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Well I see here that a lot of you mention STEBEL horns. I did a lot of research so far and I am wondering why? Most every tite that sells them the consumer reveiws are either 5 star, which are written the day of or right after install and the majority are 1 or 2 stars that are written after a couple of months. It seems the reliability is rather poor. Does any one here have expereience with a particular model still being loud after a year or so? Any other brands or types to look at. I don't mind running another relay or making a bracket and tab set up if needed. I WANT PANIC INDUCING VOLUME !! I' texters driving with their heads down and drifitng into my lane, andpedestrian looking at their POKEMON screens and walking right into traffic

I agree, use of the right hand has little to do with the close calls, its always the other #@$#@r!

I'VE DROPPED EVERY BIKE I'VE EVER OWNED. In the same, i'm so stupid ,i want to crawl in a hole a die manner. I did dump two of them at much higher speed due to other than my lack of attention. All in all I think i'd rather do it the slow way! With the latest '07 I did the miss the ground thing, with my foot, (it is possible to miss the ground) I was so worried as the bike fell i did a one legged hop and actually caught the grip with my other hand and stopped the bike from making contact, (ever try to hold one of these beasties a foot of the ground with just one hand) Well I screamed my bloody head off, two of my co workers run out of the shop and help me get it upright , then they fall on the ground laughiing at the "Biker".. I still get it ribbed every couple of weeks when one of them catches me in the parking lot.

Well i've been over E-bay and a few other sites as well as here. I'm wanting to replace the grip covers on by bike. these are like 1/4 rubber or composite tubing that fits over the actually grip. mine are smooth black, not foam not cushy or anything more like a heater hose in finish. one is starting to shrink a bit. I don't wnat blue waffle heated foamy things or any other type. I've the "original" that were on the bike when i bought it back in 2011, are non slip in the rain, don't get hot in the FL sun, hardly any dirt sticks to them. I also find them very comfortable, there is just enough give in the "rubber" so i can hold on for a long time, but the foam i've had on other bikes I always feel as if I have to squeeze extra hard to maintain the "feel". Any ideas?

Saw randy's post thoguht I'd add this LAWS OF TOOLS AND TOOL USAGE: 1.)The tool closet to hand is never the tool you need 2.) The most useful tool in the tool box is the tool most likely to break, be borrowed or lost, and is out of stock at the local tool store. 3.) Your wife thinks all your tools are ICKY and wonders why you don’t stop using them on greasy stuff. 4.) Any tool lost from a set is the most commonly sought after tool in the set (often called the 9/16” socket corallary) 5.) The time a tool is most likely to hurt you, is when showing someone else how to do a job, or (very rare)When a cute girl walks into your shop. 6.) Any sentence that starts out “hey may I borrow…. “ Means go buy another one, NOW! 7.) Expensive metal shears can cut anything but sheet metal. Sheet metal gets scarred, folded, bent but never cut! 8.) Your best tools are never bought because of a need, but because they are “COOL” 9.) Power tools save absolutely no time in the shop, because all of the attachments are designed to be lost/broken after 1 use. 10.) Using another man’s tools is just plan wrong!!! 11.) Telling your wife to get a particular tool is a good way to get her out of the way for at least an hour. 12.) Your Vise-grips are still holding the mower blade on the tractor you fixed for you neighbor last year. 13.) Circular saws that are being put down after cutting, have a strange attraction to power cords while the blade is still spinning. 14.) All tool collections require at least one tool, that A) you have no idea where it came from, B) you have absoluetly no idea how it works and C) Somehow migrates to the front of the drawer /top of the pile center lowest peg with out ever touching it. 15.) Any time you go out and buy a replacement for a lost tool, when you put it away after careful thought so it doesn't get lost again the place you choose willbe right on top of the one you couldn't find (the caulk gun corrarally) I've got 4 brand new one use caulk guns now!!!! And they're not the cheapo's 16.) you must laugh uncontrollably after you wife call your screw drivers "pluses" and "minuses" instead of phillips and plane head.

you missed a few: SHEET METAL SHEARS: very expensive scissors that will cut through anything except sheet metal. HANDHELD BUFFER: Used to take scratches out of paint and replace them with burn marks. STAND BUFFER: Used to decorate the ceiling with various shinny bits of metal and tools. SOLVENT TANK: Large box full of smelly stuff that will disolve any gasket or O-ring known to man, turning a 10 minute 0 dollar repair job into an excuse to buy a new Motorcycle/Boat/Truck....

many manufactures do not use gaskets on the exhaust side going back to the early 30's. This is to help with heat transfer and "increasing" the surface area that radiates heat. Up to 70% of engine cooling is via radiant heat off the block and attached parts! Oil and water take up the other 30%, that's why an engine will run so long with no water or antifreeze. As far as seizing and breaking bolts that's usually do to disimilar metals in the nuts and studs contracting and expanding at different rates over the years. Any time i get a stuck exhasut manifold bolt, I stop put the other bolts or nuts back in and "warm" up the engine, or use a "Smoke wrench" to heat up the bolt a bit and hit it again with the socket. if the mating surfaces have gotten to warped, you can get a manifold machined pretty cheaply. If thats out Ultra Copper transfers heat, as a last resort a full metal gasket and ultra copper.

Wow i just reread this post, looking up something else. Its been only two years . We now own a home free and clear (girl friend and I) both divorces finalized. I've got a great job my own office and almost up to what i was making 10 years ago. her health has improved, nothing ever came of the dog bit issue, Bike sits in a car port now so no oak tree pollen. I am now in position to help some other folks out. I guess when they say good things can happen, they are right.

"Hey check out my Dragon tattoo" " Well I got one dragin on the ground" - my dad it's easier to think it over than do it over - my dad ​Its been 8 years and I still miss him....

THE BATTERY IS NOT MEANT FOR CONTIOUS DRAIN this is not a deep cycle or Marine style battery onboard your bike. Guys with big stereos often add a second alternator and a seperate battery and voltage regulator for just this reason. Just like on older cars when you turn the a/c on with the radio on you could actually see the headlight go a little yellow. Same with the bike, LED is the way to go, the more lights you can replace (turn signals stop lamp head light) the lower the load on the battery, the quicker it recovers and less heat on the recharge cycle all mean longer battery life. I'm going on 7 years with this bike/battery, it is a yamaha don't know if the original owner every replaced it or not. as far as the 4 1/2 sealed beam [h=1]VSTAR PAR36 LED Bulb 6W 600-700LM,6000K,12V AC/DC Lamp Landscape Waterproof (Eq to 35W Halogen) (Cool white)[/h] on Amazon for $23. more light and 1/6 the wattage. If thats too much $$ try a Tractor Supply if there's one in the area they also carry the LED version of the 4415. Don't go to a Marine supply store! They sell the same bulb with a little hot glue on the contacts for three times the money

I don't know but just looking. take off the front fairing, but the center covers back on adjust the handle bars down and low. A WestCoast Chopper's headlight and bracket. add a springer seat or maybe a narrow king/queen seat easy rider style and a Rear fender from WCC, you just might have something. Imagine a GEN1 about 200 LBS lighter especially on the front end!!!!!!

I always assume every driver out there is both blind and stupid. I've rarely been disappointed. I used to ride home every afternoon on I 275 thru St Pete, speed limits at that time were more of a suggestion, often traffice rolled thru at 80+ mph. I always look ahead and move lanes early so I don't have to zip around some slowpoke, and also check the mirrors so somebody doesn't slip around me a little too close. One day i was almost to my exit (actualy in the ramp only lane) this guy zooms up behind me and starts going crazy. I mean right on my fender by like two feet. lights flashing and some kind of hand gesture going on. I usually exit extreme right but the ramp splits half way down so there is a North bound ramp and a southbound ramp, i get almost to the end of the split ( di-angle white lines, lots of gravel then the big ass water can crash barrier) and I dash right hard!! I here squeal of brakes and this guy does a back up and comes after me again! I bang some gears ( i was riding the 86 at the time) bring the front end up about 2 inches and hit the century mark on the ramp. I hit the street turn hard and go right into the PUBLIX parking lot and stop in the lane right in front of the windows. This bone head finds me and pulls up with a lurch. He gets out of the car ( i'm getting ready to go fist city) The first word out of his mouth is "I'm so Sorry". I was floored, evidently he felt that he had cut me off like seven miles ago and felt bad and was trying to apologize on the highway. You just never know....

ESPECAILLY IN THAT SITUATION!!! Bike stalls as you lift foot and anticipate moving. a little 2" drop before you recover and panic sets in!! First thing we all do is mash the starter button to restart (all of us know that more power gets you out of a situation so we grab and go then look back and evaluate). When we mash that starter and instinctively twist the throttle many of us have done it. Hit the kill switch by mistake and then sit there for 20 minutes trying to figure out what went wrong.

When i added mine i just used an inline fuse holder and a relay up near the neck just under the edge of the gas tank. As far as bulb I changed to LED style instead of the sealed beam 4415ge from NAPA almost no drain on the system. Also i have mined more or less aligned with my low beam lamps and kicked out at an angel to fill in the shadow that the headlight leaves. More than once having that little triangular shadow filled in I saw the neighbors cats and dogs that I couldn't see before.

Actualy texting could be stopped! There are apps that can sense when the phone is moving faster than a walk (pokemon springs to mind). Just have all the carriers and manufactures push a down load to all phones, that shut off texting when the phone is moving faster than a walk. Kids in the back or the girl in the passenger seat, oh well!! I spent many an hour in a car with a pretty girl without texting, and my kids spent many a trip in hte back seat without a cell phone handy. I wish that more states would make using a cell phone without a handsfree device a primary offense.

Sounds like my dad's old Drill motor. 3 windings, 2 cords, 3 switches, 4 chucks and 1 case, that drill motor lasted for ever.

bar-b-que recipes! great beers. oh and all that other stuff too.

Now that makes sense but is kind of scary at the same time. Aligninga rar end and axle using the slop in the bolt holes! build car diff's for almost 40 years i can tell you that most rears are ruined on the bench not in the car! tolerances are in the thousandth of an inch range. But I guess it works! Don't hear of a lot of Yamaha rear diffs going Kablooey:detective:

Couple ideas: 1.)Two monitors one screen showing the active website one showing you typing?( tech solution) 2.)It don't mater if you tell somebody twice or not they still won't listen.(philisophical solution) 3.)Type faster?(low tech solution) Sorry couldn't resist:rotfl:

Well i read and re-read the alignemnt articles. i have a question or two. so i take a large round steel tube (drive shaft cover) attached solidly to the frame as far as front rear movement but it does have radial movements as it is also part of the swing arm assembly correct? on the end of this solid pipe i weld a big flange with 4 holes, thee holes attach the rear chunk or diff to the bike, correct? this establishes on end of the axle position. the other side of the swing arm is also solid and has a single hole for the axles establishing the other axle end point, correct? now if my axle is binding (creaking noise or poor handling or uneven tire wear) and i want to realign it, i take the rigid axle put it through one mounting point (pinch bolt side) loosen the 4 bolts on a rigid flange holding a rigid casting, then reinsert the axle into the now loosely attached rear diff. Then retighten the 4 acorn bolts/nuts. how does this change anything? it would seem to me i need to either bend the swing arm tube (not good) or shim the diff housing to change alignment. what in the name of phyics am I missing?

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Its just weird to me I used to buy and trade classic cars and parts there of. I had a simple formula 35 down 30 up in other words know 35% off what i could get if i was buying or mark it up 30% to sell. That covered my expenses for warehousing, and I made a decent living.If somebdoy came in to me offering to give me a $10 k retail car plus $3k in cash for a $10k car i'd take that deal all day. I guess the world just changed. Haven't bought anything but trinkets at a dealer (car or bike) since 1981. May go the sell it private route, then again may ride this one another couple years and wait for the 20' whatever venture

So I did a dumb thing and went by the Stealership over the weekend. i've got an '07 19544 miles execellent shape ( high B low A street riden) K&N filters Twinkes and lower covers Chrome bead trim lower fairings and gas tank. Leater ditty bag on tank (quick remove type) Wired for intercom with headsets ( wearable to use under half helmet or do-rag) Stainless radiator cover LED turns signals 1" risers ( cold be 1 1/4" its as high as they could go with out changing cable and hoses) Stop light bar with flash Lighted License plate frame Front fender trim Saddle bag side trim Luggage rack Driving lights LED accents (green) Projecters in the saddle bags with yamaha logo. new F1 windsheild Dunlop elites front and rear (almost new front rear about 2K) 3 way switch block on R/H riser for lights. Upgrade (sky doc) clutch FLH pipes (stockers go with it) I walked when he told what my bike was worth!! So the @#$@ salesman says my bike is worth $4800 if the are being generous. I walk his lot and he has an 06 listed at $5500 and an 07 at $8k both look a lot rougher than mine. I understand profit and all that, I told the guy straight up when we sat down if he got to $7k on mine i'd ride a new bike out, and I still got that offer. Am I out line or is he. Checking cycle trader in the area i don't seem to be out of line especially as the the milage is under 20K and all the extras.

A lot has to do with how recent and regular the contact has been. I have a few acquaintances that I know way to much about, and some dear old friends I haven't heard from in a few years. I have some family that made it clear that something or another was all my fault, I said point blank " i din't youre wrong don't call me again ever unless your willing to apologize. well two kids later divorce and homelessness later still haven't heard an" I sorry" so i keep tabs by remote. So i guess in this day and age except for close friends( physically close) and immediate family, don't expect much

Well I tried to download a fuel injection MAP to increase the off the line a bit (tires squeals but doesn't smoke) unfortunetly there is a big sticker over the OBD port WARNING ONLY COMPATABLIE WITH WINDOWS 13 SOFTWARE. Any one have a newer Lumina 2565 phone with the latest update I can borrow so i can reprogram the dang thing. I tried an IPHONE 8 but its only compatable with the Hondas