The RC46 story

I have wanted a clear brake light on the VFR for a little while. When I decided to crack the original lens whilst placing her on the centre stand (NSR got in the way) I opted to spend a tenner more and bought the clear LED unit to replace it. Fitting is fairly straight forward. Just remove the tail unit, disconnecting the wires to the tail light and then unscrew the two bottom screws and inside pair pictured on the right. The LED brake light unit  I opted for uses connectors that replicate the bulbs you would have normally fitted . The bulb holders you already own however wont fir and you have to use the cut down versions that come supplied with the brake light unit.  Once connected it is the reverse process to fit the new brake light unit and pop everything back together. The indicators have resistors prebuilt in so there is no effect to the indicator flash speed. The new unit looks a lot nicer and when the front indicators get changed it should help s...

Image credit  gabitzu79 We get used to our bikes letting us know they have a problem when they vomit their guts up over the back tire so when the dash board starts blinking at you, you are faced with a mix of annoyance at a new problem but relief that you aren't pushing a dead bike back home just yet. The PGM FI unit lets you know it is having bother by leaving the FI light on when the ignition is switched on. To find out the problem you just flick the side stand out and it will blink a code at you in a series of dashes and dots (long and short blinks). The dots are worth 1 and the longer dashes are worth more (I don't have my Haynes manual to hand to give you values, I had a look online and there is allot of bad advice on there from VTEC owners who have a different setup). With this information at hand you can refer to your trusty Haynes manual and pointing you in the general direction of the fault. I initially misread this error code as an injector not working pr...