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  2. New lever time bro, ya can't buy individual lever parts, only pivot bolts, which i'd also replace with a new lever, pattern parts are just as good as OEM & half the price, OEM levers aren't that pricey to be fair. Bolts likely come adrift due to being bone dry & friction on bolt applying lever has worked it loose, also could av been over tightened & stripped out the thread. I'd pull new lever apart & grease all moving parts with high load grease before install, I strip/clean/lube both levers every year when I flush the brake n clutch fluid. (Dave Silvers Honda) stocks pattern & OEM levers, virtually identical.
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  4. I finally got round to sorting this. After 5 hours of removing and reinstalling the bastard pump unit, I managed to get the endoscope camera on the float arm. Looks like the tank is a bit contorted, probably from the notorious breather pipe issues I've read about, so the arm was touching the bottom of the tank, so it wasn't lowering fully. I changed the angle on the float arm, reinstalled and bobs your uncle, it now works. Pretty sure the breather pipe was trapped when I got it, sorted that ages ago. Happy days, chuffed.
  5. JZH - Thanks for linking your thread on this topic - you got some good photos of the job to look at.. I'm going to do mine, I have a spare rear I am going to use as a "practice" run... then do the caliper that I am going to use... Already have a 14mm rear master cylinder on the bike... did that long ago. Getting rid of this bridge loop thingy... it has performed well but since I am doing the caliper rebuild, I'm in the "why not" mode. My bike refresh has gone frustratingly too long... I am waiting for some parts on backorder..(dammit) Kinda in the mode of what kind of "while I'm at its" can I do in the mean time.... Its bye bye bridge line....
  6. Had to look that one up! Measuring is good: I have loads more to do. I also have to re-design the carrier (again), because I forgot about my SXV550... First world problems! Unfortunately, it is longer and taller than the other bikes, which throws off some of my calculations. Better to know now than later... Ciao, JZH
  7. That video is pretty much exactly how I did mine last year. Easy peasy, provided you're prepared to rebuild the caliper (and don't mind one-way mods). The only other caveat is that this requires a 14mm rear master cylinder to achieve a comparable hydraulic ratio. Ciao, JZH
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  11. Yeah, I was thinking that drilling had to come in at some angle...glad I was wrong!
  12. Wow, great job, you have far more patience than what I would have dealt with. A tip...the CBR500R uses the FH020AA R/R...Mofset...mbe find one off ebay.... Watch out for Chinese copies..
  13. Way different than what I was expecting or thought I read about. What a great tip. I swear I've seen photos of drilling at angle or something.
  14. Jeez, that looks easy, shit yeah... Thanks!
  15. Street Triple? Yes. If you asked me a couple of years ago what my next bike would be, the Daytona or almost any Triumph w that great three cylinder engine would have been my answer. Brutale, well, not seriously considered but maybe I should have looked at it more closely. Don't worry, I'll go on and on about the new bike ad nauseam once I actually ride it, but for $11.5 new it's got a lot. More to follow.
  16. Clearance for the forks will be at a premium, my Vtec's ground clearance is only 125mm per the manual. Every time I think of an idea to try I end up looking was puzzled as Nathan Fillion. Good luck, John.
  17. Good choice, and a much prettier bike than the KTM 890. More serious than the Trident 660 - was a Street Triple R ever in the cards? Or perhaps a Brutale RR?
  18. It has been a few days, and I finally got around to updating. Problem(s) solved. \ Saturday, my dad came over. I pointed out the areas that needed to be soldered, and he got started. Surprisingly, only two main areas had to be soldered--the two black/white splices. As they are in tandem, both 3-into-1, he ended up trimming them all into one single solder, with a lead to bring them to the right length. The biggest issue was the oxidation of all the wiring. Because of the water that had been in the harness, there was heavy oxidation throughout the wiring. This is a piece that was removed and used for the lead--the section pictured was 8 inches into the harness from the exposed section. He had to use fine sandpaper, splay out the individual threads of the wire, brush off the oxidation, then twist them, and hope for the best. The oxidation is very resistant of soldering. It took several tries, with several different methods, to be able to get them to hold. He ended up using individual filaments from a different piece of wire I had, to tightly wind the ends together, and then solder the ends and the winding to make a more secure solder. His quote was something along the line of "The heat shrink is just there to hide the solder, as these aren't some of my best solders". Looks pretty good to me, although for someone that usually solders under a microscope, with clean parts, I guess it would be. The rest of the crimps, as we unwrapped each one in the main harness, all the others showed oxidation, but after being brushed thoroughly, they were all in good enough shape to be re-wrapped instead of having to be cut and resoldered. I used the majority of a roll of 3M 88 to wrap everything back up, and securely bind the harness back together. I then began the painstaking procedure of putting everything back together. Before putting everthing back together, I plugged everything in, put the battery in, and sprayed some starter fluid. Turned it on, and it fired to life for a few seconds. Success!... or so I thought. I proceeded to reassemble everything. I rerouted some of the wiring from what I recall it being, but it fits better now. At this point, I was going to try to start it and run it. It'd start on starter fluid, but would not run at all on gas. Bother. My buddy came over, and looked around (he has a bike shop). He asked how old the gas was--I had dumped what I thought was all the gas out previously, and put in some gas from a can in the garage (unknown). Started draining the gas into a bucket, and it was visible that it was a good 60/40 gas/water. Joy. So we took the tank off, drained it completely dry, and removed the pump. Everything got cleaned up, and put back on, and we went to get fresh gas, put it in, and it ran! Initially, I tried it with the exhaust removed, and it sounded good. 20250705_170503.mp4 However, I was a little concerned on driving it to work like that, with the title not transferred yet (although it's insured, and transerring plates has a 30 day grace period), so I put the exhaust back on. 20250705_182418.mp4 I then began the procedure of reassembling everything. Most of the fasteners were missing from the previous owner, so I had ordered "all the parts required" on Ebay. (lies) I was able to get most of it back together, and grabbed another 8 or so fasteners from my buddy's, and was able to get it back together. \ Finally. I had it back together, and rode it a few times (it was midnight, but I didn't care. I'd been waiting for this for months). Rode good, and the 17" front tire was much more responsive than the 19" on the V-Strom. I put it back, and the next day, I fired it up, but it wouldn't start, as if the battery was dead. Funny, as it is a new battery. So I charged it, and the next day, I rode to my buddy's to take the rear tire off and put it back on, as it was leaking. Turned out, while the front tire still has the nipples, and was made in 2021, the rear tire was made in 2010... I think it's time. I'm ordering a new rear tire. Anyway, when I went to head home, it wouldn't start. We charged it for a bit, but I went home with homework; to test the stator and regulator. I knew that the stator was new-ish, as I had taken the cover off when I first got it, to make sure it wasn't fried and that had something to do with the no-start issue. As for the regulator, it's filthy, oxidized aluminum, and looks like it was original. So I went to remove the rectifier to make it easier to check, and the wires fell apart. Yes, you heard me. The moron that replaced the stator, had cut the connectors, and had literally taped them back together. One of them had shrinkwrap, but the others were just electrical tape. not even twisted together, just laid across each other, and taped like that. So I figured this would fix it, right? I bought quality crimps, as I don't have a soldering pencil, and crimped, heat shrinked, and wrapped everything back together. It ran, and seemed ok, but after riding it around a bit, it was still dropping voltage from the battery. So I tested from the stator, and at 5000rpm, I was getting 90-100VAC from either pairs of wires, so the stator is not the issue. Testing from the rectifier/regulator side, I was only getting 11.58V. I ordered a cheap one from Amazon, as I've spent as much as I can right now on the bike, and, as much as I want a MOSFET R/R, it's not in the budget right now. As it is, the harness is a stop-gap; this winter, I expect to have to replace the main harness. At that point, I am hoping to buy a decent R/R as well as a N.O.S. harness. I am supposed to have the R/R in by Monday, so hopefully, I'll be riding to work next week on this bike, rather than my V-Strom. Might end up selling it, as the VFR is almost 30hp more.
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  20. I have a bone stock 2008 VFR800 that, in the last few months, has been experiencing periodic hard starts. Sometimes, maybe one or twice a week, I'll hold down the starter for 3-4 seconds with zero coughs or sputters. I'll reprime (while leaving the key in the run position), try again and nothing. I'll try giving it some throttle - doesn't seem to make a difference. After a couple tries and sometimes after more than a few tries she'll start up and run beautifully. Sometimes if I just hold the starter for half a second she'll catch and start that way. I don't recall her ever having trouble with a warm start - breath on the starter and away she goes. The battery is new. I replaced the plugs and found the rear two coil bolts flopping loose from back in March, 2024 when I had the valves done. Thanks local shop. Everything tightened down to spec there. I put in a fuel pump rebuild kit with new pump, in-tank filter, and fuel intake filter. I thought there may be water in the lines so I added a bit of HEET a couple weeks ago. Unrelated I guess but I also recently replaced the cooling fan sensor and did a coolant flush due to the sensor failing and the bike boiling off more than a little coolant. That issue happened after the hard starting began and is fixed now. I ride almost daily, year round, in western NC so the bike never sits unless a do a work trip for usually not more than a week. Any thoughts on what could be going wrong on this thing to cause the periodic hard starts? Like most, I'd prefer not to throw parts, time, and money at this without really knowing what the issue is. Thanks!
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  23. Here's a YouTube video. De-Link Drill
  24. That gear has long been trashed on mine... I was referring to guys that have drilled out the internal circuit the rear caliper.
  25. Yes if the vacuum hose is off, the flapper is held open all rge time by the spring in the diaphragm chamber. I would make sure the vacuum hose that would normally connect to the flapper is properly sealed as you will otherwise have an uncontrolled vacuum leak and that might cause some surging. I'm not sure what else might cause a surge or noise; there are relays but they are located on the front left of the bike.
  26. I took the easy way out; don't touch the rear calliper or hose connections. When you unbolt the linking hose from the PCV, you will find that the hose can now be rerouted smoothly and end up at the rear master just like it was designed to go there; the end fitting is even at the right angle. There is/was a double banjo bolt on the PCV as well, so I just bolted both hoses on to the new master and called it done. Not a great picture as it was zoomed in a long way, but gives you the idea.
  27. Nice "shed"... It's about twice the size of mine, but I saw some good ideas I think I might borrow! Regarding the racking, I think I will be able to use the lower beams on the back sides, as Yoshi suggested, as well as bolting the feet to the floor and bolting the tops of the frames to the walls. That should be that. As for what goes onto the racks, I think I've got a solution: I went through a couple of designs, trying to minimise the expense of the materials as well as the cutting and welding operations I will need to do. There's still a lot of steps to manufacture one of these, and I still have to do it 6-7 times... The wheel chock parts (not drawn, because I'm not making them) come from this kind of Baxley knock-off: In laying out my motorbike carriers, since I have 6-7 of these wheel chocks already, I've measured and duplicated the locations where the M10 and M12 bolts go. My bikes' wheelbases range from 1,440mm (the 5th gens) to 1,335mm (the NC35), and all the bikes' rear tyres sit basically in the middle of the steel plate at the back. It's pretty secure, but I will probably also strap each bike wheel to the front vertical to make sure it can't go anywhere. I was also thinking about welding some steel angle onto the plate at the rear, maybe 160mm apart, to help locate the rear tyres, but my bikes all have different sizes of tires, so one size won't fit all (in the same way). Not sure it is necessary, anyway. The fork hoops look huge, but the forks on the pallet stacker are quite large (ca. 170x70), and I don't really want a tight fit. I haven't actually measured the clearance between the bikes' bellypans/stands/exhausts and the forks that need to stick through, which I will do before I finalise this design. I decided to use the 60x60 c-channel, rather than the angle iron I had first used, mainly because of strength. I will have to plasma cut them, but I can set up a jig to make that do-able. This way, the channel just sits on top of the 50mm horizontal beams of the racks, and it will be very obvious when it has dropped into place. I've provided for the fitting of 100kg casters, which should make these carriers more useful when down on the ground. I wonder if I can make some sort of (removable) lifting device using the swing arm pivots, a la an ABBA Stand? That would make them even more useful for chain adjustment, etc. And I'd only need to make one, which I could pop into each carrier only when needed. Any thoughts on my bike carrier frame design? Cheers, JZH
  28. The 1986 should have a white Honda sticker on the lower part of the screen Like in the brochure picture above I had some Honda sticker's left on the sheet I bought for the red RC24, one is close in size Close enough I think Ta-da, one step closer
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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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      Juniper Pass

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      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 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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