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  2. bmart
    On sites that don't autosize, I just make a 1600x* copy with sm after the name and post that.
  3. vfrgiving
    Even easier with AI. I asked it to build me a back roads route 100 miles from A to B I already know without prompting every turn in-between. Said I don't want to take interstates, curvy backroads please. It kind of got it, I just updated with please go through here instead remove these 2 roads. It finalized the route I wanted. Even with the corrections it was still quicker than plotting every waypoint individually.
  4. St. Stephen
    I also now use Google maps. I took vfrcaptain's good idea and bought a cheap ($60) Chinese CarPlay screen: https://www.amazon.com/CAMECHO-Motorcycle-Waterproof-Motorbike-Bluetooth/dp/B0D8KVKCGV?pd_rd_w=a12xu&content-id=amzn1.sym.ef8687d6-a5c9-462d-bf15-2b003652688f&pf_rd_p=ef8687d6-a5c9-462d-bf15-2b003652688f&pf_rd_r=WPJ6N23CPYDDFCBXPV1S&pd_rd_wg=4A6ua&pd_rd_r=be2b8b4a-7e09-4a4a-87d2-62a4ce9097f4&pd_rd_i=B0D8KVKCGV&psc=1&ref_=pd_bap_d_grid_rp_0_46_pr_t) I'm Apple but it works with Android also. RAM mounted and powered from the bike. My old Garmin Zumo is now a doorstop. On longer trips I also bring a physical map, not for during the ride, but for looking at and planning once I've stopped for the night. Old school but it allows me to look at the big picture instead of a small screen. Here in the U.S. Butler makes good motorcycle-specific maps, and I will sometimes take my DeLorme maps, which are bulky but very detailed.
  5. vfrgiving
    Update, this is even easier for Google. I just prompted Gemini (Google's AI thing). "Can you build me a Google maps route starting at X, to Y, and then to Z?". It spat out a whole thing showing photos of the area, tourist spots etc.. at bottom was image of route with a "Navigate in Google Maps" button. That launched the app with the route loaded. Again 3 dots "save to home screen"
  6. Gaz66
    Don't over think the fan circuit, it's only a ground side switched circuit. If you wanna add an override switch, you only need to add a wire to the single wire on the left rad fan temp sender, run this up to a 2 pole switch, connect other side of switch to chassis ground, you then can control fan "ON/OFF" at will via the switch, use heavy gauge wire & a quality switch that's rated for 12vDC, switch will only function while ignition is "ON" so if bike is ever stinking hot when you park, you can kill the motor, leave ignition on for a few mins, fan will run to pull motor temp down, reduces the heat soak effect. Only issue is finding a discreet looking rocker switch & a location to mount it, usually involves drilling a hole. You could mount it out of sight in the plastic infill panel on the fairing inners near fork stanchions, would be a fiddle to operate with gloves, but it would be out of sight, if a visible switch bothers you etc.
  7. JZH
    The 3rd and 4th gen headlights are nearly identical (different mounting points, apparently), and I have also taken one apart to have a gander. The glass is, as you say, thick and heavy. It is also heavily "fresneled", which would likely distort the light projected through it, kind of defeating the purpose of upgrading the lights. I had two thoughts. One was to simply replace the glass with a piece of curved/formed Lexan(R), similar to how they make aftermarket windscreens. Well, "simply" may be oversimplifying the process! It would necessarily involve loads of fabrication and experimentation. I doubt anything from another model would come anywhere close to fitting, but you could get lucky. The other idea was to somehow grind down and polish the inside of the glass lens to eliminate the ripples. I figured I would only need to smooth and polish the glass in a 2-3" circle directly in front of the projector lens. That could also make the process do-able on a drill press with a few appropriate attachments: find a way to safely and firmly mount the lens to the drill table, then grind/polish away until perfection has been achieved. Needless to say, I actually did neither of those things! The 5th-gen mini-project is much simpler, and therefore has a chance of being completed during my lifetime. Ciao, JZH
  8. Burger
    no thread but i can provide a quick rundown: this is the fan: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BC2DDM1P it's mounted with one of these style of kits, available at o'reillys: i added the relay just because aftermarket cooling fans usually draw a metric crapton of current and i was entirely sure the stock circuit wouldn't be up to it. here's how i wired it: now instead of carrying any of the load current, which would probably make it burn up the switch and pop fuses, the stock circuit just controls the relay, which provides power to the fan straight from the battery. (through a fuse, of course.) it was easiest for me to do it this way only because i already had all the supplies lying around, but it would be completely possible to do this with an aftermarket fan controller, like the kind with the probe that just sticks through the rad fins.
  9. vfrgiving
    I just use Google maps. Since it's free, already on my phone and does live traffic data. I've looked up ride suggestions on motorcycleroads.com, Rever etc, but I don't use any boutique apps for touring. 🤷‍♂️ I can make a route on my phone. Put in first stop, three dots upper right "edit stops" add consecutive stops to build a route. When Done.. click "Done". 3 dots again "Add Route to Home Screen". Map widget has you drag an icon and place the route anywhere on home screens If it's super complicated ride exceeding Google's stop limit, I'll chop the ride into sections and save another route icon.
  10. The Phantom
    Very interesting. I've pulled a 4th Gen headlight assembly apart (to fit a different lens to the black housing with bi-xenon retrofit) and the weight of the glass is crazy. Would be interesting to see whether a 5th Gen lens could be adapted...
  11. Terry
    Must be the pixel size; this image (taken today) was originally 5400 pixels wide and 7.3mb, and won't upload. Changing the size to 3000 pixels wide left the size at 5.7mb and the site will accept that.
  12. St. Stephen
    Apologies, it's not a VFR. But it's a photo. A winter ride this week: Thx
  13. LEGEND
    Yeah that dealer lives up to the name.
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  15. YosemiteVFR
    I’d be interested to know more about this. Is there a link for the thread? I’m considering replacing my stock fan as I’ve done everything else to rectify a cooking issue.
  16. vfrgiving
    FYI... If you're on an Android, you can use Google's Snapseed app to reduce image size before an upload. A little goofy to use, but not difficult. First open Snapseed, upper right settings. Set Export options. Set format to JPG and reduce the pixel count down to a smaller number like "1920 px" Now "Open" the image you want to reduce. Bottom right "Export" and "Export" again. It will save a copy of the reduced image in the "Snapseed" folder.
  17. St. Stephen
    Thank you gentlemen. Got a new phone and it seems like all the pics are now 5mb. I’ll downsize, hopefully that will do it. Lorne I am so relieved that you made the correct decision and purchased a red one!
  18. BusyLittleShop
    Speaking of the who whos...
  19. bmart
    Most modern forums have an autosizer built in. Maybe we can get that feature?
  20. bmart
    There's a reason they're called stealerships. I never go to one.
  21. FromMaine
    Hi Gaz: Thank You for your thoughtful and informative reply. Yes, I have considered a 6th Gen radiator. If I can believe what I read, they are 13-15 % larger that the 5th Gen's. That's approx. 1/6th larger, which should make a difference. I'm thinking I might get the get the fan side only and install a higher cfm fan. You are correct in that they are inexpensive on ebay. A higher ratio of water to antifreeze would provide a better acting coolant, but to be honest, we have already seen -15 F (-22 C) here this winter, and it can get colder than that, so I would be playing Russian Roulette with my motor(s) should I have, say, a "memory lapse"😁. I have read here about the VTR fan mod., If I go with a higher cfm fan unit it may make that a moot point. I have installed fan over rides on my VF1100 Sabre, VF1000R, and my 4th Gen. Mostly as a precaution for when I get stuck in traffic down south. Its dead simple to add a switch to ground to turn the fan on. I did notice when looking at doing this on my 5th Gen, that Honda still has power to the fan unit continuously, but the ground is routed through the ECU. This has me as we say here, Buffaloed. I cannot fathom why Honda would do this. If you could shed some light on this, I would certainly appreciate it. Regarding alternative thermostats, I did run into a post on here by MarcinMMz in Poland that he found an exact replacement, Gates TH29682G1. Of course I cannot find the post now, but did take notes. These are apparently used on Daewoo's, Hyundai's, Suzuki's, and Chevs Spark's. I cannot seem to find them here in the US, but they are listed on Ebay in the UK and Europe. If these are one of the ones you found to be close, but not quite, please chime in. I will be in Europe next month and plan to pick one up just to have a look. Yes, they are substitutionally cheaper BTW. Again, I appreciate you taking the time to reply with good info! Regards Michael
  22. Terry
    I'm on a few forums so forget all the rules, but the error is likely due to your image being >3000 pixels and/or >4mb. I use MS Photos on my PC, and change the image size of a file before I try to upload.
  23. Skids
    Resurrecting an old thread - I recently purchased a small Android tablet to mount on the 1200X but I would still like to use some bike-specific planning software that I can plan my own route on then transfer to the tablet. I don't mind paying a small amount to run their own mapping either and the tablet will have a data-only sim to keep the mapping live for traffic etc. I currently use Kurviger but that can often go off on its own 'curvy' route. Anything new happened since 2020?
  24. HispanicSlammer
    I think you have a picture of just about everyone who is a whos who in the Motorcyling community on your RC45..at least those who made it out your way!
  25. LEGEND
    Same situation on my 6th gen. Since I lost my private garage I ended up taking it to Honda to have them bleed and inspect the system. I don’t like to fool around with the CBS. The brakes seem to work as designed now but no one could explain what the issue was but they desperately tried to sell me a 16k mile service for $2300.00. I’m over 16k and don’t plan on checking valves anytime soon. Next was some lame scare tactic that my fork seals were leaking and will affect the front brakes, the service manager and a technician were seemingly gaslighting me into believing something I can see was absolutely not true. It really felt like amateur hour. I went over the bike with a fine tooth comb once I got it home to make sure everything was good. My fork seals have never leaked and are not showing any signs of leaking. More like a scam than simple incompetence. It’s unfortunate the dealer staff acted so weirdly, I was thinking of picking up a Hornet to celebrate my retirement. No offense but I’m staying away from Honda shops.
  26. Lorne
    Ok, I'll give it a go, pic is 1600px on the long axis and pasted in as rich text. This was a younger slimmer me at the 1993 Vancouver motorcycle show. White '93 VFRs were very tempting and very not-red, but I ended up with a low mileage 2nd hand '91 VFR instead. Red, of course.
  27. svital123
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  28. St. Stephen
    Can't post photos, get this message. file too big?
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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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      Close up

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      Veefalo on Squaw Pass

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      Juniper Pass

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      Mount Evans

      My route A is home B is Tommy-knockers

       

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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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