RDawson

Oh I've been waiting on that.

You also have a signed contract that they pay the note. Seems to me they have breached the contract. I'd still demand money or bike, you're paying for it after all. Again good luck, enjoy the Yamaha.

Hate to see this happening. If I made two payments I'd definitely be beating down their door to get the bike back. If you're paying for it take it. Glad it's not a huge financial impact, it could be huge to some. Good luck.

I think we're going to head out Thursday and stop somewhere past Louisville, then ride in Friday. Anybody else running that way?

Most of that is above my head but as far as the BT input I found a receiver on eBay that I mounted inside the fairing and tied into the 12v lighter plug circuit. It goes on and off with the key and no batteries to charge.

I haven't seen anyone tell you not to like your ride. In contrast I've seen several congratulate new owners. My question was based on somebody else getting their panties in a wad over bike comparison. This thread was started about new hopes before the bike was built and is carried on to the present. Good day.

I think Don pretty well nailed the feeling of the 1-2 gen riders. Yes a lot of ragging on each other goes on in good fun, mine faster, mines better, etc. I have both the 1st and 2nd gen bikes. I do wish the 07 had the power and fixed fairing of the 86, I also wish the 86 was as comfortable as the 07. Neither one is perfect but I have a blast on both. I don't hold Ill feelings toward Yam or the owners of the 3rds at all. I don't foresee me ever owning a 3rd gen, V-twins are everywhere and do nothing for me. I will still congratulate anyone who has one and likes it for finding what they wanted, they are great looking bikes no doubt. In my eye it's just another V-twin though as far as me buying one. I ride with HDs, Hondas, and Kawasakis too, I'm just as happy for them finding what they wanted. With that being said, how many of you 3rd genners would have still bought that same bike if it had 4 pistons and a radiator? I'm not asking as a joke but just wonder if Yam would've turned off many riders with it. And yes even though it's a totally new design, as long as it says Venture it'll be a 3rd gen to me, no offense intended. Oh and by the way both of mine still have cassette players. NANNER NANNER. That's one change I think everybody wanted.

Needed some things from Nashville so I made the 240 mile round trip. Running anywhere from 80-90 most of the way and still got 37 mpg on the RSV. The thing I don't get is the cruise cutoff is 80 true speed, so if the system knows where 80 is why did they throw the speedometer off?

Check your air filter to see if it's saturated with oil. Other than that and the oily mess it makes you're probably ok.

Look in the 1st gen tech library at bottom of the forum page. There are a couple TCI articles. Once you get it keep in mind that these bikes will run like that if you have the air box open. They need that restriction to run. Welcome to the nut house.

Half way, engine off, and standing straight up.

You nailed it. Look back to the 80s Mustangs, Chargers, and for goodness sake a 4 cylinder Camaro. They all resembled their ancestry somewhat and carried the badge but were nearly brand killers. The Venture faithful ride 4 cylinder water cooled peg draggers that will eat HDs for lunch and go for 250k miles or more without major rebuilds. I know it's marketing but I still can't wrap my head around changing that platform. I have a 32 year old bike that I can tour on or go tear up the twisties. Maybe it will pull in some Harley faithfuls but I believe the 1800 water cooled boosted power plant would've been the Venture boom we were looking for. Having said that I'm somewhat technology phobic, I envision lots of problems with so much tech on a bike being ridden in the rain. I hope in 30 years while I'm sitting in a corner of whatever nursing home my kids imprison me in eating jello and drooling on myself somebody proves me wrong with a 2018 Yam with 300k miles and going strong. But for now I'll stay with 4 pistons and 10,000 rpms.

I've talked to Rick twice about doing my seats. Can't wait to send em after MD. Seems like a real nice guy.

Please post a follow up on how she likes the pegs. My wife wants something to help with the seat pain, she mentioned somewhere else to rest her feet. I talked to Rick Butler last week about seat mods to help her too. He was too booked to get to it before MD so I'm going to send them when we get back.

Doing 80 today on the interstate going to dr when a woman in the right lane decided to be in the left lane. Rear brake lockup, tire smoke, and one finger waving. Maybe the book is right. Just don't know how that Japanese book writer knew.

Now jump on and bring it to MD.

In my area you hardly ever see an RSV but most of them that are for sale are blue/black. Those are the best ones by the way.

I'd start with the switches on clutch handle, front and rear brakes. I had one that broke on a big bump once, mine was on the clutch. The housing cracked and let the plunger come out.

Prayers up. You know these little tykes bounce back quick.

Good looking scoot. Congrats. :happy65:

My 07 usually cruises 80+ when on the slabs with bags on and loaded. I wouldn't get too excited. Now for the big part there is a rule around here that says if there ain't no pictures the bike don't exist. Is it the blue/black 07? You know blue is the best model right?

But is it water cooled?

:confused24:I've still got my old squirrel gun and my deer rifles. We always just dug our taters, never had to shoot em. :think:

Never heard of the hairspray method but many aerosol cans use unscented propane as a propellant, I have used propane from my torch to seat tires too. I don't know if hairspray uses propane or not but any good explosive gas should work. It doesn't take hairspray to make diagnosis of being nuts though, I think most of us passed that a long time ago.

On another note I use Wallyworld carb cleaner to seat the new tire on the rims if they don't want to seal up. Just a short blast in the tire letting it get a little on the outside of the bead, drop a match on it and BOOM the tire is seated. Take out the valve core first or sometimes it will suck the tire right back off the bead. This is a variation of the old starting fluid method, carb cleaner isn't near as volatile as ether so I prefer it. Remember I said SHORT blast of cleaner it doesn't take much of an explosion to do it. Less than second of spray usually works. DISCLAIMER: PLAY WITH FIRE AT YOUR OWN RISK.