're effective at burning off speed but I can't feel much through the lever. I recently cleaned out the calipers to see if that would help and it has improved it a little. Granted, I didn't take the pistons out and do the seals - the fluid was only flushed and renewed a few months ago so I didn't fancy having to do that again. That said, the pistons were in a good shape, no corrosion, very little dirt, the sliders were a bit sticky so I freed those up, cleaned them, greased them with a smear of lanolin grease (safe for rubber!). Put everything back together and all seemed good. However, riding it to work today, the brakes just didn't "feel" great. They work but my fingers have no idea about what the calliper is actually doing! I had the same issue with my VFR 750 (97) but new callipers (I found brand new calipers online, it was cheaper than doing all of the seals!) sorted that and they feel great now. One other thing I have yet to try is some aftermarket levers. I have a set on my 750, I might swap them over and see how it feels. I'm not gone on doing braided brake lines, there's just so much to buy, and no guarantee.

Wow, tis is some project! Be interesting to see what power gains you get at the end.

There's someone on eBay in the UK who sells them with an angled handle to make adjusting a bit easier. Worth a look.

Cant' say I have but am interested to see what you end up doing because I'm still struggling to get my key slot cover to spring back to cover where the key is inserted.

"Poor key insertion technique"...is that what they call it these days hehehehehe! I didn't realise this might be due to the surrounding cover plate. I'll give that a try. Thanks!

I think it's 25 years here in Ireland so my '97 will get vintage tax soon. There's no fancy reg plate or anything but you pay a lower rate of motor tax (about €50 for the year rather than the usual €88). I don't think you get any discount on insurance for another few years after that and they'll do their best to wriggle out of covering you.

I'd reckon you're right. I'll give it another soaking and see can I make it move. I'd hate to leave it open.