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  1. Mohawk is nutz! But is awesome at the same time!
  2. Warchild added aux fuel on his blackbird on the passenger area. As far as skill, if Orange County Choppers can cut and weld tanks that do not leak, I am sure an auto body shop with any skill can do it. The guys that weld on the oil pipelines can do 80 or 90 welds a day and might have one leak.
  3. I used the Bazazz ZFi and ZBomb on my 1200. I would have been happy with the Power Ranger, I mean Commander, I don't know anything about the Rapid Bike. It comes down to your abilities as a mechanic, if you are using Auto Tune, if you are using a shop with a Dyno, what software is the shop familiar with, etc
  4. I have 300 km in the bike now and it is SO much more fun to zip around with now. If honda would have shipped them like this in 2010, and made a few minor tweaks, they would have sold a lot more bikes. I have not done much highway so I will see how the mileage is.
  5. I have never done the dyno thing on a FI bike, so it was interesting. I am not sure what all the sheets were he gave me, they have lambda on them, these two are the initial and final result. The bike is a 2010 not 2011 as indicated on the sheet, with the ZBomb and the ZFi tuning module. I only have 10 km on it but it is a different bike, it is not as twitchy on/off at low RPM, and really feels like it hauls now through the powerband. I am not keen on the 3-3-3 gear indicator, but will learn to deal with it. I had him do peel off the body work, install the KN filter, install the ZFi module and ZBomb, and do the dyno runs and put her all together. He did 3.5 hours of dyno time, and I am happy with the results. If it comes through hard to read, run #1 HP was 126.4 to the rear wheel on this machine, and torque was 76.4. This was with GPR slip on with db baffle in, K&N filter, and I think it also was with Z-Bomb in. I forgot to tell him to do a run with and without the Bomb, but I was not in the mood for paying for more dyno time this year! Final run was 146.3 HP and 83.12. with same exhaust and air, and Z-Bomb running. Edit: We are at 1,893 ft here
  6. Since I like reading about these projects, you totally should do it! How is that for random encouragement from the internet?
  7. The VFR 1200 has 43mm USD forks. The riders are also very very cool, from what I have heard. That is all I have to contribute to this thread, thanks for your attention.
  8. 300.00 seems to be the best price out there in internet land, since MSRP is ~350.00. If price point is the only issue, I think you found the best price!
  9. I re-read that and you are correct, sorry! (Harrrrr!) These are only 52 bucks on the big old auction house...
  10. http://www.amazon.com/Cycle-Pirates-Adjustable-Footpeg-Mounting/dp/B0022XJDII/ref=sr_1_1?m=A3TGC5XRRCX4P2&s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1372887527&sr=1-1&keywords=pirates+vfr1200#productDetails Apparently you now can use OEM pegs with the pirate (Haaaarrrrrrrr!)
  11. Helweg post a pic from the rear, if you have time. Just curious to see where this goes...
  12. Just read through this thread from start to finish, very interesting, great detective work on both sides of the ocean!
  13. Interesting topic, keep the pics coming!
  14. As always, Rob, very informative, great pics, and well written. I give it 4.5 William and Kate's out of 5!
  15. Can you fabricate parts for the upcoming v5 1000cc VFR? Great work, you guys deserve an Olympic medal in stick-to-it-ness!
  16. I saw that today when looking for other stuff, had to come back and post in this thread.
  17. Ok that sunk in. We have 8, as in eight children? Expecting the ninth?
  18. I think this is how those weird emails with the fictional stories start circulating, LOL.
  19. spinalator

    My Bike

    Great project so far!
  20. Don't smell the gases at work and your posts will make more sense.

  21. Great project, I am late to the thread as usual, and am happy you recycled the old VFR and did not send it to the crusher. People that are not amused should wake up and realize that we are going to be in a different world now, novel ideas and home inventors may offer solutions that rigid and large corporations may be slow to develop. This is interesting since I rode an electric scooter for the first time last week. Very light, very quiet, a little slow, but OK for puttering around town. The plus is that the city allows you to lock them up beside bicycles so you do not need to pay for parking. A few questions: Do you think you need to stick with a frame size that is similar to get decent motor size, and battery packs? Would a Ninja 250 or 500 be too small? I would think the light weight would help battery life, but the trade off is fewer of them. You may have covered this earlier, but are people giving up on laptop batteries as power sources? I saw a sportscar with laptop batteries on TV and it seemed awkward, but it was easy to swap bad cells in and out. Would small solar panels offer any resonable charging capabilites? Right now the small 2X2" solar lights are on sale ar garden shops, and you can likely stick about 30 of them on the cowling, dash, and top of the tank. Further, you could get a larger flexible solar panel and replace the stock windscreen.
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