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Went out to the shop and gave it a good windshield cleaning, backed it out and rode 100 miles for the second time in less than a week. 62* here today, 68 tomorrow but stuck on the fire truck. After Friday temps drop into December normal range.

What kind of tires? You may need to check swingarm bearings and even the steering head bearings. Yamaha was stingy with grease in both ends and either one can cause crazy symptoms. Rear brakes are known to be touchy, pick your pads carefully as heavy pads lock up on a touch.

Double check the battery. AGMs are known to go all at once, I’ve had em show good voltage but go to nothing when under a load. Also check the kill switch on the bars, bumped that #%%#]]{{ thing and scared myself more than once.

I know some of y’all northerners have your bikes tucked away and starting to twist wrenches. I found a little something to help those working on or modding the electrical system.

Welcome to the circus. You have a bike worth tons of fun. You’ll find all the help you need here to keep her going for many more miles.

They got things all wrong here. Weather has been great for riding but deer season is in. Warm weather has the deer hidden and hunting not so good. Season ends tomorrow and temps dropping now and snow Monday just when we have time to ride. Did get one decent deer

We went from our average Thanksgiving of 35-40 family members down to 3. Our oldest daughter couldn’t be here. Cooking thanksgiving for 3 is harder than I thought, fridge is packed with leftovers.

I’ve been running that light a couple years. I like it.

Well wishes Jeff. Try to listen to the doc and heal up. I think that white washer needs a break this year anyway.

I raised the rear and stuck with the 150 front. 20-30 miles at a time on the interstate without touching the bars. Low speed handling is fine. If you don’t have long legs disregard this idea.

Happy Bird Day everybody. Gonna eat way too much and take my daughter deer hunting.

Puc ya need to come down here. I’m only a couple hours away from the the Corvette plant. Go over there and tour the Vette museum and drool over over them lookers. Even see some of the cars that dropped in the sinkhole under the museum.

In That situation I’d lay a nut on top of that bolt and using a mig weld inside the nut to the bolt. Let it cool just long enough for the weld to harden, maybe 5-10 seconds and back it out with a socket.

As to your question about carb synch, very easy. There’s a good write up in the read only section. I change plugs every spring and do a carb synch while I’m at it. I usually throw the manometer on it mid year to double check it.

I tried to link someone to the read only carb synch and rear hub lube posts. None of the pics are working. 2nd gen section.

I’m a little too far away to run up and help so have fun with the party. Earl’s kit will hopefully be up and running soon, it’s a HUGE help being able to just swap shims while your there instead of running thru it multiple times swapping them around. I followed the instructions here and the job was a breeze compared to some of the horror stories I’ve seen. I sent a little @skydoc_17s way to help get it going.

Do they have them in stock? Reason I ask I stopped in at the local Kawi shop this week and their showroom is empty. He told me they can’t get new units because the Covid crap has so much shut down they can’t get parts to finish building new units. They are more an off-road business with a few road bikes, but they’re almost dead in the water without new equipment coming in.

You don’t have to apologize here, this place is full of twisted demented minds.

WAIT!!!!! Did I really see a Venture on a trailer in this thread? Travesty....... Travesty I say.

Nice. Hope y’all didn’t have the wind we had over here on KY Lake over the weekend. Sitting on the fishing seat on the boat was like riding a bucking bronc.

Take it to an automotive paint store, they can match it. Using factory paint on an older bike/car won’t match because of fade. Match what you have and it’ll never show. There are multiple shades of gloss black from different manufacturers.

Maybe I need to bootleg a truckload to y’all. $6.99 every day here.

I am one of the members to have used that kit, it made the job much easier and faster. I got to personally thank Earl for it at the last MD. I’m with @Freebirdand will gladly throw a few bucks toward the continuance of this service.

I’m with Jeff but if I waited til May it’d be up to my ears and I’m on the north side of 6ft. Fertilizer is for the garden and I don’t plant those either.

I still have at least one more, we’re back in the 70s here. We rode the last two days.