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Odd jobs

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If it didn't fit in anywhere in any previous blog entry, I actually bothered my ass to do it and it was done during the months before the 2018 season: it is here. During the winter of 2017-2018 I had decided to give myself the job of building up the now TZ framed PC250 classed RD250 and superstock VFR750. There was no danger of being bored or having money to spend on anything else here. I have many plans for the VFR but many will have to wait for later in the season as funds trickle in. In the mean time, everything that was deemed necessary, or the parts came up cheap, got done. Going keyless Keys are a pain as you can leave them in the bar or they can fall out of the bike on track which sucks, even if the stories that come out of such things are rather funny. This will require an ignition switch mod and fuel tank cap swap. Fuel Cap First to get the chop was the fuel cap.  The stock fuel cap it retained by a triangle of three bolts that are accompanied by four mo

Put your feet up

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The Stock VFR footpegs are low and need to go. It's time for some rearsets. This is no simple task as nobody makes any for the RC24 VFR750. There is a very good reason for this: they are asymmetrical. For reasons only known to Honda. After a false start where I made a very tidy little bracket for the left side only to notice that this would leave the right side with no ability to move further forward; I made a start on a bracket for the right side first. I had picked up a set of very cheap Taiwanese rearsets off of eBay which actually look pretty tidy and would save me completely making a set of rearsets which I didn't have time to do a very nice job of. These rearsets came with pegs, levers and even the rear brake bracket. All of the hinge points were ball bearing too, backed up with brass bushings where needed which should make for a nice action once everything is bolted up. I had a bit of a faf getting the rear brake master to line up with the rearset bracket but thi