Advice on tuning a VFR800

I've a VFR800 FiW (1998) with about 7k miles on the clock. It's got a
street legal Remus can (as fitted by RS performance to all of the 50th
anniversary VFR's in 1998) but otherwise bog standard.

Having a little difficulty in keeping up with my loony mates (Aprillia
MilleR, Suzy TL1000R with Maxton conversion & Kwacker 900)

I don't want to sell the bike as it's still a better long-haul tourer, but
do want a little more juice, especially .

What's the best route for an additional 10 to 20 BHP?

Anyone tried the Dynojet Commander?

What about exhausts? What's the good & bad?

Tony.

 

ITYF you _do_ want to sell up and replace it with a gixxer thou, which
is actually a better long-haul tourer, IME, and you'll certainly have
no excuse for not blitzing all your mates on it.

 

http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2003/08/11/quantum-bikers.pub.html

 

Aye - or pick slower opposition on more comparable machinery. Wales
would be a good place to start looking.

 

Pip wrote in

<chortle>

 

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

 

TonyH wrote in

Forget the bike. It's most likely the rider that needs modification.
Have a look for dwb's post on rider training and get yourself signed
up on Corden's course.

Google link to thread:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...corden+june&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

 

He may have done 14,000 going forward and then 7000 rolling backwards. He
may have only obtained it last week after a particularly long wait for
delivery. There's loads of possibilities.

 

I'm puzzled at how he's only managed to clock up 7k miles on a 6 year
old VFR. I did more than that last year.

 

That's an easy question to answer, he's not ridden it more than 7000
miles in 6 years.

C'mon man, ask something difficult.

 

Piece of piss in six years. Its only 3 point something miles a day.

 

Nonsense, the VFR doesn't have reverse, and there's no way he'd push it
that far.

 

Why not? He'd only be dropping his average speed a small fraction.

 

*snort*
class

 

Sell it and buy something else.

Seriously - the VFR is horrendously expensive to tweak. It can be done,
but you're talking HRC money.

Blocks integral with crankcases, so rebores mean a total engine strip,
four camshafts so new cams cost twice as much as for an in-line four,
etc etc.

See if anyone does a decent aftermarket chip, but otherwise forget it.

 

In the Alfa, or the Golf?

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#Yeah, that’s a big ten-four there Pigpen.
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a shop-boy.


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|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..65103../..15505.../..3157./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17
'^' RBR-Visited:19 Pts: 355 Miles:1521

 

Where are they getting away from you?
Is it on the straights or the corners?

 

heh