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[pegscraper]

Question: Did the Royal Star based Tour Deluxe have hard bags? If so, did they latch differently than the Venture based Tour Deluxe? I believe I've received a pic of an early (First Gen, so to speak.) TD. It has hard bags that latch more like the MK2 First Gen Venture. I also note that it has Tourdeluxe on the front fender - one word.

 

If you're referring to any pictures you may have gotten from Hank, don't look for anything to be original or authentic on his bike. It is highly modified, although you have to look close to tell most of it. He does have (technically) incorrect newer TD hard bags on his bike. The first hard bags, and the ones he used to have, had a latch in the front and rear and the lids were completely removable. Edit: Actually, it looks like the picture of his that you put up is an early one from him. That is before most or maybe all of his bigger modifications. The hard bags in that picture are correct for the bike. Notice the front and rear latches.

 

There was a discussion on the Royal Star board not long ago about all the different models that were available and what the distinctions between them all were. It turned out that the distinctions between them all were pretty blurred. The most concrete differences were two vs. four mufflers, and soft vs. semi hard vs. hard bags.

Edited November 13, 2008 by pegscraper

[Squeeze]

Bummer, there's something wrong in the VMAX Section.

 

YCC-T doesn't provide a second Set of Butterfly Valves in the Throttle Bodies.

 

http://www.starvmax.com/News/V-Max-News/Inside-the-2009-VMax-Literally.html

 

The YCC-T System is the Fly-by-Wire System. The Throttle Cables are connected to a Throttle Position Sensor and the G.E.N.I.C.H. called Computer operates the Butterfly Valves, the EXUP Valve in the Exhaust and the other Components involved, such as Igniter Unit, YCC-I Lifter Unit. The YCC-T computes all the Input of the Sensors and calculates a fast as in a Millisecond the best Throttle Postion and Ignition Advance, EXUP Valve and Injection Time.

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Squeeze,

 

I corrected it to a variation of what you wrote. Now I have to find the videos I got the other info off of. There were definately two butterflies in each throttle body/air run that staged differently. I'm guessing, from some more reading, that they may be there, just not actually part of the YCC-T proper.

 

Now I really wish I'd bookmarked those videos.

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Lynn,

 

The front and rear latches is why I asked about that. He also sent me a pic of his Phoenix bike, with the new style bags. Pretty, but obviously not very stock.