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  1. Flyinfool
    What are you calling a little low? The oil level should be no more than halfway up the sight glass with the bike upright off the side stand and level. If you fill it to the sight glass while on the side stand it will be WAY overfilled and make a mess. I use Valvoline 10W40, 4 stroke motorcycle oil from auto zone.
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    NEVER, never, never rely on the ball for a ground. I can guaranty you will have nothing but problems down the road. Your bike is a 5 wire system. If the trailer has a 4 wire system then you need a 5 to 4 wire converter installed on the bike. If the trailer is wired as a 5 wire, then get a set of 5 pin plugs so that you have a ground wire. If the trailer uses the same bulb filaments for both brake lights and turn signals then it is a 4 wire trailer. If it has separate brake lights and turn signals then it is a 5 wire trailer. The other big benefit to doing it right is that the trailer will work with the vehicles of others and/or you can use others trailers. You never know when you will have a problem on the road and need someone to pull your trailer for you, or you will want to help someone out by pulling their trailer.
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    Guns are good for making holes.. but then you have to patch them.........
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    Boy RR that really makes you old... um,,,,,,,, my first granddaughter was born in '82...... she is now married with 2 kids of her own.
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    Looks like you can just grab them as they go by. AND keep an eye out for Mr. griz.
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    Ummmmmm....... You do know that you can downshift these bike to use less brake.......... I need a lot of stuff for this winter. 2 tires add some LEDs progressive springs add more LEDs HID driving lights even MORE LEDs HO stator and RR. find a place for somemore LEDs Spark plugs and wires Did I mention more LEDs? IF all that gets done I would love to strip and repaint (most likely yellow) all of the Tupperware and blacken all of the chrome. But I will keep till the flies unless some other issue makes me park it sooner.
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    They are gone.
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    It is one thing to clean up your own mess, I talked to a contractor friend of mine and showed him your pics. He said that he would not touch finishing a job like that unless he was going to dig everything out and start over. He said that with the poor masonry work there is to high of a risk that something bad will happen in a couple of years and then he would be the one called and expected to fix it under warranty. This may be why some of the "real" contractors are hesitant.
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    From the looks of those pics he was only 0.01 (maybe less) seconds from taking the full impact of that tire with his body. This would have been a much different thread.
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    Rarely does a day go by that I am not on the McMaster site. And when I put something in my shopping cart, if it says "ships today" I know I will have it tomorrow. In 25+ years doing business with them I have yet to order something that was out of stock. The closest I ever got to out of stock was that parts of an order had to be shipped from multiple warehouses. Yes they have lots of neat stuff.:mo money:
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    Anchor it to the plastic bumper of the nearest cage.......... You won't be there long........ Leg length has nothing to do with it when you are standing next to the bike to push it up the hill, not sitting on it. I have short legs also and can only get one foot at a time flat on the ground. In fact short legs make it easier to push since you will have a lower center of mass.
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    I have to do this every day with my 1st gen. The shed that I park in has a 3 inch curb to get over so that forces me to drive it in to use the engine power to get up the curb. That means that I have to push it back out of the shed, over the door threshold, down the curb and then straight back uphill on lumpy grass. The day after a rain the ground is soft so the tires sink in to that as well. I need to push it back up the hill far enough to be able to make the turn to pull out. I have a similar situation at work except that it is all concrete. A lot of it is technique. When I first got the bike I had a lot of difficulty completing this maneuver. I can't say how many times I had the bike right on the edge of no return for dropping it. Fortunately I never did drop it. Now that I have been doing it for 4 years the bike seems to float out of the shed and up the hill with very little effort. Part of the trick is trust yourself to balance the bike on its wheels. Most people lean the bike towards which ever side they are standing on so most of the energy they are expending is just holding the bike up because they already have it leaning. I push it back with my left hand on the left handle handlebar, my right hand on the passenger backrest, and I use the side of my right knee on the crash guard to apply the force to get it moving. I put my foot under the bag and that acts as the fulcum with my whole leg being the lever to get it moving, I can get enough speed before I need to take my first step to not have to add much more force as I back it up the hill. Keep the weight centered on the wheels, use the steering to help balance just like when you are riding, and once you get it moving keep it moving at a good speed so that you can use the bikes inertia to get over the bumps. When I first got the bike and was struggling with this maneuver I was working on an idea to add an electric reverse. Now that I have a trailer to add into this equation, I may have to revisit the electric reverse.
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    When I was looking for my bike I looked at somewhere around 12-15 1st gen MKIIs, EVERY single one of them had the right corner of the faring scuffed. Some had both corners scuffed. Ideally you would stamp them out of sheet metal. BUT that would require a couple of very expensive dies and a good size press. If someone has access to modern CNC milling equipment, it would not be that hard (hard no, time consuming yes) to machine them out of a block and then polish or paint.
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    It all depends on where you are. There are parts of Wisconsin where the deer have been so over hunted that they are very few and far between. Hunting has been very restricted for the last 4 years trying to get the deer numbers back up. There are other areas where it is not uncomon to see herds of over 50 deer.
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    A young doe. 1 down 30 million to go. Then it will be safe to go for that ride.
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    You forgot the most important thing you will need. 6 VR.org buddies and a mit full of DQ coupons......... Having ALL of the right stuff should take a couple of hour job and make it at least an all dayer...
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    If you use SeaFoam regularly then there is no water in the bottom of your tank whether you run reserve or not. It is so hard to switch from main to reserve or back, that I leave it in reserve all of the time so that I do not have to worry about braking something while trying to turn the selector. I use a dose of Seafoam as recommended on the can every other tank if I am riding a lot or every tank if the bike is sitting long between runs. One of the properties of Seafoam is to absorb any water in the gas and send it on thru before it gets to be enough to cause a problem.
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    I never drained gas by any means other than riding. Look at the brass tube real close to see if maybe it was originally soldered into the fitting. If it was soldered in then I would solder it back in. The RTV may or may not hold it. It would be a real bummer to have it come out while riding and drain all that gas onto the exhaust pipe. If it was originally pressed in then you should be good with your plan. Do not try to solder on the tank unless you know what you are doing. An empty gas tank can be a BOMB when you apply heat if you do not get rid of the fumes correctly.
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    Who needs a heated seat? Just eat more beans......
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    Now I would think that a polished surface on the part of the rotors that the brake pads run would reduce your stopping power until the pads get them worn back to the correct finish. Which will mess up all of that work you put into polishing them. I would certainly NOT clear coat them or you may have no brakes at all till the clear wears off. I would almost think that polished rotors would be more for a garage or trailer queen so that the brakes do not get used to mess up the polishing. This is all just a guess on my part.
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    I never had to worry about forgetting an anniversary. My EX forgot our FIRST anniversary. That gave me a free pass on remembering anything forever.
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    Brings new meaning to the term "meat missile".....
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    It can be amazing what some will do for $$$......... I sure wish I had thought of this..........
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    I do not replace the factory horns, I just add the air horns to what is already there. On most cars there is a wire harness running along the top right fender that has all of the wires that go to all of the stuff up front. just find the right wire and tap into it. Leave the factory horn working.
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    I have found that if you read the fine print on the coupon it tells exactly when it is good. But then on the other hand I have found that with the right set of puppy dog eyes, and my best smile for the girl at the register, she will still accept my out of date coupons.
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