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Always start with the easiest stuff. 1. Battery. Are the battery terminals tight? Is the battery dying in the ass? Get the battery checked out at a battery store or workshop. 2. Once battery is known to be good, search for "The drill". This tutorial will explain how to test the wiring, the stator and the regulator/rectifier. You should find some fixes in there for typical faulty parts of the wiring loom. Especially the blue connector near left hand radiator and the susceptible wiring components close to the battery. 3. Search for "BYC" or Kentucky Fried Connector (my 6th gen specific thread on the faulty ground bus connector), if you can't find it, search for "Urethra" or "Eureka" by Veefercanuk or however you spell his moniker. That's the 5th gen specific thread on the equivalent shithouse connector, there's a link in there to my 6th gen thread. May the V fource be with you!

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If it's support bracket is broken, and they break too easily... Or if it's come loose from said bracket, it will just spin freely without actually activating the mechanism. Poorly designed. You may need to remove the fairing bolt to get better access to stay the cable sheath while turning the knob.

That's better!

Dutchy, no offence mate but your example of a better pic is, according to the technical criteria of photography, not actually any better. Your bike is in the shade, the sunlight is highlighting that ondulating roof in the background, the latter is so busy visually it distracts from the main subject. I know you have much, much, much better photos to use to push your point.

Quote of the century: "I will immediately wait around... " LoL

Awesome tutorial write up thank you so much for your time

By the way, I scored this IPhone cover with Crutchrocket's logo, for free. I believe it's for an iPhone5. If anyone's interested just pay postage.

Ended up at Beckett's corner as vendor was located there. Sun drenched day instead of cloudy as predicted the night before. My camera was playing up so few shots came out worthy of publishing.

I got lucky. Free entry to Silverstone tomorrow through a merchandising vendor. Looking for advice on the best stands for views and photography. Cheers and thanks in advance!

You have a wire shorting out somewhere in that area

Download the workshop manual http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/index.php?/files/file/251-2015vfr800zip/

http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/index.php?/topic/62525-FAULTY-GROUND-CONNECTOR

Mine always returned to its original colour.

Also drop one tooth off the front sprocket and the bike will feel livelier. These are the simplest, cheapest and most noticeable ways towards your goal.

Same way I used to do it. Except I just used dishwashing liquid. Shower stream applied only to bottom side for same reason vacuum only applied to top side. I then used the same Krafft chain lube in aerosol to oil it (very liquid type oil, no Teflon or waxy stuff) that I used to use on my chains (every 500-800 Km) and got great mileage out of my final drives with. I tested both oils to ascertain similar behaviour at operating temps. I was happy they were similar enough and the bike ran just fine. No spluttering or signs of lack of power at high revs.

Sounds reasonable. Saddlery is understandable, upholsterer's possibly more accurate. Let us know how it is.

Unleash the full factory potential!! You missed the recent, exhaustive grand debate then? More than about 5HP, not without a blower, major bucks and extensive mods. You can slowly pick away at heavier components to increase the power : weight ratio, starting with the OEM exhaust.

The suspense is killing me...

Well firstly we need to ascertain that the location where it mounts on to the Handlebar is the same diameter from the 6th gen to the 8th gen, which a pragmatic mind would think would be the same... but the very reason you are changing the switch pod is precisely because of the lack of pragmatism in Honda's ranks. Then a quick look at a wiring diagram might help to ascertain whether or not it has all the functional parts you will need: high and low beam, horn & indicator on the 6th gen I don't know what else you might have on the 8th gen (you've deactivated the automatic turn signal cancelling circuit). Then we will need to swap out the Pod side connector housing if it is different to the 8th gen bike side connector, which I imagine it is and in which case we can reutilize the Pod side half of the connector from the original switch pod... but once again if pragmatism goes astray we might find ourselves with the female and male terminals around the other way from one gen to the next, so some soldering and some new terminals would be needed for either end of the wires, just one end, whichever side takes your fancy, but I would attack the pod side and leave the bike side in original condition.

Choke lever ceased to exist during 5th gen production as of and including the year 2000.

Couldn't you just use a 6th gen one?

Simple, just include a switch to turn it on or off according to each individual's criteria. Just like you can with the traction control. Funny thing is if I'm not mistaken, all cars now come with ABS whether you like it or not and I don't see people complaining about big brother issues.

Nothing like a well trimmed bush!!