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You coming to the WI MD? Or you could come down for my M&E tomorrow (March 15). PS the ad only ran for a year .........

Now that would be fun to watch.......

I have found that helmet sizing is all over the map. I was at a shop to get a new helmet, I was looking at 2 different style helmets from the same manufacture. In one style I needed a medium in another style from the same manufacturer I needed an extra large. I ended up buying the XL one.

I seem to remember some nightmare about that also. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=55831

One stripped out screw head can eat up that $20 real quick. Not to mention all of the screw heads that did not quite strip but now just look ugly. I got mine at the local Hobby shop for around $15 for the set, I have yet to wear one out.

You know the rules.....

Another place to find JIS screw drivers locally is at your local Hobby shop that caters to RC cars and/or RC helicopters. Most of the screws that go into plastic are JIS. Modelers are just as anal if not more so than bikers are when it comes to the right tool.

I don't have a problem with the concept of red light cams. But I do have a big issue with the implementation of the cameras. There are times that you can not help but to still be in the intersection when the light turns red. For instance, IF the yellow is timed for a 45 speed limit but you are traveling 20 due to conditions you will get a ticket, even though the light was green when you entered the intersection. OR it is a proven fact that some cities shorten the length of yellow on some cam equipped intersections to almost guaranty a ticket is issued on every flop of the light. At the moment red light cams are illegal in WI. There is a constant effort to change that. I hope those efforts continue to fail. If they do get the cams here, I will be reinforcing my back bumper.

Great to hear. I know he worked his butt off to get there.

1) LEDs will do that. 2) If you are putting LED turn signals in all 4 corners you only need 2 load resistors. not one per LED. 3) So it looks like the CAN bus LEDS will not have any power savings over incandescent at all since the resistor is always in use, including the driving lights. 4) Correct, so not a big deal. OK so now we need more details on these "options" that need a separate battery .... I love playing with electricity.

There used to be a lighted reflector available that I think had about five 194 incandescent bulbs in it. They are very rare and hard to find and real expensive when you do find them. Here is what I did, http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=41588.

Just out of curiosity. Is there room to drill the axle and use a castle nut and cotter pin like the 1st gens?

I get a lot of weird fasteners from Fastenal.

Did you try Fastenal? Or Nutty or Agri Supply

What size thread is it?

My bike is still safely buried behind a wall of snow and ice. Maybe they will have the roads fixed by the time I can get it out. Kind of like natures way of protecting me from myself.

Why are you so infatuated with staring at nuts???

Running lights do not need any type of load resistors or anything else to let them work. It is only the turn signals that need the load resistors to get the flash rate correct. (unless you modify the flasher). So if you think about it, when the turn signal is lit is the only time that the load resistor is pulling power. A turn signal when being used is only on 50% of the time it is being used. It is very rare to ever have a turn signal on for more than 1 minute, the auto cancel tries to turn them off after just 15 seconds. So for turn signals it really does not make any significant power savings to have LEDs vs incandescents, BUT the amount of time the a turn signal is actually illuminated is very small compared to the amount of time that a running light is illuminated. This is where the power savings really are. Especially if you have a LOT of running lights that can be converted to LED. Power saving is not the only reason to have LEDs, A good quality LED is brighter than the incandescent it replaces. The LED turn signal with its instant on and instant off makes it more noticeable than an incandescent of equal brightness. These are both desirable objectives.

Some people just have all of the luck. Another perfectly good snow storm missed us and slid to the south to slap Chicago, and then slid back to the north to get the complainers in NY. Let it SNOW, let it SNOW, let it SNOW!

FWIW Some of the websites that sell both CAN Bus and non CAN Bus LED bulbs also have a warning to NOT use a CAN Bus bulb in a non CAN Bus application. I am not sure why this is, but when they put the warning in bold red letters, it may be worth considering.

As long as you are in there........ Since you already have the computer out, If you ever intend to convert to a HID or LED headlight or LED brake/tail light, Now would be the perfect time to install the jumpers.

First thank your buddy for his service! OH the humanity!!!! First it was Yammer now Kic. What is this world coming to. Next there will be cats and dogs sleeping together. Then there will be Democrats and Republicans agreeing with each other on a regular basis ......... OH MY!!!!!

I sure wish I could help you out. My one experience with an alcoholic did not end well. My first wife passed after her 3rd alcohol induced heart attack. I tried to give her space and support, but the light bulb never went on for her. I pray that you have much better results.

You do not even have to be looking at the grid While reading the instructions I could see dots coming and going even while reading. I also wish you could play with colors other than the background. I wonder if yellow shows the peak of the effect, or if color makes no difference.

I still think it sounds like a ground issue. Ground is the only thing all of those circuits have in common. Run a temporary ground wire from the black wire of the dash connector direct to the battery negative. If that makes a difference then you just need to start going thru and cleaning all of the ground connections till you find the bad one.