Dutchy

I used to think that this Meguiars claying thing was probably snake oil.....

I was wrong....

And to prevent mud kissing my new YSS going forward:

She's a dirty puma she is......

Yesterday did a 200km trip on narrow dike roads on redslut. Liked that route so much I pretty much did the same route on puma.

Taking advantage of the clocks going back 1 hour, it was a glorious, yet misty start

Further up the road was covered in yellow leaves, the view in my mirror a cloud of yellow. Zen moment..

Scary stuff, half an inch of mud, did slide on it whilst slowing down... Eeeekkk!!!!

Kept the sunny side up though :-)

Do

Not

Miss

The

Apex

...

This is how we reclaimd the land 100's of years ago... Pumping water with windmills

Yeah 48k in her now.

To make sure the other one does not cry foul, I took her for a ride and dinner just now :-)

4,0000kms

Into the great wide open....

With the flight $1,200+ I think it will be a no go for me..... :-)

Ah yes my bad, front is a 15T...

Had a good 240km run indeed!

I will remove the voltage gauge and see if I can dry-out the moisture inside..

It will be even sunnier tomorrow, but with 11C it will feel more nippy..... Not as nippy as southern Sweden at 03:00 wearing summer gloves.....

Oh I am not worried with the voltage, that idles at 12+ with lights on and heated gloves.

The 14is at 2000rpm and up

It is the moisture inside that is a bit annoying.... :-)

U missed a nice ride....

Hhhmmmm was greeted by this in the morning and it stayed there all day.....

It did not spoil my day :-)

Gimme shelter...

Yeah that bargain price for the set looks wholly unattractive with this knowledge!

so that leaves my question re emulators on a VF500F2. Having read a bit mote it appears I would have to reassemble and drill/widen the oil holes in the lower innards?

cheers Duc!

Local Ebay has a chain+sprocket set from a private seller, but I am not looking for more top speed; the 185kmh on GPS is more than enough....

I love the way the puma pulls from 0 so not messing with that.

next question...................... as per the fiche, the VF500F came with either a 44T rear sprocket (1984-85) or 43T (1986), Front sprocket 16T through the years. CORRECTION 15T!!!

What would a 41T rear sprocket bring me (good or bad)?

Next on the list is the front forks, for they compress, but rebound is a bit erratic.....

Maybe in the coming months a large box will arrive at my door....

Unless you install cartridge emulators, there is not much around to improve the old damperrod fork.

Do I simply take out the springs, drop in the emulator, put spring on top and button up?

Or do I have to take the forks apart and drill/machine something?

My 4th gen has rods attached to the stanchion caps that slide inside a hollow rod (that is screwed ont othe cap)

My VF500F2 has none of this; caps have and air valve and once I take the springs out, I pretty much have empty stanchions (with as per the parts fiche) soem parts at the bottowm

The claxon and extra meters routed via a fuse box

Hidden from view by the lower cowl, it shoudl be ok in this spot. One of the FIAMMs on redslut is close to the header too with no ill effect.

Will keep an eye on it though, may add another bracket mounting point.

http://vid113.photobucket.com/albums/n206/Dutchy_748/VIDEO0057_zps3lvbsife.mp4

Sorted!

Yeah Keny, I had this down for a winter evening.....

messed up fitting the Stebel, see electrical post..

Darkness falls across the land.....

Thank you Keny

Thank you to the mule!

Next on the list is the front forks, for they compress, but rebound is a bit erratic.....

Maybe in the coming months a large box will arrive at my door....

4pm start.... So we indeed had a fair pace to be on time for

Will gladly take u and your VFKR there.... :-)

Not a member but a colleague of a friend of mine. the vfr is not called redslut for nothing....

Inside of dashboard has 57mm diameter circles so I had to carefully allign the 52mm cuts...

Rode her hard yesterday for 200km, smooth as silk....

Btw, until now I used to own 1 bike only, I have never had anyone else ride redslut for more than a short spin. But last night a visitor from South Africa put her through her paces. Jason a Blackbird/R1200S kinda guy so we attacked the dikes with vigor! The Akrapovic sounds even better following it..

Ok, no turning back now......

Tadaaa!!!!!

Correct!!!!

Today she got a "cup fuel filter". As per the fiche, 1986 model no longer had them but I want one!

There is no room/space to fit an inline filter under the tank.

I had also sourced new tank decals on Ebay (plug here for Ebay seller hielorojo who gave excellent service and his prices much better than a UK seller -with silly shipping charges-) since both had faded.

Armed with youtube knowledge, heat gun, plastic scraper, WD40, kerosine, lampenolie I started removing them.

Well, that proved not as easy but he who perseveres, wins!

Ok not quite... the old warning decals had what appeared air bubbles but upon removing the sticker, it looks like the sticker got somehow "etched" in the paint. After trying every trick I very very carefully scraped the surface and the paint came off.

So I ended up degreasing the surface and put the new decals on.

It looks much much better than before, but not "factory new". But then again, The Netherlands is no Japan!

Oh yes it did, smooth from left to right every time.