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HI all, My wife and I are avid collectors of old bikes, and eat, drink and sleep motorcycles. We have wanted a Vmax for sometime, and two weeks ago we found an amazingly clean FZX700 (baby Vmax) and brought it home. Well that just amped up the I wanna Vmax discussions. So today I picked up an...

First of all you guy's are great,But not gonna worry anyone to death about these things.I have done most everything myself,Cars trucks bikes,Built my garage90% myself.Wiring everything .Had to start somewhere,Is there a book or something.Where i could kinda get a crash course on puters.Kinda...

The Sept. issue of Esquire has a fascinating article titled, "The New Hundred-Dollar Bill and the Making of American Money." This is an engrossing read, and it has plenty of tips on how to spot the fake notes, called supernotes, which are believed to originate in North Korea. Between plastic...

Fellow at work has been pestering me to "go on a ride" with him for a while. He rides a nice M109 (I admit that I like the looks of them). What's been bugging me has been his incessant yammering about how "powerful" and "fast" this elephant is. He's seen my bike, but didn't have a clue what a...

So I work with a guy who is pretty artistic. He does characitures for people who are leaving. Air brushes shirts hats etc. He also likes drawing comice book characters etc.Ive seen some pretty cool work of his. A couple years ago he had offered to paint my previous bike which was a POS and I...

I recently bought an FJ1200 - hey, at least it's a Yamaha... and I still have my V-Max. I was leaving work Friday and I waited for a medium sized flatbed truck truck to pass before pulling out on the road behind it. He was going pretty fast, and I started to accellerate pretty hard. Then, the...

...to leave well enough alone. I've had a new stator sitting around since last year, so, while the forks are off the bike getting new springs/seals, I decided to change it out... Bloody hell... What have I gotten myself into??? I have a copy of the Yamaha service manual and it is vauge if...