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Sorry to hear the bad news about the bike. If you can get a decent settlement look for a used 5th gen - I've seen lots of good ones available for good prices.

Yeah, I got 15,000 km out of my crappy rear tire and about 7,000 km of that was two-up on vacation going the speed limit plus. I can't figure out what you guys are doing to wear your tires out so fast. I really must be hella slow compared to all of you.

I just found the Kerker has a nice sound overall - you can hear it on the bike but it doesn't seem to project a lot of sound elsewhere. I don't worry about performance gains from a fart can :biggrin: and the one I've seen has been on the same bike for a couple of years so it seems to have held up well enough.

I have seen and heard them on 5th gens. There are only three mufflers I think are worthwhile on this generation VFR, and this is one of them.

I knew I had seen it there before. Thanks :schla15:

Going to help a friend put a VFR750 swingarm on his CBR900RR this winter - I thought the guy (Jeff) at TireQuik made spacers for this, but I can't seem to get an answer out of him. Anyone else out there help me find someone/somewhere that either makes these or has the dimensions for them? Apparently it only needs one, but I don't know and I would like this to be as straightforward as possible (famous last words, I know...)

I keep asking myself the same Q about the BMW R1100S rear wheel... :fing02:

All you need to do is have someone that can bend/fabricate pipe bends and have them make you a connector, or fit something from another pipe. Do you want to go hi or lo mount ?

A bunch of money! RC45 parts are not cheap! Plus, all the little parts that'll probably need to be custom machined too. There are three ways to get things: * Quick * Good * Cheap M y little project took two years. Of which nearly half was fitting the wheels.

Sit and stare at bike thinking "How the heck am I going to make this work...?"

Hit a deer full-on at 100km/h years back. Slight concussion and small(ish) abrasion on right shoulder. Went over the bars and landed under the bike. Smacked my head on the tarmac hard. Would've been a fatality or permanent brain injury without helmet. Long slide down the highway into the ditch/gravel - tore up all my gear from top to bottom - helmet, gloves, jacket, pants, boots. Abrasion + gravel = :biggrin:

Rebuilt every 500km, so approx. every 7 hours, in actual fact. Honda's factory World Superbike team actually ran out of RVF heads at one point, and had to get special permission from the FIM to use OEM VFR800 parts. I think it's entirely possible to get a lot more power out of the VFR, you just won't be able to get it to pass any emissions test, nor will it get very good gas mileage. And you won't find anyone outside of HRC that can or will do it.

Hard to believe Honda can't give the VFR more oomph when the RVF750 motor it was based on put out up to 190 hp in race trim...

Good discussion. Don't feel bad that we're dumping on your choice a bit. I got the same comments from Hispanic Slammer when I was looking at (older/non-radial caliper) YZF-R1 forks. I eventually went with RC51 forks, which are now dumped on by zRoYz in favor of, you guessed it, (newer/radial caliper) YZF-R1 forks.

:fing02: What he said. Why bother putting something crap on your bike when there is an obviously better alternative that is the same amount of effort ? Should be able to find a decent set of F4/F4i forky boingers for around $200 plus postage. I bet there is at least one 4th gen VFR owner out there who pretzeled their front end and would be willing to give you $200 for your good VFR forks. Done.

I'd always heard the VTR's forks sucked.

I just did a comparison of three pipes on my bike - Staintune, Two Brothers C5 Carbon, and D&D Chrome. The D&D is the fart cannon champion hands down for volume.

Nice :fing02:

ergo you should be able to use RC45 top end stuff on your 5th gen VFR800 in addition to some oversize pistons, Erion/TBR exhaust AND a ToroCharger... just sayin, of course :ohmy:

Call/email the guys at RMR Suspension in Kelowna. Before I swapped my forks, I was looking into various front end internal mods. As has been mentioned in other forums/threads in some cases it is better to have your existing internals modified for you than use an aftermarket part. In particular, I recall at least one (Phil/Aftershocks or RMR) suspension shop that noted the oem parts were actually superior quality to aftermarket and worth modifying. The only drawback being that you can't take them out and re-sell them later if you are so inclined. The owner of RMR trained/worked with the WP Suspension techs down in the US.

At one point Honda's World Superbike program ran out of cylinder heads for the RC45 so they used some from a VFR800.

The VFR has always been a well-put-togther bike that is mostly pretty easy on the eyes, or at least cleans up good.

Previous version was better IMO. Try leaving the mirrors and fork legs black.