Thanks for trying to help me with the problem attaching photos. I got another attempt to help me with the picture posting problem from WhiteKnight. Thanks if you steered him over to help me. I still need a taillight cowl though. I guess they're as rare as hen's teeth. Tried to get help on cowl from VFRCHUCK, Bikermike, and got hung up in the parting out of the "Arizona_Viffer_700" mystery bike, I also tried to get a hold of some guy who claimed to have a plastic welder on the back pages of the buysell forum, no answers from any of them. I'd need to have some kind of taillight cowl to get the 86 on the road. My son has an 84 VF 500 F. He is 18 and I think the whole trip and meet would be great for him. I know there is a problem with hotel accomodations, etc. We'd probably camp out "easy rider style". Later. You turned on a switch or something because when I went to "Submit" this reply there was new option box in the Attach Files grey box that had the title MANAGE ATTACHMENTS. I hope it appears in the buysell forum.
DKC, I moved your post over here to the mechanics garage hoping that maybe someone who had a suggestion for fixing your cowl would see it. Sometimes the messages buried deep in the multi-page threads get missed by most casual readers.
I think I can get more help on Google Thanks reg71, I like your avatar. But I have figured out that what is being sold on VFRWORLD is lifestyle (or vanity) and that the tie in with eBay is what pays the freight. It's something I have never seen in so blatant a form before, a revelation for me, really. I find the whole conception of the BUY&SELL FORUM to be a strange mutation of Saturday morning cartoons. Selling sugar as breakfast cereal (hold it a minute while I turn off the whole grain oatmeal). I hit Google with "motorcycle plastic repair" and got instant gratification. 12345 : this is the service I sell, this is how I do it, this is how much it costs, here is the order form if you want it, nice doing business with you and have a pleasant day. No land mines about whether or not somebody got their ego bruised or about the price they paid for sugar. I'll know where not to shop next time, unless I'm looking for "sparkles spangles and beads". Cio amici. P.S. I realize that some of you guys are real bike lovers and you actually live the life styles that the rest of these posers are emulating. I don't envy you the task of taking care of this kindergarten. Myself, well I went deep into motors and machinery as a kid, so the glitter of motofashion and $1000 exhaust pipes, etc. kind of seems, well feminine, like the chrome people who couldn't build anything would hang on there rides to make you think that they might have something under the hood. The real rides had all their money tied up in places where you didn't see it, and that's how they liked it. One other comment, if I wanted to tour I'd get a BMW or a GoldWing. Is it clear as mud yet? Sell a sportbike and gunk it up with the living room furniture. Let the little lady do the interior decoration,"Where do you think we should put the Staintune dear. I sort of like it on the right side, don't you? Be a dear boy and say yes, mommy's little helper."
