Hi all-
I belonged to VFRD for many years - some of you may remember me and my yellow 5th-gen. I live out in Newport, Oregon and we hosted one of the early Pac-West meets out here in 2006. The yellow VFR was sold several years back when I got into the GS thing, but recently a red 98 5th-gen has found it's way back into my garage, so it's "Hello again" to VFRD.
The bike is complete but has sat for quite awhile. I'll clean it up and ride it, but will likely be selling it come closer to summer. Keep that in mind if you're looking for a 5th-gen with everything present and functioning. I fired it up this afternoon and it seems in good running order. Now comes the teardown and thorough sorting through. It has 50K miles and has sat in the garage for years. It has some coastal corrosion, not too bad, but it's all there and working. The cool thing is I have known the guy for a long, long time and we used to ride our VFRs together locally years ago. He was at the 2006 meet here, so some of you met him, and that bike, when we all had the bikes hosted at the Rogue Brewery that night.
When I fired it up this afternoon there was a pretty foul smell that rose up, I wonder if I should have looked in the airbox first...
Questions for the crowd - are VFRnesses still available? It may have some grounding issues, no news there, and I'll sort that out. I think that's about all it really needs besides the usual VFR TLC. I'll also install a voltmeter while I'm at it. Other than that I'm going to leave it stock. There are almost no mods on this bike.
Anyway, I'm back, and it would be fun to know if any of you still hang out on here after all these years away. As always, moto-travelers always have a spare bed here on the Oregon Coast.
All the best-
Keithbob