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  1. dynodon
    I have no doubt that the earbuds are a big improvement, but I will mention (not for the first time) that noise reducing earplugs improve the sound of helmet speakers. I use Musicians ear plugs from Hearos (just google them) for about $5 a set, and they reduce the overall noise level, and since they stick out close to the outside edge of the ear, they are very close to the headset speakers and get full fidelity and clear sound from the speakers. you can turn up the speakers which usually helps with their signal to noise ratio, and makes them sound better in the bass region. I find it much easier to understand CB and my music is closer to high-fi. At least worth trying if you don't want to mess with the ear buds or they don't work well for you.
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    Oh Bob, I was going to ding you for not being in the picture (EDIT: I wrote all this before reading farther in Bob's note about the trick of using the clutch cover reflection) , but then I thought....Bob is tricky, I better look that picture over closely or he will never let me forget missing something, and yep, there you are in the reflection on the engine cover. *(anyone here a GWRRA member? If so, this scavenger hunt is almost as devious and hard as "find Wingy" in their magazine ads!). So Bob wins and we are out looking for construction cranes. Would a Blue Heron crane making a nest count? Nah, me neither.
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    OK, being married to a lady that loves horses I have THE solution to my overfilled bike. A syringe meant for adminstering medicine to horses. NOt one with a needle, but meant to shoot paste and liquids into the mouth, down the throat. I was cussing at my bike one time when I overfilled it slightly, and NO WAY am I taking the plug out or opening up the filter case!. Stopped in the barn and there on a shelf were several of these things for giving medicine. I asked for an old one and found that some clear vinyl hose I had fit right over the end. I can now suction up oil (or brake fluid or anti-freeze) or anything else that needs a little taken out, and make it neat and clean. Also accurate to the tenth or less of an ounce. Need to add oil to that rear diff? suction some oil into the syringe, add the tube and push it in, neat and clean without taking off the bags! You can get them at any farm supply store, or stop by an equine vet and I be they would be happy to recycle a few of them for free. Only negative is the rubber plunger doesn't like oil a lot, but I am still on my first one about 4 years later, and I just work it in and out a few times before using it. Trust me, get one or more of these and you will thank me (or more correctly, my wife!).
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    My new Bike

    dynodon replied to dray's topic in Watering Hole

    Is that a 2004 Titanium? If so I bought one that looks just like it (except for some accessories) just a little less than two weeks ago. No pics yet, having too much fun riding it.
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    my just purchased '04 has 46,000 miles on it by the original owner. I have put 700 on it in the first week. Many in the GWRRA chapter Z in Peoria, IL (I joined it also a few years ago) have 100,000 plus on their bikes and travel 500-1000 miles a week during the summer. There will always be those with any brand bike that just let it sit, but by and large, I have found FAR fewer Wings with low miles more than a couple years old, than with Harley. It is easy to find a 2-5 YO or older Ultra (or other model HD) with just a few thousand (4our digits instead of 5!). They are all over the place. One guy was all proud of the fact that he traded his 2009 in on a 2010 with only 4000 miles on it and he could document the TWO, yes, TWO trips he took on it!
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    I don't have a picture (HOLD IT, I DO have a picture in the Scavenger hunt...go here: http://www.venturerider.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=39360&d=1261004048 I used a ram mount on my '86 VR on the left handledbar right aT the curve. It fits with the supplied plastic spacer and I mounted the ball facing towards me with the ram mount for my Garmin GPS going up, it puts the GPS close so my bifocals work well and pushing the buttons is easier.
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    Yea, ANY city or town hall will work for me! Got a new rubber band on the new to me GoldWing today, it rides a LOT better. Doesn't have a total mind of its own anymore (those Wings cup those D3's something awful). Took the VR for a ride with friends (Yea I have a few friends Mike...shut up!) and still like that old bike a lot, so you haven't seen the last of the Couch, the Wing is the Couch V2.... Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. I made my famous potato salad...you really missed it!
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    Mike, get your glasses dude! The thick ones you use for the paper in the morning when you have your bulk fiber cereal! Yea they are kind of far away, and most of the ride parts are still on the ground in pieces, but there is a zipper there on the left, and some sort of ride on the right, and well, I don't go to carnivals anymore, but what more proof do you need than all the trailers and vehicles parked around the outside! And hey, I am even in the one picture twice, once in the regular mirror and one in the old guys mirror for use when I can't turn my head! How dare you imply that I would cheat... I am a paragon of virtue and honesty, or is that Parody?
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    OK, I changed it to include Town Hall.
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    OK, here you go, pic 2 shows me (in the mirror) at least part of my bike, and the carnival setting up with several rides in the background. Pic #1 showing more of my bike, but not me. If OK, then I will set a new target: You, your bike, and Your City Hall building, picture must show the words CITY HALL! (For those in burgs with a different approach, yes, Town Hall will work)
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    still have the '86 VR, but now it has a partner in the bunkhouse....a 2004 Goldwing in Titanium. Came with a little buddy, a 2008 Bushtek trailer. So now I can go on trips and buy all the bling and farkles I want and can afford, and the wife can bring a saddle to ride horses!
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    I assume you are doing route 66 out, so enjoy. There is possibly more old 4-lane left in Illinois than anywhere else, but a lot of it is now closed (one of the pairs of lanes, leaving the other open) so the county won't have to maintain it! Don't miss the small but nice Route 66 museum at the truck stop in McLean just past Bloomington, IL. Buy several good route 66 maps/books and make sure it is for Chicago to CA they make them going both ways. Nothing like reading all your mile markers backwards! When we did a good portion of 66, we had several maps and each of them had different things to offer. So don't skimp on Route 66 maps.
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    Oh OH OH....they are setting up a festival in my home town this week, tents are up, carnival should be in Tuesday if not tomorrow. And Mike, I went nice, gave you a break and you made fun of me, no more MR nice guy....I will be watching you from now on (kind of gives you a creepy feeling...huh?) Nice to see the game heating up again with riding weather.
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    OK, Ok, Mike is a good guy so I will go along with the crowd. He knows I was just kidding (mostly!) and couldn't resist. Yama mama shop it is!
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    BUZZZZTTTTQ! Mike, thanks for playing but you forgot something. The Poppy is supposed to be on the handlebars: You and your bike with a new Poppy from the American Legion on the handlebars. Bonus points for the salesperson in the pic too. For you un-Americans that want to play, any red flower will do. by Scooter Bob I don't want to be a pain (OK, maybe just a little) but it seems just holding it won't do.... What about it gang, do we let Mike slide on this or make him go back and get another shot? (what is with my area, I have been all over the past few days, and nary a poppy to be seen anywhere) Great picture Mike, just thought I would give you some grief, what is the vote?
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    let me explain: Was coming back on the interstate yesterday on a new to me bike, enjoying the scenery at 70 mph. Kept detecting a burning smell. OK, on a new used bike, so I checked it out but could not see anything and nothing was malfunctioning and the smell went away. I chalked it up to someone burning brush on the sides. Later, I kept getting whiffs of the smell, but I didn't put smell and smell together....Then: BANG Big explosion thumped my chest and scared the whatever out of me, and cars in front had brake lights and were scattering as I started seeing bits of tire all over the road, then bits of sheet metal all twisted, then a cargo trailer that I remembered passing me being pulled by a pickup. Construction material and pipe all in and over the trailer. Now the right fender was torn and mostly gone and at least one of the tires was coming at me! None of the cars around me would let me change lanes to get out of the debris, so I slowed way down and weaved around it. Truck/trailer pulled over, a few cars stopped (probably had debris damage) and I moved on. So if you get a whiff of something burning on the road, "listen" to it and see what might be about to explode in front of you!
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    Since I last reported on that deer whistle (and I understand those that say they don't work, like I said, it's like chicken soup...can't hurt, and I do believe that. For every instance quoted about them stopping deer in front of you, I can personally quote a different instance where they started to come at me and looked and turned around) I have found and bought the Defender jeans. http://www.gussetclothing.com/defend.html These are comfortable, about as stylish as jeans can be when they don't have holes in them! LOL and for what they provide in protection, they are affordable. I have two pair, and wear them a lot. I feel they give some extra protection alone or with my chaps.
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    I bought the BreakAway for my wife's Shadow cruiser. Beautiful, works great, but a PITA to install/adjust and keep adjusted. For my son's bike, I got him this one: http://www.jcwhitney.com/cruise-controls/p2010944.jcwx Simple cheap and effective and easy to adjust.
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    Well, I became a "Wing Nut" yesterday. bought a 2004 1800 and rode it 3 hours home and fell in love. Now this doesn't mean I fell OUT of love with my '86 VR, it will remain beside the newer (but higher mile) GW and I plan on riding both regularly. But now I hope to be able to take a long trip or two with my older son who has a 750 Shadow cruiser, but doesn't want to go on long trips because it doesn't have the protection he wants, or the luggage space. I can loan him the VR or we can swap back and forth during the trip, but being the power hog that he is, if he gets on the wing, he may never stop! But wow, these 1800's have BUNCHES of power. I humiliated a guy that was trying to stop me from going past (so I could give him room to move over for a car merging from an on-ramp, I had started passing before the ramp) as I just twisted the throttle, and bike and trailer (the bike came with a neat Bushtech trailer) leaped forward! This thing has torque to spare. The VR is plenty quick, but the Wing is another universe. So if I show up at events on a Titanium Wing...please be kind and understand that I am not being disloyal to my VR, just became an old style Mormon and am building my total of "wives!"
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    Is THAT what that is? I thought that was the neighbor kid selling lemonade or drugs! OK, will be on the lookout for poppies.
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    Update on my own comparison and shopping. I rented a '10 Ultra this winter in FL. Rode it 600 miles in 1.5 days. IT was comfy, smoother on the road than I thought and plenty roomy. Even the wife enjoyed a 1/2 day on the passenger seat and she rides her own bike and doesn't like riding with me on my '86 VR. So I went looking to buy an Ultra, but they didn't make an '09 or '10 in a color I could handle, so I remembered test riding a GoldWing, and well, to make the story short(er). I am picking up a nice '04 Wing tomorrow. Will report at the end of the day how my 3 hr ride home went. I was back and forth..wing or ultra...ultra or wing. Basically the heat at stops on a perfect 80 degree day in FL was a LOT on the Ultra. So I chose a water cooled bike. If I wanted a Harley looking bike I might have gone with the RSV, because under the skin it is basically the same as my '86 VR. I LOVE my VR but wanted something newer that you could get parts for easier. Will keep the VR, but I am looking forward to getting to know the GW.
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    Haven't seem them out selling the poppys, when is that? Don
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    Karl, Mason Williams, I had the extreme pleasure to see him in concert somewhere around 1970. Classical Gas was off the charts but still fresh in most minds. I think the Smothers Brothers gig with him was still going but not sure. Anyway, I loved real music as opposed to just noise, and Mason was real. He was in the round (awful rotating stage period in live concerts!) at SIU arena in Carbondale. For some reason only about 1500 out of 12,000 seats were sold and the arena looked empty. Mason came out with a 15 piece orchestra, looked at the arena. many performers would be pissed and just sluff off the concert, but Mason insisted that they stop the stage pointing to one side, then asked everyone to move right in front of the stage. He then put on a superb concert sitting on the edge of the stage and went an HOUR beyond his scheduled ending time. Best concert I ever was at. A true musician, performer and gentleman.[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z9nl3T31wI]YouTube- Mason Williams - Classical Gas (1988)[/ame]
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    When I rented a Harley this winter, I bought the Harley lower cord for my J&M headset, the pins were different for sure on the 2010 Harley Ultra. Now if I ever buy a Harley, I am set.
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    In the early 70's a studio musician named Bill Chase put together a band to compete with Blood Sweat & Tears and Chicago. A bit different, he had four trumpets, lead and bass guitar and drums plus organ/piano. If you remember johnny Quest (sp?) and other cartoons from the time, they all had screaming trumpets, the Chase trumpets were on most of those tracks. The entire band was killed in a plane wreck in the 70's. Tragic loss. I got to hear them live in the weirdest triple bill of all time in st. Louis. The Temptations, Chase and BB King. I was a student at SIU in Carbondale and all my friends were trumpet majors in the music program. I played, but only for fun. Five of us went and sat front row center in Kiel Auditorium. considering the other groups, there were about 8000 rather dark faces and five drunk white guys from Illinois. We enjoyed all three groups, but were the only ones to applaud Chase, an all white band. How we got out alive is something, they must have just taken pity on us because we were so drunk! Anyway, I hope I can get the You Tube thing to post here:[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGeshSW3k10&feature=fvw]YouTube- Bill Chase - Open Up Wide[/ame]
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