Ray, good info and a good plan. I'll start like that. The spring rate sounds okay, I'm only slightly heavier. I'm very dense, after all. When I...
2021 brought an interesting situation: owning two VFRs at once (three if you count the '86 500 project I also had for bit), the 5th gen that came...
6th gen pipe handlebar conversion plate. You just add bars and do some control cable/pipe relocating, which wasn't hard on this bike. There's a...
I can recall forty, fifty years ago wondering about aging and getting to the end of days, when riding would be too physically difficult to...
I like the electrical work of tinkering with motorcycles. While I was a carpenter all my life, I did work as an electrician as well. Always...
I need to raise the handlebars on just about any bike I have sportier than a V-Strom due to an old neck injury from decades ago (pro tip: don't...
While the red on the plate would be a problem, you might be able to improvise a bit with an aftermarket plate light and taping or somehow covering...
To the 5th gen, I could not agree more. I have an '00 and it's downright nasty there when you widen the throttle coming out of any slow- or...
I've had my 6th gen '03 for all of about two weeks now. Given the arctic cold snap we've endured since I got it home, I've only ridden it 20...
SOLD, thanks. My '03 came with this set of brand-new clear-lens front turn signal assemblies. The seller had felt the need to get rid of the...
Sold.
SOLD The '03 I just purchased came with this Delkevic cat-back setup, which I am not going to use. It is lightly used. I could not find out...
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There's something wrong with our Kendon trailer, I'm convinced. Every time I hook it up to our old van, something like this happens: some alien...
It hit 50 degrees F. today in the NE Illinois area, so out we went, Darling Wife and I, between family things. Always special to get in a...
I am fooling around with a windshield project on my '00 and would like to have a spare stock windscreen to modify. It doesn't need to be...
On the FJR Owners forum, there's an enormous, years-long thread called "Thinking of going lighter", about older FJR riders downsizing as age...
I think most would agree the VFR's best property is that is able to span a wide range of needs and uses. For me, it was purchased to fill a spot...
We have a Condor front wheel chock that I use in three modes: bolted to a trailer, free on the garage floor for a drive-in grab, and bolted to the...
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