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  2. WGREGT
    this stuff? https://www.oatey.com/products/P_038753309996/oatey-abs-mediumbodied-black-cement
  3. Thumbs
    Why not put a piece of mesh around the outside? JB Weld is not as good for plastic as ABS pipe cement
  4. WGREGT
    Any of you know anything about plastic? JB Weld tells me that some of their products will withstand fuel, but if cannot be polyethylene or polypropylene. I need to seal up a crack in this longer in-tank OEM filter straw. My 1st thought was JB Weld.
  5. Captain 80s
    So, nobody owns a 2004+ AND a tape measure?
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  7. Captain 80s
    It was Honda green before Honda blue. So could be genuine stuff but, yeah, 20+ years old. Honda began transitioning to blue coolant for most vehicles around 2002–2005, moving away from their older green formula. I still use an appropriate, quality coolant in green cuz it just looks right to my old-school eyes.
  8. Terry
    Does anyone need this? I bought it by mistake, doesn't fit the 86/87 VFR700/750 but should fit the 88/89 with the 17" front wheel. Yours for the price of the shipping (note - I'm in New Zealand).
  9. Terry
    Apparently thermal cycling causes the ethylene glycol to converts to acids (glycolic, formix, oxalic) and that causes the pH to drop and increases the corrosivity to metals. Moral of the story, change your coolant at the recommended intervals, kids. I've personally seen a thermostat corroded away (my ST1100), and have seen photos of the vanes on the impellor also eaten away.
  10. Sirbike
    Is this from never changing coolant, a bad run of metal, loose hoses, wrong coolant? I’ve seen flakey coolant build up but never this kind of corrosion. I am always concerned when the coolant isn’t Honda blue. The bike had no cooling issues.
  11. Sweeper
    Saw this a minute ago and thought of this thread. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DUVWf489P/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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  13. Terry

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    Terry commented on Grum's gallery image in Member's Gallery

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    I miss Grum. The poor man has passed on and taken our most treasured electrical fault-finding resource with him. God speed, Graham.
  14. Worfje
    I tried Tiniracing, but their stock status was incorrect. I got a refund. It looked like the VFR800 5th gen kits were pretty dried up, so I went for a VFR800 6th gen. I dared to do so since the Rapid Bike wiring harness of both had the same number at some point in time. I bought it at Ecubitt in Spain. Today I did a fitting and I do need to elongate the wire to/from the crankshaft sensor. On the 6th gen both injector/TPS and crankshaft sensor are located at the right, but on 5th the injector/TPS connector is at the left. Ordered some Sumitomo MTW .110" from Eastern Beaver from Japan, so that should fix that. Connector for injector/TPS was perfect fit. Still need to double check if the pinout of 5th vs. 6th is the same though.
  15. MBrane
    Just saw your other post. Nevermind.
  16. MBrane
    5th gen is 110mm long with 50mm offset.
  17. MBrane
    Cooling system neglect is never a good thing.
  18. Dav
    Cooling system in VFR's is nightmare i see we have same issues. Im gonna deal with it using JB weld. Is it really necessary to push so many colant pipes into one motorcycle xD?
  19. Captain 80s
    Working on some rear set adapter plates for a VTR250. Can somebody please measure the distance from the shift shaft center to the center of the toe rod in the same plane for me please? Thank you!!
  20. Captain 80s
    There's only so many Hondas that bolt directly to the shift shaft. Guess I'll pop over to the 6th Gen forum and ask the same question. They are a different part number than the 5th. CBR1100XX is the same shifter as the 5th gen.
  21. Thumbs
    By the way the paint wears away really easily I'd guess at no clear coat
  22. Worfje
    I like the wooden 'boobs'!
  23. JZH
    I think if you follow the links deep within the ULEZ website there is something about that. I considered doing it for my blue 5th gen, which I had also heard might be able to pass such a test, but I dropped the idea when I decided to move to the Netherlands. Ciao, JZH
  24. JZH
    This won't be super helpful, but I ran across some pictures from 2016, when I was looking into shift levers: That's the 5th gen lever on top of the 3rd gen lever. Unfortunately, I don't recall which Hondas the above two levers sitting on top of the 3rd gen lever came from. The top one looks a lot like RC24 one in the first post. The middle one...? At least you know it exists! Ciao, JZH
  25. Sirbike
    More parts arrived. I used to order everything that I need, or thought it was everything, and I’d get free shipping. But the way it worked out would find need for some little thing then another. Now in this size project I order enough with some focus on an area of the bike to get free shipping and progress. If I miss something that area, I’ll order just enough in the next area and get the little straggler from the previous one on a free shipping order. The lead time takes patience. Having another bike to ride makes it easier. The big one here is an ‘03+ 6th gen stator. This box has the rest of the bearings to cover the hub, swingarm, and linkages. The rest of the as3 hose clamps came in today. The $25 6th gen thermostat housing from eBay. This was a buy it and try it move. I found a difference between the 5th and 6th water pumps. The bypass hose nipple on the 5th is 12mm, the 6th is 12.65mm. That correlates to the thermostat housing. The bypass hoses are that slightly different. The 6 gen bypass hose fits in the place of the 5 gen. The pre bending of the hoses are different but close enough. The difference in diameter is marginal, A little extra turn of the screw should cinch the rubber down. The 5 gen as3 bypass hose was just tighter enough to notice on the 6 gen thermostat housing and water pump yet fit fine. Another difference with the thermostat housing is the line that goes to the radiator angles upwards much more than the original. Throttle body clearance was the concern. The throttle body assembly fit with it just fine. The wax idle nipple will be capped. Thanks to advice here, I smoothed down the casting flashing on the thermostat housing.
  26. mello dude
    No problem.... Anytime!
  27. Captain 80s
    Thank you!! Wow, that is WAY shorter than I thought it would be. VF1000R is about 110mm. Center of toe rod to center of footpeg rubber on most of my bikes is ~140mm. The RC24 shifter on the VTR with my adapter plates is about 132mm to center of footpeg rubber. I was just trying not to crowd my shifting boot too much and find the perfect candidate. Looks like my RC24 shifter is the closest donor then. The RC36-II shifter is a pretty good candidate, but I was hoping for an aluminum piece. Thanks again for your time md!!!!
  28. mello dude
    Took a photo.. keep in mind its with calibrated eyeball tolerance -- probably +/- 1.0mm
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    1. HispanicSlammer

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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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