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the below symptoms have happened seemingly randomly on my 07 VFR; - dim dash / lights but not enough power for dash to boot - clicking sound on key turn - pressing starter causes dash to brighten I have checked - Battery terminals, all tight and corrosion free - starter relay & fuses - all good - battery to frame grounds are tight Any advice appreciated
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the below symptoms have happened seemingly randomly on my 07 VFR; - dim dash / lights but not enough power for dash to boot - clicking sound on key turn - pressing starter causes dash to brighten I have checked - Battery terminals, all tight and corrosion free - starter relay & fuses - all good - battery to frame grounds are tight Any advice appreciated
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Instead of Staintune, I'm currently running a can from famed exhaust manufacturer Shenzhenshumenwenhuachuanboyouxiangongsi (that is a direct copy paste from the Amazon listing). Sound is 🤩 Almost open header but smooths over the sharpness. I have the db killer in (doesn't do much, lol)
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Fan switch I use on HOT days where I'm coming into town (and traffic) and want to get ahead of the curve. The 86 is pretty decent at regulating it's temps, but I also like to have control if the thermo-switch on the radiator fails. Your bike should be wired in parallel so the thermo-switch is still in play, but I can't guarantee how he did it. But I am pretty sure he did it that way. Fuel Cut Relay switch. This is really nice if the bike has sat for a bit and some of the fuel has evaporated from the carb bowls. Quick flip of a switch and the bowls are filled and the bike fires right up. Not cranking on the battery waiting for the fuel pump to engage and fill the bowls. Also, very handy after winter storage to fill empty carbs, again so you are not wearing down your battery just to fill the carbs. With the Fuel Cut Relay in place on a stock bike, the fuel pump only operates when the bike is being cranked or running, NOT when you just turn on the key. ADDITIONALLY, Fuel Cut Relays can fail. When they do they strand you until you can dig in deep enough on the side of the road to install a jumper wire and jump the relay. IF you have a jumper wire with you. Or you can just flip a switch and be on your way. This has happened to me in the middle of nowhere outside of Duvall AND in the middle of the Hood Canal Floating Bridge. "What's wrong?" "I know I'm not out of gas. Pretty sure my Fuel Cut Relay just failed." "Fuck, what are we gonna do?" "I'm gonna take off my side cover, flip a switch, and then we are going to continue to the cabin and drink beer around a fire." "Oh. Cool." Most of my bikes the switch is in a more convenient location. You can eliminate the Relay altogether with a toggle (or just connect it), but I like to leave it intact and run the switch in parallel. If the pump is always "hot" (relay eliminated and hard wired) with the key turned on you can get surprised when you are doing maintenance on the fuel system (or have the tank off for other things) and turn the key on for something.
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I also place a rag in my exhaust outlet to keep any critters out and clean & lube my chain in addition to what everyone else has stated. Only thing I did not do is new Dunlop Road smart 4 in the spring. Good luck.
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Yes, Stuart S (on the Title) is my friend. I will contact you thru Messages with a couple follow up questions. Emulators are not "needed", but they are really nice. Since the forks have to come apart you might consider it. They are not cheap but also not prohibitively expensive either. They are worth it though, and it would be the very last thing that bike needs to be completely upgraded suspension wise. I suggest doing a little reading on them. I have them in every single one of my Damper Rod style forks. I'll post up on the switches at work a little later. I responded in the Mirror thread.
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EDIT: I'm on my phone and didn't notice. It appears you got 2 of the same brackets. Just like I did in one of my kits. There is likely a way to still use the odd one. Also you can use the stock versions as I did on one of mine. Must have ran into the same problem and forgot. The white versions I got had mirror image brackets.
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You need to rotate one of the split holders that takes the pinch bolt. They are mirror images that way. The head of each pinch bolt should face back towards the tank so you can get the allen wrench on it after sliding everything into place and setting the desired angle of the mirror. I usually tighten it temporarily so I can tighten the bottom nut against the upper cowl stay and then loosen to final adjust angle.
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2005 was my year as well. I had a '94 that some Gomer totaled and I was looking for a replacement. I joined to communicate with folks that had 5th gens for sale, as there were no 5th gens to be had on the island. One of the better decisions of my life.
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Similarly, 2010. I've had 7 VFRs including those I have now. The help and vast knowledge of members on here has given me the confidence to tinker and get what I want from them and I am very grateful to all of you for this. VFRD is a rare thing on the Internet and thank goodness we can support Miguel in maintaining it. Long may it be so.
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Alright so got the WEMOTO Honda NS125R mirrors! Shipping from the UK was fast!! It got here in like two days from DHL lol. Paying the tariff sucked though but it is what it is haha. These mirrors seem like good quality replacements. My question is: are these brackets the same for the left and right side? I feel like they should be mirror opposites. And I guess they don’t come with a tightening screw? @Captain 80s
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It is a small world!! The guy I was dealing with said his name is Stewart but he mentioned the title is still under Stuart S. with the seller signature of release signed (I'm assuming your buddy). Stewart never bothered to do the transfer at the DOL lol. I think its funny the bike ended up back in Edmonds though and I did have a hunch you may of known about the moto since the address on the title is around the area haha! I actually thought about swinging by the address and seeing if Stuart S. still lived there! Those upgrades are neat!! I would say I'm still a novice when it comes to aftermarket motorcycle upgrades. I don't plan to track it and will just stick to cruising, do you think I would need emulators? Also I noticed those switches when I parked it in the garage! When do you recommend switching on the fans and can you elaborate on a situation where the fuel cut override would be necessary to use? Thank you for sharing and thank you for the craftsmanship from you and your buddy overall on the bike! I cant wait to get it running again! By the way I had some more questions on the WEMOTO Mirrors, It just arrived and I was confused about the brackets looking like they belong to the same side or if that's just how they come. I'll post again on that "mirrors thread" once my phone is charged and I can take some pictures. Just got back from FL for Thanksgiving! Hope you had a good Thanksgiving as well!
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I was late to the party I guess (8/2010), but making up for lost time. I have owned 4 of these wonderful machines, and still have 2 of 'em. Thanks Miguel.
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Captain, you made me look. 2005 also! Thank you and thank you again Miguel, a great site, no ads, and a knowledgeable and respectful group. Not only have I learned a massive amount from those here with more skill and knowledge than me, but when I moved to CA 12 years ago I immediately had a group of VFR riding buddies, who knew all the great roads and who I could almost keep up with. Much appreciated.
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That would be two of us! Bear in mind that this is not a current DMr product but does contain a new piston and shims. The refitting was a giant PITA; I came pretty close to just jamming the original shock back in a few times. The modified clevis has a particularly long threaded shaft, and that makes it tough to get into the socket in the frame while the bottom of the shock is constrained by the swingamr and exhaust system. I assume the length of the shaft allows one to add more shims to raise the rear end, not something I want/need to do.
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Ooh, inquiring minds want to know 😉 Looking forward to your verdict, and some pics of the test ride.
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D'oh! A few days after your's was my 20th, which I also missed. Though I wasn't active the whole time when I dropped out. Many thanks to Miguel for creating & maintaining this little playground for us.
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HispanicSlammer replied to Captain 80s's topic in Earlier VFRs
wow is right, started this thing in 2002 on some forum platform that no longer exists too. registered a real website 2003, thanks for sticking around for so long! -
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Shoot! I missed my 20yr Anniversary! Joined November 16, 2005. Wow.
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My buddy built that bike with my help, just down the road from me. It is solid. Not sure what it might need from sitting now for a couple years. The only thing I knew it needed when I sold it for him was one of the fork seals was starting to leak. The shock has been rebuilt by DMr and had a longer res hose installed. Probabaly has 1000 miles max on it. Pretty sure we put 1.0 straight rate springs in the front. It did not get Emulators. The carbs have aluminum cross over tubes with all new o-rings and viton float bowl o-rings. New clutch and springs, new brakes and new chain and sprockets. Brakes are probably fork oil soaked by now. He did new seals when he built the bike but must have picked up a rock ding or something. Oh and pretty damn sure tapered steering bearings were installed. New Bridgestone BT45 were installed. He got rid of the stock mirror holes in the cowl. That was simply a personal thing he did, it wasn't from crashing. The lowers are either Cobalt Racing fiberglass (aka VFR Chuck Crites) or Meier Mfg ABS. Both are very good aftermarket versions. It should have a new seat cover. Toggle switches on the left are fan and fuel cut override on my recommendation. It ran, shifted, charged and stopped perfectly when I sold it. The only reason he sold it was his old ship wright knees couldn't take it any longer. I had a hunch that was the bike when I saw a small pic over on VFRW. Was the seller's name Stewart? I know the he barely rode it after purchasing it, but said that he loved it.
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Hey everyone, I just picked up this 1986 VFR750 for $1500 and the previous owner was nice enough to tow it back to my place for just a tank of gas! The bike has around 45k miles. Short term plan: - Battery. - Install the rebuilt clutch lever. - Sight glasses. - Clutch fluid refill and bleed. - Basic fluids change. - Figure out why the seat won’t latch all the way because I can just pull it up and hear it un-click. - Install new cowl with mirror holes and mirrors. Long term plan: - Restore to original color and graphics. - Possibly strip to bare frame and restore due to some surface rust showing in some places. This is all the photos I have so far since it’s been a busy holiday weekend! I’ll include future updates! Hope to keep this Honda forever! Anyone else in the Pacific Northwest?!
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Today was the continuing saga of the DMr shock absorber. In May I spotted a used item on eBay, recognised correctly as DMr-modified CBR600 shock, and bought it for not too much money. When it arrived, it was a bit oily and when I fitted it up, was apparent that it was free of damping (little oil/gas) far too hard (wrong spring) and a bit short. EBay refunded my purchase but I lost the freight. Jamie advised what I needed to do, and a local shop quoted me more than NZ$1000 to swap the spring, replace the seals, re-oil and regas. Jamie offered to do that for about half, so I shipped the shock to him. Unfortunately due to misplaced honesty, our post office decided the shock was a prohibited item, held it for 8 weeks, then returned it to me with lot of DANGER/EXPLOSIVE type placarding. Morons. And I lost the freight that I had paid. Again. Then I had a chance encounted with an old mate now running a mountain bike suspension business in a nearby town, we got talking and he agreed to do the rebuild for me, so I got the parts shipped from Jamie, and had Norm do the rebuild. Norm took his time and so many, many months have passed since I ordered the shock. Jamie supplied a new spring, seals, piston, shims, and a modified clevis (to correct the length). Today was Der Tag, I got the spanners out and fitted the rebuilt shock to Sakura. That short sentence does not tell about the finger trapping, knuckle scraping, knee breaking and sweat-inducing work that probably takes a mildly skilled Honda employee about 30 seconds on the production line, but took me more like 4 hours. Does it work? Is it worth all the effort? No idea...it is hosing down outside and I have no interest in getting wet. Stand by for next weekend!
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I maximize (or slightly over) my tire pressures. With a center stand not such a big deal, but 99% of mine do not have one. Maybe not a big deal at all, it's just one more easy thing I do to help against possible flat spots / deformations from sitting.
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The Last Day Of Good Riding Weather
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.
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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
Tommy-knockers Brewpub Idaho Springs
Idaho Springs Colorado
Mashtuns and fermenters
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
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
Echo Lake at Mount Evans showing off my new plate
Elephant Butte Park and Denver
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Veefalo on Squaw Pass
Juniper Pass
Juniper Pass
Mount Evans
My route A is home B is Tommy-knockers
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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
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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I think that you might not know how to post videos. You're in your YT studio in these links. You need the link to the actual video.Â
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