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toreckman
41 posts recovered 3 threads started First seen 5 Feb 2023 Last seen 11 Jan 2025
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All 41- Best Bracket for SH847 mello dude, 1/6/2025 at 11:03 PM There's a thread somewhere here that shows the Roadster mount on a 5th gen, it needed some hacksaw work, but looked clean when done. Mbe a member can find it, post the link. maybe here -…
- New 6th gen VFR owner here Welcome to the forum. Your new 6th gen is doing well on those high miles, good find.
- Hello all! Welcome to the forum. 968 miles in 1 day 😲. How many hours? Lovely bike. Did it need much for the MOT?
- New VFR Owner Here! Welcome to the forum. Lovely 1200F you got there.
- Hello! - 1999 5th Gen Welcome to the forum. Thats a well organised garage you have there 🤩, lovely vfr too, looks tidy. 1999 mode alsol, so no cat or auto choke, better headers, bonus 👍 You will be happy with the SH847 too, it can handle…
- Starting Issues..800i V5 very tidy, what year is it?
- Hello all 1 hour ago, subzerospeed I lucked out. YSS rear shock. I got one last year myself. How do you find it?
- Hello all Beautiful 5th gen you have there. Looks like its in great condition. Welcome to the forum.
- It must be a sign!! 2 hours ago, Philois1984 Went to the hotel last night on the way to dinner, looked through the window and the RC30 was gone, I didn’t go in but I will check again before we leave Hakuba. Maybe someone took it for a spin…
- Bought a "reliable" bike, to get to more riding. Sorry to hear you got the dreaded electrical issues. Hopefully you get to put some miles on it after your fixes. Did you get a good deal on the vfr?
- Hello from Scotland Welcome to the forum. Wow... you have owned a lot of vfrs,.. Nice. What has been your favourite gen so far?
- Newbee from Vancouver Island BC Looks great
- New. Not New Welcome to the forum
- Newbee from Vancouver Island BC Welcome. Thats some collection you have 😍
- Gen 5 Fairings/blinker needed after Crash. Sorry to hear about the crash. I dropped my 5th gen yesterday myself, also parked on an incline. 😡 Did my back in trying to lift it, lol. As others have mentioned, try ebay. I have used wemoto for parts too, they are…
- 2001 VFR 5th Generation Buying Advice Did you pick up the bike in the end?
- Service from authorized dealers on older bikes 45 minutes ago, Bren Ring around and find an independent shop. Good advice, sounds odd what that dealership told you.
- Regulator / Rectifier Upgrade (SH847) Interesting. how come some bikes fair better than others? Is it variation in the oem stators/RR's installed? Or climates etc.? I have seen some fried with less than 20k miles.
- Regulator / Rectifier Upgrade (SH847) 35 minutes ago, raYzerman I would not use spades or even consider a connector for the stator wires. Crimp splice connector OK, but solder it as well and heat shrink over it. I would also take R/R wires direct to battery…
- Regulator / Rectifier Upgrade (SH847) Thats lots of bedtime reading. 😄 At a quick glance through some of the temperature tests, there seems to be a nice drop with the sh847.
- Regulator / Rectifier Upgrade (SH847) 1 hour ago, DannoXYZ Other than being new, it is not an improvement over Honda's selection of bare-brass uncoated connectors. 🤣 Really good info, thanks. That's a good job on those connectors. Can a "less perfect"…
- Regulator / Rectifier Upgrade (SH847) 1 minute ago, JZH According to the professional motorsports wiring guys, the problem with solder connections is that solder embrittles the wire where the solder meets the rest of the un-soldered wire, creating more of a…
- Regulator / Rectifier Upgrade (SH847) 37 minutes ago, DannoXYZ Thanks for write-up! Did you happen to measure temp of old RR? Try touching this RR after a ride. 🙂 Hopefully it doesn't get as hot as the old one.
- Regulator / Rectifier Upgrade (SH847) 19 minutes ago, mello dude @toreckman -- Suggest adding a digital voltmeter up front to watch the behavior of the SH847. A couple members reported some odd voltages at idle and wouldnt recover with revs. Also, keep an…
- Regulator / Rectifier Upgrade (SH847) The Problem: The 5th gen VFR’s are known for having questionable Regulator Rectifiers (RR) that can suffer from overheating (other gen VFR's also suffer from the same issue). One preventative step that can be taken is…
- Motorcycle wont idle when warm Grum, 2/5/2023 at 2:11 AM Your fan coming on at around 80degC sounds too low! Fan thermoswitch should switch on from 98-102degC. Is your coolant level ok? Good spot. I just checked the overflow tank.... bone dry. I will…
- Brake Pedal Height? wawasonqo, 3/15/2023 at 4:31 AM I delinked the brakes with a kit from the UK with Braided Lines and at the time after doing that it appeared there was never much strength to the braking on the rear disc. I would have…
- Fuel Pump Removal Struggle Bus Tirso, 2/24/2023 at 5:16 PM Borrowing a pic from Seb's recent Ultimate post, on the attached picture on the lower right you'll see the rubber bladder holding the metal mesh. I used nylon pry tools to move the…
- Greetings from Ireland 59 minutes ago, fabio222 Easy enough to take the fairings off and apply some fibreglass behind to help strengthen where the cracks are. Just noticed, my avatar is me on that trackday, a few laps before I pushed it too…
- Greetings from Ireland 4 hours ago, fabio222 They weren't too badly damaged and I picked up about bits that came off. Had it redone by C&C choppers in Cork (who actually are really good at plastic work, they made it look new). Glad it wasn't…
- Greetings from Ireland Just now, fabio222 Did Mondello once one on my 97 VFR 750 and it was great craic! Really helped to improve my riding as well, helped me to explore the limits of the bike in a safe place (and I found them, unfortunately,…
- Motorcycle wont idle when warm Final stage completed today I took my time slowly rotating the tank to make sure it got completely coated. That took over an hour. I will leave it for a week to cure. The new gaskets came during the week too.
- Greetings from Ireland I'm out near enough to Athy myself. Whats Austria like?
- Greetings from Ireland 6 hours ago, fabio222 Cool colour! Being in Kildare, you should definitely take it on a trackday at Mondello! I'm in Cork, if you're ever down this way make sure to say hello. Yeh I've passed Mondello a fair few times…
- Motorcycle wont idle when warm 43 minutes ago, bmart Looks nice! I wish that someone would volunteer to do mine. It has been icky since I bought the bike. I hear you, it is a lot of work. I'll be glad to be finished.
- Greetings from Ireland 10 hours ago, Lorne We're glad to have you, and look forward to hearing of your adventures with the VFR. Thank you Lorne, much appreciated.
- Greetings from Ireland 12 hours ago, Bren Hi from Austria! Nice 5th Gen, the blue is also real cool. I don't like the green myself, as you say it's really dark. 10 hours ago, Dutchy Welcome to VFRD! Thanks all
- Greetings from Ireland 3 hours ago, bmart We get any color we want in 5th gen, so long as it is red. One year offered some yellow model. I have one of each, but much prefer the blue and the green.. I just Googled the green colour, its pretty…
- Greetings from Ireland 3 hours ago, interceptor69 Welcome to the forum-beautiful color btw. Don't think we got that color in the states. Thanks interceptor
- Greetings from Ireland 14 hours ago, bmart The best color. You suck! 🙂 Congrats! I'm envious. 😂 Do you not get that color in your location? Personally I would have preferred red, but it will do. I see you get yellow in the US, I used to own…
- Greetings from Ireland Hi all, nice to meet you. I got my first VFR (01 5th Gen, 31k miles, fully stock) in November '22. This is my first bike in about 15 years, previously I drove an F3 CBR. I'm looking forward to getting more miles in when…
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