Peer Pressure 1986 VFR700

Just my experience with tires. Dirt Bike, pretty fast and easy, Street bike, brutal. My tire guy is 10 minutes away and delivers them back to my door when done.

 

Dirt bike tires (especially with rim locks) suck. Do (did) those all the time too. Have refined that technique too. And the heavy duty 18" enduro tires I use are especially sucky.

Like powder coaters, I grew weary of paying someone to fuck up my rims when installing tires. I know there are good places out there, don't care anymore.

 

I grabbed 3' from Revzilla earlier this year. Shit's expensive.

 

Yep. Exit to the left.

You can buy some high quality pre-formed fuel rated tube off Amazon for the tight turns. It comes in a variety of angles and radiuses to extract a section from the piece as needed. Not cheap, but worth it for those occasional spots.

 

Yeah....10X this. Bought several different ones off Amazon and they really come in handy.

 

Can you show me an example of what you're talking about? Searching "formed fuel line" or similar searches in Amazon doesn't bring me anything close.

I was trying to mimic the setup on V4Dreams. It should work fine if I get them cut correctly. I think I've still got enough line remaining.

 

Literally typed in "formed fuel line" in Amazon



https://www.amazon.com/16-Universal...682605207&sprefix=formed+fuel+,aps,208&sr=8-4

 

Got it. Thank you.

If I struggle with redoing it with my remaining line I'll look at that.

 

Yes...this is the one I ordered for my RC-31 Hawk. I bought a few of them

 

I pulled the carburetor and cut new fuel lines that seem like they should work fine. Installed the new JT Sprockets as well as an RK x-ring 530 chain this morning. I ran the bike for a while today (after properly capping off the vacuum ports), and it sounds a whole lot better than before. The bench sync seems pretty darn close. I'm getting a single pop of after-fire when closing throttle--but I'll worry about the finer details later. Happy to hear it running what I think sounds well.





Sidenote--I made it out to Pitt Race last weekend for the CCS event there. That might be the coolest motorcycle course in the country. Unfortunately it was a downpour for a lot of it, but going out on Bridgestone S22 road tires and trying to keep up with guys on dedicated rains was an exercise in character building . I'm absolutely going to try to get back there next year.

 

I'm wondering if somebody with a VFR700/750 could help me out. I'm struggling to figure out how to re-mount the left side fairing on the bottom. It's been a year since I pulled the fairings off (much of it was ziptied at the time) and my pictures from a year ago aren't as good as I wish they were.

Am I missing a bracket here to attach the lower left fairing?



I have these two pieces that I can't figure out how they attach to the bike. My labelling description isn't great.


For the rest of it I think I have it figure out.
Upper left


Upper right


Lower right


I'm trying to figure out which of the fairings I'm going to be capable of fixing myself and which I'm going to have to replace. The left and front main fairings should be fine. The main upper fairing is really beat up, but maybe. The rear is destroyed and I'm not hopeful. And these side pieces can be saved--I just need to figure out a better solution than this bigass bolt lol.


I may try ordering some pieces from Air Tech if I can't win the ebay lottery.
https://www.airtech-streamlining.com/honda-fairings-seats-fenders-parts/VFR7501986-88.htm

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Hope it helps


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

It 100% does! Ahhh that makes sense! Thank you!

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Mystery brackets are for the front turn signals.

 

"It's all coming back to me now, said the blind man, as he spit into the wind."

 

Thank you. I received the broken turn signals in a box and wasn't sure how they mounted.

Hah! Well, it's sort of coming back. I don't have that bracket piece, unfortunately. I can probably bend something up though.

I'm remembering why I stopped trying to put this thing back together. Everything is broken or missing related to the fairings. I just want to get it rideable and know if I have the carburetor setup correctly. And I've never driven a bike with gear driven cams, so that would be neat. But I'm getting closer to just bolting a $20 amazon headlight and taillight to it in the interim.