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more fun

hang on!!

and the plot thickens

hang in there,, getting interesting

Still with me brother?

lots of great memories..

continuing on...

I posted this deep in another thread but thought it might not be a bad idea to stick it here too just in case someone does a club house search looking for RLU answers and cant find it..

OUTSTANDING MY BROTHER OF THE ROAD!!!!!!!!!!:thumbsup::thumbsup::dancefool: Tip and I LOVE Gettysburg and, hopefully,,, someday in the future - plan to return to spend a BUNCH of time exploring the antique shops/Civil War museums in the area - like most other places, weeks instead of days are needed to really get to the bottom of things when dealing with something so deeply touching!! You find that too?? Speaking of time,,, if you ever get back out in the eastern states and are thinking of doing an east to west tour,,, give some thought to riding "50" from Ocean City to Sacramento!! As the sticker says - it's known as "The Loneliest Hiway In America" but it is actually an AWESOME ride on a bike!! Lots of great VR club members not to far off that trail either that I am SURE would love to make you and Charlottes aquaintance IRL too - THAT is always icing on the cake IMHO:thumbsup2:!!

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Casey,, if you chose to try and read that first part of the story and are able to make sense out of it and would like me to continue just let me know.. Looking at the pics,,, I cant imagine anyone other than myself being able to follow it

TOTALLY 100% right there anticipating that sniffin the aromatic odor of 2 stroke oil filled exhaust mixing with the fine smells of the woods brother = if nothing more than in memory in my case - I REALLY REALLY DO "KNOW":big-grin-emoticon:!! LOVE your K-TOOM and share in your excitement of whats coming your way Casey!! Indeed you folks do have an AMAZING area for single trackin in those Hills brother = GORGEOUS!! You ever play the Hills from Spearfish Canyon over to the Wyoming state line and then over to Sundance??? Have never ridden on a dirtbike but bored my way thru the quad/two tracks a number of times.. Camped it numerous times (to regain some sanity after a couple days of playing at the Rally) too = WOWZY wildliMfe in that area = Elk!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway,, THANK YOU for sharing about this other side of riding Case!! In an effort to assist/encourage you while your out of town and give you something to read in your spare time, I am going to try and share an article I wrote and submitted to Trail Rider that got published.. This all took place years ago before I broke my back in a car/deer accident and spent over a year in a body cast - the end of over 35 years of motocross, enduro's, harescramblin and just good old single trackin.. Back then my dirt riding buddies called me "Woodsy". Read on if you would like:

Hot off the press and just for you Geo (I used to have a buddy named "George" who had the name tag on his shirt shortened up by an errant disc grinder and what was left was "Geo" = his nickname from that day forward was GEEEEE - OHHHH so thats what I call you in the vid - hope thats ok?)!!! Hope this helps in some small way!! Puc

I hear ya brother!!! When I bought Maggie the Bucket List Bike (my R1 shown in the vids below) from her previous owner she came to me with brand new - Carbon Fiber tires on her.. A buddy and I were out playing around on our bikes recently - he on his new 103 inch High Output motored new HD Ultra Low and me on my little 61inch motored R1 when a guy in a new Corvette went screaming by us. Maggie got caught in the Vettes tail wind and when her and I pulled up to his car window at 160 mph the driver of Vette gave us a and a .. Later my buddy and I were standing in my driveway about the Vette incident when I looked down and noticed the pencil width exposure of carcass thread showing thru in the middle of Mags rear tire ,,, of course I was :scared::scared: when, like you I discovered the value of those Carbon Fibers.. I have never ever done "burn outs" with Maggie but have always been amazed that her puny little motor can break the rear tire loose easily in 4th gear when ya wick on it and even in 5th at 160 if you roll the spurs into her sides to hard you can feel the rear tire breaking loose.. I have a habit of being heavy with the spurs so I am sure this is the reason for the fairly early tire wear.. Having said all that,, I located a set of non Carbon Fiber tires that are "ZR"s (rated for high speed of sport bikes) that are well under $150 for the set and made by a company who I have lots of experience with on my Ventures (Full Bore tires - ever tried em Yam?).. Got em coming along with a pair of Paddock lifts just for Maggie.. Be interested in seeing pics of your newly shoed scoot and will provide pics/vids of the tire swap process on Maggie if your interested... Back at cha Puc

No but the Reserved Lighting Unit (RLU) can be accessed by pulling the headlight.. Would you like a short video of such?

I have enough problems controlling, maintaining and paying the taxes on the centimeters of Earth that I own so I really prefer to not be to concerned with my centimeters out there on Mercury... :rasberry::rasberry::rasberry::rasberry: P.S. = 52 degrees farah facette height here on this side of the pond!!!!!! May just get Tweeks out and hook up the gauges to her and check my centimeters of Mercury brother = White Washer got a thrust washer stuck in its throat? :banana::banana:

Right, wrong or indifferent brother:

IMHO, your boxing yourself in somewhat for pulling a trailer at those weight numbers.. Have considered maybe looking at a touring scoot with a reverse gear? I know the earlier wings had reverse and those can now be had fairly reasonable.. Of course,,, you could spend the big bucks and get into one of the new, light weight, full auto (I LOVE saying that = full auto,, full auto,, FULL AUTO ) DCT trannied, reverse equipped new Wings but if you did that you would have to share it with all your good friends here in the club,,,,,, ol buddy ol pal of mine

I have used all types of instruments for syncing carbs on the 1st Gens (and lots of other scoots too) and actually prefer the 4 gauge setup as long as they are good ones with restrictors for adjusting the bounce on the needles. The carb tune slide tool works good too IMHO but the slides tend to get sticky with use and I dont care to fight that issue so I stick with gauges but that is my preferance. @Condor , as far as balancing side to side,, please take a moment and look at my video below starting at 12:00 where I show how to do left to right balance - is this the area of adjustment that you believe is not adjustable with the gauges?? If this is not and I am missing something, please advise I can correct my syncing advice brother!!!

Like this one that @BlueSky just posted a link to ya dad burned lop eared White Washin cheeseheaded varmint: http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?135635-2005-rstd-2200&p=1033122#post1033122

GOOD FIND SKY!!! Thanks for sharing the link!!

You betcha, anytime!! and all the best with the fix!!!

Never ever was much of a blinker man myself Cha and generally still use hand signals instead of blinks but, if he were my friend I would probably tap in a test light in front of the flasher unit and check it for voltage and do the same behind the flasher.. Sounds suspiciously like a bad flasher.. On another note,,, maybe double check voltage across battery at high idle and up for over charge and also A.C. presence as a failing regulator could fry a flasher resulting in that bright flash you saw.. b

Morning Case,,, see your fingers is working faster than mine this morning!!! Pouring rain here and about 40 degrees (HEAT WAVE!!).. Hows weather in the Hills? Sorry for the hijack Ow..

Hi Ow,, good morning back to you and ,,, glad you found us.. First thing I would do on the bike is put your battery on a battery charger (actual charger, not a tender). You dont have to remove it from the bike to do so. Thinking the previous owner may possibly have misdiagnosed the situation and you simply ran the bikes electrical system off the freshly charged new battery until it went dead ], you are gonna want to see if you might be dealing with a stator or a regulator issue.. After letting the battery charge for a couple hours or so so you know it has a good charge, double check the tightness on your battery leads. Try to start the bike.. If it starts, while its idling, take a volt/ohm meter and check the voltage across the battery posts and note voltage. Now rev the bike up a little while checking across battery with meter and see what reading you get.. Idle should see 12vdc, 2 grand or so above idle should read 14.5 vdc . No change means something is up with the charging system.. Lots of old gearheads still use the headlight method for checking the system too, simply shine headlight on garage wall and watch for beam change slightly as you bump the R's. Works great but meter is more accurate.. Hope you can follow my thoughts and it helps.. Puc