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Looking at picking up a set of aftermarket exhaust cans for my bike. Currently still has the stock ones still on. Doesn't seem like a ton of companies make pipes for these bikes anymore and some of them are crazy expensive. Ive been looking at a few cheaper ones but am not sure what to get. The bran...

Did not damage the chain. It always turned smoothly. No idea whats going on. Rolling it over it seems the slackest when the cams are pointing away from each other and angled downward. No idea why. work on cars everyday and have had 5 bikes before this one. Never had so much trouble with something ea...

alright well all is installed and i have rolled the engine over a bunch and the timing seems good. Honestly these manual chain tensioners are a pain in the ass. Im literally considering doing the stopper mod to my almost new automatic tensioners and putting them back in. When I set the chain slack a...

Thanks for the replies. Its only off a few mm, i assume one tooth on the sprocket would be more then 3mm. Ive noticed with the auto tensioner i just took out that when I rotated the engine the chain tension was pretty constant. With the manual one in, it seems to go slack and tight and slack and tig...

Hey guys. Just have a question or 2 about engine timing. Have the bike apart and am installing manual cam chain tensioners. Rear one is done, went fine. Lined up the flywheel marks with the inspection cover mark. (tdc on compression) Checked the marks on the cam sprockets and they each are perfectly...

Hello all. Long time reader, just signed up! My name is mike. From eastern Canada. New to the VTR scene, not so much new to bikes. Have had a number of motorcycles before this, all sport bikes. Picked up a 2001 VTR1000 last year and have been spending this summer putting some kms on the old girl. I ...

Hello all. First post here. Have been pouring over the site for quite some time but have a question I cannot seem to find the answer to! I have used the search function but nothing quite like im dealing with comes up. Relatively new to the VTR, not new to bikes. Im also a licensed mechanic so I gene...