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  • Members: 874
  • Category: Honda
  • Founded: Nov 12, 2001
  • Language: English
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Welcome! Here members can pose questions, get answers, share photos, and chat about topics pertaining to the '83~'84 VT500FT Ascot and the '83~'86 VT500C Shadow.


You can also post listings of bikes and parts for sale or parts you need on this site. Please do NOT post commercial messages on this site.

Feel free to upload photos of your bike and any other topics of discussion.

For any/all enthusiasts of the FT500 Ascot, I've added a group to honor the first and original Ascot, FT500 Ascot

I've started a new group for anyone interested in Radio Controlled motorcycles, Royal R/C Motorcycle

The VT500 parts fiche is ONLINE! Click HERE to download your copy! Thanks to Will Courtier for hosting the file.

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Re: Bike Starts fine, but dies when I release the clutch.
Mine did the same on a short trip--very little power.  It turns out I was running out of gas.  Switch the petcock to reserve--it may be a petcock issue.
Posted - Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:20 am
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Re: Painting the frame
I've got a custom Painting background , love designing paint schemes. Lately what i saw that i liked was a multi color frame where the transitions from one
Posted - Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:49 am
 john s
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Re: Bike Starts fine, but dies when I release the clutch.
No. Look at the picture. There's a brass tube at the bottom of the float bowl. The plastic tube goes onto the brass tube. The screw controls the flow from the
Posted - Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:28 am
 Neil Slavin
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Re: Bike Starts fine, but dies when I release the clutch.
are you putting the tube over the float bowl drain screw? how do you unscrew it with the tube on it? thanx!
Posted - Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:08 am
 Jay Connor
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Re: Bike Starts fine, but dies when I release the clutch.
Neither. You set up the tube, routing it upward. Then unscrew the float bowl drain screw a couple of turns. Fuel will run into the tube, roughly indicating the
Posted - Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:40 am
 Neil Slavin
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2010 223 132
2009 166 94 141 168 304 294 282 303 350 129 170 105
2008 83 144 199 205 293 314 257 331 334 344 319 181
2007 232 170 186 398 502 513 708 327 227 150 125 141
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2002 86 46 38 103 107 84 96 153 174 98 126 157
2001 26 55

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