Flyinfool

I don't know if I can get into chat that early, But I will get there.

Inspect the mating surfaces with a magnifying glass especially the o-ring surfaces, both halves. It does not take much of a nick or burr or piece of dirt to cause a leak.

I guess the point of no return is different for all of us. So far I have yet to drop the bike with me around to see it. There was one time mine went over to the left while parked in the back yard, The first I knew was when my honey came home and asked why I had the bike laying on its side in the back yard. The side stand had sunk into the ground and over she went. That one was hard to pick up because the side stand was now in the way so I had to lit the bike up and over the side stand to get it back up. So then I got smart, or so I thought, this spring when I brought the bike out of storage and had it parked on the still very soft ground I had one of my nice polished stainless steel plates under the side stand. Well did I mention the ground was still soft, It was soft enough that the wheels sunk into the ground until the bike fell over on the right side. Much easier to pick up when on the right side, and no side stand in the way. In case you don't know, when a 1st gen goes over, it goes all the way over till the corners of the fairing are on the ground. Not like a 2nd gen that just goes to the crash bars so you only have to pick it half way back up. Those guards on the 1st gen are just to protect the engine, not to catch the bike.

@BigLenny 1, 2, 15 and 17 agree with what I posted back in post 31 of this thread and I still agree. #4 you just had to throw in that "in their right mind" part, these are the same minds that 3 years ago were still putting in a cassette deck on new bikes..... #8 , in the mosaic the outer lights look smaller than the center 2, could be 2 headlights and 2 driving/fog lights. 4 Headlights would be awesome, 2 high beam and 2 low beam and they all are on with high beam, be the same as a cars lighting. You can not have to much light in deer country at night. With that possible 4 headlight system and heated grips seats and backrest, I am hoping for a really beefy charging system that can power all that and still have room to handle a lot of add on toys, like extra lighting heated gear etc.

I found it. Page 284 of the PDF from above, or page 5-29 of the manual. 8Nm or 5.8 Lb/Ft. for the two mounting screws for the anti dive to the fork leg.

Not sure if your MK1 is the same spec as a MK2. The service manual for a MK2 calls for 7Nm or 5.1 Lb/Ft. You can download a MK1 service manual here. http://labs.trunkful.com/vrmanuals/8385servicemanual.pdf

When trouble shooting problems like this it is helpful to get a resettable circuit breaker to replace the fuse. this way you can just push a button to get the power back on to continue the process and not create a mountain of blown fuses. Once you have it fixed, take out the circuit breaker and put the proper fuse back in, fuses ae more reliable than circuit breakers. Just resist the temptation to hold the button on the breaker or to put in a bigger fuse to see where the smoke is coming from. I have seen first hand where flames were the first indication of the location of the problem.

After looking at some pics of how this works, I do not think it would be to hard to modify the existing 1st gen centerstand to be a ride off. It is just a matter of shortening the legs so that both wheels of the bike stay on the ground while on the center stand. BUT!!! There always seems to be a BUT. Because both wheels are always on the ground, it will now be more difficult to fix a tire on the road. It will be harder to check air pressure in the tires and inspect the thread all the way around, If the surface is not smooth flat and level there is more of a chance of the bike not being as stable while parked on the center stand. This could be alleviated by keeping a piece of something (maybe a 2x4?) with the bike to allow the normal height of the center stand when needed. This does sound interesting none the less. I will need to do some measuring to see just how much shorter the center stand needs to be to keep both wheels on the ground. Off hand I am guessing it only needs to be 1/4 to 1/2 inch shorter. I have a torch a sledge hammer and a welder, I can fix anything............

This sounds interesting, I never heard of it, Now I have to do some research to see if I can find any pics and/or video of it. With the right size of firecracker in your back pocket and an electric igniter, you can push a button and get your ass off the ground.

Can you run the gas down in the tank far enough to pull the sender and go fishing for the parts with one of those parts grabber claw type thingies. A note to everyone else, IF you haven't already, loctite those screws in the bottom of the filler cap.

I noticed that too. But in the pics there is still a clutch lever on the left handlebar.

Still check, it don't cost nuttin, and new stators have been known to go bad.

Start by cleaning all the battery terminals, at both ends of each wire. Check the voltage across the battery with the engine running at above 2000 RPM.

I thought I had a small pile of the tools left, I think I put them all in the same place that Dan did..........

The numbers all look good to me............. So do the pictures............... My cholesterol is borderline dangerously low so I have to eat all the good stuff to survive............. I decided to loos a bit of weight so I have cut back to around 4,000 cal per day.

Fats and oils must be good for you. Just like a finely tuned race engine needs oil to survive. My grandma is now 103 years old and all her life she cooked and baked using lard, the real stuff made from real animal fat. I would seriously like to do some experimenting on a big pile of poutine. Wisconsin Russet taters and well we are the cheese capitol of the world. I do not see anything bad with poutine, it looks like part of a healthy balanced diet to me......... As far as death by sex, I would like to do some experimenting there too.

You know Mr Pucster, It has been kind of cool lately, perfect weather for development work on your 60° surprise.......... Do you need to get blasted in 60° stuff so that you can stay home and make sure things are taken care of? Glad that the docs made you smile. Now get out and or is it ?

That sure does sound like he is talking about one of out beloved members. There is only one person/couple on the planet that could meet that description. @cowpuc

What I believe and what I want are two different things. I believe it will be a V twin. I want, wish and hope it will be the V4 from the V-Max. And I would not rule out it being ANOTHER hoax.

I am curious as to how people wear out a gas can? I am still using the same 5 gal one that I bought 40 years ago. I use it for everything that I have that uses gas. It still works just like new. The only thing I can think of is from sliding it across the concrete and grinding through the bottom. But then if I need to move mine I never slid it across the floor, I pick it up and move it.

Looks like a bigger pic of the front end. From that pic it looks like it really will have a 4 headlight system. I wonder if that will be 4 headlights or 2 headlights and 2 driving lights? Hopefully LED or HID.

My entire life I have lived very close to a plant that makes bacon, I can smell bacon all the time, morning day and night, I still have not tired of the smell of bacon cooking. You should really come visit me sometime.......................

Yes all of the switches on the handlebars can be disassembled to clean the contacts, It is not difficult to do. As mentioned there are some small springs and parts that are good at hiding if you let them escape.

I had a similar issue with ATT. All of my personal emails to any of the dozen or so variants of ATT were being blocked as spam. What it amounted to was someone had inadvertently clicked the spam button to delete one of my emails instead of the delete button and that put me on their spam list. It could be the same thing here where someone did not know how to change their preferences to stop getting notifications from VR so they just clicked the spam button and presto VR was now spam on that system. It was a pain to get that cleared up.