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The analog gauge is probably digitally driven rather than with a cable, i assume this because you dont even get a throttle cable. I feel like this bike has a ton of options I have never needed or wanted. I think the same of cars. More distraction is never good and the ability to make a call from my lid strikes me as both unpleasant and unwise. When I get on my bike its about the ride, its my metaphorical AFK button, my disconnect from a naggy digital leash. Besides ive seen to many compound fractures in my time to even want to tempt fate like that. I hope they eventually offer a stripped down version with an option list like a gen1. Maybe thats a good way to loose 200lbs and $8000 off the intercont version. Maybe also spread the jugs out another 20 deg to get the rev limit out of the basement, and add a radiator... Crap, there I go again haha.

All good brutha. Not only do I not blame mfrs for chasing a slice of tbe pie, I like to see it. I have to say that I would have a lot more love for this bike if it were packaged and presented as a twin cruiser from the onset. Im not really dissapointed by this twin criuser, im good with that. I'm more put off by the absence of a 3rd gen Venture after being enticed with a 3rd gen Venture. Im looking forward to riding it with an open mind even though my riding style is not suited to a twin. I still like a car with a clutch and 2 doors so I'm a poor representations of who a motor company should be pandering too, I realize that. At any rate I'm really sorry I missed you while you were here and hope we catch up next time.

We agree on many points, I grew up a few minutes from Sturgis and loved to go all through the 80s and a few times until the 90s when it got overcrowded with lots of trlr queens and rubs, it really lost its spirit and charactor, by 90 all my friends that were coming stopped for the same reason and started coming here spring or fall to avoid the "rubfest". I live here again and I put the bikes away (or take road a road trip) during rally week and a large portion of tourist season. I abandoned HD in about 95 for Triumph and a handful of jap bikes, when I looked back HD was still doing the same ol thing while other mfrs were making grea strides and churning out some excellent machines for a decimal point of HD prices. I watched the whole HD subculture turn into a mainstream joke about the same time all the televized bike build off shows gained steam. Times change, denial or adaptation, I went with the later. Loosing HD was tough, the last few rallys I attended I rode my Triumph from Seattle and had a great time until I actually got to Sturgis. The to and from is amazing and I cant wrap my brain around why so many ppl trlr and RV now. You loose the most pivital part of the " Sturgis experience " by using a trlr or RV. It is supposed to be adverse weather and accommodation on the fly, often tents and coffee made on a Triage stove. What can we do but Ride Yamahas and enjoy our friends. Im good with that. I have not been since Im done with HD but I hear tell of some old schoolers doing it in WY by the old way. I respect the hell out of that. They dont make bikers the way they used to, but they make Harleys almost exactly the same way. I share your disappointment over the new Venture but I hope its a hit with twin buyers. If you get to the Black Hills off season hmu, that goes for anyone reading this regardless of your chosen steed, even if its a new Venture.

Thats like Heathkit? Stepdad has a couple pieces somewhere. Very cool stuff, I would love to find an old new stock kit. Im still a jr audiophile and learning but it's my understanding that different speakers react very differently to low or high damping factor. I have wierd speakers, they were kits that I assembled and finished myself, took a chance on them based on reviews, they blow away the Klipsch towers and Polks I auditioned first in both SQ and sheer brain splitting volume, all while keeping perfect composure. What I dont know is how to hey might react with valves and a low damping factor. They are designed to be crossed at 80 and used with subs so the 8" woofers are more midbass while the subwoofers (also came in kit form) take care of under 80. Not sure if that will effect it but I would be using the tubes only over 80. Once I put it all together I was floored by the SQ, I feel like a box of valves would improve it even more but not sure at what point in freq the damping factor has the biggest effect.

There is no way around it, everytime we hit the public roadway we are taking a big chance. Texting and stupidity, almost interchangeable, are big but im noticing a whole lot of just plain ol' not giving a sh#&. Im getting pretty selective about when and where I ride.

Thanks for trying to repost, I'm guessing something is wrong with my phone, I tried in a different browser and it started and copped an error. Ill sure watch it when I get home on the 31st, but guessing there is nothing wrong with how you posted it. We'll see if anyone else has trouble. Still looking forward to seeing it.

When I press play it just brings me to a vid list, maybe just mine but I cant play it. The info is good, thank you. I have to say I really like the dash.

Agree 100%. The biggest problem was in the marketing and badge, this would be easier to accept had we even known it was not going to use the V4. Just that tiny tidbit of info, IMHO, would have diffused almos all the vitriol some of us feel since we waited so long for a Venture. Dangling a big carrot in front of us Venture lovers for months and then unveiling an improved Harley was almost like bait-n-switch. Im an adult and paying customer and I dont need the element of surprise like a 5 yr old on xmas morning. I thought I was getting a giant tub of Legos and I got a board game, socks and a sweater. Im over it but to show Yamaha my appreciation for how this went down Im going to buy a new Triumph Trophy when my current Venture gets too long in the tooth.

Im far from all those places but im going to ride one when the local Yammy dealer gets one in. I expect it to be a nice ride, Im particularly interested in heat management and performance at speed. I hope its still hot out when they get one in but its not looking too promising. On paper it doesnt look very exciting but I will ride with an open mind. Im glad its not my job to explain why this bike has an air cooled V twin and not the V4 that Yamaha must have known we thought we were getting.

. I had a friend that picked up a couple mono tube amps on the cheap, said they were about 20 watts each so not quite the sound pressure and volume of the 120 WPC of his AVR bit sound quality that was warm and rich compared to a high end AVR. I was impressed by the comparison and would now like to find a tube amp. I recall my old stuff and how sweet it sounded, I find the AVRs to sound great but maybe a touch artificial or to bright. The AVR is perfectly fine for HT and vid games, but music is different, I know a few folks that have different speakers for 2ch. Old Infinities are awesome. I still lay awake at night and think about a pair of the Infinity Reference Standard V. Its hard to find the words to describe how badly I want a set of those. Tube amps are not cheap but how cool to recapture the fullness of my older setups. One day ill find one in a box at a garage sale or something. The old systems generally didnt compare in terms of deep violent bass response/volumes but tubes give a quality and signature that I really enjoy. Ill leave my amp alone for the subs but really wanna try using the AVR as a preamp and amping the fronts with an old McIntosh or something.

I do believe Road King pipes fit with very little modification, probably other HD models too. They are said to be only marginally louder than stock and I see them all over CL for $10-$25. Im not familiar with the pipes you have but betting significantly quieter is probably not a thing. Ill bet those could sell on Eby for a fir bit more than HD or stock pipes. Good luck.

Bloated is the word that was in my head for both price and weight. I suspect that this bike will have a cult following based on rarity more than merit. We are sitting in a real estate and economic bubble that is due to pop this year, maybe next (speculation) and when it happens $30k bikes arent going to be flying off showroom floors. Conditions are favorable for HD to nosedive, at least Yamaha has other quality models available where HD is pretty much a one trick pony. My guess is by 2019/2020 you will be able to get gently used Ventures for a fraction of MSRP. There are going to be a whole lot more air cooled twins out there than buyers willing to pay the premium price of admission (more speculation) in the interesting times ahead. CL trends would suggest this is already happening, look at all the new-ish HDs sitting there week after week cheaper than ever. Used Vstroms, GSs and KLRs will sell like hotcakes and the bulky old tech overpriced cruisers are going to back up showrooms like a bowel obstruction. Pretty dark huh?

I dig belts, they have come a long ways in the last few years. Shafts are great but they do not relay the power to the ground the way belts and chains do, they have lash and lots of weight. Belts address all that and guarded right they should be reliable and long lasting. I believe Puc hit this on the head with his iteration of the thrill of the revs. Their failure to use the V4 is not something they can explain IMHO, they wouldnt be having to tackle this had they just told us early on it would be an air cooled twin, guys like me were pretty sure this would be a performance tourer. Im not sure Yamaha has the marketing chops to pull this one off. IMHO secrecy and hype was the wrong marketing tactic for this (or any) bike.

About the time this thread started I replaced my defective Yamaha with a 7.1 onkyo, lower end but does sound great. WPC between 105 and 75 is not audible, its loud enough to induce pain either way. My play room is sized so that 5.2 works fine but wanna try atmos later, not a high priority. 75 WPC for the fronts is so crazy loud and clear that for the subs to keep up at full tilt I feed them with an external 6000 watt amp split between two 18" sealed subs. I thought I was going overkill on the subs but it turned out to be a great match with the towers. When I went to the local shop and listened to different recievers I could really hear no difference between different brands and power levels, with possible exception of the Anthem maybe being slightly cleaner than the others, the margin so narrow that it could have been in my head. I was told to ignore the WPC spec when shopping and I feel that was sound guidance. Its insane how much 75 WPC can produce with mids-highs and how much sub it takes to match that. I figure by the time I go Atmos I may build 2 more subs. I miss the old days of the Kenwood 5way 15" speakers and a tube-clad Marantz. Simplicity an era gone by. My next purchase is going to be a tube amp for the fronts for 2ch music. Nonetheless the Onkyo interface is vastly improved from older versions and it sounds great, upscales 4k great for the reasonable price tag. My yamaha fell way short of a decade and the same for the Pioneer before it, I may try an entry level Anthem next time if this Onkyo doesnt make 10 years. I hope the new unit serves you well, glad you got it all sorted out.

A reading of the privacy and end user agreements would certainly suggest that you are correct, at least to some degree. I abandoned Google like a hooker with buccal warts after reading that, I even rooted my phone to replace Android with Cyanogenmod to protect my privacy from Google and shed bloatware. At what point did the block function become insufficient? Why do thinking adults tolerate pandering to the weak and hyper-offendable like this? I really wanna know...

Sorry about the gravity storm. It could always be so much worse, glad your alright!

Just dont speak your mind or tell the truth about things. If you make a snowflake cry you will be back out on your backside again.

I wont say the names, but we do have such people, and lots of em'. I have become a great fan of militias, I think at some point they will be our saving grace against those who continually seek to infringe. This is stressful talk, I need a hug and a safe space!

I'm more agnostic but pulling the atheist card tends to shut down those who would proselytize, I think it's the more definite connotation but it does work. I'm well outside the norm by not being a Christian republican in the very red state in which I live. So your the guy that wont let people forget about the "shall not be infringed" part? Awesome, I'm on board with that! See, a ltl txt and evryn is grt!

That guy has it down, I was thinking to do much more fishing and motorcycling, punctuated by video games and firearms but thats much less of a story than the above mentioned list!

Facebook Jail. I've heard Tom Leykis talk about this before but I never got nailed for anything. I gave it up years ago but we still use it to share photos and commentary with family in the Philippines, I just spend no time on it anymore. Facebook is not a great place for an unapologetic libertarian atheist like myself anyway A good takeaway is that your 1st amendment rights do NOT carry over to Facebook. It's hostile to free speech, like a college campus, not the bastion of free speech one would think. I found video games to be just as much of a time suck but it's so much more fun to spend an afternoon playing Ghost Recon Wildlands. So what did you do? Did you show your conservative side? You called someone a name and they got their delicate feelings hurt and turned you in? The Facebook that exists now is not the Facebook I remember, not sure when live/let live got so unpopular and skin got so thin. I cant believe they banned you for that, or that anyone would turn you in for that. Whoever did that is the same person that was always telling the teacher on everyone in 2nd grade.

Glad you kept it upright. Hopefuly the trucking co. insurance will pay for your damages and a new pair of skivvies. Did he even stop? I pass trucks WOT regardless of on bike or in my car, just dont even like them in front of me for this exact reason. Very good to hear your ok and back in the saddle.

The H2 was the one that you could feel the frame twisting and moving under you. I spent some time on one and if I ever find one, or an H1 like this one, or even and RD400, I'm in! One thing is for sure, street legal 2 strokes are not going to be becoming any more common, the remainders are bound to increase in value and rarity. Awesome find!

If I'm not mistaken you can get just the oil seal. That fuel leak up on the carbs looks like it could be the O ring that goes around the drain screw. I had one deteriorate and I could really smell the raw fuel and it leaked just like that one. It just took a moment to back the screw all the way out and replace it. You will of course loose any fuel in that bowl. I got some new O rings from the universal drawer at NAPA and they work great.

I absolutly love WY, what a fantastic wide open place to be. Thanks for letting us know. Enjoy the rally and be safe. Holla if you make it up to RC.