New To Me VF1000R's

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  1. Captain 80s

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    Likely just a tweaked lower triple. Seen it MANY times. They are as strong as butter. And it can be tweaked back easily by sliding the fork tube down and using it for a little leverage. You'll be surprised how little effort is required to bring it back. Least of your worries I suppose. Goddammit.
     
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    Damm thats a pain.

    Still looking at the positive side - at least you will have plenty of options to take pics of the engine - WE LOVE BIKE PORN !!!!
     
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    I have 2 more lower triple clamps, I can try them once it get to that point in the game
     
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    Your really an optimist Pete
     
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    Yep, well more of an optimistic pessimist - hope for the best, prepare for the worst..
     
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    Well, im starting to think about getting back to this bike, its been a year now, but first I need to be sure I have all the right parts. I checked my parts engines/tranny's and the M2/m3 gear set on both of them is F'd so I dont have a good spare. One of the M2 gears has all the gear dogs chipped, the other one has one gear dog chipped. If I can get a good cheap used part, id rather go that route before coughing up the extortionate prices that Honda or CMS.NL wants.
     
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    Are the vf1000f trans parts the same? Maybe fleabay might have a complete trans.
     
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    No Different parts, I did consider that and looked up the part #'s.

    Spoke to Honda today and while they list a price for it, it is discontinued, so Used was my only route.

    Lucky for me I found a single M2/M3 gear on ebay this morning, nice shape $75 shipped. found a couple of full trannys, but I have 2 full spares and only the M2/3's are bad so would be a waste of $ to by the full Trans.

    So.... hopefully this will do the trick once I get back at it.
     
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