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  1. Condor
    I'm kinda confoosed here. Every one of the links you posted is based on demand which in turn creates short supply, yet your header says it has nothing to do with supply and demand????????????? Demand is created many different ways. Stockpiling by investors is one way to reduce available supply. Buy direct, don't buy from the investor. If the price is too high direct, don't buy, live on what we have. Believe me, prices will come down. And as long as we're posting links, here's an up-to-date report. http://www.energybulletin.net/44075.html
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    I used to get a pizza, a quart... you remember a quart.....of soda, and a drive-in movie with that $5 bucks too Eck... Fuel prices are driving us into the dumpster, and unfortunately enjoying it while we can ain't gonna get it any more. It's happening too fast. The only way we can reverse the upward cost spiral is reduce the demand. If having unaffordable fuel is the only way anyone can think of to reduce demand, so be it. Once we past the threshhold of unaffordablity for the masses.. if we haven't already haven't... the price will continue to increase as big oil, that is now used to earning big profits, raise prices to maintain their earnings. It's all supply and demand economics. Maybe the movie MAD MAX wasn't so far off....
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    Just a kid at 67.....
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    164!

    Condor replied to halfwitt's topic in Watering Hole

    At 164mph he wasn't passing those cars very fast. Sure it wasn't 164KPH.
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    Thanks Dan..... I think???
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    If it looses 2nd gear, I'll agree, it's a 1200...... Until then it's a 13...
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    Squeeze... You're playing 'yes but', and 'what if'. Theory's are a dime a dozen, everybody has one. It's a 1300........
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    It's a supply and demand thing Squeeze. US oil for US consumption only. How long do you think the world fuel prices would continue to sky rocket if the US, the worlds largest consumer, stopped buying foriegn crude. Maybe we should take a few lessons from SAM's Club.....
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    George, the milage is 99K, but the 1300 motor was put in at 88K. According to the owners son it's been to Alaska, and the east coast a couple of times. The starter clutch sounds solid, and the white stator wires and plug were the typical mess. So they've been fixed and the stator is statin'.... The carbs have been pulled, cleaned, and sync'd. Brakes need to be taken care of, but things are lookin' up.....
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    I thought about that, but it's not very likely that someone would go thru that kind of trouble to change out a clutch basket and move backwards. There's all kinds of 'what ifs', but I've drawn the line in the sand. It's a 1300. Just like the last Owner entered into his maintence log.
  12. Condor
    Well it ain't a mystery no more.... I was getting tired of speculation, went out and pulled the clutch cover, and it has a 1300cc 86-93 clutch basket. Maybe the first 86's came with the yics covers until they ran out??? In any event, it's a 1300....
  13. Condor
    ON SOAPBOX What's it going to be like when the world runs out of oil. I think we're finding out very quickly. Affordable fuel for transportation is becoming extinct. I just drove buy my gas station and diesel was $4.85 per gallon. Regular is a little less than $4.00 per gallon. Crude is going for $134+ per barrel. The world is being held hostage by the 'haves'. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm a 'have not', and can't afford to drive the truck any longer, and the suburban is sitting a lot. It runs the same to fill up the scoot as it did to fill up the family car a few years ago, and it's going to get worse. The big problem is a family doesn't fit on a scoot. The high cost of fuel is also costing us in other areas as well. Everything sold is going up in price. Shipping is quickly creeping up in cost. The US was considered the most powerfull nation on earth, and we're being brought to our knees by our dependence on affordable fuel. All this and wages are stagnant, and even if they weren't there's no way they could keep up with the increase in the cost of living. Our economy is in the dumpster. Have you noticed that there's no mention by the government about the cost of living lately? We used to hear about it all the time. I don't think they want to admit how bad it really is.... I pity the young family with a couple of kids surviving in this economic climate. I pity those who are retired and on a fixed income dealing with their monthly bills. I pity the business owners who are going out of business because they can no longer survive because everyone is stuffing any spare change into their gas tank. I'm not sure what the answers are.... I have my own opinions... but if we're going to survive as a country something needs to be done quickly. Sticking our head in the sand and waiting for the problem to go away just ain't going to get it... OFF SOAPBOX
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    The '91 came with something along that line. Attached is a pic when I first got her home. It's also 18" high vs. the 22" standard heigth...
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    Keep very detailed notes Dan.... Lead the way..
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    Kurt the stator cover has YAMAHA/YICS on it. Doesn't say 1200. Don't confoose me any more than I already am..... So it still could be an '86 1300, or... a 12 with a 1300 clutch cover. Only pulling the clutch cover will tell for sure. However, I just looked at the '87 and it has the 1300 stator cover.
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    I'll give that a shot Carl. At least I'll be able to determine what's moving and what's not. The arm and shaft do rotate without shifting, and I think Kurt did say it did a 360. Kurt played with it, and did get it into gear and had to reverse the arm to get it to come out. I'll get into it tomorrow morning when this wind dies down. You're right about being tight in there, but I've gotten real good at r&r-ing the clutch slave, so that should help....
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    Didn't know you wanted on the list Greg, but yes the MAC as Well as the Jardines have a mellow sound to them.
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    10-4 on M6 South George. Use the national group number posted by Jercoupe. I had an 88 1300 motor that I had a chance to tip on it's side and found an inner cavity that held all the interior shift linkage and the clutch slave. I was just hoping someone would know a 'trick' on getting to the back side of the shift rod without dropping all the exhaust and standing on my head to get to it. I'm getting too old for that. I guess it would be the same thing if someone wanted to pull the shifter rod out of the stator cover
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    The 83/84 I just picked up has a problem shifting. The arm connected to the thru-stator cover shaft just wants to spin. I'm not sure what the problem is but suspect it may be the arm on the other end either coming off by loosing the circlip, or the spline being striped out. I'm never been in this area and my question is, How hard is it to get up in there to check things out? Can it be done without having to drop the exhaust and collector?? The motor is running great. Purrs. Anyone been there...done that???
  21. Condor
    Just wanted to let everyone know that I picked up the braces this morning at the PO. Shipping will take just a tad longer than originally planed as I ordered smaller priority boxes. The boxes I had planed on using turned out to be way too big. This time smaller is better....
  22. Condor
    Baker carries a lot of extra parts for their wings. I had to order one of those chrome balls for the V-Wings on the '91. Shipping was quick and the price was very fair.
  23. Condor
    Sooo.... We only have 29 members regtistered from the east coast and great lakes area. Figuring a membership of 4000, and 500 of them west of the Rockies, what happened to the other 3,471 that are within riding distance....:stirthepot::stirthepot: I remember last year when we were looking at locations for the first annual ralley and everyone in the east coming up with excuses that Colorado was too far, and hold it on the east coast next year and they will come. WELL..!! Here it is. Where are they now??
  24. Condor
    I gave that some thought, and I haven't got an answer. Maybe they're are 2??? Or there's a 47T in the VIN. I looked up my 'real' 83 and it has a 31M.
  25. Condor
    A bit of an update. Things are starting to make sense. I took the red mystery bike over to gone14s' place this morning, and Kurt was going to mess with it. Kurt has a gold '84, and while there I took a look at his VIN decal. His bike had DA in the VIN number and is actually earlier than 'Old Red'. My theory is that when Yamaha shipped the first batch of '84's into the USA they were given a DA year designation instead of an EA (84) because they actually hit our shores in '83. They also offered Royales in red and gold for '84. I don't know where they are first VIN'd, but it seems to make sense.... Still nothing on the matching 1300 motor number???
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