Flyinfool

That sounds just like my scenario. First the acident, then find heart problems while prepping for surgery. Then the blood thinners to prevent stroke. I been playing cardiac wars since October. At least with the ankle you will not have to run on the treadmill......... Good luck with all of this.

Must be before my time......

WOW!! Hope you heal up soon.

I sure wish I could go fer a ride.

Most halogens will not be blue unless the bulb has a blue coating. If they list a color number you want between 4,000K and 5,000K. Above 5,000K is where they start to get blue.

So does this mean you got it apart? Or do we need dynamite to make the problem go away?

No known record of this in any family history. As far as the other triggers you mentioned........

Lenny Thanks for the encouragement. You are the 2nd person I have talked to that had to go back for another one. Mine will be through the groin, but I will be completely out for it, not the semi sedated that some docs do. I am also on the Xarelto. The max possible dose... I do not get A-Fib "attacks" I am in a-fib 100% of the time. there is no end to the afib With the surgery they are hoping to get me down to a few hours of an attack every month or so. Doc said there is very little chance that the surgery will cure me. But it can make things a lot better. With the drugs I am down to an "attack that lasts a day or 2 every couple of weeks. If I miss or even are late for a dose of the drugs I will be in full a-fib within a couple of hours. Yes after a couple of days of the afib my heart does hurt for a few days. But then the atria just spent a couple of days trying to run at 300 to 400 beats per minute and are tired. I do very little caffeine. Just the occasional bite of chocolate. Caffeine give me other problems so I avoid it but will NOT give up chocolate.

I only found my heart problem by accident, literally. After an accident, on the way into surgery to repair that damage, they did an ECG during the preop tests. The surgeon took one look at my ECG and said he ain't touching me with a 10 foot pole unless there is a cardiologist involved. That started this road back in October of last year..

The options are the Cardiac Ablation or taking a small mountain of drugs, that cost more than my mortgage, FOREVER. If the ablation does not work I may still have to do the pile of drugs. The drugs are what are preventing me from riding the bike.

It is very likely that soon I will be going through a Cardiac Ablation to attempt to fix my A-Fib. For those that do not know what this is. The short story; A-Fib, Arterial Fibrillation, is when the electrical signal in the heart get messed up and the the top half of the heart,the Atria stops beating normally and goes into fibrillation, which is basically just quivering and not really pumping. The Cardiac Ablation is an operation where they go in and kill the part of the heart that is electrically messed up so that the whole thing can go back to beating normally. With my whole situation the doc gave me a couple of choices. I would like to talk to a few people that have been through the Ablation procedure to get more real info as to what is involved from the patients perspective. Everything I have found on line is always from the doctors point of view. The whole idea of using the words kill and heart that close together makes me very nervous.

Bob I am not sure what year they changed but the earlier 1st gens had a 1/2" front master and at some point they changed to the 14mm front master. You want the 14mm if you are going to de-link. I did not know that the 2nd gens have a 5/8 front master, that is bigger yet, and I may look into that and see if it will mount to my 88.

Ya know standing in the showroom with a stack of 100 bills and a trailer on the back of your vehicle may carry a lot more bargaining power than someone on the phone or the internet that is 100s of miles away.

The worst part of all of the scenarios that I have seen is that it will not take long for the supply line to run out of parts. Right now there are similarities between a 1st and 2nd gen with some of the service parts interchangeable. Once they come out with an all new bike in 5 or 10 years the commonly needed service parts will no longer be available. Then all of the 1st and 2nd gens will start to disappear from the roads.

I hope that guy will not be offended at all if I drive my truck over the top of his car, after all I am bigger than him so he should be watching out for and getting out of my way. And if he should get hurt, that his fault for buying a car smaller than my truck .......

It sounds like you may have multiple issues going on at the same time. Any where you get smoke or heat, that is where to start looking. If there is smoke coming from the negative battery terminal, then that is where to start. One place that most people fail to check is the crimp between the terminal and the wire. I have seen corrosion inside of the crimp cause the bad connection. Pretty much the only time the battery connection will let out some of the magic blue smoke is due to a bad connection at that joint.

Puc Puc Puc Puc Puc You actually let poor old Tweeks get carboned up? You been hangin around with to many Harleys and 2nd gens to keep the carbon out of the old girl? You know she needs to breath once in a while.....

:sign yeah that: I had the same issue for a while. My bike was so upright I could easily tip it over to the right with one finger. I always worried about a puff of wind or even a child getting to close and having 900 lbs of bike on top of them. I was almost to the point of getting out the hacksaw and shortening the stand by a half inch or so. Adding air to the suspension did raise it up enough to get a more normal lean angle on the side stand. Doing this also stiffens up the suspension a bit, I actually like the stiffer suspension better than the soft soggy one. I also when I put the bike on the side stand I always give a good pull to the left using the side stand as a fulcrum to fully extend the suspension to get a little more lean angle. This is part of how I know that my front springs are shot, I have the new progressive springs, I just need time to install them. There is also a good chance that your front springs are old and soggy, A little extra air will help them along. There is also a lot of technique involved in getting a bike this heavy up on the center stand. Once you master the technique it looks effortless. When I bought mine the salesman was a little guy, about 5' 6" and maybe 130 lbs. I asked him how hard it is to get a bike this big up on the center stand so he popped it up there like it was nothing. Just like there is technique involved in getting the bike back up if/when it takes a dirt nap.

PIZZA????? I'm a PIZZA conasewer.

Pecan

Double check all of your fuses to be sure that someone did not put in a higher amp than what is supposed to be there, to stop it from blowing.

I would mount it high so that it can be seen from any direction. I would also measure the current draw of the installed system to get an idea of how much battery it will pull down. Our bike batteries are a lot smaller than a car battery.

Boy is it getting deep around here........... I can see Don will have to spend the rest of the summer on his mower once all this kind and amount of fertilizer gets spread down there.........

I would say there is no more chance of the tire separating than a well sealed tire. I would start my rides with an extra pound or 2 of pressure, It is better to be a bit high than a bit low. Just carry a pump and pressure gauge on the bike.

Its to hard to say right now until it comes out. V-twin, and/or air cooled, and/or anything other than shaft drive are a flat NO, I won't even bother to go to a dealer to check it out. Anything else I will take a serious look at.