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I think you may be overestimating Android Auto! I have AA in my van, and I'm not a big fan, mainly because it is so frustrating to use. Recently I've been using my phone in a dash holder without the AA running (through the head unit) at all. It is frustrating because the AA "apps" you can download are very limited, and even when they exist for a particular phone app, they don't let you do very much (safety reasons!). Google Maps Directions and Waze both work well via AA, but most other apps I use are not very useful via AA. Maybe it helps primarily with audio-related operations? Minimum, you'd need to interface it with your helmet intercom system for those features to work. Ciao, JZH
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I haven't bothered doing this, as my phone on a QuadLock is fine for whatever I'm doing. However, what I've seen in person from other riders who do this (on bikes that didn't come with a large TFT with Android Auto already there) You get a generic Android Auto screen on Amazon. They are all over, so I have no recommendations. Just search "motorcycle Android Auto". Figure out the mount you want on your bike, figure out power connection and should be good to go once you sync your phone.
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Minor update: I have been going through the bike and tidying it up. There's a lot to do... After all, it has been parked for many years, and whilst it is quite clean, I've discovered some rusty and corroded parts. I've also decided to improve upon my wiring (which has improved substantially since I've done so much re-wiring on my Hiace van). But, on the maintenance side, I don't even know when the valves were last done. Actually, I can say they have definitely not been done since I fitted the supercharger. I know this because I have discovered that it is impossible to open the front valve cover without removing the compressor and many of its components. If I had the valve covers open I guess I could figure out where TDC is (after pulling the plugs), but that's the only option unless I remove the crank pulley adapter, which I believe requires the removal of the clutch cover... So, as you can guess, I've decided I'm not touching the valves during this "service"! I'll have enough to do, anyway. For example, the stem bearings were shot--I have never felt such a pronounced "notch" before on any bike. Part of that was probably due to solidified grease and the bike sitting for many years, but it wasn't a good sign. As I'm not doing the forks now, I am sacrificing a set of bearings (which will not be swapped onto the 929/954 lower triple), but that'll be worth it to avoid additional RDW inspection hassles about the brakes and the de-linking. I'm not looking forward to bleeding the linked brakes, but I have done it before. I also need to put on the new tires and put in the new fluids, and then we'll see if she starts... ...but I expect, like the last time, one or more of the fuel injectors will be stuck closed! Ciao, JZH
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Your phone functions, apps and content become accessible on the Android Auto equipped head unit (like in a car), or similar device. So your bike needs an AA enabled screen device mounted on the bars / triple clamp that your Android phone can connect to, preferably via Bluetooth. But some units are wired connection only. Disclaimer: I am certainly not an AA expert, as it took me a few rounds to finally get my Pioneer in the STi to connect to my phone automatically via BT.
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I'm probably being a bit old and stupid but how do I start Android Auto for use on my bike? As far as I can tell, it will only become accessible when connected to a recognised car. Neither of our cars has it. Thanks.
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I just sold a perfect OEM Grey one on eBay last week.
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Odd thing on the seat cowl is that my friends 2008 is grey, but came that cowl from a 2007 RWB. I've also got a carbon look one from "off shore" and it fits rather nicely.
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The ones out of China are probably pretty decent, including color match. At least you'd have one while you look for an OEM version.
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boy I wish I was lucky as you, been looking for a good condition white rear seat cowl for a 6th gen for the last year or so, hahaha
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Clutch noise
ElcommandanteJuanRambo replied to ElcommandanteJuanRambo's topic in Eighth Generation VFR's
That is a video don't know why people can't see the video anyway I sort the problem 👍 -
I've never had the confidence to attempt the forks but now I know how easy it is I'll definitely have a go again.
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Hello. It's time to sell my bike. 2014 vfr800 deluxe. 53,000 miles. Full bags, lithium battery, bar risers, ixil exhaust, new tires last year, garmin GPS, kaoko throttle lock, givi touring windshield, always well maintained. Coolant changed twice, brake fluid flushed every other year, regular oil changes, etc. I've ridden it out west three times, up Pike's Peak, tail of the dragon, ironbutt saddlesore 1000, etc. I did drop it once in my driveway, resulting is a scratched left side pannier, and a very small scratch on the fairing. Bikes in really good shape, as you can tell, I love my vfr. I just have had life changes, and won't be riding for a while. I hope to find a new home for it, where the next owner loves it as much as I did. I'm in North East Ohio. $5250. Thanks for looking! Edit: I also have the takeoff parts. Rear seat cowl, grab bars, grab bar delete covers, factory windshield, OEM muffler, etc.
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No thanks, motorbike parts are a better investment. 🤑
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Welcome from NoSoCal. Nice to see she's still in the VFRD family. She's purdy.
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That sounds kind of dirty mate.
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Good on you for taking the plunge. I was a little apprehensive about rebuilding my Penske 8987, but dove in anyway. Was pleasantly surprised to find the pin spanner from one of my HF grinders was the exact size for the shock cap. Other than breaking the rebound jet on the end of the shaft because I didn't fully understand how it came apart it was pretty straightforward if a bit tedious. The most time consuming was waiting for parts, and bleeding the oil bubbles on re-assembly. The blind bushing puller was the only tool I needed to buy.
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Good evening. I have 1985 honda vfr1000r that was my dads. Im trying to sale it. It's sat for years so either a rebuild or for parts. Paint is in pretty good shape for being from 85. Some scratch and 1 dent on gas tank. Just reaching out trying to find someone who might be intersted
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It is one and the same. The guy in Florida bought it for his wife and she found it too big. He had it about a year. I got it from him and had it until a little over a year ago. The only reason I got out is that I got old and found that a lighter more upright bike makes me faster. I notice that my garage still list her as (Still for sale). That bike has great stories to tell.
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I'm please to say that I have cracked the code for KYB cartridge disassembly. If you've done RWU Showa cartridges, they come apart by pressing the cartridge base up to expose a circlip, then pulling the compression valve out and sliding the damper shaft out the same way with the rebound valve, easy-peasy. The KYBs are a "screwed together" design, the cartridge base screws in the bottom and the seal head screws in from the top, and both have threadlock, so I had to learn new techniques and create a tool. The fixed bottoming piston stops the damper rod just pushing out of the bottom of the cartridge. The base has some nice flats for a spanner, but the top has a recessed castellated fitting. There's also the bleed holes on the cartridge wall which come in handy. I repurposed a 17mm dogleg spanner (hey, only cost $20 for a set of 6 spanners!) and attacked that with my angle grinder to cut matching teeth for the castellations, this slips right over the damper rod. There's probably a better purpose-made tool but this was good enough. I got a tip from the Racetech bible about tapping the threaded cartridge section from the outside with a hammer, which does free up the threads. Then it all unscrews! The photo below shows the compression valve on the damper base. You can see the bolt has been peened over to retain the nut, that has to be filed away so you can get the nut off. One of my dampers (which I had been riding on until I changed out the leaky forks) was damaged, the peening had broken away and the nut escaped, so the compression piston was floating loose at the bottom of the damper and not providing any compression damping. At all. Yikes. The stock pistons are pretty restrictive with three small control ports and three big refill ports, as shown below. Not very different to the older HMAS pistons in earlier VFR except for the refill port size. For those new to suspension, there is a one-way check valve plate that seals the top of the three big ports so flow must go down through the three small ones, and these exit onto the bending shim stack. When the flow reverses, the check valve lifts opens and easy flow comes back through the three big ports bypassing the shim stack. So you get strong flow damping in one direction but not the other. The compression piston is oriented this way so as the damper rod enters the cartridge, oil is displaced out of the cartridge through the compression shim stack and the fixed bleed that bypasses these. During compression, the rebound piston check valve is open so no compression force is generated. On rebound the oil trapped between the rising rebound piston and the top of the cartridge is forced down through the rebound shims and also the adjustable bypass port. Oil is drawn back into the cartridge through the now-open compression check valve. The stock compression valve has a really tiny fixed bleed drilled in the valve body, must be 0.8mm or so. 1.3mm is generally regarded as a decent choice. I have now fitted up a set of Racetech Gold Valves for compression (from my departed ST1300, dirty pic below), and some Daugherty rebound valves (bought with 6th gen rebound adjusters off EBay). I've gone for firmer shim stacks (C34 and R17) as the 1200 is pretty heavy on the front end, but will see whether that is too much compression for our bumpy roads. Next step is to transplant the completed cartridges into the forks that are on my bike. I am also planning on boosting the oil height from the stock 160mm to 140mm when I do that. Unfortunately test riding may have to wait as I am travelling for the next few days.
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Well, I don't buy Lottery tickets. But I recommend that you do. 😁
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The way I see it, you can in fact still filter/ lane split. You are just going to be in the market for new hard bags. A lot. 🙂 Nice work, I hope the new owner appreciates your diligence in making the bike right. Fork seals are one of those things that get ignored when a bike is being sold because of cost for a shop to do it or the inconvenience of taking the front end apart. PersonallyI don't mind doing mine, gives me a chance to check other things out "while I'm in there". When I was working on sail boats, I was the one who ended up repairing/ servicing all our hydraulics, back stay rams, vangs, outhaul cylinders, etc. The pressures were far greater on the boats, but the basics were similar.
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Not sure what we are hearing in that last sound file. Can you load a video?
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I just priced up a single OEM shim at USD9.48 each. Or you can buy a complete set 141 pieces, 3 of each thickness, for USD64 from Aliexpress. That's how I do it.
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Hello! Here's my new to me 2007 VFR
mello dude replied to sparker3d's topic in Official Welcome Forum
That's nutz.....It may be the same bike I helped MarriedMan do an update on the charging system. That's got to be 10+ years ago.... If it has a R/R mount plate with a FH020... its the one. Supposidly he sold it to a guy in Florida, but it could be you, Sweeper... Very cool! -
Friend bought a clean 2008 last weekend. Called me last night and said it came with a "box of parts" he didn't want or need. Some old forks, seat cowl and pegs and stuff. Made him an offer he accepted and he brought them over this morning. Had to hide my grin when I saw these forks because I usually miss getting goodies like this. 😁
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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.
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.
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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I Am Back !
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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Oops. I do believe I know how to post YT videos or they wouldn't be on YT. However I may have screwed up copying the link to the playlist. Thanks for the helpful comment. -
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.
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