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  1. Nice one. I must drag mine out from the shed soon.

     

    Need to do oil and filter, new fork seals, new brake and clutch fluid too.

     

    I'm tempted to pull the seals in the calipers and clear out the seal bores and apply some red rubber grease to stop any corrosion developing in there. 

  2. I've never considered the VFR to be a knee-down bike on the street. Seems unnecessary. 

     

    While it'll certainly embarrass full-on sports bikes in the right hands, it isn't a full on supersport but I would argue it doesn't pretend to be and it's all the better for it. 

     

    See can you get a test ride on one and see how it feels. If you do purchase one there's a great community on here with loads of mod expertise etc.

     

    Best of luck! 

  3. 36 minutes ago, bmart said:

    In my business we call VTEC on a bike a solution without a problem. You guys can have and love them, but I'm sticking with VFR tradition. lol

    Go one better.

     

    Have both 😂.

     

    I see it as a typical Honda technological willy-waving.

     

    "We believe we can do this so we are going to do it" - same with oval pistons, same with linked brakes, same with VTEC. 

  4. On 3/10/2024 at 10:03 AM, keny said:

    It's details that matter, specially if you like to have a motorcycle pass a classic inspection (to be proved it's in excellent orginal condition), a inspection my CBR600F2 have today. So last minute thing is to change license plate bolts to ones that have a white cap

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    Much nicer 

     

    I like your attention to detail!

     

    Do the license plates have to be that size, legally, in Finland? If so, is the plate size strictly enforced?

     

    Here in Ireland it depends on the Garda (our police). Some don't care, some will use it as an excuse to pull you. 

  5. Hey,

    Just doing some thinking (dangerous stuff, I know) about the differences between the 5th and 6th gen VFRs.

     

    So far as I can tell the frame is, basically, the same. I think the swingarm might be different??? The braking setup is a little different I think, although the calipers are the same. The suspension is a bit beefier on the 6th gen (I think....thicker forks maybe?). 

     

    Now, to the heart of the bike, the engine. I've read that Honda used the RC45 tooling to make the engine for the 5th gen VFR 800 (and this meant there would be no more RC45s as the tooling had to be modified to such an extent that it couldn't be easily changed back). That 5th gen had gear driven cams mounted on the side of the engine. 

     

    I know the BIG change between the 5th and 6th generation was that the 6th gen did away with the gear-driven cams and, instead, used a conventional chain driven cam setup. The other BIG change was the inclusion of the VTEC system within the head of each bank of cylinders.

     

    However, were there any other modifications to the engine between the 5th and 6th gen? Did Honda have to do a full redesign to accommodate the VTEC and cam chain setup?

  6. Hey, welcome on board!

     

    The oil capacity for the 2002-2006 VFR 800 was 3.1 litres (I think). I'm fairly sure it's the same for 2006 onwards too. 

     

    As for cleaning the oil sight glass - you can put the bike on it's sidestand, remove the clutch cover and clean the inside of the oil sight glass using some solvent, brake cleaner, electrical contact cleaner etc - if you do that I think you'll need a new clutch cover gasket when refitting.

     

    It's possible it's just moisture too and when the bike really warms up and you're out for a long spin that cloudiness will clear up. 

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  7. On 2/28/2024 at 10:40 PM, Captain 80s said:

     

    Have you read any more than the current page of posts?

     

    Nope I haven't. I have a small child to raise, a job to hold down, a house to run, bikes to maintain, so I don't get to forensically analyse every thread. 

     

    Did I break a rule or something??? You barked at someone else for not having read back through loads of pages too, seems you've an issue with that? 

     

  8. 6 hours ago, weerab said:

    Thank you for these replies. I will get the bulb out tonight and have a look. My last bike was a 2002 Yamaha Fazer and it only had 1 headlight bulb and had a conversion kit fitted. I'm useless when it comes to electrics but I'll definitely check the bulb.

    Where would I find a relay for headlights it it were to have one.

    @fabio222mines UK spec too buddy

     

    On mine there are two relays under the nose cone (behind the dashboard really). One for each head light. I don't think they're fed directly from the switch in either case. 

     

    In the attached pic you'll see a rubber cover which isn't holding anything. I think one relay is held in here and another identical one on the other side.

     

    I'd an issue once before where the headlights just completely failed on me after exiting a motorway toll booth just as I got into darkness and hit full beams. Scary as fuck when you're tipping 120kph. Never happened again and could never find the reason why it happened but this pic was taken during my "investigation". 

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  9. On 2/27/2024 at 8:28 PM, bmart said:

    Going to have another go at this yellow bike suspension. It still isn't very nice to ride, despite the expense of suspension. With the forks set to the same place in the triples, the rear is WAY higher than the '98 when on the center stand. Something is absolutely wonky. 

     

    Measured at helmet lock, rear is 15mm higher than VFR98. 
    Measured at rear light, rear is 24mm taller than VFR98. 
    Measured at side seat bolt is ~9mm taller than VFR98. 

     

    My brain went to the challenge of installing that Bitubo set to the same 330mm as the '98 and the '99 before it. But with the bike on the center stand...it doesn't point to shock length. 

     

    Open to great ideas, as I'm running out of them. 

     

    You've probably done this already but have you put everything back to stock? Stock fork internals and air gap and oil spec? Stock shock with no shims to mess with height etc?

     

    That's what I'd do and see what happens from there. Might be a daft thought but I'd check the chain and ensure that's not causing any swingarm issues. Maybe remove the centre stand as well in case that could be the cause of any issues.

  10. It's amazing how much better brakes become when you open them up, clean out the crud and corrosion behind the seals and put in nice new seals with cleaned up pistons. I'm not sure if it's braking power increases or brake feel but, either way, it's really worth the time to do! 

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  11. On 1/26/2024 at 10:22 PM, lankywhale said:

    Hi

     

    In November I bought a 2006 6 gen ABS with 15,000 miles (Wales, UK).

     

    I wanted to do some preventative maintenance so I upgraded the reg/rec (FH020AA) and associated wiring. I also added a gear indicator and a few other bits. Everything seemed to work great so I put the bike back together and took it for a spin. I noticed once over 6mph the abs light would flash.

     

    Hmm, didnt do that before!

     

    Long story short, I fitted a used abs module and it no longer flashes. Great success! 

     

    Anyway, what I wanted to ask was about the cycle of the abs light. What mine did before was:

    Key on, abs light on, over 6mph abs light off. Anytime I go below 6mph it would come on again and stay on. Set off over 6mph it would go off again.

     

    What it does now is key on, abs light on, over 6mph abs light off. If I come to a stop it stays off. If I key off, then key on, the light comes on and then goes off over the 6mph etc.

     

    In my head the latter makes more sense. Just come on once and then stay off for the rest of the ride. I've just watched some YouTube videos of riders with helmet cams riding vfrs with abs and all their abs lights also seem to stay off when they stop in traffic. So I'm wondering if I unknowingly bought the bike with an abs fault. 

     

    I just want to make sure I've definitely fixed it and it's functioning the same as everyone else's.

     

    Thanks in advance! 

     

    D.

     

     

    Think of the ABS light as the system doing a self-test on startup. It shouldn't need to do that self-test every time you go below 6mph. Thus, the sequence in bold, above, is correct.

     

    Sounds like you've sorted it out, well done! 

  12. Thanks folks, I appreciate the comments and hope that it added something nice to your day! 

     

    If anyone wants to see more pics or just see them out of the PDF, take a look at the album here: https://ibb.co/album/K0cvQR

     

    I really dragged out the work I think, essentially it was a full service and a full on checkover but I didn't need to replace things like wheel bearings or head bearings. Remarkably, those are are all fine at 92,000 miles! That said, it all takes time. It took me days to get the chain on right because my rivet tool wasn't great and I had to improvise. And when you've been off the tools for a while you lose confidence in your ability and that needs to be built back up again too. Anyway, I'm glad I did it, and I'm glad you all like it. 

     

    I have been using it to go to the office this week, that's about 20 miles from where I live and is a fairly easy commute when the weather is decent (most of the riding is on motorway, easy but boring). It's a beautiful bike to ride, always been really. I know it wouldn't put it up to more modern machinery and I can tell you that I wished it had ABS and all of the modern accoutrements when I was riding through flooded roads yesterday (a combination of high tides and heavy rain means Cork city floods a lot). That all said, it got me home in one piece and I enjoyed it. 

     

    I remember when I started working on it again I said to my wife that I wanted to have something that, LCD clock aside, was almost completely analog in nature. Many of us work with or on computers and we all have phones in our hands these days and I just thought it'd be nice to use something that is a world away from the digital devices we use all of the time. It seems purer and more tangible somehow. 

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