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Oh cool you got someone to help you make something up : ) Nobody believes you here now. My Mexican compadres here, many who have homes and relatives in Tijuana, tell me there is nothing similar to "Those" party busses "Down there", and my beautifully lit motorcycle. Your answer sounds contrived and made up, which is ironic because you are not the one that even made it up. You know, if you guys are so bitter and self absorbed to the point where the only thing you can put into a topic is how much you hate on others and what they like about their motorcycles, or how they live, or where they live, I feel so terribly sorry for you. But to add racist bigot to the resume doesn't belong here, or anywhere else. Everybody here that sees the bike loves it and I even received and Ask from an Office Of The Building manager yesterday for permission to use a couple of my LED bike photos for their building entrance lobby : ) Whaaat? That's really cool and very unexpected. Really enjoying my newly lighted VFR800 now every night. Try not to let the ugliness inside hurt to the point where you feel you need to vent it on to someone else. You may have already figured out that it has no effect on me : / Hopefully this added pic of some of the colors my LED Glow lights can do might cheer you up.

Ya know, oddly enough living so close I never have. Go figure. So I thought I must be missing something in your comment. So I've been showing all my Mexican compadres here at work the pictures I posted and your comments, to see if they could tell what you are trying to say. And you know what, they don't get it either. So I'll just go ahead and ask if you could clarify for everyone here what you meant or what the joke was so we all can laugh?

And then there was night! My wife and I went out for a late ride Saturday at the Long Beach Harbor and Queen Mary area.

I don't have any on bike photo or video capability and no film crew to follow me on my bike. All I can say is the pictures capture exactly what it looks like in the dark and from the riders seat all I see is a little red glow around the inner front fairing. Most all the lights are below or behind me so unless I look directly down at the road underneath me it all just looks normal. I made a short video on YouTube which includes the riders view. https://youtu.be/e3U1b5tWBDE?si=MPlxUh-pXoeEUSdj

Here you go. It was a very difficult project, but I eventually found a few areas to affix my LED's. The colors look very vivid in person and can fade in/out or even from color to color. Red looks the best to me on the red bike, but on a white VFR all the colors would look incredible.

The standard tool kit does include the C-spanner + extension for the rear chain adjustment. It also includes the wire helmet lock cable. If your tool kit is missing the parts are still available from Honda. My bike came without the tool kit so I had to buy all the pieces separately ( not available as a complete kit )

Hi Jonny, I've asked this same general question in the past and received similar responses to what you see here. I purchased a set of quality LED lighting strips from https://www.motorcycleledlights.com/ and they are very nicely made and motorcycle vibration proof. I have the 8th gen also and what I did not think about beforehand is that the bodywork on these bikes are so aerodynamically sealed up that it is seemingly impossible to mount any strip lights without them being seen. That is, you want to see the effect of the lights, not the actual light strips. Finding mounting locations is a bugger on this bike, unlike the typical open fared super-sport bikes I am used to with body panels left uncovered on the inside. My main reason for buying the lights was to boost my visibility at night since 50% of my riding is in the dark. I saw another rider with LED's about a half mile in front of me on the freeway one night and it looked like a helicopter was lighting him up from above. The key is to light the bike and the ground underneath the bike. I started to give it a try a few months ago, but realized I would have to give up use of my bike for about a week to get the job done. You have to remove ALL bodywork and the tank to route the wires. I don't have that kind of time now but will get to it eventually. In the end I just ignore the nay-sayers because it's the other drivers out there that I don't want to ignore. I will definitely post pics when I get the job done : ) Cheers.,.,

I hate to interject at this point with another point of view but couldn't resist. All the cycle magazines and journals about motorcycle maintenance and operational procedures, that I have ever read mind you, say that the best possible way to adjust your chain is with the motorcycle upright and pre-loaded with the same rider weight that is normal for the bike. You want the swing arm at the same angle or position as it normally at while you are riding it. So I have always used a swing arm stand for my bikes while doing chain adjustments. You can preload the rear by pushing down a little before adjusting. The center stand would be the worst way (manuals be damned) because the swing arm never tops out like that unless you are a moto crosser. Any change in swing arm angle makes a big difference in chain slack measurement. Also, spin the wheel several times first to determine where the tightest slack is found and stop there to do your adjusting. You won't be able to do this if the bike is on it's side stand so that is not the best way either, manuals be damned again. Just my 2 cents and what has always worked perfectly for me over 47 years riding and while getting the maximum life out of my chain and sprockets. Also use Maxima Chain Wax spray. Your chain will love you : )

I am going to start pulling bodywork off today because it is going to rain for the next 3 days, so no riding. I am looking for an accessory power lead for my LED lighting. I was thinking that those of you that have the Deluxe model with the hand grip heaters might know the location where the heater switch plugs into it's power source? I would like to tap into that connection for my LED's instead of directly to the battery terminal's. I don't want power to the lights unless the ignition is switched on.

Thanks. I read in the old fender-tidy topic that people were filing something off to get the Werkes kit to fit. I didn't see anything like that was necessary. Once you remove the license light spacer, to remount you just need a couple of 2 mm spacer washers, or re-use the OEM flange nuts as spacers like I did. If you don't fill the gap between the stainless steel and the rubber isolation grommets, the grommets will pull through as you tighten the license light nuts. I never liked how the OEM license extension flopped a little no matter how tight it's mounting hardware was.

Today I installed Competition Werkes Fender Tidy kit on my 2014. Installation was 100% bolt-on. My customizations were painting the stainless kit satin black before installing, and reusing the OEM 5mm shoulder bolts on the sides instead of the included red reflectors. I provided my own lock nuts on the underside. I also removed the plastic 1" license light spacer to bring the light in line with the center of the plate. Last thing was reusing the OEM flange nuts between the stainless kit and the rubber seal behind the light. This made the installed unit rock solid and it looks much, much better.