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  2. Captain 80s
    They are embedded with a chip that senses mismatched pads and sends a disruptive vibratory signal to the Secondary Master Cylinder on the fork, causes it to stick, and starts the process all over.
  3. bmart
    I would love to know how the pads would know.
  4. bmart

    Coolant

    bmart replied to tbzep's topic in Maintenance Questions

    Also, you can call the dealer and ask for the service history. i've had excellent luck with that when I knew who the dealer was.
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  6. Captain 80s
    Got it. Figured you didn't pull that out of thin air. But also, in actual practice on a well maintained bike when you're not drastically changing compound types, I think people will be just fine. But I thank them for the *Safety Notice*, I mean I thank their underwriters.
  7. Mohawk
    The Honda stuff was green in 3 Hondas from that time frame I drained factory coolant from. The colour does not mean anything nowadays, as various manufacturers & after market companies use all sorts of colours. Get the right type as per manual specs & mix in a ratio based on your local & expected trip temps. I use 25% antifreeze to 75% distilled water & my bike thanks me for it. That's good for -10c temps & increases cooling by 25%+ which is a bonus. The stock 50/50 mix is designed for use anywhere from the coldest to warmest climates. Antifreeze is a poor coolant, distilled water is the best. Some antifreeze is required for its corrosion inhibitors. As always YTMV
  8. Presson
    Brilliant!
  9. ducnut
    It’s plainly stated in the EBC catalog, as attached below. I surmise, it’s because of differing compounds, pad thicknesses, and resulting performance differences. YMMV. Those pics are right after a complete disassembly and before getting it back on the road. However, despite being on the road for 6yrs, it’s still that clean. Unfortunately, salt in the air hasn’t been so kind to some of the finishes, like on the chain. I’ve moved back to Illinois and some touching up is on the agenda. You’re correct, sir.
  10. Presson
    Beautiful and brand new, including the tyre which appears to have zero use. Wish my kit was sooo clean
  11. Dutchy
    Cannae go to Portugal and not eat grilled sardines can I? 🙂
  12. Captain 80s
    No kidding! CLEAN. But judging from the tire nubs and rotor wear, I think that is a fresh-as-a-daisy wheel, tire, brakes, chain, sprockets install right there too. Picture worthy.
  13. tbzep
    Evidently there is no dirt in Florida. I've never seen such pristine clean machinery outside of the Barber museum!
  14. Captain 80s
    ????? If the front brakes are still in good working condition, how does it make an appreciable difference what rotors just the front inner pistons are pushing the pads against when the rear brake is activated? And vice-versa? If I use my brain, hands and feet as a linked brake system, do I have to replace front and rear rotors and pads at the same time too?
  15. tbzep
    I'm changing the coolant on my #2 2007 Anniversary VFR which bought used, so I don't have any maintenance history other than, "I always took it to the dealer". I drained the coolant and it is dark green, not the traditional fluorescent chartreuse I was expecting. I guess the dealer put it in, but I thought the Honda stuff was blue. Would this be something the dealer put in later, or did it come new with this dark green type? At any rate, I'm thinking Zerex Asian Blue might be the way to go with maybe a gallon of distilled cycled through it a few minutes before draining and putting in the Zerex. I'm not really up on coolant technology, but I'm thinking with it being a 2007 and based on the manual, it came with silicate and borate free IAT and this dark stuff is probably dealer changed OAT. BTW, is there any difference between the Zerex Asian Green and Blue colored stuff other than the names of the cars they stick on the front label and the order of vehicles on the back? Everything else on the label seems identical. Since it's a red white and blue bike, it needs blue coolant instead of green. 😁 Edit: Some guys way smarter than me on Facebook tell me I'm good to go on Zerex Asian Blue after a good flushing.
  16. ducnut
    Since the brakes are linked, it’s highly recommended to replace all three sets, together. I run Braking of Italy rotors, with DP Brakes pads.
  17. Captain 80s
    Oh. Remove EVERYTHING related EVAP or PAIR. Every canister, valve body, hose, T fitting or vacuum valve. There are vent hoses from the carbs in the rear that went to "something", the smaller one can now just vent to atmosphere, pointing down. There might be a larger vent on your bike that might have gone to, or near, the air box. Retain that, or point it down if it went to emissions. You can connect the bowl vents to each other, FR to FR, RR to RR, using all of your left over Vacuum rated hose. There is usually one vacuum spigot on the carbs that needs to be properly capped. Any vacuum lines that went to nipples on the head near the carb insulators, the nipples need to be capped or replace with a screw / sealing washer. Here you can see the smaller vent line tucking under the large one pointing down, and the large hose going to a little breather box that just vents to atmosphere. Anything that went to the air box, those fittings on the air box need to be plugged / capped (except the crankcase breather, seen in the above pic), usually any now unused ports are beneath the air filter. If the engine heads had hard lines going to them from PAIR, they need to be cut off and sealed. I even double rolled and crimped a friend's so he could take care of it later. Never did. No issues. The fronts are easy, some bikes the rears require some fairly involved dis-assembly. If you don't want to get totally into the rear, you can just use some of your tubing that was removed to connect the ends of the hard lines to each other after the PAIR valve has been deleted. You can use the hard line fittings to make "block off plates" Crack your second beer and enjoy the view... You also end up with some clamps, tees, collars and doo-dads.
  18. Presson
    I'm thinking that playdeadbend0r was hoping for a step-by-step or a link to similar as opposed to words of success🙂
  19. Presson
    Good luck and thanks for a really interesting thread. As said by others before, the 2 valve ops was introduced to obtain a good balance between efficiency and torque at lower revs. Older VFs had 4 valve ops all the time and a different character to drive as well as higher overall fuel consumption (but then you have to factor in CV carbs v FI as well). It will be interesting to see if your modifications give improvement in power, torque and drivability/control across the rev range. Also the effect on efficiency. Let's see....
  20. Skids
    Grabby might suggest some tlc is required. I stripped the calipers, new rubbers, fluid etc and fitted stainless hoses. Brakes are excellent now.
  21. Timuli
    The cam shaft grinder gave such values that the intake valve is 2.4mm open TDC and the Exhaust valve 2.1mm open TDC. I set the Intake valve 2.2mm open TDC and had to set the intake camshaft to 3 degrees advance, lobe center 99 degrees. I opened the exhaust valve 2.1 mm TDC and I had to put exhaust camshaft advance 2 degrees, lobe center 100.5 degrees. The original intake camshaft opening was 1.5mm The original exhaust camshaft opening was 2.8mm I did a quick test drive and it felt good, well next week I will have a new dynorun and will it be another disappointment or a place to smile.
  22. Captain 80s
    NOT necessary. I've eliminated the EVAP and PAIR on multiple bikes. Reduce clutter and weight. Increase access and reliability. The PAIR valves on my ST1100 were DONE. The diaphragms were just goo. Ran SO much better.
  23. adkfinn
    I installed the sargent pins years ago and like them. I usually do not make mods that can't be easily reversed, this was an exception. Overall I like them, and it makes my use of the passenger seat area as on-bike storage convenient and easy.
  24. Captain 80s
    Welcome! (that stupid windscreen on the ST has now been cut down to something below Low Bridge Warning height)
  25. JimCMA
    Hi, I'm thinking how to have quick release pins on the rear seat cowl so I wouldn't need to carry a driver to get under the seat if needed. I searched just a bit, but didn't see anything. I could use wing bolts or the like, but wondering if there's a better looking solution. I think Sargent has pins, but you'd need to drill out the threads. Anyone do this?
  26. TimC
    Congrats on that sweet 5th gen!! 🙂
  27. JimCMA
    Thanks for the info! I heard the linked brakes can be "fun" to bleed, but I haven't looked at them yet. I do have the Service Manual. As far as the brakes, I noticed that these are quite a bit more grabby than any other bikes I've owned. Not necessarily a complaint, just something to get used to I guess. I've read that people have de-linked them, but I'll see how they play out.
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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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      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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