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Anyone know the purpose of the wire and the funky disc in the first place? Why didnt Yam use a full clutch pack right from the beginning?

Point well taken Ventureless!!!

:crackup::crackup:David :crackup::crackup: You ever have a set of bars come off a bike David:crackup: Believe it or not,, I did :crackup: Had a Honda CT 90 with its bars rubber mounted,, the mounts pulled up thru the top of the top clamp :crackup::crackup:talk about instant pucker butt :rotfl::rotfl:another one, had a Suzuki that had a steer lock on the key switch - push down and turn and it locks,, for some reason this one was messed up and would lock without turning the wheel to the side.. Riding along, wondering if I was fast enough to lock/unlock it while riding, amazing how fast I went down - click - BANG!! :crackup: Gotta agree with David here,, could have been much worse Bren!!

We got a law (at least according to the Judge in Muskegon but never really know about him - he is known for writing his own laws in "his" courtroom) in Michigan that is pretty simple - if you hit someone in the rear end its automatically your fault.. It kind of sounds similar to what Michael is talking about. In our area, if you are involved in a 30 car pile up, the State fairs pretty good cause anyone who nails the car in front of them has to pay a fine.. This kind of stuff is the very reason that I mentioned hoping you could keep this out of the court system Sys - experience has shown me over and over again that the only ones who really come out ok thru the courts are the Judges/Lawyers and other Public servants who make a good living off those fee's and fine's.. Sorry to hear this accident had to turn this direction and I truly hope it all works out for you!!

I dont know,, I still got a strange feeling that the only reason that Harley drifted into watercooling that exhaust valve had more to do with meeting regulations having to do with emissions than it did on rider comfort.. I may be wrong and probably am but Tip and I spent some time on a wet head HD and I honestly can't say we felt much difference in temp comfort.. It did seem to have more umpphh though.. WOW Midnight, no more V-Max? I am sure they were not a good seller (economy) but, this saddens my heart cause I was hoping that big block 4 would be around long enough that for us folks who live off the table scraps of folks willing to spend the big bucks would be able to find an affordable one to go out and play on - bummer!! I still think that big block would have been a GREAT resource for a new breed of Venture!! And the end of the Strat/Roadliner,, guess I can see that too as they have been around a while and you dont see alot of em out on the tour... I happen to love that great big torque makin push-rod clankin V-Twin coffee can pistoned 1900cc hunk of pure Yamaha motor but I would prefer mine in a Raider (old habits are hard to break, the feel of a chopper gets in your blood I guess) - not in a touring bike per say.. However,, if Yamaha would come out with a "Raider" turned "touring" - that could be interesting.. Sort of a new breed of V-Twin tourer that nobody else had.. Laid back in an easyrider fashion all stretched out with my back in Tips lap, the feel of the stability that only comes from a long bike flowing down the highway and a great big torque monster 1900cc pushrod V-Twin idling along at 2 grand and 70 mph, feeling the bike flex under me as we cross expansion joints on the highway while going around the City of Sacramento.. I could do that.. If its gonna be a new pushrod V-enture,, probably rather pick up a year old Harley Ultra Limited for the same price, maybe,,, maybe not...

Yea but you know Larry,, he may very well have snapped those shots on some quick escape "tweeking" ride him and Joyce did down in Florida or something.. He's like that you know, just kinda sneaks off and we dont hear from him for a few weeks..

Huh,, what, who,, Jaguar? No, I dont never get to hear bout nothin... Did you do it??

You know these pictures probably originated in Larry's garage

WOW zzz WOW WOW WOW - is that AWESOME!! It almost looks like the front end is articulative (did I say what I wanted to say and mean what I meant to mean with that word?).. Like the rider is maybe turning the whole front axle instead of just the front spindles - probably an illusion.. Anyway,, COOL BIKE!! Ok, so if I had the cash,, hmmmmm,, well,, I gotta admit,, me and that Carbon One, we kinda think alike I think.. I think I would go with a Slingshot just cause I like the looks of and the idea of having an adult go cart/Cedar Point Roller Coaster/roadster twisty carving side by side with a 170 horsies draggin my butt around!! Maybe I am wrong but it seems like the low sitting go cart would require far less rider input in order to control things once g-forces starting taking over.. I am probably wrong but I am a biker and I know all to well about how much body input it takes to really get a bike to perform like a race car in twisties.. I also know how much FUN go carts can be and, if I had the money to toss into something along this line I would ripping down to my Polaris Dealer and dragging home a Slingshot.. Probably be taking the body off it to make it look even more dune buggy/go cart RAW but yea,, 170 horse while sitting a few inches off the ground has my attention!!!

Yep,, what a bummer,, people teaching their children not to accept responsibility when they make a mistake... Sounds crazy but I think this is one of the very basic things that is causing so much trouble for all of us in the world today... Mans gotta do what a mans gotta do Sys!!!!

That Raggy, he's ok PB,, just a little old fashioned in character and thought is all,, now if I would have had Velocity Stacks on that ol chop and you would have said Stacks? it wouldnt have even caused him to loose his groove,,, dig it?

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and you guys can come over here and drag this trailer home Raggy:178:,, if your still interested:detective:..

so just reapply the tape and leave it on there:beer:

Find the pic, let your cursor rest over the pic for a second - the size of the pic should appear, when I do that mine says "640x480" and 168k.. If you do that and says the pic is bigger - you probably gotta resize the pics.. I know that when I change my battery in my camera I always end up resetting my pic size and quality way down so I can post them up on here.. I would pick on Don and call him a cheapy:stickpoke: for not allowing bigger pictures but I am actually thankful that he doesnt cause I am the REAL cheapy - have a very slow internet connection and it HATES big pics!!!! DOWN SIZE CHA - DOWN SIZE!!

I think its a gorgeous scoot too but I am having a hard time finding an asking price by the dealer in here... Sorta hard for me to share an honest opinion of whether or not I think its a good deal if I dont know what they are asking for it.. Could be I missed something though.. Lots of scoots out there..

OUTSTANDING!!! That is soooo close to being cross country ready!! All I would need is a rack up there to put the bedroll in - then it would be STICKER TIME,, yeeeeeehawwww!!!!!

Prayers Up and Blessings Down Black Owl!! You have been and still are on our list!! Thank you for the update and Godspeed as you continue to gain strength, heal up and get a handle on all this stuff brother!! Puc

Sorry to hear this bro!! Prayers UP and BLessings Down!! Best be getting back in there to the doc and finding out whats going on - Dons MD aint to far off and I STILL aint had a chance to see that gorgeous new 2nd of yourn!! Best not be using no excuse like a swelled foot for showing up in a cage you crafty rascal!!!!!

Does the fact that Tweeks original shield has lost over 1 mm of its thickness mean that the original coating is probably gone :rotf: That FlyInTheOintmentFool hit the nail on the head!!! A trip from Michigan to the west coast and back is about a 8x Plast-X application (depending on time of year and how many bugs they release in places like Alberta Canada, Waterloo Iowa and Lincoln Nebraska).. IMHO, its not that big of deal of you use Plast-X to clean your windshield after washing it down with a truckstop squeegy thingy..

NICE,, really really NICE Cha!! BUT,, you know the rules:big-grin-emoticon:

If you see a pic, nope,, if you dont see a pic, yep.. This is test of the emergency VR broadcast system, please do not change channels.. Any strange pictures you see are not the fault of your receiver.

Hey Sys, in sharing my opinion here, please keep in mind that I am farrrrr from any form of an expert on any of this stuff and that, including my articulation of thought, this opinion just comes from a number of years from playing with both dirt and street bikes (only dirt bikes cause I may use some words that I used in setting up my MX bikes in years past).. Its quite possible that your bike is setting higher/leaning left more because of fork stiction.. Simply the inability of the fork upper tube to travel thru the bushings in the lower legs because of being bent or twisted. You could straddle the bike, make sure there is no air in the forks, push the front wheel against a wall and press up and down on the bars and feel how easily the forks slide. If you feel a stickyness in the movement - good chance the tubes are having a hard time passing thru the bushings. Forks tubes can also move in the triple tree, even to the point the the tree itself can get out of alignment - usually you can see this if ride the bike and look carefully at see if the handlebars are perpendicular with the front wheel when going straight down the road. If their not, it doesnt mean the forks are bent, it could just be a matter of loosening the tree clamps, putting pressure on the front wheel (cant tell you how many times I have loosened clamps and torqued a front end against a tree until the bars were straight) and retighten.. Unfortunately, because of the weight involved with these streetbikes, it really doesnt take much of a hit to tweek a neck and ruin a frame. Again, remember - this is OPINION, I think the insurance industry standards have gotten to the point where even a mark on the frame of bike after an accident is enough to consider the bike a total. I only say that because I have seen MANY really really nice BIG DOLLAR Harley's being sold at auction with "salvage" titles and nothing more than a small indentation in the frame where the crash bar was once connected.. Most frame damage is detected in this way, by visual exam (looking for stress cracks in paint at weld joints and the like). Personally, if I am looking at a questionable bike, I like to have a buddy ride the bike, I lay down on a nice flat paved area (school parking lots work great for this) and have my buddy ride toward me on the scoot in question. Look down the axis of the wheels coming at me and see how the bike is tracking.. It is amazing how easy it is to see a tweeked neck in wheel alignment! Believe it or not, I have seen these big heavy bikes that have - under 20 miles an hour - been lost in a corner, wadded up in a field (didnt hit a car), twisted the front end in a high side event with enough force that the tweeked neck moved the alignment out over an INCH!! I have a hunch that it all depends on the dynamics of the crash but, yea,, it dont take much to tweek a neck, IMHO.. Now the next question that for some reason I sense someone out there squinting their eyes and wanting to ask.. So Puc,, if you KNEW the neck was tweeked,, would you ride it anyway? If I KNEW the neck was tweeked, I would look closely at the frame and make sure that I was satisfied that the front end wasnt going to fall off LOL, no "kinks" in frame tubes or welds that needed rewelding.. If it was just a tweek - you betcha!! A dog tracking bike would go well with the weeds that normally hang under my scoots, the pieced together exhaust collector and the mud covered stickers,, BUT THATS JUST ME!!

Oh, by the way Sys,, I am very sorry to read about this whole incident - while it is common thought that any accident that we are able to walk away from is a good one - I personally cant think of any accident that I call exactly good!! I am glad to hear that you and the boy are both ok though and wish you nothing but the best in getting the whole thing resolved!!

Gonna sound crazy,, but in all honesty BlueSky - never... I just buy old unloved and unwanted 700 dollar Ventures who are laying around suffering in someones garage and wanting nothing more than to finish its life out with me just chasing the wind and together - we go for it.. My first one, a Blonde 84 Royale that I rescued out of an Estate Sale with a bad stator, ran out to well over 200k before she lost a crankshaft - no idea where the valves ended in her but she was still running on all 4 even though the crank bearings sounded like they were gonna come right out the side of the case - she still held matching compression on all jugs when I retired her too!! Amazing motors these V-4 watercooled Yam engines are.. Yea,, I know,, I am holy terror when it comes to my love for these lowely old bikes!! I am the same way in the area with the whole 2nd gear issue ,, 4 of the 5 I have ridden out now (Tweeks included) have lost 2nd gear fairly early in life and I just short shift em to give em a chance at enjoying what time they have left and accumulate some fun miles before the next one begins its journey.. Tweeks tranny departed ways with its 2nd gear back around 40k, that spot is nothing but a false neutral now that she has over 200k on the short shift.. She just takes a licken and keeps on ticken... Wanna hear something really crazy? When I was out in Oregon last year at The Dalles Rally, one of the guru gear heads that I had the honor of meeting out there was standing there listening to Tweeks run, with a smile on his face he asked me what I was going to do with Tweeks when she finally decided she had seen her fair share of miles.. I laughed because someone else had recently mentioned that she should be stuck in a museum somewhere and I told him that. He said he would LOVE to have me get her drive train to him so he could dismantle her and see what things looked like internally. Knowing this person like I do, I am SURE he was very serious and would be found measuring and recording wear specs on everything from valve shims to cam chain slop on a 1983 Yamaha V-4 with 300k miles that had never been opened up - a shear miracle after being in a relationship with the likes of me!!!!!! HEY MOTIV - YOUR RIGHT THERE - CHECK THOSE VALVE SHIM CLEARENCES!!! MURPHYS LAW DEMANDS IT!!!