About to trade my Roadstar for a Royal Star

[gabrielb]

HI Everyone, I'm new here- I'm a little bored with my Roadstar and found someone with with a Royalstar that wants to trade me. He came by my work, we rode each other bikes around the parking lot, so far so good. Tomorrow we are gonna take a longer ride at lunch and if things are as they seem, we will trade strait across. Both bike have around 50k miles. Is there some crazy maintenance I'll have to do with the Royalstar? ANything I need to look for?

 

Both bikes have apes, and are quite customized. Mine has stretched harley bags, tricky air custom fenders, exhaust and his has custom wheels, fenders and stereo. I think I just want things a little simpler, just get on and go. I almost created too much of a custom bike. I always have scraping in the back of my mind with the bags and air, and it's loud as heck. And if my girl is on the back- oh geez- even more to worry about.

 

Anyways, that why I'm here- doing my due diligence on this trade.

 

Thanks for your time.

 

Royalstar

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb34/retroactivefunk/b23cf8b8.jpg

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb34/retroactivefunk/06d6f78d.jpg

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb34/retroactivefunk/c804fbfb.jpg

Roadstar

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb34/retroactivefunk/Bagger%20Project/7a30454a.jpg

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb34/retroactivefunk/Bagger%20Project/7b85a0d0.jpg

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb34/retroactivefunk/Bagger%20Project/f3ce208e.jpg

Edited May 26, 2011 by gabrielb

[pegscraper]

There's not much to them. Just change the oil once a while and ride. They're largely the same bike, just one has an air cooled V twin with a belt drive and one has a water cooled V4 with a shaft drive. Keep in mind the V4 will want to run higher revs than what you're used to with a V twin. What year is it?

[Scooter Bob]

YA, that Roadstar looks like it'd drag those bags real easy.

 

The Royalstar has 4 carbs that need a sync procedure every 5-10k miles, but it's a ten minute job. That v4 is barely broken in at 50k miles, they're pretty bulletproof.

 

I'm not sure what kind of final drive the Roadstar has, if it's a belt, you'll have one less worry in the Royalstar shaft drive.

 

EDIT: Lynn beat me in the typing game. Ya, the shaft drive is less worry than the belt, but I bet you weren't running that Roadstar down too many grave roads anyways.

 

And he's right, they definately like to run higher RPMs than you're used to on the twin.

 

Good luck, Scooter Bob

Edited May 26, 2011 by Scooter Bob
slow typing

[gabrielb]

I wanna say the royal is a 04 and my r* is a 99

[Scooter Bob]

I wanna say the royal is a 04 and my r* is a 99

 

I don't think so...Here's a quote from the "Venture History" tab found at the top title bar on this site, unless someone did a major strip down of a Venture.

 

1996-2001

Yamaha Royal Starhttp://www.venturerider.org/images/royalstar.jpg

Combining the big V-four pulled from their venerable Venture Royale tourer with a hint of "nostalgic" styling, the Royal Star line has held its own in the struggle for cruiser supremacy. For 1997 Yamaha added the new Royal Star Tour Deluxe to their line and threatens to send contenders scattering with the Royal Star's strong 1-2-3 combination. The Royal Star Boulevard came with medium height windshield and running lights. The Tour Classic I came with 4x4 exhaust, long windshield, passenger floorboards, sissy bar and short Yamaha hard leather bags. The Tour Classic II came with 4x2 exhaust, tall windshield, passenger floorboards, sissy bar and large slant soft leather bags. Both Tour Classics had the running lights. The Tour Deluxe came with 4x2 exhaust, tall windshield, passenger floorboards, running lights, sissy bar and removable hard plastic saddle bags that had front and back latches.

 

Later, Scooter Bob

[gabrielb]

ok- my bad- it's a 97

[Galapagos]

Nice looking bike. My favorite colors, black and chrome.

 

MoS

[Godlover]

Nice looking bike. My favorite colors, black and chrome.

 

MoS

 

The fastest colors!

[muaymendez1]

How do you urn that thing. I have trouble scraping the shell out of mine.

That would not be fun to ride around in.

IMO.

Definetly trade and go for it.

[gabrielb]

The roadstar has tricky air ride on it. You can barely roll it around when it parked like that. lol

[pegscraper]

The carbs don't need synced that often either. I've done mine maybe twice in 50,000 miles, and only that much because I played with them a lot.