VFR owners' thread, for VFRPS members and prospective members

**HenryDorsetCase** · 13th June 2014, 12:43

Originally Posted by Icemaestro

Aww. What's put you off it you reckon? I know I went away due to comfort, running costs for increased use, but coming back to one now I reckon I'll keep an nc30 or 35 ( if I can get one!) for the foreseeable future both nostalgia and individuality, as well as ability for it to be a great bike for track days

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great bike but having the coins tied up in something I use twice a year isnt sensible. Plus I am on the "old bike" thing again. Want another classic. But not one I have to restore this time. I have the horn big time for Kawasaki W650's and Honda 350's and Nortons and Bonnies again (its a vertical twin thing) and scrambler/tracker styles

**HenryDorsetCase** · 13th June 2014, 12:47

Originally Posted by willytheekid

Still keen as on a left front footpeg if you have one thanks Henry

...But im secretly hoping once the door goes up, the wee V4 starts ya heart again...you know you'll miss it

(might be keen on the swingarm too...well, the Hub unit anyway

...for a real wheel swap project on the Infidel)

Yep, I will have a hunt through the fish bins. I am pretty sure that somewhere there are stock footpegs. somewhere. I will start the bike this weekend too and maybe take it for a wee spin just to keep it running.

**willytheekid** · 13th June 2014, 12:57

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

Yep, I will have a hunt through the fish bins. I am pretty sure that somewhere there are stock footpegs. somewhere. I will start the bike this weekend too and maybe take it for a wee spin just to keep it running**.

Thanks so much henry

...its been a nightmare finding a secondhand peg for the Infidel

**Gimmie a yell if your going out for a wee ride on Sunday, will join ya (sat is my wee girl Winters 2nd B-day...Im eating cake and spoiling her rotten lol)

-Willy

**vifferman** · 13th June 2014, 19:12

I tried to turn this into a VFR thread and not just a VFR400 thread by posting some of my boring VFR800 shit and photos, but it's a hopeless case.

Oh and no-one tried to help me out with my passed-on question from Muzza's friend in Orstrylya about VFR400 models and their tanks.

I give up.

I'll bugger off again then.

**Erelyes** · 13th June 2014, 20:00

Originally Posted by vifferman

I tried to turn this into a VFR thread and not just a VFR400 thread by posting some of my boring VFR800 shit and photos, but it's a hopeless case.

Oh and no-one tried to help me out with my passed-on question from Muzza's friend in Orstrylya about VFR400 models and their tanks.

I give up.

I'll bugger off again then.

Guess there's just not as much to fix on a VFR800 as there is on a VFR400 eh...

**sil3nt** · 13th June 2014, 20:32

Originally Posted by vifferman

Oh and no-one tried to help me out with my passed-on question from Muzza's friend in Orstrylya about VFR400 models and their tanks.

The rider was the problem not the bike...

**Icemaestro** · 13th June 2014, 21:32

/country. Nah there haven't been many 800 riders on here at least in the last few years I've been in this thread, and the 800s are a different kettle of fish, no cam driven gears....I don't understand what honda were thinking! They even had automatic valve clearance adjusting with the Bol dor, surely those two things plus or minus a gear or chain drive and you would have an amazing motorcycle with minimum service requirements...anyway, as you were!

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**Icemaestro** · 14th June 2014, 00:24

Originally Posted by vifferman

I tried to turn this into a VFR thread and not just a VFR400 thread by posting some of my boring VFR800 shit and photos, but it's a hopeless case.

Oh and no-one tried to help me out with my passed-on question from Muzza's friend in Orstrylya about VFR400 models and their tanks.

I give up.

I'll bugger off again then.

A couple of people did reply re your Ozzie friend hanging off the tank. We aren't a racing group however so I can't speak for everyone else but that is not my forte :-) and so can't comment.

Now cleverchaps vfr :-) ...bit of art there! I don't even know if it's a 400 but it looks awesome purely for the fact it is so different.

(And anything with a single sided swingarm is awesome.... Including my wife's an125 which has done 40000 km with oil, filters, pads and tyre changes.

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**badlieutenant** · 14th June 2014, 01:05

your 800 is to modern for me vifferman

Im still rocking the original, the one and only (except for the numerous variations) 86 rc29

altho looking at selling it. Ive had mine since 96 ? 95 ? something like that. It just sounds awesome. But the dr is soo sooo soooo much cheaper to run with range as well. And, surprisingly, the dr feels quicker to 120-130 (then the vfr just streaks away).
but with 800s in mind (vtec models i think ?) check this out (altho Im sure you have seen it before)

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**Swoop** · 16th June 2014, 19:46

Originally Posted by Icemaestro

... and the 800s are a different kettle of fish, no cam driven gears....I don't understand what honda were thinking!

A Honda mechanic I know, says that of all the VFR 800 valve clearances (25k) he has done, none needed playing with. Rather anti-climactic. Perhaps the chains are making a return *shudder*.

**Icemaestro** · 16th June 2014, 20:04

Originally Posted by Swoop

A Honda mechanic I know, says that of all the VFR 800 valve clearances (25k) he has done, none needed playing with. Rather anti-climactic. Perhaps the chains are making a return *shudder*.

you'll have to enlighten me - I am not an engineer and don't understand much of what goes on inside the engine - what to the valve clearances have to do with the cam vs gear driven cams arrangement? the Bol dor had adjustable valves :-D we could have those and gear driven cams and the world would be perfect!

**badlieutenant** · 16th June 2014, 23:39

Ive had a few looks inside my engine. Gear driven cams are pretty darn cool to look at but no way did I want to start pulling them apart :/
I thought the cam chains were a lot more reliable these days ? they would certainly be lighter than gears. Maybe the engineers were thinking along the lines of " keep it simple stupid" ?

(edit my vfr is a rc24

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**Swoop** · 17th June 2014, 13:41

Originally Posted by Icemaestro

what to the valve clearances have to do with the cam vs gear driven cams arrangement? the Bol dor had adjustable valves :-D we could have those and gear driven cams and the world would be perfect!

Nothing really. The valves do their thing, being spun around by the camshafts, etc. The reliability of the Honda engineering is the point.
I still prefer cams though! (just for the sounds!)

**Glowerss** · 17th June 2014, 20:08

Originally Posted by Icemaestro

/country. Nah there haven't been many 800 riders on here at least in the last few years I've been in this thread, and the 800s are a different kettle of fish, no cam driven gears....I don't understand what honda were thinking! They even had automatic valve clearance adjusting with the Bol dor, surely those two things plus or minus a gear or chain drive and you would have an amazing motorcycle with minimum service requirements...anyway, as you were!

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My VFR 800 has gear driven cams and none of that v-tec rubbish, more than one kind of VFR 800 you know!