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  2. WGREGT
    Just as an FYI: I too have this issue on my 4th gen, and I found a supplier online that measured the one for the VTR1000F, and it is a spot-on fit according to the dimensions I got. It's on the way. I will report back when it gets here next week.
  3. Terry
    I agree; I've seen something similar on all of my Hondas, often in a concealed area of the V. I have seen white or green paint pen numbers; as someone who has done business in many Asian countries, you can sometimes tell they're Japanese by the way they draw the numbers.
  4. Captain 80s
    Honda marking. No question.
  5. Sirbike
    I found this while cleaning the back of the motor. What say ye? Honda marking or junkyard marking.
  6. Terry
    The 1200 uses a bit of different architecture to my other V4s, especially in the connectors which are located in a ring around the airbox, so there's a bit of an electrical octopus present once the airbox and injectors are pulled out. As with many things, the sequence of disassembly is the key. I worked through the valves on the front head last night, thankfully all were in spec so no further adjustment was needed; while the exhaust valves would be relatively easy, the intakes require the cam to be removed which means messing with the tensioner, chain and sprocket, and these sit alongside the frame spar so access is not wonderful, worse than the 6th gen front head. I'll put that one off until next time (another 26,000km) when it will also be time for new spark plugs. I only have to refit throttle cables and the radiator and the job will be done (plus bodywork of course). The PAIR system is practically identical to the 6th gen so just a single hose running up the left side of the airbox to the front head, and a branching hose to the two fittings at the rear. It's not really in the way as the hose ends are easily accessible, but I may look to remove it if I can find a set of covers that I like (read:cheap).
  7. TomSanders
    Oh, also the air cut pipes?
  8. TomSanders
    OK so get silicon pipes for everything? There are some sharp 90deg bends. The fuel pipes from the spare set are somewhat flexible but they've been through the cleaner. Didn't note how they were to start with. The bike set are totally rigid. I'll get the calipers out and measure the diameters.
  9. MBrane
    Looks kinda crowded in there. That's the primary reason I de-PAIR'd my 5th gens. Not because they was any performance to be gained, but because it's a hell of a lot easier to get the airbox off, and on.
  10. MBrane
    SDC has lots of great backroads. My girl lived in Oceanside when we started dating, and I would ride down there so she could show me around. Good times!
  11. Stray
    Mohawk blew me away 99% of the time. He schooled me that day!
  12. vfrgiving
    From what I've seen of deep SoCal, riders who want to go for a rip out of the range of most squidlets will be on S. Grade road on Palomar, Montezuma Valley out of Borrego Springs, or 78 east of Julian. 78 does get busy with traffic in general though on weekends. 78 still part of my preferred shock to the system after 4 time zones of Interstate. Can't wait to bail off I-8 at Ocotillo on the Valkyrie. Up Great Southern Overland Stage Route to 78 - Julian for a mountain of food. 🤗 I guess my ritual returning east is to plot a route to Birmingham for a stop @ Barber
  13. Lucca
    These puppies need some care for sure! AS well, discard old vac tubes and put silicone ones....recommended.
  14. Lucca
    Nice kitchen appliances😁! USsualy when my wife is cooking, I come with copper gaskets to heat them up on the stove.....we are cooking together I say!😂
  15. interceptor69
    Thanks.
  16. Terry
    Welcome aboard Qtip. Your plan with the turn signal is sound; power passes through the flasher unit to the switch which then sends it out to the appropriate side blinkers. A dirty switch contact is most likely the problem if one side works but not the other. As for the fuel pump I can't say that I have ever noticed mine at all once the engine is started but it will be running continually at that point. I do know that pump noise can be more noticeable when the fuel level is really low. Things that I would pay attention to are: Make sure the secondary master cylinder is moving freely, should be able to puch it a couple of mm forwards and should put the back brake on for you. If these seize up you can end up with an overheated back brake or locked wheel. The back wheel should spin freely when it is released. There is a specific brake bleeding sequence for the linked brakes that you should follow Common earth block on the wiring harness inside the top fairing, these can corrode and cause weird earth faults, so may be worthwhile finding and cleaning that. I'd also check the alternator plug (3 yellow wires) as these also corrode and can melt. Some of these seem to be more common in bikes ridden through winter and may not be so applicable to sunny Melbourne...
  17. Qtip
    Hi all, Just picked up a 2002 Honda VFR800 and I’m planning out the initial servicing so I can start from a clean baseline and know the bike is safe and reliable. It’s running and riding fine and it was used as a daily (mostly longer commute rides). The issue is I don’t have the longer logged service history I’d like, so I’m doing a full “fresh start” service plan. Planned / underway: Fluids (oil/filter, coolant, brake/clutch) Spark plugs Air filter Chain and sprockets While the fairings + tank are off: checking/refreshing potential gremlins and doing easy preventative stuff (vac lines, inspecting coolant & brake hoses, general inspection, etc.). Any recommendations?? While I’m waiting for consumables to arrive and doing a quick look, I found a couple things and wanted some opinions from the group: Right turn indicator switch doesn’t activate the lights. Left works perfectly, right does nothing. My plan is to clean the switch assembly and check fuses / connectors, but before I dig in too far, are there any common VFR800 6th gen culprits I should look for (wiring points, relay, typical corrosion spots, etc.)? Fuel pump has a constant hum at idle on startup. The fuel pump primes fine before starting, but once it’s running there’s a noticeable constant hum at idle. It sounds louder than other bikes I’ve owned (I haven’t owned anything over 750cc before this one), so I’m not sure if this is totally normal for these but from the other bikes I've experienced this and it was the pump working harder because of a restricted filter. I'd love to hear any thoughts or experiences, and if there are any quick checks you’d recommend while I’ve got the tank/fairings off, I’m all ears. Thanks for letting me into the community and for all the info I've been able to find and use so far.
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  19. squirrelman
    good work lubing the throttle shafts, usually neglected but essential to ;preventy seizure later if carbs were soaked in water. actual motor oil is a better lube there than wd-40. i always confirm holes are open with cleaning wires, both jets and side holes in emulsion tubes also air correcters and long choke circuit pickup tubes.
  20. St. Stephen
    Yeah, well, many of the bikes out there are just looking to be seen, whether that's the bling, the burnout, or the blind corners. But it's similar up here at Alice's and Skyline. North Bay where I am is a little more mellow but still the PCH can be wild in summer. It's been five or six years but the last time I was on Mulholland the pavement wasn't great, and the elite cars were everywhere. I enjoyed the ACH much more.
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  22. Sheep61
    I was worried about the strenght of the plastic too, to be honest. The machined option might be more reasonable indeed.
  23. Captain 80s
    The petcocks from bike model to bike model can be very different, even within the same manufacturer. So the screen is going to be just as unique. A product like that wouldn't be one-size-fits-all. If there was anybody making metal replacements I'm pretty sure it would have surfaced in one of the several other threads about this exact topic already. DIY solution is just that: Do It Yourself I would just eliminate it and maybe run a cleanable metal mesh type filter ahead of your OEM filter if you are concerned about larger debris in your tank. On some designs you may need to maintain the bad strainer to properly locate the small o-ring. I would cut away the failing plastic mesh if it needs to stay.
  24. WGREGT
    My other bike (ZX) now has in-tank filter screen issues as well. Know anyone who sells JUST replacement (hopefully metal) screens where I could just swap them out? Or maybe a DIY solution?
  25. TomSanders
    In all but carb #1 you can unhook the butterfly return spring. For #1 I put a bag clip in to hold the butterfly open. I got some WD40 silicon lubricant to capillary into the spindle when I reassemble them.
  26. TomSanders
    A word about the ultrasonic cleaner I have. I did a lot of research and realised, in what must be the story of many manufactured things, the very top end survives while anything mid range has been swept away by the Chinese, and the only alternative is the cheap, well I would say rubbish. I decided to get a proper one, such a device being so useful in all sorts of applications. I consider it white goods. I got a Bandelin Sonorex RK255BH. It's amazing. I can get two carbs in at a time. I'm using Tickopur R33 at 45degC and 7.5% concentration. May be 5% would have done. Loading up the basket with some brass in the tea strainer. 5 minutes, then turn over and another 5 minutes Trying not to get confused between the air fryer, cleaner, burger and carbs Blow out with an air can and leaving them to dry
  27. TomSanders
    A few more pictures. From here on the carbs I'm working on are the ones from my bike. The story of these is with the bike laid up for too long (I know 🙄) she wouldn't idle. I got the carbs off and "just wanted them fixed" so I sent them away for cleaning. Also 🙄. I had made life even harder for myself in having two Gen4's in the same state. For reasons of London ULEZ I would get them running and sell them both. Until I couldn't possibly part with the blue one and found out you can get them ULEZ tested ✅. I sold the red one. Anyway the carbs came back and they did work. Except there was a tendency for them to flood. And on receipt the choke plungers were sticky. I fixed the flooding and the chokes and ran the bike OK. The cleaning job wasn't expensive but in the end poor. I figured I should just take the trouble to learn how to fix them and know they are all good. The spare set from eBay was an idea to get some practice and may be sell a reconditioned set to recover some of the cost of my expensive ultrasonic cleaner. I'll come back to the eBay ones at the end. The second pic is a bit saturated, but there is light green stuff on the float bowl. I use a 7mm spanner to remove the needle jet from the body then hold it in the spanner and a good fit flat screwdriver to get the main jet off.
  28. TomSanders
    It's a slotted screw
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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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