Out and about 2022

[Johnwebley]

  1st Cotswold Bike night at Toddington station ,near Tewksbury and Cheltenham,

  nice crowd,

  is it  me? 

 but is 16c colder than it used to be ??

[Johnny4428]

16degC! That’s summer up here. I could ride all day at that. Having said that yes it’s likely as we mature that the cold is felt a bit more.

[Johnwebley]

Out enjoying the warmer weather,

Mid Wales lumps and bumps,

Area around Kington and Builth Wells

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[taysidedragon]

Dundee Easter Egg run today. Surrounded by some big bikes!

[Nurse Julie]

Lovely pootle around today. Brekkie on the beach at Mablethorpe, a stop off for another coffee at Raithby and a lovely ride around and about.

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[mike the bike]

Went on a great rideout with the bike club.  14 of us in total and did 131 miles.  I needed that.

[smoothoperator]

Good to be out on the newly restored bike, 60 miles on the clock now, not venturing too far away just yet though. I have kept the revs below 5000 so far, 4000 up to 30 miles, the shells are original so really the only frictional things to bed in are the rebored pistons. Any tips on a running in regime would be welcomed. The only issue at the moment is a reluctance for the revs to fall back to a decent idle when warm. I need to check the cable routing before I dig deeper. I installed taper roller bearings in the steering yesterday which has greatly improved the feel of the front end, also the handlebars now line up with the direction the bike is travelling, which is a bonus. Never having ridden one of these before, the cornering is amazing, makes my Bonneville feel like a big fat pig.

[Nurse Julie]

The bike looks fantastic Steve.

[Johnwebley]

Good to be out on the newly restored bike, 60 miles on the clock now, not venturing too far away just yet though. I have kept the revs below 5000 so far, 4000 up to 30 miles, the shells are original so really the only frictional things to bed in are the rebored pistons. Any tips on a running in regime would be welcomed. The only issue at the moment is a reluctance for the revs to fall back to a decent idle when warm. I need to check the cable routing before I dig deeper. I installed taper roller bearings in the steering yesterday which has greatly improved the feel of the front end, also the handlebars now line up with the direction the bike is travelling, which is a bonus. Never having ridden one of these before, the cornering is amazing, makes my Bonneville feel like a big fat pig.

Looks good,

Don't load the engine,
Let it spin freely.

Accelerate fairly briskly,

And at times close the throttle and let the motor slow the bike.

The idea is to get pressure behind the rings, help them bed in and seal,

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[Johnwebley]

Out at Biker night

North bank of the Severn estuary,



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[mike the bike]

Where was that John?

[Johnwebley]

On the A48, east of Lydney,

Silver Fox cafe, Newham

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[Laverdaroo]

Went on a great rideout with the bike club.  14 of us in total and did 131 miles.  I needed that.

 loving that VF1000R, I nearly bought another one last year but chickened out as I had nowhere really good enough to keep it and didnt want to knacker it. I had such a thing for these, love em.

[Laverda Dave]

Went on a great rideout with the bike club.  14 of us in total and did 131 miles.  I needed that.

 loving that VF1000R, I nearly bought another one last year but chickened out as I had nowhere really good enough to keep it and didnt want to knacker it. I had such a thing for these, love em.

That is a lovely looking VF1000R, Honda had learnt a very hard lesson with the original VF750 and knew they had to make future VFR's cam gear drive to salvage their very damaged reputation. Every time I think of selling my 23 year old VFR800 I get a twinge of guilt, I couldn't live without a VFR and the soundtrack of those cam gears with the unique exhaust note

[Laverdaroo]

I’ve had the same vtec since 2002, is never sell it but had heaps of the cam driven ones and nc30’s.

My pal had such a trick thouR I was always lusting after it it was so lovely.




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