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Good looking UC. If I bought a new bike it would be the ultra classic but it will have to be an 09 or newer. I ride 2 up most of the time and the pre 09 models have a problem with heat on the passenger. There is one thing that makes me a little nervous about buying a harley and that is the cost of maintainence. All of my harley friends here say the dealer charge for service is outrageous. I noticed that even on the harley web site I go on they talk about indys doing their service. I didn't know what an indy was but it is an independent shop owner. A friend of mine bought an ultra classic and when he took it to the dealer for the first service he said he almost passed out when he got the bill. He said he told them he didn't bring in a jaguar but a motorcycle.
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What are you going to do in your spare time?
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I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. I renewed my registration in july. Sunday I was cleaning my room and I looked under a bunch of magazines and there was my sticker. I put it on my bike this morning.
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I keep having a problem with my battery going dead. I rode my bike last thursday and didn't get to ride it this weekend because of the weather. I went out this morning to ride it to work and the battery is dead. A couple of months ago my dealer kept it for 2 weeks and checked everything on the bike and determined the recifier was bad so he replaced it and my battery under warranty. Now it's dead again. Man this is frustrating. I guess I better get back to the dealer as my warranty expires 9/3.
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Every make of mototcycle has good and bad dealerships. I'm not riding an ultra classic today because of a poor dealership. They aren't in business today. It was 2005 and I had a 1100 v star and my wife and I wanted a touring bike. I rode a goldwing and didn't like it so I went to the harley dealer. I left my office dressed in office attire and pulled up in my Lincoln Aviator. I saw the most beautiful bike I had ever seen. It was a blue and white ultra classic. I walked all around the bike and looked around with my eyes saying, someone please come over here and talk to me. No one acknowledged I was in the building. When I got home I told my wife I had found the bike we needed. Two days later I returned to the harley dealer with my wife and we both were looking at the ultra. No one would even look at us. An employee of the dealer came in the front door and walked past me and I say good morning. He never acknowledged I was there and walked into an office and sat at his desk. I told my wife, lets go, it will be a cold day in hell before I spend money with these jerks. A friend of ours had an 04 venture and told us we could come by his house and take it for a ride and go as far as we wanted. My wife and I had ridden about 10 miles when she leaned up and said this is the bike we need. So, I bought an 05 venture in september 05. I am still riding the venture.
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Hey Rick Heywood, I had the first rear end replaced at 16,000 miles and the fifth at 29,298 miles. I now have just over 50,000 and haven't had any problems since 29,298. My bike goes out of warranty next month so I hope nothing major happens.
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I've had many parts replaced under warranty. Never have I had to pay the labor charges. I broke the tabs off the chrome piece that goes around the bottom of the windshield but yamaha replaced it under warranty. Yamaha replace my fairing because some of the tabs that the screws go into to hold the windwhield in place were broken. I had the fuel pump replaced under warranty and I had five rear ends replaced under warranty and never did anyone mention paying for the labor.
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I was at the harley dealership yesterday at 4:40PM making a sales call talking to the sales manager. She said she was just informed that the dealership was closing and moving to Tifton. Earlier in the week I had heard that the owners of the dealership had purchased the American Outdoors building and were moving there but the sales manager said yesterday that was called off.
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Our harley dealer here in Albany, Georgia is closing. They have a salellite dealership on I 75 in Tifton, Georgia and will be moving everything from Albany to Tifton. The Albany dealership lost $500,000 last year. The Albany dealership has never been able to get it together. The current dealer is the third or fourth owner. The original owner was a perfect example of how not to run a business. He ran off more business than he got. The Tifton location has been doing very well. I wish them success.
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There is no cut off date for carbs. As long as a mfg can meet the epa requirements you can use carbs, however the requirments are going to get so tough that the only way to meet them will be fuel injection.
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Are you sure that was a street glide. The road glide has the fairing mounted the way you described.
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Well, at least the guy with yamaha was honest. He's the first one I have heard from that was honest in saying no one will know until yamaha introduces the 2011 line up. As far as inventory, the new models are introduced every september so yamaha won't be waiting another 90 days before they introduce the new models. From what I have heard from many former and current dealers that are honest, yamaha is arrogant. They don't listen to are care what the dealers say and suggest.
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Years ago you didn't see many motorcycles on the road so I waved at everyone. It was kind of special to see a cycle among the many autos. Today there are so many motocycles on the road it has become a PITA to wave at all of them. I wish everyone would stop the waving. When someone waves at me I feel obligated to wave back. When my wife and I are riding in the mountains I tell her she will have to be the one to wave for us. I have my mind on the curves and the road and cars and don't won't to be distracted having to look at the oncoming bikes to wave.
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I posted a thread on harley tech talk. Somone on there by the name of Tsani in south new jersey replied." Gee yamaduck ain't kicked his butt yet? Another reply came from hotroadking and he evidently comes on this site. He had all of the post we have made here on the harley site. Very interesting.
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I trailer my 2gen a lot. I use 18" soft ties arount the triple tree and rachet ties to secure it. I never tie down the back of the bike. I don't know what you could do under normal driving conditions to get the back of the bike to move. It is too heavy. I wouldn't be comfortable tieing to the crash bars. The bend too easily.
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On a trip longer than the oil change interval. That's even worse. I would have the oil changed before I went on the trip, even if it wasn't time.
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Being in a business that deals with the public, I am getting a bad attitude. If you knew you were going on a trip why would you wait until the day before to get your bike serviced? In my insurance agency I have people that are going to start a business and they will come in the day they need liability so they can get their business license and expect me to drop what I am doing to quote their coverage. I stay extremely busy and can't put off other customers for someone that has know for at least three months they were going to start a business but wait until the last day to get insurance. With the dealer I could understand if it was an emergency but if I had promised service to other people I couldn't see making them wait to do an oil change. As far as harley dealers there are just as many bad ones as good ones. Two friends of mine were riding in Texas last April. The shifter came loose on the ultra classic and it started sleeting. They stopped at a harley dealer and the guy with the shifter problem pulled up to the door of the shop and asked if they could help him get his shifter back on. They said no they were booked. He then said he had wrenches and lock tite in his saddlebag so they could just let him pull in and get out of the sleet and he could fix it himself. The service manager said no, he didn't have room for him. My other friend was inside the dealership and had over $200.00 worth of harley clothing he was just starting to pay for when my other friend came in and told him to put it back they weren't going to buy anything from them. I have a friend that works for motorola corp. Our sheriff's department bought a harley as an experiment and was going to buy more if it worked out. The sheriff's department asked my friend with motorola if he would meet the deputy at the harley dealership to help them install the radio. My friend met the deputy the next day and said he was shocked at how rude the service manager was to the deputy. He said the service manager talked to the deputy like he was a dog. When they had finished the radio installation and were leaving the deputy looked at my friend and said, If I didn't have my sheriff department uniform on I would whup the service managers ass. How stupid can a dealer be?
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This reminded me of a funny but true story. When my youngest son was a small child the doctor gave us some suppositories to give him. My wife and daughter were trying to um, install the suppoitory but my son was kicking and fighting so hard they couldn't complete the mission, so I was called in. While they held him down I installed the suppository and all was ok. The next day my daughter was going to wal mart, she was old enough drive, and she asked my son if he wanted to go with her. Now picture this. They were at the check out and my small son looked up at my daughter and said, I hope my daddy doesn't try to stick that thing up my butt again tonight. My daughter almost died. She said oh my god, lets get out of here before we are arrested. My son is 21 years old now and we still get a good laugh everytime we think about this.
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I just sprayed an electrical cleaner into the ptt switch. I didn't take it apart.
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Hey RJD, That's the problem I had with mine. When I would hit a bump it would activate and I would have to press the ptt button for it to go off. I emailed Bill @ mic mutes and he suggested I clean the connectors where the fuse is. I cleaned them and sprayed will electrical cleaner and I also sprayed my ptt switch with the electrical spray and now the mic mute works fine.
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Try this and see if it helps. Take the mic mute connection apart where the fuse is and clean the connections good. It may not work but it is worth the try. I had a problem with my mic mute and doing this corrected my problem.
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Do you have yamaha roadside assistance? You could call and they will tell you the nearest dealer that is open today.
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Very bad. I had an insured a few months ago that was behind a tractor trailer. A pickup was in front of the tractor trailer. All of a sudden the tractor trailer swerved into the right lane. The motorcyclist was looking at the top of a smoker grill that was in the back of the pickup and blew off into the road. The cyclist went down. Lost one finger, had broken ribs and road rash. He was lucky he wasn't killed. It makes me nervous riding behind or meeting trucks with a load.
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seriously considering a Valkyrie Interstae
ediddy replied to casabroker's topic in General Tech Talk
It could have been the rider or it could have been the bike or it could have been the way the rider entered the curve. Saturday I was riding with my wife on the back of my 05 venture. Two other bikes two up were in the lead. A victory and a goldwing. We were in the mountains of NC. We went into a 90 degree curve that kept turning. I scrubbed my floorboard and kept leaning. I finally crossed the yellow line before I got back into my lane. The other oncoming lane was a two lane so I could see there weren't any vehicles coming or I would have had to lean more. Could have been ugly. I went into the curve too fast. Made sure that didn't happen again. My brother in law who was in front of me on his goldwing said he heard my floorboards scrub. -
There were some problems with the 08 ultra. I have several friends that bought 08's. One friend bought a screamin eagle 08 ultra. He traded it for a street glide after one year. Said it stayed in the shop more than he rode it. He said there was a recall for a problem with the heads. He spent $5,000 trying to get the screamin eagle so his wife could ride without burning her legs.