Super Chicken

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Fifo
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Super Chicken

Post by Fifo »

Hello everyone!
This is my first post here. First, I want to introduce myself and my bike.
I'm from Bulgaria, 28 years, riding from 10 years.
This bike is a return to street riding for me, after i decided to stop ride on the streets. For two years i was riding only ATV, enduro and trial bikes.
It is my first vtwin sport bike. Before i have had multiple Zzr-s,ZX-9 and VFR. What i really like about this bike is that it is somewhat brutal on low and mid rpms, but not all that powerfull to make me want more and more speed. All the fun is in the mid range. It reminds me of big supermoto like Husky 610.
I bought the bike in fairly bad condition as absolutely every thing needed attention-forks leaking, all bearings were bad, RR was over charging the bettery(which was dead anyway), tachometer was fried, every bulb was dead also, timing was 180 deg out, carbs out of sync.....and so on. You name it, it was on my bike! Well that were enough reasons for me to buy it. I had all the winter to tinker with it.
Now after everything is perfect again i decided that it needs a fresh paint job. So here it is. Huge thank YOU for all the information that i found here!
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PS: I can't fix the youtube link, please help!
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baycat
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Re: Super Chicken

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well done son good effort and welcome to the forum
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VTRDark
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Interesting colour scheme and I love the wheels. :thumbup:
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Kev L
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Nice looking bike fella, well done. :thumbup:
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welcome to the forum :thumbup: .

and that looks really well i have to say, something different from normal :thumbup:
the older i get,the faster i was :lol:
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Hello an welcome
told you not to but oh no you knew better
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Swelcome , you have passed the entrance exam with flying colours....
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Shauned71
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Good job :thumbup: and welcome to the forums :mrgreen:
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Hello and welcome to the forum :thumbup: :wave:
SO WHEN DOES THIS OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER KICK IN
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Fifo
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Re: Super Chicken

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Thank you all for the warm welcome.
The next project on this bike is to fabricate some kind of hard bags. I do like the looks of Corbin's beetle bags bit i also need a top mount case with back support for my wife.
I would like all three bags to be same design, so some fabrication will be needed.
I have some carbon-kevlar fabric left over from a previous job, so i think i'll use it.
I'll keep you posted of the progress.
PS On most forums a post without picture is worth nothing so here it is.
My vfr....slightly modified.
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Welcome aboard Fifo :thumbup:

I have fixed your Youtube link.

Your bike sounds great in the video 8) I like the way you have put the music with it.

Well done in getting your bike back to good usable condition :clap:

Chris.
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Fifo
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From now on my bike is called Wall.E
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Fifo
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Re: Super Chicken

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I've just come back from a night ride. I have to say that this dual Bi-Xenon setup rocks.
Here is a day time view
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very nice.... whats the twin light setup out of?
the older i get,the faster i was :lol:
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Fifo
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AES 2.5 inch Bi-Xenon projectors..... i guess from China
I used 55W slim ballasts from China and 4300K bulbs ... again from China. God bless our brothers and sisters from China :lol:
Had to use relay as initial consumption of one ballast was 8.5 Amps witch then quickly dropped to 5 Amps and when fully warmed up to around 3.5-4 Amps
What I found out was that the original wiring system on the VTR is very bad and can really benefit from separate wiring with relay, as there is a significant voltage drop after the switch. And the halogen bulb will output close to 1/4 less light with as little as 1V drop.
PS
Little off topic
Do you see some of your friends moving to China for work?
I'm asking because some of my friends did move to China. All engineers in different fields of chemistry. Some in pharmaceutical others in textile fields. One is Brazilian and was working in Spain, one is Belgian and one Bulgarian.
Something is going on here...
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