Newbie with Anniversary bike

[realboss7669]

welcome along sir... as said get a few pics up. you will learn of course that storms are faster by colour . at least you bought the second fastest colour.

Ha ha! I presume from your avatar that the yellow ones are mysteriously the fastest of all, right?

Ah well, I'll just have to settle for second fastest then. I might try some yellow leathers, perhaps that might partially speed things up

Thanks again for the lovely welcome everyone

[realboss7669]

Welcome to the club fella. Wicky is talking about the regulator/rectifier on the bike. The early non finned ones pack up and fry the electrics. Couple of options are late model version or mosfet. Have a read through the workshop section.

Aha thanks to forum search look what I turned up:
http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... ry#p400005

Seems the R/R has been done already

[Wicky]

Small world!

Depends what the PO changed it to - some folk chuck on a cheapy chinese £15 R/R of ebay and think job done - at minimum ensure it's a later OEM upgraded finned R/R as fitted to '01 models and later. Better still a mosfet...