fabio222

On 10/2/2023 at 5:40 PM, Captain 80s said:

Beauty Oct 1 here in the Pacific NorthWest

 

 

Stunning!

Beautiful scenery too!

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. 

Hi all,

I posted here a few times explaining how I was guilty of letting my lovely 750 sit in the shed and gather dust. Well, this summer I really got to work on it and it's back on the road.

I put together a little PDF with pics and some text for a work group and thought it'd be nice to share it here. Enjoy! 

VFR presentation.pdf

Here's how it looks now:

Nice work, well done! I like your special tool (that's what she said).

So you've two of the best bikes Honda ever built? Nice...

Looks gorgeous!

Great to see the site alive and well! Fair dues Miguel and to all who have offered to assist!

Awww man I'd just finished rebuilding my 750 and wanted to come on and say "I've made threads before where I describe how guilty I've felt about letting the 750 sit in the shed but, hey, look at now, it's ready to ride!!!"

21 years is an amazing run and this place has been really good to me, even if I wouldn't necessarily consider myself a "regular" in that I pop in the odd time for a look, ask for advice, give advice, admire the photos, admire the layout of the place too! 

As my bio says I'm in Cork, Ireland and was visiting Atlanta before for some work stuff. I posted up on here to see were there are VFRD members in that area who would like to meet up and, lo and behold, I actually ended up having a burger in The Vortex with a member from here (who's name I now can't recall). There was a sense of community, still is I think. 

Thanks to @HispanicSlammer for keeping it going for so long. I really hope that @thtanner can continue your great work and keep this fantastic resource online for those of us with discerning motorcycle tastes!

Gonna be tough to do that while it's in my shed but once I have it back together I can certainly do so! Thanks for the tip!

How did you manage to make everything look so clean? I'm talking engine, waterpump casing etc? 

Mine has over 90,000 miles on it at this point in time so it'll probably never be quite as clean as yours but I could try 🙂 .

This is unreal, well done. Might be a good opportunity to upgrade your reg/rec and ensure the charging system is in good order while you're doing this work.