Dutchy

Next is a yellow pliot/parking/city BA9S bulb to get rid of the white in the light being emitted

Started working on preparing the front garden for the new arrival

And then the rains came again (and I have a day job too....)

Merhaba!!!

But your post is a bit short on content!

"Durchbruch"

nope

But that nob can be ordered new for Eur 4,50....... (and I assume it will have the decal on it..)

Postage/handling (in NL) is 7,50 though with CMSNL........

If you prefer black

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HONDA-VF500F-VF1000F-CB1100F-CB750F-CB900F-CB1100F-TRAC-FRONT-FORK-DECAL-/191618722477?

Guy in Spain makes them and is a prompt and pleasant guy to do business with.

I asked fro 1 red and one black, but one can ofcourse order 2 in the same color.

If you still want the red, I will post it tomorrow.

PS: I send him my picture and told him it was ok to use.

You want the red one?

Every little detail counts......................

Jo regelt!!

:-)

That's a big reserve. Very handy to know that.

Today I had to switch to reserve @232km

Petrol station was right up ahead; 12.2 litres went in, so make that 1:19

This time my riding was more the way I like it, so did not achieve the the same monster mileage as before.

WPHB says the tank will hold 16.5liter

The fairing nuts were grotty and I fitted an aftermarket screen that needed a finishing touch.

Take your wife over to the Netherlands,

bring your helmets and riding gear

and you can have a 2nd honeymoon on it.

beats having to read this....

On 2nd thought,

it probably reads

"to adjust fuel/air ratio,

take one big MF hammer and....."

PO mailed spare key and

oh no!!!! OIL QUESTON!!!

PO told me the last few oil changes (while he owned the bike) have been with 100% synthetic 10-40W (Shell X7 or something).

Whereas some say not to do this as it will dissolve the build up from prior use with semi-synthetic too quickly. I get that.

But since the last 2-3 changes were done with full synth, what is wisdom?

A) continue with 100% synthetic: it is better oil for high revving engines; any dirt build up will have been removed during the -at least- 3x times full synth was used

B) no, go back to semi-synth as the engine was build in 1986 and it will like this oil better

The bike does like revving and I like revving it (after it is well warmed up of course), it has done 44,000km/27.5k miles.

In summer, we can get 30C/85F days..

The manual says change oil every 8,000 miles; that seems long no?

29 year old, 44,000km

new

yeah that needs replacing

Once fresh DOT 5.1 was in , I realized I forgot to clean the little window...

took a Q-tip, started cleaning the little glass but then a cloud appeared....

the left bottom was black as well so I carefully cleaned things and flushed a lot of clean fluid (the bottle is open anyway...) through the system.

Put on a new vacuum line from carb to petcock.

The petcock on OFF doesnot stop the flow of fuel; I have a revision kit, but then the racing started and afterwards took the VF out for a 100 miles spin over some dykes.

The last 4 liters on reserve I was VERY conservative. On average I got 18km on 1 liter

This year, Le Tour de France will start from Utrecht and will pass through my "backyard".

Along the route, preparations are underway

Need to do some work on/underneath the tank so decided to see how far she'd run until she stop....

Reserve came on around 220km, and came to a complete stop at

314km

Had s small fuel canister with me so rode to the nearest station

On 6/18/2015 at 0:27 AM, RollinAgain said:

Not one damn Windmill in the video....what a waste of time.

Sorted!!!

Well, Keny found out the hard way (on the The Bridge between Denmark and Sweden) that the vacuum hose from carburetor to petcock was leaking, so I checked mine.

Yep on its last legs so..........................

It rained for most of the day but there was a break in the weather so time to put the odometer to

And there was even time for a wash and wax job!

Life is good..

The purring is the V2 engine in the Honda Transalp that is doing the filming

It boldly goes where no VF500 will ever go..

http://vid113.photobucket.com/albums/n206/Dutchy_748/alpie_zpsd3z5ueyk.mp4

This mind you NOT on dirt trackt nobly tires....

The VF500 is far more nimble, as expected. It weighs less and with a 120 rear (110 is even standard).....

The fun is that you can really revs the thing without reached sily speeds as fast as you do on the VFR750....

Boy was the underside clarty...

After some elbow grease.....

SCORE!!!!!

(the OEM one has a crack..)

Redlining to 11,500RPM...................... luvverly!!!

clickerdiclick

http://vid113.photobucket.com/albums/n206/Dutchy_748/vf500_zpsfdfzgead.mp4

And it must be contagious.......  Thank you Keny!!!  

Went to look at 2 today, 1st one was grotty beyond belief so I didnot even make an offer

The other one was the other side of NL so all in all a 300 mile day today.

44k km's/27.5K miles

From the year I started working, 1986

Came with a set of new Bridgestone's, purrs like a small lion....

The OEM indicators are gone unfortunately.... 😞

Early rise tomorow for a 7AM start of a mc tour with some friends; they will be surprised no doubt!

Early start to avoid the mass of HD and HD clones clogging up the dikes 

so no iron butt off the cuff but a good spin nevertheless. 

All these 100's of hours fiddling with the bike while he could have.................

But back on topic, absolute craftsmanship here!!!