service schedule

You are a bit late, but welcome Peter! Congrats on the new VFR, but sucks about the ticket. Nice how they gave you a stunt riders video instead of a manual. Maybe they want you to crash trying tricks and have to get a new bike??

If you are not sure about the fluids, I would at the very least change the coolant (be sure to use a brand which does not have silicates in it, which can damage seals) and change the oil/filter to a good brand name synthetic oil. The valves don't need to be checked until 16K, and many times they really don't need to be checked until the second recommended check at 32k. This is because many times no adjustment is ever needed at 16k by many VFR owners.

Oh, and buy yourself a manual sir!

 

welcome to the site and let me second the recommendation for the Service manual. Personally, I use the actual Honda Service manual and it is excellent. It answers most of the questions you come up with during ownership, and the rest we can take care of here. You can DL the manual, but in my experience, it's hard to flip through pages on the comp when I'm all greasy... I like the paper manual for that and I dont want to print the whole damn thing out...

 

Nice new BIG avatar PA...me likey!

 

hehe. that's pretty funny. you'll get used to it. hard to believe some people say it's underpowered eh? the fact that these bikes go from 0-60 in around 3 secs impresses the hell outta me. I'm not a huge fan of high top speeds but I'll occasionally run it out for a short blast on a straight.