The replacement gear look ok? Been a long time since I've had to deal with street bike gear sets, safe to assume no one is re-working trans gears...
As much as I'm more of an old soul and probably shoulda been born a decade or so sooner, having grown up in the '70s and '80s, with the evolution...
Gotta love EPA....they're the government, here to help.... o_O Sweet looking dp though, still can't believe there was virtually no grease from...
Ha! Reminds me of Hank Jr. "All my rowdy friends have settled down".....
Jim- I've had good success with the Redkote, but the prep and cure time are very critical for good outcomes. Probably just didn't let it cure...
If someone needs them, I'm about an hour away from that location and would be willing to assist a forum member in securing them.
Capt- I saw the OEM in the other pic, just was wondering if he was switching to OEM 4-2 or if that was what was coming off. The 4-1 seem rare...
went through exact same thing this week. Original email, nothing changed, now won't work. Switched to secondary, works fine. Switch back to...
Did it have a 4-1 exhaust in the pic above or just part of the stocker removed?
Was your's a Cali model or do all of them come with the EGR and emissions crap now?
Not mine, no clue who the seller is, just came across them and know some of you VF500 folks like OEM cans:...
Capt is correct, why bother having the original/purchasing shop do anything other than sell it to you, not that it matters now. Been following a...
Great thread, took a while to get through al 20+ pages! One observation, you like using the phrase "turned out decent"....if this is decent so...
Vintage, out of manufacture, levels of effort to acquire, etc etc, ya....don't ever put that in equation to calculate "worth it"....in absolute...
In the realm of your projects, where does this one stand?
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Shoulda saved the actual brochures from over the years, but do have some decent scans at least to pass along still. Most were taped to my walls...
As mentioned in other threads, have some time on my hands after knee surgery and ended up back in the VF internet rabbit hole, which motivated me...
Telefix, they were the fork brace folks too IIRC. Started buying issues of various motorags in '83 and then got my first subscriptions rolling in...
Go with black forks, offsets some of the yellow nicely- IMO! Very few pics remain of my bike, or any of my teen years. It was all 35mm film, if...
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