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  1. I'm here / I'm not here.
    Just popped in to say "Hi!" (Hi, everyone!), so that anyone who gives a damn knows I haven't carked it yet.
    Since I sold the VFR and absconded from here, not much has happened; I've worked a total of less than two weeks, earned a whopping $800 or so, sold most of my bike gear, and been fired from my most recent job. A first! And by text too! Another first! Yay!
    Oh how I laughed. Or would have, if my SpousalUnit wasn't so pissed off. :(

    So, back to housework, and getting our house ready to sell so we can downgrade.
    There are positives (apart from the 'firsts'); I don't have to commute, I'm getting really good at cooking'n'cleaning, and I get to spend a lot of time having meaningful conversations meaningless games with the dogs.
    I need a job. And another bike...

     

    OK - carry on. As you were. Back to enjoying being the Vifferisti Elite, you lucky LUCKY people. :/

     

    1. Dutchy

      Dutchy

      If it is any consolation, I am also "in between jobs", no longer own a VFR, but already was a great cook. :-)

       

      No Ordinary Man - Christy Moore, but Feelin' Good - Joe Bonamassa

       

       

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      :goofy:

  2. Nice stories, Leon. I'd almost forgotten I used to have a VF500 (1985). My mufflers rusted out too, so I had some custom stainless steel ones made; the only stipulation I had was "to make them a little louder". They sounded great - loud enough to emphasise it was a V4, without being obnoxious or attracting the wrong sort of attention. My VF had problems with the inside of the tank rusting; even though I cleaned and treated it (with 'Kreem", IIRC), it had one annoying pinhol leak that never went away. Should have had it brazed, I guess.
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    Road

    Fantastic photo!
  4. I love my VFR, but it's not perfect. In addition to the initial specs, the 'dream' VFR would need to have a lighter swingarm than the current / previous models, and a less ugly hub. If possible, a conventional radiator, rather than the pannier ones. Although, y'know, having said that, both the VF500 and VFR750 were hot to ride, so maybe (apart from being simpler), it's not a big deal. Other than that, I don't care.
  5. Is a TPMS really necessary? I've got one on my car (came with it), but on my bike I can feel a 1 or 2 PSI drop in pressure pretty readily. Over 42-odd (and sometimes VERY odd) years of motorcycling, I've had only 4 punctures, all in the back tyre, and 3 of them in newish tyres. Luckily (?) they were all screws or nails, and plugged OK, so I still got the full life from the tyres. Had none for years (ever since I stopped riding in places I shouldn't, like the edges or middle of roads, where all the crap gets swished by traffic.
  6. Iffen I was you (which I'm not - I'm a separate species), I'd remove that piece of duct tape so you don't get a ticket [insert eye-rolling emoticon here]
  7. I sorted out my own; modified the one that attached to the chain guard, and made an aluminium bracket for the front of the hugger. Nowhere to attach that, so I drilled and tapped a hole in the swingarm :o and put a bolt in. Of course, because this mod was unsanctioned/unapproved by Honda or VFRD, the first time I rode it, I crasheded, dieded, and immolation of the self-incendiary variety occurred. Luckily, I'm getting used to that, so my asbestos g-string stopped my nuts from being overcooked.
  8. What browser are you using? I was having the same problem, so I did a quick check; Firefox works fine, Internet Exploder doesn't do quotes etc. May be a settings thing?
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    Plug thingo

    Service plug
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    Plug

    From the album: Plug thingo

    Diagnostic port / plug
  11. I can't be bothered going back to the post where this is discussed, but instead of bastardising a K&N to get more airfilter area and better airflow, the airfilter with the greatest area and therefore the least restriction is the Pipercross.
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    y2k SOLD 001

    Nice bike! But tooooo many stickers/decals....
  13. Whelp, for many months now, I've been running a 95/85 thermoswitch (on at 95 degrees Centigrade, off at 85), instead of the standard 106/96 one. It works well. And for a longer period of time, I've run a manual override switch (only on by shorting to ground, rather than one that can also disable the fan). The latter works well, but is rendered almost redundant by the lower temperature thermoswitch. If it wasn't that most of my riding was commuting in traffic, I wouldn't bother with any mods.
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    This looks not unfamiliar, Leon. I have a pic of my wife in the middle of a tulip field near Alkmaar. We actually has to ask her tante to find one for us, because even though we could see them out the windows of the plane flying into Schiphol, we didn't see any when we were driving around.
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    IMG 2011

    That is one of the nicest-looking VFR streetfighters I've seen! Love the blue frame and wheels. Overall, a very tasty bike. Well done, Sir!
  16. I'm going with a thermoswitch with a slightly lower temperature, and a manual override for in traffic. First I've got to take my U/S thermoswitch out, verify it's 16mm with 1.5 mm thread, and then off to the autoparts store. I've already got the manual override switch, which is just as well seeing the thermoswitch died shortly after (because of??) fitting the manual switch.
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    IMG 3576

    Nice Macna jacket, Leon! Oh - and the bike looks kinda OK too...
  18. I thought the surging was from the ECU running the mixture lean when in 'closed loop' mode to meet EC emissions testing. Plus there's an issue you haven't mentioned, which is the hesitation when the ECu switches from 'closed loop' mode to mapped mode. Even just fitting O2 sensor eliminators to fix this makes the bike more rideable (I know - I did this for more than 18 months when I was between PCs).
  19. A few years back (lessee.... must've been about 7 or 8), after a crap installation job by the dealers of my replacement R/R, I completely rewired everything south of the stator on my '90 VFR750. I cut off all the plugs, used much thicker wires, shortened as much as possible, and mounted the R/R where the horn usually goes, on 4mm aluminium stock. I gained half a volt by doing so... Then some dumbass u-turned into me, and the insurance company wrote the bike off ($6800 of repairs on a bike valued at just over $7k).
  20. Hi, Gav. Nice looking bike you've got there! Hey, if you're really serious about getting the suspenders set up right, and can't find any second-hand stuff on TardMe, it might be worthwhile contacting Robert Taylor at Crown Kiwi in New Plymouth. He fettled my front forks for me, using Ohlins and Racetech parts, and is the NZ agent for Ohlins but also does Penske and other brands. - Ian
  21. My guess would be it's lighter and stiffer.
  22. I utilised the blanking plate in the right-hand switch block, installed a small black momentary switch in there, connected to the garage door opener in the fairing above the headlight by a wire soldered across the door opener switch. Works from about 60 metres away. The only trouble I've had is the switch contacts don't last long (about a year to 18 months), possibly because of it not being waterproof, so I've had to replace it twice.
  23. I stripped the (white) wheels on my 1990 VFR750 using paint stripper and a wooden scraper, then polished just the machined parts up with Autosol. It took me an afternoon to do both, and made the wheels much easier to keep clean, as the road spooge didn't seem to stick to them as much. They just need a quick wash every other month, then a polish a couple of times a year at most. VFR750 Shows stripped'n'polished rear wheel, with Avon Azaro tyre. Sometime in the near future, I'm thinking I'll repeat the process with the VFR800's wheels, as the silver paint / powdercoat? is kinda scratched, in places down to the metal. Next time, I'm not sure if I'll do it myself, or take them to a mag wheel polisher.
  24. Wow! That's really impressive! :unsure: There's something wrong with that Beemer; "Bike" magazine dyno'd one on a well-calibrated dyno and got 183.7bhp. That was on a bike that wasn't even run in yet (400 miles on the clock).
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