Flyinfool

I have no idea where I will stuff the ballasts, a lot will depend on just how long the wires are. My first guess is that one will go in each side of the fairing. There is plenty of room for stuff in there. If the wires are long enough I would like to put both ballasts in the right fairing just to keep that high voltage (23,000V) farther away from my stereo and ignition box that are both in the left fairing.

Good for you. I sure wish I could have gone for a ride on Christmas day. Someone must be getting old and/or laid up and not taking care of business.

Ouch, glad that YOU are OK. First thought, when you did the brake work before did you have the front wheel off and maybe putt something back in the wrong place causing the front wheel to be off center? Same question on the calipers. push the pistons back in to see which side is actually frozen, one side should move easy and the other side not so much. Or you could VERY gently squeeze the brake to see which side moves first, the other side is the one hanging up. At this point I would take the whole caliper apart and do a complete rebuild, then rebuild the other 2 as they are likely not far behind. For the crash bar all that's left is to bolt on a different one, not much left to fix there unless you want to build it back up by welding and sand it round and then just have painted crash bars. I personally don't like chrome anyhow so I would just weld and paint. There may be more than I can see in the pic but the fairing does not look to bad. I had a local paint shop mix me a small can of that color to repaint the top of one of my side bags, they started with a Toyota color that was close and then hand matched from there. Came out perfect. I just cleared the top of both lids so that the shine would match. Good luck getting it back together.

Are you referring to a Yamaha Venture Royal also known as an XVZ13? A yvr is a completely different bike. The air ride on the Venture is called the "CLASS" system. It only works with the engine off and the key in the ACC position.

And who gave you that nice gift? Santa got me some nice HID Fog lights for the bike. All the deer will be saying "Can you see me now....?".

OUTSTANDING post.

Well this should be interesting. Santa brought me a set of 35W, H3, HID lights. Funny coincidence, My bike has a set of 55W Halogen lights with H3 bulbs. Now I can only wonder what would happen if those cute little HID bulbs were to accidentally fall into the fog light housings...........? I already have a HID H4 in the headlight and that one headlight puts out more light than the 4 halogen lights on the front of my P/U truck. The fogs that I have are a clear lens and are designed to shoot a major portion of their light to light up the ditches so that I can spot deer as soon as possible. This will be an interesting conversion for sure. Now IF I can just get back to being ambulatory so I can get out to the bike to start messing with this....................

Castle Doctrine would be iffy at best. She DID invite them into the house and onto the property. At this point they may even have a legal claim in small claims court or even to put a lean on the house since technically they did start authorized work on the house. Yes they are the scum of humanity. But under the law they did ask if they could do work on the house, were given permission, and they did start work on the house, and they did use some materials. Stealing a CC is a whole nutter matter that could/should swing the whole legal issue back into your mothers favor IF they should decide to pursue this in the courts, as there is no way that that can be made to sound legal, on the other hand it may be difficult to prove that they stole the CC unless they can get caught with it. And for that they should get life. If your MOM has more than that one CC call them all and cancel the cards as stolen. Just because they stole one physical card does not mean that they did not copy the info from the others to use online later.

Twas the night before Christmas and all thru the............ Opps that was yesterday, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Amen

See here in Wisconsin, the state passed a law that says any insurance company can not make more than 20% profit or the excess must be returned to their customers through reduced premiums. Last year there were several insurance companies got tagged by the state and had to reduce rates. Boy are there now a lot of really big fancy new insurance co. buildings going up to eat up some profits.

What? There is a full moon here every xmas. And a lot of other days too. At least Christmas will never fall on a Friday the 13th with a full moon.

Merry CHRISTmas back to you to Mama, and to everyone else too.

Take cover! Good luck.

Cool But i would replace the fuse block before troubleshooting any other electrical. The glass fuses are responsible for so many evils.

We are getting heavy rain and a few T-boomers. This SHOULD have been our Christmas snow. No white Christmas for us this year. How is Santa gonna land his sleigh.

It is the elevation part that will make the drive hard. I am not flexible enough to have my foot elevated in a car.

Love the pics. I just do not know most of the people in them. I could have sworn I posted something too, but it may have been the meds............

That is the one that I have seen referred to. Someone on this site tried it and also had issues with low speed performance. But I can not find that post to see what the final result was. It was a long time ago.

I'll honk back just as loud as I can, Butt Erika might not like it. I am starting to think That I might actually be able to make it to the family Christmas. It is the 2.5 hour drive each way part that I am not sure if my foot will like.

I am so glad to hear that no one was seriously injured. I hope you can still have a merry Christmas out of this. The police issuing a ticket and sending the uninsured driver on down the road is not the decision of the police officer, the police department or the city, That would be at the state law level. I like your suggestions, write that up get a bunch of people to sign the letter and send copies off to all of your state representatives and governor, they are the ones that have to make the laws. No lawsuit would ever find a judgment against anyone for following the law regardless of how stupid the law is.

I have had the same insurance for almost 30 years. Every couple of years I shop around but no one ever beats their price. I have American Family. I have no idea what their service is like since I have never had to file a claim. Every year my rates go down a little bit.

Long before.............

But WHY can a WHY get sleepy?

A puny little 32cc weed eater motor? I thought you knew me better than that? When I have a basement full of much bigger cc motors for various aircraft, Turbine jet motors, pulse jets, and the like. But you are correct I was thinking of pulling the motor out of pucs favorite machine to power my scooter, I should not dismantle a working machine, and just use one of the other power sources that I have laying around doing nothing (kind of like me) anyhow. Is it starting to show yet that I am going stir crazy with all of this sitting around not able to do much of anything..........