thebussman

I should be able to make it.

I have a 95 looks I think they're pretty ugly when they're in great shape so I never bothered fixing mine up cosmetically. However I've rode quite a few bikes and I really have absolutely no desire to trade my VFR for anything else. love it! comparatively comfortable, great torquey powerband, super cheap insurance, gas gauge, and it fits people that are 6'3" tall pretty well.

Had a great time today. Nice to see some familiar faces. Hopefully I'll be able to make it out more this year than last, today was a good start. MiDe84: I've been on plenty of rides with people that were riding slower than you were and it's never a problem, and thanks for the pics! I'm sure I'll see many of you again later in the season.

I'll be there, going to be a bit slow though re-learning how to ride for the year.

Yea it was a hit and run, somebody ran a red light, there were lots of witnesses and they have a suspect now. we'll see what happens. It's a really rough time for him to go, I've known him since I was about 10 or so.

i don't know man it's not looking good on the tires, 2 weeks until they come in is the last I've heard. i'm liking this route: or we can take 260 down and 250 back, as long as it doesn't rain again.

I'm thinking not streetfighter, I'll prob buy new mid fairings and I think i can fix the uppers, we'll see. anyone got any tips on tires for this thing?

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Last Sunday radio flyer and I set off to VA to pick up a new bike: 95 Honda VFR. I was looking for something a little bigger and faster than the old 86. I found it on craigslist and decided to make the trip down because it was cheap. We set off at 7:30 am in a car; we just took interstates on the way down about 515 miles one way. The bike turned out to be a little rougher than I was thinking but its mechanically sound so I decided to buy it, managed to get it for $1200. there were only one concern for the trip home and this was the tires witch the previous owner said were "just fine" now at the time the cords weren't showing yet so I felt alright to bring her on home. So here we are down in VA with a bike and a car that can handle; 88' Toyota mr2 with many suspension mods and a supercharger. We had to take a few good roads while we were down here. Highway 250 was the ticket, it lead directly back home and plenty of curves. About 70 miles from where we bought the bike we came up on 250, and then, it started to rain, great. We decided to take a break at conveniently located gas station and weighted about 40 min for the storm to pass. With myself on the bike and radio flyer in the mr2 we set off, (this was my first time riding in wet conditions.) All I can say is WOW what a road! Mind you this is my first experience outside Ohio on a bike. Plenty of 7 to 9% grades, constant elevation change and plenty of tight turns many on which were more than 90 degrees. Had a few scares on the rear slipping out on me a few times but managed to keep it together, I was taking it easy considering the circumstances. The mr2 had a much easier time, evenly the road dried out. Radio flyer and I switched about halfway through 250, other than a close call on a bad passing decision I maid we were fine. Altogether there was about 100 miles of great road. Then it was back on the highways back home which were still a little more interesting then what I'm used to back home. Guess what we ran into? More rain, I slowed the mr2 down to about 40, then when it was raining so hard that we were driving through standing water on top of a hill I decided we ought to pull over. We managed to find a random bar to take shelter at. We had to wait about another hour here to let the rain pass; radio flyer lay sound asleep on the bench under their porch. We switched again and then back on home, Google said this route would take about 20min longer than the interstates we took down but it ended up taking about 3 hours longer! No thanks to a few wrong turns I made. All in all a trip to remember, we're sure to be back. damn i guess you can't edit titles, there should be a "of" in there.

use #7 1/2 shot or #8 if you only have cylinder choke, that is one very open pattern you have there, much better than too tight though. my setup: 1970s 20 ga. Remington 1100, 28" barrel Skeet tube, using handmade secret recipe shells. best setup I've ever used: 12 ga. beneli super black eagle 26" barrel, skeet tube, with AA #9. I never got to liking the over/unders, besides who wants to clean two barrels? maybe if i quit being poor we can go out and shoot.

I've been shooting skeet senice i was 8, it's a lot of fun but it gets expensive fast. just try it out with what you have, 18 is a little short if you have interchangeable choke tubes run a improved cylinder and #9 shot to start with. The long barrels are more for trap. Using a pump is a little harder but they only throw dubbles on stations 1,2,6 and 7 on the other stations it's no difference. I'm more of a semi-auto guy myself.

had a great time it was nice meeting some of you, now it's time for brats and

I'll try and make it out, see you guys there maybe.

Yea i already spent some time on VFRwrold, it's a good site. the reason why it was only $300 was because it wasn't running so i did have to do a ill' work on her already mostly carb work, just did a valve adjustment too. let me know if you need any help with anything.

Thanks for the warm welcome! Aerik, I may be down for a ride or 2 I've got most of next week off of work. let me know if anythings going to be going on.

Now you just got to get it back together so we can head back out. we'll get that brake lever used, $60 is way too much for that thing. Care to inform the rest up the forum as to how long you had to wait on me today? and thanks for stopping old blue, it was nice meeting you, and to to the other guy that stopped I didn't catch your name.

Hi all, from the campus area. I'm fairly new to bikes, I bought a 86' VF500 interceptor. She's kinda beat up does everything I need. not bad for $300? I got my endorsement but so far I only got 800 miles under my belt. I'm about to go here: http://www.ohio-riders.net/showthread.php?t=59456&page=2 tomorrow if anyone else wants to join. pics:

route: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&msa=0&msid=100494268032853554290.00048785f60dcbb982a07&ll=40.237605,-82.396088&spn=0.804063,2.113495&z=10