Ughandi

No imbalances. When you turn stuff on a lathe, they tend to come out mostly balanced. There's lots of meat on the outer diameter to cut off, and it is most effective to trim that stuff first anyway. IIRC about 400G was removed for the one in my machine. See here for my spare that I had shaved (~250g removed) : I use it to hold my socket extensions & a stepper bit! 😁

Homie on the dyno definitely turned up some gains on the results for ya to make you happy. I'd go somewhere else to pull. FYSA. I made 114 hp only after WILD headers & a staintune can, Wide band O2 sensors on each cylinder to tune each cylinder independently, a lightweight flywheel, 520 chain conversion, coil on plug conversion, pair & flap, and a hi flow filter. And my baseline dyno was at 73hp lmao. I was down a cylinder and in desperate need of a valve clearance (baseline after we got that addressed was ~100 hp, sans headers, COP, flywheel and 520 chain)

@DrErgal Very fair, but that rise was too much for my knees to take without pain... so a little up, a little down, a little back, and I think I found Goldilocks Also I cant deny the bling factor 😄

Posting to add to the collective consciousness here & reduce research time for others. I am 6'0", and after putting on the 954 rearset adapters by @SEBSPEED I have nigh always had knee issues on my viffer. With me, my budget for ergonomics is unlimited, as I will not tolerate pain due to riding... though I still like to respect the value of my dollar. Enter: Drop-pegs research. Discovered options: Buell XB Footpegs | N0520.1AD & N0521.1AD | @Darth Bling | ~$150 for the set (waaay more expensive than it used to be in ye olde posts) @BusyLittleShop's very own Drop adapters! | +\- $100 | Keeps those knees in the breeze! Some eBay adapters | MotorcyclePartsUK | shipped to the USA ~$80 | https://www.ebay.com/itm/265641948000 | admittedly, I ordered these before doing much research at all, and dont need them... find them in the classifieds soon and we'll strike a deal Knight Designs Drop Pegs | Model 121010 | after shipping and taxes... a Whopping $200 | They sure are pretty though! ... I was... unsatisfied with these options overall (between the insane price hike of the Buell pegs, drop-adapters widening ones wingspan, and the absurd shipped price of the very pretty Knight Designs option) and wished there were a better way.... and actually ordered the random eBay adapters ...then one day last week I got superbly lucky on my hunt & found a set of Knight Designs pegs on eBay for the low-low price of $120. Yee HAW! I figured I couldn't beat that, so that's what Is on the bike today. Feast your eyes! ~ Compared to the factory 954 footrests. ~ Side by side height compare. ~ Beauty shot (they are quite pretty)

That rear wheel could use a close shave with a paint pen 😁

@DrErgalThe longer I look, the more I'm impressed! That is a machine to be proud of right there. I strive for my Viffer to be of similar refinement one day.... Happily!! Check your inbox!

@DrErgal Thanks for the details & visual aides! Chassis stiffness is something I valued a lot in my automotive days... I had thought that was a concept completely missed by the production motorcycle world! Now I know that this had existed in years past! Thanks! and now I want a set 😆

Those prices are untouchable now... only listings I can find are for over a Benjamin 🫠

My VTR forks are still in a box in the garage... I really need to kick my own butt and get in there to make the swap.... I have not heard of a forkbrace before, and you appear to be an excellent machinist judging by the photos of it. Is this a common custom bit on other motos? Agreed with the coil mod. IIRC I used GSXR 1000 coils instead. Improvement was subtle, but the main victory was cleaning up all the wiring under the tank. Excellent build! Go Ride!

That's why we have the forums... It's the VFR aDdicts support group! 😄

Well if you did just so happen to come across em, I'd be more than willing to take em off your hands! Ergonomics is (unfortunately) something than cannot be evaluated from afar. Unfortunate they didnt work for you

Hello from the future! I am trying to get the defibrillators on an old thread! After installing the 954 rearset adapters, my knees have, in fact, not been that breezy! (in a bit of pain, actually) I'd like to not shell out the cash for the lux Sato rearsets, the MFW "VARIO" system seems to be too complicated (and parts availability is scarce here in the USA), and the Buell XB Lower Rider Footpegs have the other winged creature on it.... and it seems impossible to source now... So are these still in production?😁 Other ideas for sourcing drop pegs instead?

I have had my bits for the VTR upgrade laying around for a while now. Only just received ownership of a steering-head lift to make it happen.This is an excellent testimonial of the upgrade & reinvigorates my decision. Did you change springs, valves or any bits inside the forks (or just raw-dogged the OEM fork internals)? ...to the end of me wondering if Jamie Daughtry is privy on this swap, and if I should have any concerns before the swap on gutting the internals for some premium bits ---- (Apologize for any thread hijacking this causes)

ooh... that sounds like something I may want... do tell

Concur that is the general consensus on this mod. The VFR has become my princess bike, and my transalp is my dirty daily, so long trips where traffic is an issue are not a concern for me anymore. ---- I do like the philosophy that ducatis go by when it comes to heat (perhaps it's 'copium', perhaps it's Stockholm Syndrome), and this mod supports it: "If you're hot, the bike's cool."

I did ye olde uno reverse card on the 5th gen fan, as many others have... and boyo boy does she pump that stuff out! Took an easy afternoon. One beard out of three difficulty. Just needed a quick drain of the coolant & we were good to go! PN: 19020-MBB-003 - side plastics removed & coolant drained. - Popped off the rad. Only one wire running to it. - side to side comparison - installed - and just like humpty-dumpty, it's back together again --- Video after the fan kicked on: PXL_20250208_204004430.mp4

One thing that i do to all my machines is swap the BMC with a Nissin Radial 19mm. It did wonders for the brake feel for both my VFR & my Transalp. With braided lines too from HEL, of course! Here's a link to one. https://japan.webike.net/products/21203034.html

Wow! It's like photoshop, but with welding!

I am a recent convert to Webike, and will sing their praises. It earned its spot in my Firefox quick-access bar. Here's some tips: - Dont order via sea freight, it does, in fact take forever to arrive... but it DOES arrive! - Be sure to toss in some other odds and ends into the cart too to save on shipping... Perhaps a hose, some gaskets, rubbers, filters, cush drive, or even throttle body boots. - Nissin radial master cylinders (brake & clutch) can be had for hundreds less than we can buy domestically. (I wish I knew this before I sent the Italians $400 for that darned RCS-19 🤬 Be sure to leave reviews after your purchase too! They hand you points (=money) for every review you do! Happy Shopping!

I would get a 2nd opinion and have someone identify and plug the leak, wherever it may be. Any self respecting moto or hot-rod shop should knock that out for under $150, especially if you help them lift the tank.

Can we temporarily disable new accounts from posting, or being created at all?

Aftermarket gas caps (like the one from vortex) typically have venting built-in. I have had great experiences with them, but some folks have spicy opinions on them, so YMMV if you want to go that route. Can be found for cheap on ebay.

Good info! Out of curiosity, can any key cutter around town cut these, or do I need to go somewhere special?

I'm looking to make myself a spare as well. Commenting here to follow

I'll try to be fair. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN's) are best used in problems with indeterminate solutions. Optimizing an engine for power, efficiency, or emissions can be performed to very good results at a matrix of environmental conditions using easily solvable, well-known equations validated by a century of physics knowledge. What you're suggesting would be a rather poor utility of ANN's since the equation is easily solvable, and tools already exist to allow their optimum function in real-time (MAF sensors, intake air temp sensors, O2 sensors, knock sensors, engine temp sensors, dedicated onboard compute units etc.). I recommend you utilize such brain & computer power for other things - perhaps use AI for adaptive mesh density algorithms to optimize stress analysis in ANSYS! 😄 (there would be a lot of money in that effort!) TL;DR: This problem is so below the capabilities of AI. Find a harder problem to solve. Credentials: I frequently chat casually about AI. I work at NASA, and there are projects that leverage AI in some way, but feasibility is something that is interrogated hard before given the "Go". We must be sure the effort in teaching a computer to think for us is genuinely better, more efficient, more accurate, safer, etc than a traditional brute-force method.