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97 Honda VFR Seat Removal Question
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I am trying to replace the battery on my 97 VFR and unfortunately I
have no clue as to how to remove the seat.Can anyone please tell me
how to go about doing this?
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There's a lock on the RHS (as you sit on the bike), near the pillion
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Any minute now someone is going to suggest an angle-grinder... Do not
be offended...
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Tchah! Such old hat.
C4, shaped charge. It's the modern way.
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And what liner would sir use with that?
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I would take advice on the matter. What would you recommend?
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I'd go with Ginge's advice - can't beat that.
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Copper. V section is good. All the best warheads use it.
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Depends what you're using it for - C4 isn't that great a driving explosive
either, so copper not the best option. Actually if you want state of the
art, high precision shaped charges, don't look at the defence industry, the
oil industry is where it's at.
As an aside, gold is one of the best liner materials due to its rather
spiffing material properties.
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Sorry for the delayed reply.
Look, we're talking WUN(1) here therefore "state of the art" and "precision"
have no relevance.
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True, I was assuming a level of finesse that was unwarranted.
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This is, as you well know, a group where the angle grinder is king and noise
is everything. How many posts have *you* read that say, "Where can I get
some stealth mode cans for my XYZ1000 XYR1".
Doesn't happen.
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It does. I took off the Scorpion race can that my Bandit came with and
fitted a standard silencer because the Scorpion was just too loud.
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ISWYM but that was just you going into pipe and slipper mode. Wuss. ... I
said...
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It must have happened a while ago then, because I have never really been
a fan of race cans. I have one on my Triumph because the sound it makes
is glorious, not that shrill 4 cylinder scream and I had a pair of
Scorpions on my Firestrom that sounded beautiful, but I'm no big fan of
them really.
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Loud'n'dirty is what's wanted(2) Big bangs, wreckage, bits in orbit, plenty
of collateral damage, singed beards etc
It must be said that using a gold lined charge to open, say, a safe, would
have a certain JNSQ. :)
(1)And most of UKRM
(2) Fnarr
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Personally, I'd avoid the ocean-going sort.
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Overkill.
A thunderflash would be more than sufficient for removing a seat,
judging by what it can do to a post box:
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The army do a safety demo for thunderflashes. It varies, but the one I
saw involved placing a two foot square of wriggly tin on a lit
thunderflash.
There was a bang and the square of steel was suddenly at least 50ft in
the air. Of course it dropped sort of like a falling leaf, mostly edge
on and not very predictably; there was rapid movement in the general
direction of Away by the blokes who suddenly found themselves in the
vicinity of Ground Zero.
There are other demos they do. I've not seen the coke can one, but as
a demonstration of how dangerous a blank round is, our Sergeant placed
a thick cardboard tube over the end of an SLR's barrel. He let off the
safety, squeezed the trigger, and suddenly the air was filled with
flakes of cardboard.
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footpeg hanger.
Unlock the lock, then pull the lever behind it down and the seat will
pop off.
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Which is the right answer... so long as the seat hump isn't fitted.
If so, you need to undo the two retaining allen bolts for that, remove
it and then proceed as above.
FWIW, I found the above a PITA, not least because it means if you ever
want to store anything under the seat and expect to be able to get to
it whilst out and about, you need to have an allen key about your
person... which is fine...except you can't access the bikes toolkit
until you've got the seat off...
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