BikerJoe

As the title says, I'm looking for an exhaust system for my bike, its a 2007 VFR800 VTEC, I'm based in Ireland

Hey everyone I have a question for ye. I have a VFR800 made in 2007, I'm not the tallest of folks and as of late I've found it uncomfortable to get on/off the bike and I was thinking is it possible to lower the seat, I don't want top lower the whole bike just the seat, is there a lowered seat available anywhere?

So you'd go for heat gloves ad not grips? had heated grips on my lst bike but rarely if ever used them, could have done with either the last weekend!

Pants and Jacket are dry now but gloves still a bit wet, left them in the sitting room on the back of a chair and the gloves over the fire place, I'd leave them outside but it's freezing out so don't they they'd dry much if at all!

Got drenched! mad thing was it was sunny when I left home (Killarney) but by the time I got to macroom the heavens had opened! Stopped raining for a bit when I was getting the tyres fitted in Lee Honda Centre but started raining again shortly after I left, couldn't feel my fingers or toes by the time I got home!

Hey guys and gals, Went for a spin today to get fresh tyres (Bridgestone BTO23s front and back) and got drowned on the way to and from the place I got them and I was wondering what is the best way to dry your gear. Just leaving the jacket and pants drip dry at the mo and the gloves on a radiator, don't need them straight away (I'll prob take the cage to work on monday) but I just want to dry them out properly and not crack any leather of anything.

I was actually thinking of doing something along those lines, getting some cf vinyl wrap off ebay ad cutting out pieces to put on the panniers?

Hey folks, Did a search but didn't find and relevant threads to revive so started this one! Went for a decent spin on saturday, was marshalling a cycle rally so involved a lot of getting off and on the bike. ended up hitting the panniers on the bike once or twice, not badly but I'm afraid I'll scratch them sometime down the line. Was wondering has anyone had a problem similar to this and what did you do? Looking at getting some carbon fibre wrap and making pads to put on the panniers?

Changed the oil + filter on my 07 6th gen yesterday, let the bike warm up a bit first, thought I left it cool long enough before going at the filter but still burned myself on the exhaust tubes trying to get the filter wrench onto the filter :sad2: Used Silkolene 10w 40 and a Hiflo HF204 oil filter. In my experience a bike specific 10w40 semi synthetic is ok for oil and I use either an OEM filter, K&N filter or Hiflo filter...

Cheers guys for all the helpful info! In the end got one of my mates to call down and give me a hand, there wasn't enough access to get a pliers or anything in so we undid the fairing and slipped it under the bike, turned out to be an 5mm not a 3/8 which I suspected, instead the problem was the wellnut which had seen better days. I have replacement wellnuts so gonna use them when I put the fairing back on the bike, also hoping to get some nice bolts to relpace the ones that are there at the moment.

I didn't know of this issue when I had the problem with the clips.. and they're two different problems so I thought they'd deserve 2 different threads, mods can merge the threads if they deem fit. The issue isn't with changing the oil either its removing the fairing. UPDATE: Tried the tip posted up by rhoderage, looks like its an imperial 3/8 inch bolt, whereas the rest of the fairing is metric 5mm, imperial and metric use different pitches, if the previously owner forced a 3/8 inch bolt into a metric nut, the threads are fecked, would explain a lot! Also I know about wellnuts thanks, I have some! used them on the bike I had previously. Problem is taking the existing bolt off so I can out so I can fix it and put the wellnuts on!

Didn't think of doing that, I'll give it a go soon!

Hey all, Further to the problem I had with the clips yesterday I finally got them off only to be unable to undo these bolts I have an awful feeling that they ae turning inside the plastic they bolt onto and the threads are gone, Anybody got any ideas on what I should do/possible solutions? Thanks Joe