looking for bike like a VFR800

Discussion in 'General VFR Discussions' started by mat grant, Oct 4, 2014.

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  1. rocketscientist

    rocketscientist New Member

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    There really isn't anything like the vfr800 on the market. From a keeps on keeping on perspective. Have you tried adapting your style to the linked brakes. Setting a constant pedal pressure then modulating the lever will give threshold braking with good feeling.
     
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    Mat -- If the VFR800 is the perfect bike, but the brakes, jeez dude, replacing 6th gen with F4i brakes using the F4i lower fork tubes and use the stock upper tubes really isnt all that hard. You keep the OEM wheel and rotor, use the F4i master cylinder, stock bars and the rest of it is mostly striping the extra gear that goes with the stuff. The rear caliper use the F4i or RC51 master cylinder and then bridge the pistons in the caliper together. Great winter project.

    And for the halibut, being the original linked brake hater on this forum, effe them linked brakes. :confusion::topsy_turvy:
     
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    I've heard people making a big deal out of linked brakes - mostly racers and magazine writers, but in the mean streets of the real world, they work pretty good and if you just sucked it up and rode them for a while I bet you'd forget they're there. Did 80,000 km on a Blackbird and now after another 5,000 km on a VFR I bought this summer, that's what happened to me.
     
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