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From the album: Space Shuttle pics
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Hey Keithert, It was like wrestling with a 800lb gorilla. I rode the dragon several years ago on a 1100 vstar. I don't like riding the dragon. There was one time I got the crapp scared out of me. There are a few curves that are really bad. I was leaning but kept going toward the yellow line. I was almost on the line and my floorboard scraped the pavement. When your floorboard scrapes it hard to make yourself lean more but a trike was coming from the opposite direction so I had to lean a little more. Don't care to do that again.
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I rode the tail of the dragon saturday and last night I was looking for my picture from the ones taken by killboy.com and I saw a white venture two up and a burgandy venture one up and two or three tours deluxe. Were these anyone here?
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One thing I forgot to mention was that the dealer said if he was in charge he would discontinue the current venture and develop a new one built around the stratoliner. Might not be a bad idea.
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The dealer was talking about the new vmax with the 1800cc engine, not the old vmax. It has been around for awhile. The 950 or is it 900 vstar is yamaha's best seller. I think it was ranked number 8 for sales for all bikes.
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I am at the dealer in Tallahassee, Fl for my 44,000 service and new tires. Just got through talking to the dealer about the venture. This dealer doesn't think there will be a venture in 2010. He thinks it's over for the venture all together. He says the sales aren't good on the venture and yamaha isn't spending any money on anything. There isn't going to be a dealer meeting this year. A yamaha rep is going to visit each dealer and go over the 2010 lineup. This dealer said yamaha makes a good product but the people at the headquarters in Japan don't listen and don't care what dealers have to say. He said he felt sorry for the guy over the USA operation because he wants to see changes but they won't even listen to him in Japan. This dealer said he had been to many dealer meeting over the years and that the USA executives will talk with you and listen but when the execs from Japan come in they won't even speak to the dealers. They get before the group and give a talk and leave. He also said he thinks the only thing that could get yamaha of Japan to keep a touring bike would be the kawasaki voyager. If it sales then maybe yamaha will re consider. He pointed out that on the new vmax yamaha wanted a $1,000 deposit before they would order one. He said very few people will pay a deposit without even seeing a bike. Japan told the dealers if they got 2,500 orders they would bring the new vmax to the us. There were only 1,900 orders so the head of yamaha usa sent a message to all yamaha employees to please order a vmax if they were interested or there wouldn't be one. He said they wound up with 2,100 orders so Japan introduced the v-max even though there weren't 2,500 order. Now for the disclaimer. Who knows. We hear all kind of rumors and they are worth what they cost. Nothing. But I thought I would pass this along. Maybe we need a section for useless yamaha rumors.
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Where is the concerte going to be?
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Hey Lewis, You won't believe it but I still have the same tire on my bike. Hasn't lost any air. I have a set of avons ordered but they have been slow getting here. All of the dealers around here have dunlops in stock but none of the dealers have avons in stock. Today is only the second time I have ridden my bike since I got back from MD. It has been too hot or raining.
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Yeah V-Goose, I was lucky that day but my luck ran out on the way home. I don't know if you remember, but I had a 3 1/4" bolt go through my back tire.
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Thanks for the heads up Ponch. I need to thank V-Goose for the help also.
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Thank you all for the helpful information. I am going to use the glue to try to repair two of the tabs on the fairing where the screws go in to hold the windshield on. One tab is cracked and the other is completely broken off. Ponch told me about the glue at MD and helped me glue a tab on the windshield trim. Thanks Ponch.
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Hey ya'll, Thanks for the replies.
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I don't want the glue for pvc pipe. When I was at MD Ponch had a can of ABS glue that he used to glue a piece that broke off of my windshield trim. Ponch said to make sure you get ABS and not PVC glue. The glue he had was clear.
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Where is a good place to find abs glue? I looked all over town and finally found some at SLOWES. When I got home I noticed the can said black. I don't want black I want clear. Thanks
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Need help with battery problem
ediddy replied to ediddy's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
Thans guys for the info. However, I am electrically challanged. Another way to say it is retarded. What do you mean when you say put the meter in line with the negative cable. How would I do that? -
At MD I installed the mic mute. Got home monday afternoon. Rode bike to work tuesday morning. All OK. The temperature was so hot here in Georgia didn't ride bike for a week. The following monday morning was going to ride to work. Not enough power to turn the engine. Just made a clicking sound. Since I have the original battery, 05 venture, I felt it was time for a new battery. Got new battery tuesday morning but it was raining and hot so I put the charger on the old battery still in bike. Three days later took the charger off and bike started right up. I was surprised at how much power the battery had and I suspected then it might not be the battery. It was the following saturday before I was able to install the new battery. I tried the old battery just to see what it would do, bike started. I installed the new battery after charging it for 8 hours. Bike started fine. I haven't started the bike since. This morning I was going to go for a ride but the new battery is dead. Do you think there is an electrical problem or maybe the new battery is weak because I haven't ridden the bike since installing it.
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Hey Boomercpo, I first heard that all bikes had to be fuel injected with the 2008 models. This summer I talked to the owner of a Kawasaki dealership who is very knowledgeable about motorcycles. He said there was no requirement to have FI by a certain year, but as long as you could meet the epa requirements you could have carbs however there was going to come a time when you can't meet the requirements with carbs.
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I will believe it when I see it.
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Electrolytes? I thought that was a vacum cleaner.
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My wife and I rode to Key West the week of memorial day in 06. Enjoyed the ride except for one thing. The heat. I almost lost my wife as we were coming into Kissemmee about 3:00 in the afternoon. She told me she was seeing little black spots and needed to stop for water. Before I could find a store she said to stop quickly because her tongue was swelling and she was about to pass out. I found a store and stopped for her to get water. After drinking plenty of water and getting cooled off she got sick and started vomitting. She was ok for the rest of the trip. If I ever go again it will be in the spring or fall of the year. We ride our bike to Panama City several times each year. I have ridden to bike week in Daytona twice. Last November a friend of mine in Bainbridge Georgia called and asked if I would like to ride to Port St Joe to get some raw oysters. I can leave early in the morning and make that trip in one day. We were leaving Port St Joe coming home, I don't know the name of the highway but there is nothing but pine forest for miles, and I saw something black coming out of the woods. I radioed my friend and asked him if that looked like a bear. He said if it is, it is the biggest bear I have ever seen. A huge black bear wobbled into the highway and stopped on the center line and just stared at me. I slowed to about 20mph waiting for him to cross the highway but he just looked at me. I was finally at the point where I had to stop and turn around or speed up and try to go around him. I started blowing the horn and he slowly finished crossing the highway. I have been to North Carolina and ridden the parkway, cherohala skyway and dragon tail and have never seen a bear. I go to Florida and see one. Go figure.
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Poor service or no service is a sign of the times. I don't know where or when businesses forgot about customer service. Maybe they teach greed instead of service in schools now. It's not just metric dealers, harley dealers are just as bad if not worse. I go on a harely web site weekly and last week there was a warning from the moderator. No more posts about bad dealers would be allowed. There were so many posts about bad dealers and the guys on the site were flooding the bad dealers with emails. The moderator said that the best way he knew to have their site sutdown was to complain about dealers. Sounds like we live in Iran.
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The bike just died for no reason today
ediddy replied to Midrsv's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
I had similar problem. Fuel pump. When the pump is going bad it will be intermittent. It may work fine for a while and quit. When it won't run you can tap on the fuel pump and it might start working again. It's covered under warranty. -
You aren't wrong. I have been on a rampage the last few weeks dealing with incompetent companies. I hate to be negative, but I don't feel there is any hope for the United States. We can't do anything right anymore. There was a time when customer service was important but today companies don't care. There was a time when if someone told you they were going to do something it was done. Today customer service reps will tell you they are going to do something and they don't. Let me give you a horror story. One of our insured's came in the office to pay. His policy canceled the previous day so we had to call the insurance company to get the ok to accept the payment. The company said to get a no loss statement signed and mail the payment to them and they would reinstate the policy. A no loss statement states that the insured hasn't had a claim from the time the policy cancelled to the time the payment is made. We did that. Two weeks later we received the payment back from the company stating that the policy was cancelled. Duh! We called the company and they said to get another no loss signed with current dates and mail the payment and they would reinstate. The CSR with the company said to write attention Tina in bold letters across the no loss statement and it would be handled. We did that. Two weeks later we received the no loss statement and payment from the company stating the policy was cancelled. I called the company and explained what had transpired on this policy and the CSR said I would have to get the customer to sign another no loss and mail it with the payment to the company. I told her that was unacceptable as we had already done this two times and it wasn't right to even ask the insured to come in again. She said sorry, there is no other way to handle this. I asked for the vice president of customer service and got that prick, uh, excuse me, gentleman on the phone and explained what had transpired. He told me we would have to get another no loss signed. I told him we had done that twice and each time it was returned. I also told him our insured was going to think we were crazy and didn't know what we were doing. I also told him it just wasn't right to ask the insured to come in again. The VP of customer service said, " You will either get a new no loss signed are we won't reinstate the policy." I said, "If this is the kind of service we are going to get from your company we may need to think about placing our business with another company." He said, "If you don't like our customer service maybe you need to place your business with another company." I said, " I'm going to take you up on that offer," and hung up the phone. I wrote a two page letter to the president of the company telling him what happened and told him to cancel our contract immediately. I never got a response. It's no wonder the US can't compete and sell or service a product anymore.
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The dealers that tell you wheel bearings or fork seals aren't covered under warranty are full of bovine scatology. I don't understand why, but some dealers just don't want to do warranty work. I recently asked my dealer to replace the chrome trim that fits at the bottom of the windshield and he did. He said anything less than $750.00 he can get covered under warranty without even asking yamaha. I'd get another dealer.
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Beware using your debit card at the gas pump
ediddy replied to Venturous Randy's topic in Watering Hole
AtlantaDragonSlayer, You are right. Banks and lawyers can steal and it is legal. When I first started my insurance agency I was always borrowing operating money. I would pay off a loan and then six months later I would need it again. Each time in addition to the interest the bank charged a $250.00 loan fee. One day my banker asked me if I could insure 6 rental houses the bank was foreclosing on. The commission I would make was approx $12.00 per house and I had to take a picture of each house to send to the insurance company so I charged the bank a $10.00 fee per house for taking a picture. When my banker got my invoice he called me and was irate. He said he had never heard of such. I said don't you charge me a $250.00 loan fee. He said yes but that is different. I asked, how is that different, my time is just as valuable as yours. He refused to pay the picture fee and I told him to just forget get it, but that I would never pay a loan fee again. I never went back to that bank. Isn't it interesting how they can rip you off but don't want you to charge them.