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+--- Thread: Mikey's '97 VFR (/showthread.php?tid=4328)
- .paul - 03-05-2007
want an ape ?
- Apoc - 03-05-2007
.paul Wrote:want an ape ?
Yeah... they only have a 50% failure rate... that'd pretty good for an Italian bike.
- Kaan - 03-05-2007
I claim the hatch... i have a sickness with white honda piles!
- .paul - 03-05-2007
hey mine was not a POS like Brian's
- Apoc - 03-05-2007
.paul Wrote:hey mine was not a POS like Brian's
1/2 = 50%
- .paul - 03-05-2007
1/4 = 25%
I know 2 other Ape riders that have no issues.
- .RJ - 03-05-2007
.paul Wrote:I know 2 other Ape riders that have no issues.
Did you read about them on the interweb? It must be true!
- .paul - 03-05-2007
Actually went riding with them. I do not read on the interweb anyways
- Mike - 03-05-2007
gtfo of my thread and stop posting ideas. i have my own ideas, and the bike is still pretty far (wallet-wise) from being worthy of sale.
- Apoc - 03-05-2007
If your company would promote you then you'd have the cash.
- Mike - 03-05-2007
:?: no shit?
- Feersty - 03-05-2007
Glad it started Mikey!
- .RJ - 03-05-2007
Feersty Wrote:Glad it started Mikey!
Mike Wrote::?: no shit?
- Mike - 03-14-2007
Feersty Wrote:Glad it started Mikey!
it never didn't start. i've been running it once a week ever since the accident...
i did 2 laps around glebe and my street yesterday... weeeeee!!
- Mike - 03-24-2007
new gauges on the way... now i just need: upper left/mid/right fairings, mirrors, windscreen, repair headlight...
then? SELL!
then? bj and i spent some time at coleman today... probably 636, but the gixxer felt nice too... r6 just felt stupid.
- damnit458 - 03-25-2007
Mike Wrote:not much interest in an sv... i'm thinking f3, f4i or r6.
I was thinking an f4i for my next bike but to be honest I feel like I could keep mine for another year or two at least and still not really need to upgrade. While I want a bike that looks better, accelerates faster, and turns in better, I feel that at this point I really wouldn't ride much better w/that than with what I have (AKA lack of skill).
I dunno, I'm sure this is kind of thread-jacking but I think you'd had your bike about the same time as mine so I was curious if you really felt you needed to upgrade? I realize all the stuff you've been through with the VFR but like I said, was just curious.
Edit: BTW all these threads make me jealous of you guys and actually having money to fix that which has been fucked up :wink: . My fzr still rides great but is scratched to hell from the two times I went down last year, but being the broke college student I am I can't do shit about it
- Mike - 03-25-2007
i love the vfr to death... i don't really look at it as an upgrade, but a change since the vfr is really heavy and parts are hard to come by... it's plenty quick...
- Mike - 04-02-2007
new gauges come in today. my old ones could have been repaired, but it would have involved a lot of plastic weld and soldering. i don't know if you can even solder the little paper things that the wires run on so for $200 i might as well get a new (used) one. i'll swap my odometer over and all will be peachy.
remaining: tires (if i keep it), windscreen, headlight (repair or replace), upper left/right cowls (super hard to find and 450/ea new), headlight surround, mirrors.
i may just end up going with the race plastic front from air-tech. it's only $217 as opposed to the $400 i'll end up paying for the plastics i still need...
![[Image: 3VFR1C%7E2.JPG]](http://www.airtech-streamlining.com/images/3VFR1C%7E2.JPG)
- .RJ - 04-02-2007
Airtech stuff is junk, stay away... epoxy together what you can and call it a day.
- Mike - 04-02-2007
nothing was able to be epoxied