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  1. ediddy
    A control for 2 up riding, so the bike won't start until pressure is on both seats. If you are too dumb to remember if your passenger in on the bike it is time to quit riding. You are too dangerous. I wouldn't want to ride any where near someone that stupid.
  2. ediddy

    Anti Virus

    ediddy replied to Squidley's topic in Watering Hole

    Linux won't do me any good when the insurance companies I do business with don't use it.
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    Anti Virus

    ediddy replied to Squidley's topic in Watering Hole

    I posted a few weeks ago about the fake malware that says your computer is infected and it immediately starts scanning. It locked up my computer twice and I couldn't get into my registry to delete it. I thought if you had a firewall and anti virus program your computer would be ok but that isn't the case. You also need to run one or two spyware programs frequently. I have four different spyware and malware programs and each one will pickup up something the others don't. I can clean my computer of any vicous programs and within a few days the fake malware will pop up again. One day the malware popped up stating my computer was infected and I hit control alt delete and killed it. It popped up 9 more times. Each time I would control alt delete and kill it. It's a constant battle keeping the fake malwares out.
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    I've had a clearview shield with vent for 4 years and wouldn't go back to a shield without one. I've never had a problem with bugs coming through the vent. It's rare for a bug to come through and when it does it lands on my chest. I rode my bike through alligator alley and the bugs where terrible but I didn't have a problem with them coming through the vent although you couldn' hardly see through my windshield. I can't tell you anything about installing a vent as my clearview came with the vent installed.
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    Smart move Randya. A couple of years ago one of my insureds ran over a ladder in the road in his van. It did $8,0000 damage.
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    Yamaha hasn't advertised the venture in the past, they arent' going to start now. The venture is such a small part of their sales they won't spend advertising money on it.
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    One of my insureds was riding his bike a few weeks ago and he was behind a semi truck. A pickup was in front of the semi with a smoker grill on the back. The lid of the smoker flew off. The semi swerved into the right lane and all of a sudden the motorcyclist was looking at a steel smoker lid in front of him. He hit it and went down. Lost his little finger on one hand, cracked ribs and bruised pretty bad. Will be out of work for a while. The pickup driver had mininum liability, $25,000, but my insured didn't want uninsured/underinsured motorist. You know, looking for the "cheapest rate". He wishes he had it now. Anytime I see a truck with something in the back, a truck with ladders on the top or a log truck I drop back and get around it as soon as I can.
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    I broke mine taking it off but my dealer replaced it under warranty.
  9. ediddy
    Us yamaha owners don't interpret the word "surprised" the same as yamaha. We think O boy an updated venture. Yamaha means you'll be surprised because they didn't make any changes.
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    Only people that live in Oregon can answer your question. I don't know what PIP is. We had a no fault law in Georgia in the 1970's and PIP was a part of the no fault law. There was more to PIP than medical payments. The figures showed that sixty cents of every dollar paid for liability claims went to lawyers so with the no fault law your company paid your medical expense, loss of time from work, essential services benefits and even a death benefit regardless of who was at fault. The other persons PIP paid them regardless of who was at fault. This was supposed to save money by keeping the lawyers out of every claim. The law was repealed in 1985 because the cost went up instead of going down. Why? There was a threshold where lawyers couldn't sue but if the threshold was exceeded lawyers could still sue. The threshold was so low, lawyers figured how to exceed it. For example, if your medical bills were more than $500.00 you could sue. Didn't take the lawyers long to get you to go to the choiropractor until you exceeded $500.00. If you were disabled for one day you could sue. So, the no fault law didn't do what it was supposed to do. The legislature tried to increase the threshold to stop so many law suits but guess what? The legislature is mostly lawyers so the law didn't have a chance and was replealed so in Georgia we're back to suing. So, unless you live in Oregon and know what the PIP covers you can't give accurate advice but being in the insurance business for 37 years my first thought would be to get the maximum coverage you can get.
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    I'll say it again. No one knows not even the factory reps. Go back and look up past threads about this subject and you will see where someone called yamaha usa and the rep told them, "you're going to be surprised with the new venture." That was when the 08 or 09 models were due to be out.
  12. ediddy
    Nope, I don't have a light in the trunk. The only thing I have that isn't stock is a mic mute.
  13. ediddy
    Unfortunately this happens too many times in the US and we wonder why we can't compete with other countries. This dealer probably complains every day about business being off. Some people just don't get it.
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    They're on the goldwing web site.
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    If you find what caused your battery to go dead, please let me know. The same thing happened to me last year. It was so hot I didn't ride for a week and the battery went dead. I bought a new battery and starting charging it at 4:00PM unti the next morning at 8:00am. The battery was fine until I went about a week without riding and it went dead. I took it back to the dealer and it was so dead they couldn't even get a reading to check it so they gave me another battery at no charge. The new battery was fine for a few weeks and it did the same thing. I charged it and bought a battery tender and kept the tender on it went I wasn't riding. I went a few days without riding and without the tender on it and it went dead. I took my bike to the dealer and left it for two weeks and told them to deal with it. It is still under warranty. The dealer checked everything on the bike and determined the rectifier was bad so they replaced the rectifier and battery under warranty. The battery was strong and worked fine for a couple of months. A few weeks ago I didn't ride for a week and when I went out to start the bike the battery was completely dead. I don't know what could be causing the battery to go dead. The battery that came with my bike in september 2005 never gave me a problem until June 2009. I don't know what changed but would like to know what you find.
  16. ediddy
    Here we go again. No one knows. No one will know until September when yamaha introduces the new models. Yamaha doesn't let anyone know before then, even the dealers.
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    Hey SylWoody, SpyNoMore was the program that got rid of Zlob. I had to pay $29.95 for the program but I was desperate to get rid of the program I paid for it. I did a google search for Zlob and there were a few programs that it said would get rid of Zlob and SpyNoMore was one of them. It even said that Zlob would disable your task manager, which it did.
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    Hey Mike G I did have Zlob Trojan but one of the spyware programs I ran got rid of it. I just can't find what is causing the pop up ads. Yesterday my avast warning went off and said a malicious trojan was trying to infect my computer but it said to abort the connection and it would be stopped. I hit the button to abort and the fake malware popped up stating my computer was infected and it was going to scan. I hit control alt del and got a meesage that my task manager had been disabled so I couldn't do that. I finally got rid of the malware and my task manager is working again.
  19. ediddy
    Great pictures. Last year when I went to MD I saw several on the highway. I would wave but they would act like they didn't see me.
  20. ediddy
    I thought I wanted a wing before I got my venture. My brother-in-law has a wing and let my wife and I take it for a ride. I was disappointed and lost my enthusiasm for a wing. I'm not knocking the wing. It is the ultimate touring bike, but it's not for me. Everyone has their personal opinion so you can't say ride a wing and you won't want any other bike.
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    Thanks for the replies. I forgot to mention in my original post that I also have avast anti-virus on my computer. We have a network here at the office and I use a notebook with a replicator so I can hook to the network here or take my notebook home and use as a stand alone. We have a firewall and avast commercial version anti virus and I also use ccleaner in addition to the other programs I mentioned. I even did a retore back to June 6, the day before the rogue malware popped up. All of the programs I run show no problems but there is something that is causing the pop up advertisements. Before running some of these programs 207.net tracking cookie kept showing up. I would remove it but it would reload itself. I finally got if off and now no tracking cookines show up. I wish I could use an internet browser other than IE but I can't because the other browsers won't work with the insurance companies I do business with daily. I tried google chrome and it worked with some of the companies but not all. I just wish I could find the people that develop these programs that cause computer problems and be left in a room with just me and them in the room.
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    A few weeks ago the rogue syware that pops up and says your computer is infected and it is going to do a scan popped up on my computer. I finally got it off my computer but since then I keep getting advertisements popping up. Just now I was on this site and all of a sudden my computer screen went blank and and ad for free credit report came up. Also, something has hijacked my web browser. I use msn for my homepage but if I put in a search an entirely different site comes up. Anyone know how I can correct this? I am using Yahoo's virus scan, spybotscan, spynomore and bit defender. None of these pick up anything on my computer.
  23. ediddy
    I have a chatterbox unit I bought 4 years ago. The unit and mike clip onto the side of your helmet. I bought an adapter from edsets that lets you use earbuds. When I use my half helmet in the summer I just clip the chatterbox unti to the half helmet and use the earbuds. If you are in a state that doesn't allow speakers in helmet or earbuds you could change to external speaker.
  24. ediddy
    Pay some one to clean it. Just kiddin. Everyone has a different way they prefer but I wash mine just like a car. I take off the seats and get a bucket of water with car wash and wash away. I use my leaf blower to blow off water then wipe it down. If you're cleaning the windshield by itself the best thing to do is to soak a towel in warm water and put the towel on the windshield for about 5 minutes. Then squeeze the water from the towel over the windshield. I then use novus one and wipe down with a lint free cloth. When I'm on a trip I take one of the motel towels and let it soak and do the rest of what I mentioned. The windshield can be completely covered with bugs but after 5 minutes of a wet towel with warm water it will almost removed every bug without doing anything. If I'm on the second floor of a motel I stand on the ground next to my bike and my wife throws the wet towel down to me. If I'm in a hotel where you don't have access and have to go through the lobby, I take my wet towel and put it in a plastic bag and walk out the door to my bike. You never want to rub your windshield with bugs on it. The dead bugs harden and will scratch the windshield.
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    I had thought about making a rack for cleaning. I had in mind using 2X2's and using carpet to cover the rack so the bags wouldn't get scratched. But I've never got around to it.
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