Flyinfool

Who? Safe? Have fun when you git nort O de border.......

Sounds like fun. . . . . . but what if it SNOWs?

At least you are allowed to have studs at some time. Studs have been outlawed here for the last 40 years.

I used to live in one till I bought my own house. What kind of question do you have?

And here I was gonna send some 80s temps with sunshine over the lake,,,,,,, we'll never mind....... EVIL don't do that...

I could not find anything on the Tri-Star Industries website about motorcycle windshields.

This is bike awareness week here locally. This is the first one they are having, it will be the first full week of May every year. The news here has had a lot of bad. It seems every other day they are talking about another bike fatality. After all of the snow and cold, everyone has forgotten how to look for bikes, and many bikes seem to have forgotten that there are still cars with blind drivers on the roads with them.

It don't matter if you want to see that, WE DO!!!!!

So how many total pieces to be painted are there on a 1st gen? I was thinking about doing this, BUT........

Glad you found it and that the shim eating gremlins did not get it.

Glad you found it and the shim eating gremlins did not get it. AND you got a cool new tool to boot.

Too bad you were on a 2nd gen, that clown caught you on foot........

Mine is so close to vertical that I could tip it over onto the right side with one finger. It would not take much of a wind to tip it over.

There are also shim eating gremlins around. they are invisible, anything they eat also becomes invisible. I had the heads off the engine and on the bench. took a shim out and it vanished right before my eyes. That was years ago and I still have not seen it since. I was hopping that eventually the shim eating gremlin would take a dump and it would reappear somewhere. I have lost a number of things around the engine that have gone to never never land. The first time I was doing spark plugs, I just could not get one of the plugs started in the hole. I finally figured out that the PO must have dropped a quarter that landed behind the plug boot and once I pulled out the plug the quarter slid down an covered the hole. Point is there are a lot of weird hiding places for things to get lodged into.

What pressures are you running in your shocks, front and rear? The higher the air pressure the more the bike will lean on the side stand. Check the bolt that the side stand pivots on. They have been known to bend and break, allowing you to practice you technique for picking the bike up off the ground. If that bolt is getting ready to go the bike will lean farther. It is also not that uncommon for the top of the side stand to get bent allowing more lean. I also have a 30" inseam and I was thinking of cutting some off of my side stand to get more lean. I have to lean the bike to the right with a lot of weight on my right foot to get the side stand up.

Another thing that I have been doing with good results is to use a universal pipe cement that is made for all types of plastic pipe. I spread the crack apart as far as I can and work some adhesive into the crack and then close the crack and clamp if necessary to hold it together. Immediately wipe off any adhesive that oozes out on the painted side, it will mess up the paint if you let it sit on the paint. this will get you a part that is still pretty on the painted side and is now able to hold its shape. I then spread a layer of the adhesive on the inside surface and immediately press in a piece of fiberglass cloth. Work the cloth into the adhesive with your finger to get it fully whetted. Apply more adhesive to any dry spots on the cloth. Once this hardens up you will have a repair that will not need to be repainted, and is stronger than it was originally, and has only added about the thickness of a piece of paper to the back side so fitting back in place is not an issue. If you are using this on a tab with a mounting hole in it, just glass right over the hole and after it is set up is is simple to use an Exacto to clean out the hole. I learned this technique repairing structural model arcraft parts. I have never before seen it mentioned on this site.

Go for it, but take video.......

Lets see if we can get a good party going in the ladies room. I'm all alone right now.

Those bolts only get snugged. If you over tighten you can snap them off and it is a real PITA to get the broken end out.

Valve cover gaskets. No big deal, just messy. Replace them when you are ready to do a valve check. Keep the side covers on so that you do not notice the oil.........

I had that one time while doing mine. it turned out to be a sticky linkage that was allowing one plate to do its own thing. Got all kinds of goofy readings from that one cylinder.

You are best to just fully charge the battery. Most boosters supply a higher voltage that can damage the regulator on the bike. When the start clutch goes it sounds like someone is inside of the motor with a hammer trying to get out.

I think that getting a Color Tune is cheaper than an exhaust gas analyzer, and requires a lot less expensive maintenance. The spark plugs are a lot easier to get to than the ports on the headers. http://www.carbtune.com/colortune.html Some claim the Color Tune gives better results. Just a thought.

SNOW? What snow? :whistling:

It is obvious that they must have made it to below the equator.