Alien VFR

I have found that Simple Green works well also.

While simple green is a great cleaner, it will DESTROY certain materials, like the gaskets in your chain. Ask me how I know...

8hp looks like a red X.

Looks great; really updates the styling of your bike...

I have never bought the Wave Design either...especially with more surface area empty than filled in. I would thing less metal means more heat/cool cycles = more warping and less effective braking....let alone the cheese grater concept, which large holes would seem to encourage.

Slotted rotors run cooler, but 1/2 the surface area would seem to just heat right up.

I read somewhere that the advantage of the wave design is that there's more "leading edge surface area" sweeping across the pads. This provides better feel and improved braking. Your pads will probably wear a little faster, but at $100 for a set of front pads, it's not that big of a deal IMO.

That looks pretty good...

I liked the look of the bike without the chainguard while I was changing out my chain and sprockets last Spring. So I left it off and just used a piece of aluminum, bent it at right angles, drilled a few holes in it, and hooked it up to the brake lines to keep them from hitting the chain. Cost me a whole $4 making this bracket.

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I plan to get the ss braided brake lines and running them through the swingarm for next season though.

Damn, that looks good; I've always hated the look of the chaingaurd. I hope you don't mind me copying your idea... 'cause I'm gonna!

I installed and tested the grip warmers tonight and I can't believe I've ridden sixteen years without them.

One of the best "Bang for the Buck" mods out there.

I headed out and it was 45 degrees which I can handle without warmers, so it wasn't bad. Felt good to try out the new warmers and see how they work.

The ride home was 33 degrees, and the warmers were definately helpful. Along with all my riding gear (layers), I was very comfortable and could've ridden a long distance in relative comfort if I had to. The half hour ride home was great.

I was actually surprised how hot the grips get. Riding through town the High setting was too hot, so I switched to low. But on the highway, the hot setting was perfectly adequate to do the job.

Here's what I wear whenever the temps get below 50 degrees. It took a while to figure out what works best. The key is layers and making sure there's no exposed skin. The Under Armor is awesome. It's like a second set of skin. But you have to use the tight fitting synthetic stuff that's not very breathable, it works the best. Here's what makes me comfortable down to at least 30 degrees:

Under Armor

Cotton T Shirt

Turtle Neck Sweater

Icon Leather Jacket w/ Liner (Sleeves of liner cut off so my arms aren't too bulky w/ the sweater, etc.)

Icon Timax Gloves

Balaclava (like a ski mask, w/ no mouth hole and one oval eyeport made of synthetic material)

Icon Helmet

Sweat Pants Under Jeans

Boots w/ Thick Cotton Socks

Symtec Grip Heaters

Every year I will ride regularly until the first real snowstorm brings out the salt and sand trucks. Then the road surface is pretty much shot until spring. I'll still ride on the occasional nice mid-winter day though.

Goodnight...

by the way what kind of grips?

Stock 6th gen grips.

I just successfully installed my new Symtec grip heaters.

Last year I intalled a 12v cigarette lighter adapter for XM Radio/phone charger/etc. I just tapped into the power and ground wires.

Removing the grips took about 15 seconds. I took some starter fluid and sprayed it around the edge of the grips. They slid right off. I used the starter fluid to reapply the grips and it worked perfectly. After 30 seconds, the grips were super tight.

Installation took about an hour. Could be done in half that time if you were really in a hurry.

Flipped the switch and Voila! HEAT!!!

I'm going to go for a ride in a little while to try them out. It's about 45 degrees right now, so I'm sure I'll feel the benefits.

Thanks to everyone that provided info prior to my purchase. It helped make me a confident buyer and installation was a snap.

That's an interesting idea but I dont like how the muffler looks. I think it looks better when it's mounted parallel to the bodywork/tailsection

The muffler simply HAS to run in parallel with the bodywork, otherwise it just looks out of place. If you could raise the entire muffler and run it along the edge of the fairing... but that would involve much more than just turning the peg bracket.

Plenty of bikes get away with the exhaust not running parallel w/ the body work. TLR, RC51, etc. I think Aprilia may also have a model with upswept pipes. Seems like a V-Twin phenomenon... But whatever... Either way, the bike is sweeeet as hell.

I'd strip the lip of the front wheel too. :blink:

I like it.

Nice work... Looks like spider man had his way w/ your headlights...

What the hell does ATGATT mean???