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The blue beast has awakened! My blue 1994 VFR750 is up and running after 4 months in storage (2 in semi-heated, 2 in non-heated), with just some fuel stabilizer before the cold storage, and trickle charger the whole time.

The can sounds unbelievable. Perhaps a little too loud, but wonderful all the same. At idle, it burbles the way my old VF500F did, but more consistently and much more V8-like.

I have but one concern: hesitation around 5k. It revs freely enough, but more often than not, it will stick/ hesitate at 5k, spit, drop half a grand in revs, then rev up past 5k. Am I looking at a serious problem (this is EXACTLY what my VF500 did before dropping a valve and murdering itself), or just the fact that it's been sitting for a while with old gas? I'm grabbing some carb cleaner when I go out to pick up the insurance.

Other than that, it runs, it revs, it moves, it honks and blinks; it's just about ready to go. I am unbelievably anxious to finally get back on the road again.

VIVA LA MOTORCICLETA

 

Congrats! Enjoy your riding season! It's also good to see you again (I'm on the VTR forum as well, only now I've got an '84 VF500F)! :smile:

If it wasn't balls cold around this way today you know I'd be riding mine!

 

Welcome, Elysse! Enjoy your 500! That's the bike I actually started riding on (the VTR never ran). If you haven't ridden it yet, you are going to have a BLAST!

Onto other matters...

Got the bike out this evening, blasted off, the lights were on, started up real easy. Got a good 15 minutes on the thing before what I am starting to consider inevitable for me and motorcycles happened: it died. I was coming to a stop, pulled the clutch in and... pffft, dead. No sputtering beforehand, nothing. Pressed the starter, no movement at all, but all the lights were on. Got a roll going, dropped the clutch, had it running, came to the stop sign for which I had originally begun stopping and... dead again. Hooked up jumper cables to my Battery Tender Junior pigtail, nothing. Sat with it for about 15 minutes while I waited for my pick-up van, and pushed the starter and got click,click,click,click with all the dash lights blinking.
Ladies and gents, that first 20 minutes of riding was not enough. Any ideas what the problem is? Perhaps just a dud battery? Bum alternator? What do y'all think?

 

How old is the battery? I would start with that since it is not turning over when you engage the starter.

 

check your connections..and pull volt reading from the battery and RR...I bet your RR has crapped on you.... especially if it is the original one.....

Good luck..as far as your reving problem.. try a carb clean, yeah you stored it "correctly" but that doesn't mean you don't have a bit of varnish up in the jets somewhere....

 

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Comicus: THANK YOU!

Crusty: Haven't pulled any readings yet, but the PO installed a new R/R about a year ago (although he did say he left a few parts out from the R/R replacement kit, because he "didn't need them")...
But, yeah, I was thinking the same thing, a varnish wouldn't surprise me in the least. Carb cleaner, here we come.

PGA: picking up a new battery tomorrow

Thanks y'all, hopefully this will get my blue rocket back on the road