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  2. Terry
    As you open the PCV bleed, you should be able to push the SMC fully through its stroke and hold it there. Then shut the PCV bleed. You should now be able to pump the rear pedal and that will force the PCV back out to full extension. All I'm suggesting is that you don't just allow the SMC to spring back and pull air back in from the PCV line, that you refill it fully from the brake pedal. .
  3. mello dude
    The motorcycling collective kinda goes and I agree with my experience....In big cruisers and touring bikes, they are useful and work ok.. (I am running them in the Valkyrie, they do the job there,.... the thing has big heavy wheels) But in the more sport orientied bikes... dirt/standards/sport bikes and of course the VFR, a normal style balance weight is prefered... I tried balance beads on my VFR once and in the triple digit territory, they arent balance beads any more! (imbalance beads?)
  4. FromMaine
    Balance Beads are not my thing, but they do have utility. I have used them twice when I had to swap a rear tire when about 2,000 miles from my garage. First time was in Wisconsin coming back from a cross country. Had a tire sent to a buddy who did not have a garage or tools. I managed to get the tire off and the new one on with my tire irons, but having no real option to balance properly I just used beads. I.knew this ahead of time so ordered them with the tire. Second time was when I bought my 4th Gen from a fellow in Iowa. I was headed to Colorado from there, so sent a rear tire and beads ahead as I flew in to pick it up. Again I knew ahead of time he lacked much in the way of tools. In fact I used a 2×4, hammer, and a door frame to break the bead cave man style. Then borrowed a neighbor's pancake compressor that surprisingly managed to set the bead. I have done a few other tire swaps on the road, but it was in really well equipped garages, so I used a static balancer and weights as I do here in Maine.
  5. JohnnyGing
    So I spent a couple of hours looking at this today. Taking apart the tape and tie-wraps, I disconnected the all the bullet connectors and measured 2.2 Ohms for each of the heater elements. I good wiggle of the wires did not show any open circuits. I then connected them in series through the loom and got 4.4 Ohms. No amount of wiggling or turning the bars could change the reading. So my problem must be in the wiring under the fairing or the controller module. Using the installations instructions to put all the wiring back on the handle bars, I noticed that the right hand heated grip wiring is supposed to be tie-wrapped to the electrical loom but mine was tied to the upper throttle cable. Can someone with honda heated grips post a picture of the right (throttle) side so I can decide how to reinstall the wiring? Many thanks John
  6. Captain 80s
    Translation: Balance Beads should not be a thing.
  7. Thumbs
    In English?
  8. VicSev93
    Hello! I'm sorry to being back this dead thread but I'm doing this now and your help would really help me get back on the road! For the sequence for the PCV. 1) My helper pumps the rear brake pedal 2) while he is holding the rear brake pedal. I squeeze the SMC. 3) he cracks open the PCV and hopefully fluid comes out. 4) he closes the PCV bleed nipple. I release the SMC and he lets go of the brake pedal. Is this correct? When does one let go of the brake pedal? This is my biggest confusion. Once again. Sorry and thank you for helping!
  9. VicSev93
    Hello all! Long story long, I ordered Spiegler brake lines. I fitted them on the bike. I "bled" the system. And rode for two months. It has come to by attention that my front brake was not engaging the rear brake. So when I was rolling forward to a stop light and squeezed the front lever the bike would stop like a bike with no Linked brakes. (When engaging the rear. The bike would engage both front and rear in typical VFR fashion that we know and love) I THEN found out that one of my lines is pinched. Probably from my crappy install. This line runs from the left caliper into the hard line on the left side of the frame (which I believe goes to the PCV valve) Since it looked pinched, I contacted Spiegler and bought another line. I installed it today but did not bleed anything yet. I've read A LOT of bleeding into on the forums, reddit and the manual. And everyone has different opinions. It's minor but it's different. I come here to pick your brains once more since other threads or similar topic are dead. 1) bleed right side outer nipple 2) bleed left side outer nipple 3) bleed left side middle nipple (fluid sucked from rear reservoir) Take off left caliper and tilt it (15 or 45 degrees?) compress the SMC and have a friend undo the PCV valve under tank. Once he sees fluid coming out, he closes the PCV and I release the SMC after. (I guess this bleeds the PCV) Fluid used from rear reservoir. 4) bleed middle nipple of rear caliper 5) bleed outer nipple of rear caliper. (Helps to have the caliper lifted up so air escapes) This is how I did it the first time and am planning to do so again. Am I going wrong anywhere here? Any tips will be appreciated. THANK YOU!
  10. vfrgiving
    Lol, I did try recording a few seconds of it but the mic or phone brains (I don't know how this stuff works) did some auto EQ thing that has it appear the cam whine is about as loud as the exhaust. It's most definitely not. If you want to hear what this sounds like just go pull off your VFR's muffler.
  11. Skids
    All this and no recording? Wtf? 😜
  12. FromMaine

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    Must of filled up quick. Hotel website and 5 other booking sites show rooms from $249 to $359 for Friday the 14th of May. I stayed here in May of 2023, perfectly fine motel at their normal $79/$89 per night. To say the rates quoted for this May are an over reach would be an understatement. I checked random dates midweek for other weeks and got the same pricing. Hope its a glitch.
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  14. vfrgiving
    Speaking of Delkevics and 5th gens. Anyone else rocking a standard height mount? If so, and you want an easy laugh. FYI their link pipe OD is 2" meaning muffler ID is the same. This $40 hot garbage from Amazon also has a 2" ID. This ain't a muffler, just dresses a open header and installs in a minute. This thing is just welded aluminum pipe with a terrible paint job.. but ..The sound is otherworldly on a 1998 or 1999. 😁I tossed their staggered bracket it came with and just slapped on a 2" brace from Home Depot. Yeah.. I'll be putting the Tri-Oval Delkevic right back on. An hour of this was fun enough, but is a little loud. I'll keep it around though. Probably toss it on for a coffee meet or something who knows, straight pipe Harleys can't have all the fun. I'll bring the Delkevic can with me of course so I can swap back. 2000 and 2001 owners with the catalytic headers might be able to get away with running this all the time since the cat is it's own silencer.
  15. davidhamilton994
    Citeam despre Balance Beads și mi-am dat seama că după o zi lungă în garaj sau cu hobby-urile tehnice, e plăcut să te relaxezi puțin online. Eu mă joc pe chicken road game, optimizat pentru jucătorii din România, și jocurile rapide și bonusurile locale fac timpul liber mai distractiv. E o metodă excelentă de a te deconecta și de a te relaxa după orele petrecute cu motoarele sau alte proiecte.
  16. Gaz66
    No worries, hope you get the old girl up n running soon.
  17. Gaz66
    Pics required if you need advice.
  18. Gaz66
    Sound like this so called tech is blowing smoke up your arse mate. A few simple meter tests will confirm if starter is good or not. If starter's got a short, no way can a short just disappear when starter's removed from the bike. Hope this stealership's not rippin you off bro.
  19. Sweeper
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    Alpine Motel VFRD Spring ride will be in Abingdon, Virginia this year. I’ve looked at the event calendar and there is nothing of note for May 2026. Let’s go with May 14-17. That excludes Mother’s Day weekend and Memorial Weekend. (On a personal note, it’s Misty and my anniversary weekend so cash gifts are acceptable ��). The Alpine Motel is my choice for the hotel, but there are 3 others within walking distance of the Alpine if it doesn’t meet anyone’s standards. It’s not the Waldorf, but it’s a nice little place. The rates are affordable, so I’m not gonna worry about group pricing. I will talk to the owner this weekend ( 11/8/25) about blocking of rooms. Misty and I are aware of the crappy coffee situation at the motel and will have a keurig available for all to use as well as a fire pit for evening meetings. Looking forward to seeing all of you in May! Abingdon, Virginia
  20. 3rdgenred
    Thanks for the posting op. I recently had a 5th Gen plop in the shop, did a thunderous tear down, threw a slough of parts into the garbage, and am hoping I remember where the good parts go lol It will be a pile of parts by the time i'm ready to put it back together.
  21. Terry
    VFR1200F FD 2010-2015 Service Manual View File Better quality images in this one. Submitter Terry Submitted 11/19/2025 Category Owners Manuals and other  
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    Version 1.0.0

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    Better quality images in this one.
  24. vfrgiving
    A starter that fixes itself on the bench? That's freakin' cool.
  25. Skids
    https://www.vfrdiscussion.com/index.php?/files/file/290-vfr1200x-crosstourer-honda-shop-manual/
  26. ggathagan
    Sadly, sfdownhill is no longer with us. I don't know if that kit contained any custom machined parts, but I suspect it did.
  27. Captain 80s
    Skeptical, but thinking positive for you. I have been wrong many times before and will be many times in the future. Good luck.
  28. The Phantom
    Very interesting build. Sorry about the pathetic posts from that guy, he's not like the rest of us. Are you talking about the 8th Gen rear hub/wheel?
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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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      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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