Back on a Bike :-)

Hi everyone,

Im 44 yrs old now and After 14 years in the wilderness I am back on a motorcyle..
My last machine was a Honda CBR600 FM and my last ride was in the summer of 2000

Now I am about to take delivery of a 2007 VFR 800 V-tec on the 1st march 2014

I joined here hoping to gain lots of advice and help from the vast experience of all you VFR owners out there.

Looking fwd to contributing as well as I regain my biker wings

Cheers everyone

 

welcome back good pick on the bike, that bike will take good care of you if you do the same for her. try joining the gen specific forums they are full of great info

 

Welcome back to the world! Enjoy your ride and ride safe!

 

Dude, welcome back and like flash requested---I did and learned a ton about my 2002. Good luck and may I suggest replacing the bars with some Heli's--made a HUGE difference for me at least, when I was 53 at purchase
..shes a jockey to

 

:welcome: back to the saddle mate :wave:
2007 is a good year must be Apple Cany Red :noidea:
Make yourself like at home and might want to post some pictures of the bike or the ladies before the peeps here
call you Viffer wanna be ound:

 

Find/make a manometer! Then sync your starter valves and take the slack out of the wax unit linkage. Thats the first thing. Next is sync the throttle bodies, I have one pair slightly behind the other to provide a much smoother response. Warning the throttle is choppy below 3000rpm. So keep her humming happy 4000 to 13000 if its not brand new, go over the electrical. Burnt connectors are common especially near the r/r unit. Frame connections are also know to be flaky. The notorious r/r issue is simply a high load or not enough load for too long takes out the r/r and that can kill a stator. There have been some random stator failures that I know of but imho its best to reason that if one is gone both are gone or will be. if it is brand new then when you pop the fairings off do an inspection but it doesnt need to be too indepth. Oh and order a few of the plastic fairing clips. The two or three on the bottom that hold the halves together get filled with crap and break when you try to push the center in to release them. There is a trick to resetting the clips to get the center out so that they hold properly. A small flat screw driver like one just larger than eye glasses repair screw driver works great.

Go over to the 6th gen forum and post your vin for the records we are trying to figure out how many 25th anniversary models were made and every little bit helps.

The bike provides 34 amps total, this runs everything and charges the battery. So dont go accessory happy.

And post pics of your beauty when she arrives.

 

Hi duccmann I picj the machine up this saturday 1st March and I will look into your Heli's suggestion after ive ridden it a few miles.
Thanks for the early advice
Im open to all information and suggestions from all you wise people.

 

WOW Thanks ZEN biker
I think I will need a good many hours trawling this forum to understand parts of your advice hehe

I will post the photos as soon as i pick her up saturday 1st March.

Really looking fwd to so great riding with a machine i am beginning to love already

Thanks again for your great advice

 

Hi scubalong.. yep she's a candy red alright and a lovely one at that

Cheers
(photos coming soon)

 

Here is a photo from my phone of her in the showroom
This is all I have for now guys . sorry roll on saturday ))

 

Hey MJ, nice lookin ride thar feller. Whats that round black thingy on your fork leg ?

 

I think that's a reflector, but missing the orange reflective part.

 

Temporary plastic Tax disc holder..
Apparently the guy who traded it in for a 2014 model had a red anodized aluminum one with 'VFR' machined into it so he kept it for his new bike

 

My new ride picked up today ))
And a photo after the first 174miles scrubbing the new booties in

 

Those green things behind her give her better definition

Somewhere on here is working links to the honda common service manual and the vfr 2002-09 service manual. These two books cover 98% of what you need to know. The forum and chat make up the rest

 

haha yes I agree.. nice to have a bit of green in the background.

Thanks for the info 'ZEN biker' I will have a search for the links.
Loving the bike and the forums.
Cheers