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Pete Roger didn't actually recommend specific settings, but I'll gladly relay the advice he gave me, which has actually worked surprisingly well! Please excuse any technical errors in this report, as quite literally I don't know what I'm talking about. :wink: It seems that Honda owns the suspension ...

Yus folks, it's twiddling time. The weekend is here and I am going to have a crack at it again. :? I had a really long talk with Roger at lunchtime today, and what a nice bloke he seems to be. Unfortunately he confirmed my worse fears, and described trying to adjust the standard suspension on VTR's ...

Hi folks, thanks for the responses. I realise that I'm a bit of a pariah on this forum, but the fact that so many of you are happy with your machines does give hope that I will be able to glean some useful information from members about setting the bike up & achieve a similar level of satisfacti...

Hiya Al Thanks for the response, I'm very interested to read that you think the rear shock is over-sprung and under-damped. I have no technical expertise in these matters at all, but like you I'd concluded that the rear shock must be over-sprung, however I thought it must also be over-damped because...

I've seen it mentioned that Honda 'uprated' the forks on the later model VTR1000. Does anybody know exactly what this upgrade is please? I'm intrigued because the handbook gives the same standard settings across the entire model range, & I'd have expected to see some difference if there truly ha...

For those of you in Sunny Devon you could do a lot worse than visit Steve Whitear at Peak Performance in Exeter. He has a lot of satisfied customers now running road and track bikes with these sorts of suspension mods. Tel: 01392 255000 He doesn't know it yet but there is a certain yellow VTR headin...

I've only had my VTR for a few weeks, so I can't comment too much on the suitability of this bike in particular for you. However I can tell you that I've had some problems with the engine cutting out at low speeds, which appears to be quite a common experience among VTR owners. If I hadn't had years...

Hey, don't shoot the messenger. I didn't write the report, I just said I wished I'd read it before making my purchase! Anyway, I've got broad shoulders and I fully expected some strong replies, it was a bit of reverse psychology on my part to see what reaction I'd get, and in order to guage how accu...

Sorry everyone, but as some of you may know 12 days ago I bought a right lemon (appropriate really considering the colour of my new bike). :cry: Since my decision to buy a new VTR has been rapidly followed by a lot of technical research into why it's such an unreliable dog, I have come across so muc...

Hi folks This is both a tip and a question (just in case I've got it all wrong somehow). Dear old Honda manufacture chain adjusters with a somewhat crude number of indents stamped into the material for use as a guide when lining-up on each side of the swingarm to align the rear wheel after setting c...

Thanx M8

I don't have a computer at home, and this PC that I use is at my workplace, so your kind offer would not be of much use to me I'm afraid.

Cheers

Granty

Having spent all of my pennies buying the 'Storm ( and all future disposable looks as if it's going into Texaco's till to pay for my recently increased addiction to unleaded :roll: ), I'm looking to see if I can find an on-line version of a workshop manual for the later model VTR, and save myself th...

Thanks for all the advice, encouragement & support everyone. The replies above have put my mind at rest considerably. The dealer I bought the bike from is a reputable and established family firm with 3 large outlets in the South & West of England, and I've bought many machines from them over...

Thanks everyone. Unfortunately it just gets worse & worse! I went out to the bike in order to adjust the idle setting back to a reasonable level, and I've noticed that a hole has been cut into the plastic shroud covering the throttle linkage control just to the right of the idle adjuster. So wou...

Cheers Pete. The taking back & moaning bit resulted in my present dilemma, but I know what you mean. Unfortunately I live in the far west and there is no other Honda dealer for about a whole County, but what is interesting is your description of how to adjust the mixture and enrichen it. From wh...