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  2. JasonC
    Thanks for the feedback so far, came across this product and I really like the idea 😄 Skunklock Chemical , I wonder if it's available in the UK!
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  6. davidhamilton994
    The Light show at Fremont street
    Καταλαβαίνω την ανάγκη να ενημερώνεσαι και να βρίσκεις χρήσιμες πληροφορίες για θέματα που σε ενδιαφέρουν. Προσωπικά, όταν ήθελα να χαλαρώσω μετά από μια κουραστική μέρα γεμάτη άγχος, δοκίμασα τυχαία το billionairespin και έπαιξα μερικά παιχνίδια για λίγο διάλειμμα. Στην αρχή είχα μικρές ήττες, αλλά μετά ήρθε μια καλή νίκη που με έκανε να χαλαρώσω και να νιώσω πιο ανάλαφρα. Τώρα το χρησιμοποιώ για να αποφορτίζομαι και να περνάει η ώρα ευχάριστα.
  7. JZH
    A VFR-based streetfighter without the SSSA would be...unusual. It can be done, but most swing arm conversions go the other way! You'd probably have better luck looking for Yam R6 SSSA conversion threads and reverse the process documented there. The most important swing arm dimension is probably the pivot width and shaft diameter, but you'd first need to figure out how the shock and linkage are going to work. The VFR SSSAs and linkages are designed to work with a shock which has a very strong spring and a very short travel. Generally, I'd think that if you're converting to a conventional swing arm, you would probably also want to convert to a conventional shock and shock linkage at the same time. Good luck! Ciao, JZH
  8. JZH
    FWIW, any 6th-gen part with "MBG" in its part number is a 5th-gen part already. Ciao, JZH
  9. kirurumaru
    Parts arrived as promised. Very good customer service, I will be a repeat customer. Salut, en suivant vos échanges sur les tendeurs de chaîne pour VFR, ça m’a donné envie de tester quelque chose de différent pour me détendre après le travail. Un ami m’a parlé d’un site avec des bonus pour les joueurs de France et j’ai essayé le plinko game. Au début, j’ai perdu quelques petites mises, puis j’ai pris un peu plus de risque et j’ai décroché un gros gain. Depuis, c’est devenu mon petit rituel du soir, et les bonus pour la France rendent le jeu encore plus agréable. Keep us posted
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  13. VTCAL
    GACK!!!!!
  14. VTCAL
    So much ado about Nothing.
  15. Burger
    certainly looks better than what came out of my tank when i first bought it
  16. Terry
    Hope you weren't smoking at the time!🤯 Fuel would show a distinct bottom layer if there is much water in there.
  17. Terry
    Wheels, front axle and discs are all the same.
  18. FromMaine
    👍👍👍 What mellow said.
  19. mello dude
    New thread but is probably useful. Since the 5th gen bikes are 24 to 27 years old, more and more parts are getting listed as not available in the parts fisches. But many parts still listed for the 6th also are the same or very simular to the 5ths and will work fine. Recent example... This rear brake guide snapped off and the new 6th is near identical.. 5th vs 6th Anyway I think Terry confirmed that 6th gen insulators will work on 5th gens... Would like to continue building this thread. If you could plz.... List your 6th parts you have used lately or have found for a fact that they also work on 5th gens. Lets see how far we can go with this. Thanks all and cheerz
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  22. ChrisophViffer
    That is exactly what happened Terry. At least I got a fuel sample though. Thanks.
  23. Terry
    Regarding the fuel return line, this is part of the way fuel pressure is regulated to the injectors. The pump generates excess pressure, and the fuel pressure regulator allows excess pressure to drain back to the tank. I think this circulation also helps to cool the pump when the level is low. The FPR also takes a vacuum signal from an intake tract and this is used to adjust pressure up and down so the fuel pressure remains constant relative to the intake vacuum. I've only ever disconnected the return line when the tank was flipped over on its back (safe to do by the way, the cap will seal tight). I doubt it has any kind of check valve in the tank so my guess is fuel will flow out when the hose is removed.
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  25. Whirrygears
    Thanks guys, i’ve come across that bike previously on fb. Great looking though 👍
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  27. VTCAL
    I believe you are being way too concerned over a non-issue. Dri-gas is fine, use it according to directions. Water in the fuel will not blow up your engine...jeesh! Some water drops MAY have entered the fuel tank when the filler cap was opened, but certainly not much. Rod out that over fill drain, Compressed air may blow the tube off the fitting, but it is not difficult to replace. If you are using pump gas, the alcohol will help with clearing any water. Now if you have a LOT of water in the tank, Just syphon it all out ang start fresh!
  28. JAMurillo
    I forgot to mention that I refurbished those calipers, and replaced the pads with new ones. I placed the caliper parts in the sonic cleaner, made sure to run a green scotchbrite on the pins and backing plate. I added some brake grease on those items and on the sides of the new pads that touches those parts.
  29. Lorne
    Take a listen to what my VFR sounded like before & after replacing both ccts.
  30. ChrisophViffer
    Yes, thank you Burger, very helpful advice indeed. So I've added a short video to make sure that I'm targeting the right hose to remove in order to catch the fuel (the fuel return line).Your instructions were quite clear I'm sure, though for the sake of posterity and potential usefulness to other novice mechanics such as myself, I thought I'd chuck it in here anyway. https://youtube.com/shorts/KjknScI3G8w?feature=share Also, I was wondering, since it is the fuel return line, does this mean that fuel that I will collect using this method will have came into contact with the fuel injectors in anyway? The fuel is obviously not being used for combustion, so I'm guessing that it would be unlikely. It's interesting to me to find that there is such a channel, so to speak, as a fuel return line; previously I had just imagined that fuel leaving a motorcycle tank would be destined for a one way journey of sorts before being ignited. There's no danger of fuel coming out from the point where I will disconnect the fuel return line? This is very interesting, I'm enjoying learning more about the bike, and thank you for you help. Ah yes Terry. The overflow is indeed blocked, I did indentify it, and tried what some have suggested... putting some strimmer wire down into the hole in order to unblock it. The thing is, the two gauges of strimmer wire that I tried seemed to be a bit stiff, and I didn't want to damage the overflow at all. The sales assistant at my local motorcycle store recommended using guitar string, which I will give a go. I'll report back on what I found to work best. The old school methylated spirits trick... I was reading that some alcohols are better than others for the purpose of helping dispell water in a tank. The common ones (ChatGPT): Meths (methylated spirits / ethanol + additives) → old-school hack, works, but leaves a bit of residue, and the purple dye/denaturants aren’t doing your injectors/carb jets any favours. Isopropyl alcohol (IPA) → technically does the same job, miscible with water and petrol, but it’s not as efficient at binding water as methanol/ethanol. Methanol (what’s in HEET yellow bottle) → the most effective at water absorption, which is why HEET and similar products are basically just methanol. Isopropyl + petrol → some commercial products use a blend, but it’s not usually sold pure for that use. Guys, thanks very much for the responses. I hope to be on the road again very soon, like I mentioned, the bike needs a good bit of TLC before she's 100%... and I'm aiming to address issues as they come to my attention. Many thanks again.
  31. Terry
    Clattery when warmed (when the idle speed drops back) is probably the CCTs but could also just be clutch rattle, which might be fixed with a starter valve balance. The clutch rattle will go away with the lever pulled in a little. CCT noise is usually worst below about 3k rpm and then not noticeable above that.
  32. Terry
    An old trick for dealing with water in petrol was to add a small quantity of methylated spirits to the tank; this allows a small amount of water to be absorbed back into the fuel. If you are already using an ethanol blended fuel, it should be doing this already. Burger's advice above is sound regarding the smaller fuel return hose; you can also just apply 12v power direct to the brown wire terminal to continually run the pump if you want to drain the fuel. This line comes from the fuel pressure regulator that also feeds the fuel rails; as long as the engine is not running none of this fuel will make it into the already-full rails/injectors. Water should not be sitting around the tank unless the water drain/overflow is clogged. When you have the tank lifted, the water drain is the larger hose of the two plugged in near the front underside of the tank, that connects to a pipe that runs right through the tank from the filler area. The hose should just terminate under the bike left side.
  33. Terry
    If you can get a firm lever feel with extra pumps, I'd suggest that you have something other than a hydraulics issue. If I read your post correctly, you can pump up the pressure, tie the lever back overnight, and still have pressure in the morning, until you release the lever for the first time. I would start by pulling the callipers off and double checking that the pads are installed properly and not catching on a pad spring. Your symptoms sound like something physical is pushing a pad off the disc so you have to pump in extra fluid to move it back before you get some brake pressure. I did that myself on a rear brake calliper once and it took an hour or two to solve.
  34. Iain2
    No there is no dedicated relay on a gen 4 the relay is shared with the lights indicator relay as far as I can make out
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  36. JAMurillo
    Thanks, I'll give that a try.
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      Juniper Pass

      I took a day off from work and also from my bicycle training to take out the Veefalo one last time before the weather turns ugly, supposed to snow the rest of the week and possibly start sticking to the ground along the Colorado Front Range. I took a leisurely pace up hwy 105 toward Morrison and got reacquainted with the bike since its been over a month since I took any sort of twisties on it at all, hwy 105 is a scenic ride along the front range between Denver and Colorado Springs, its mostly easy fast sweepers and lite traffic so its a favorite road of mine when going north. Then I have to negotiate a bit of traffic near Highlands ranch and up hwy 470 into the mountains. I decided to take the Morrison Exit and try either Lookout Mountain or head up Golden Gate Canyon - this time it was Lookout Mountain, I was sort of making it up on the fly as I went along. Lookout Mountain is my old bicycling haunt from my days while I was working at Coors, its a killer ride and all uphill - I don't think I could do it today If I had to, not quite there yet! I saw a whole bunch of riders doing it though and wished I was in shape enough to be there doing it as well. 30 more lbs and I will be able to do it! On this day I would do it on the Veefalo instead.

       

       

       

       

      I took a video from the gateway to the top at the Lookout Mountain State Park, getting past riders, the guy in the green jacket actually pretty much astounded me with how far he had gotten in the short time it took me to set up my camera, some 3 miles at least and up to the gateway from the turn off at hwy 6! Amazing I thought. I took the first two turns slow then got more comfortable as I went up further, till I was doing well, I made some gearing mistakes and took the tight 15mph marked hairpins in the wrong gear so I lugged it a bit on one or two. Still enjoyed it though and then got off at the top and hiked over a rock outcropping for an overview of the road for the pictures below.

       

       

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      Lookout Mountain - Golden Colorado

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      Lookout Mountain Park top of the mountain

      From there I headed up interstate 70 to Idaho Springs for a beer at the Tommy-knockers brewery, I was the only customer in the joint - slow day for them so they treated me like a king! I got a nice tour of the place sort of impromptu, they made me a nice Pastrami sandwich on rye and with the brown ale it was fantastic. I must say the beer is much better there than in the bottles - its always good at the brewery. I am glad I stopped

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      Tommy-knockers Brewpub Idaho Springs

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      Idaho Springs Colorado

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      Mashtuns and fermenters

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      Rows of fermenters

      I finished my lunch and since the road to Mount Evans is right there I headed up Squaw pass hoping to get in some nice pictures I wasn't expecting what I found, ICE IN ALL THE SHADY PARTS

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      Icy patches on Squaw Pass definitely taking it easy on that road

      There were some section where the ice covered the whole road for 300 yards or so I had to roll through it with my legs out to help keep the bike from sliding and falling over, I took it real slow. A Ford pickup was right behind me so I pulled over to let him pass but the guy was going slower then even I was so I pressed on - in places where I could see I just cut over to the oncoming lane and out of the ice where the sun was shining on the road more, but some places there was not alternative so I just had to go slow, good thing it wasn't slick but rather they tossed some gravel over the worst parts so I had some traction!

      I did stop for pictures in all the best spots

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      Echo Lake at Mount Evans showing off my new plate

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      Elephant Butte Park and Denver

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      Veefalo on Squaw Pass

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      Juniper Pass

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      Mount Evans

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      I Am Back !

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      Not that it matters and not that I expect anyone had noticed, but to those who sent me "where are you?" I would like to say I am back. Not only that I am officially returning to VFRD after nearly 2 months break but I have also ridden my Hawk last weekend and had FUN! Let me restate that; I had major fun riding! Something I have almost given up on.

      Most of you have been riding your whole adult lives and riding is not only a hobby to you, it is part of you. But I started riding three years ago and even though I have encounter some setbacks, till this spring I loved riding with whole my heart. However, I have always considered riding as my hobby. As a hobby which suppose to make my life better, more fun and more rich. Life is too short to do something which we don't fully love.

      My love of riding received a first major scar this spring: I lost a friend on the racetrack. He was a total stranger who offered me his help after I lowsided at CMP track last year. I still remember hearing his "Hi, my name is Todd, do you need help?" while I was duct-taping my roadrash from ripped jacket. He helped me straighten up the shifter and we kept in touch. The next time we saw each other was the day he died.

      With 9 months delay, I can say that Todd's death shook me more than I have realized. It rooted fear in me which was fueled by seeing and hearing about others getting hurt over and over again. If I was to summarize this year - it would be one big accident report. I became sensitive to every broken bone, every roadrash, every lowside. And even though I did 10 track days this year, I became slower and slower and slower. Suddenly, I have acquired this 'grandma' riding style on the road, frozen with fear that behind every corner there is car standing in my lane, or major sand trap or deer staring at me ... I was crippled with fear not only for me about also for my fellow rider.

      So, at the end of this year, I rode more and more by myself. I could not bear the feelings of responsibility for others on the road and my lines were crippled by my own fears. It all culminated this fall at WDGAH. In a freaky accident Love2rideh82crash was taken down by a truck crossing into our lane. I was done. I finished the weekend, locked the VFR into a garage and took a break.

      Until the last weekend, I pretended that motorcycles do not exists. As a last instance after 2 months break from riding, I decided to go to CMP track to see if I can still have fun. I also felt like I should go for the memory of Todd. I went and I had fun! I had much more fun than I expected and the most fun on track I can remember. Suddenly the whole track connected into an uninterupted line of turns and I felt one with the bike riding around! I was giggling like a little girl in my helmet and keep on giggling ever since smile.gif

      Granted I was not the fastest one and through out the weekend, I have never exceeded about 60% of my riding abilities, but I had no "oh-shit" nor 'blond' moments. I could have maybe go faster, I could have brake later for the turns and I could have lean further, but I am no Rossi nor Stoner. I decided to ride for fun and I had amazing blast riding well within my comfort zone.

      I was proud of myself when, after bandaging Ricks arm, I was able to distance myself and go back to riding without the year-long fear. I did feel bad for him but the feelings were not crippling my lines nor my mind. And when a total stranger came to me and said "Hi, my name is Todd", my heart stopped for a minute though but I suddenly knew that my life went a full circle. I probably will never win MotoGP :idea3: , but I am back! :wheel:

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