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    Well, he does have a lift adapter for sale as well, so it could be.
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    Well, sure, if you want to do it the easy way!! And you've got all the machines. Very ingenious. Kudos!!
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    Amen!! Heck, at 80 I still need to downshift, to 4th (maybe even 3rd) if I want to pick up speed fast.
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    Wow, what a blast. That Rock climber Craig DeMartino, mentioned in the Skateboarding/rock climbing paragraph, goes to my church. Now THAT'S quite a story there.
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    Chances are that the radio is still okay. On my 89 I did quite a bit of button pushing (before confirming that I wasn't getting anything out) with my SWR set too high and it didn't burn up the unit.
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    Did you set the SWR? Seems to me that this would not cause an error, however, but it absolutely NEEDS to be done before you push the talk button. SWR (Standing Wave Ratio) sets the effective length of the antenna. At certain wave lengths an antenna will broadcast a certain amount of the power and reflect some back (this also depends on which frequency you are broadcasting on). You want to get the reflected signal to the minimum that you can. Too high and you're not getting any power out and the reflected signal will burn your transmitter up. You can't set the SWR perfectly for all channels. The best thing to do is to set it the closest you can on the frequency you use the most and try to balance that to get the best on all the frequencies. If you can get below 1 on most all the channels, with the sweet spot (your preferred channel) being the lowest that's pretty good. Did you go with Firesticks? Don't think it's possible to screw up the connections in the box, I would say you may be on the right track with the cable under the seat. I've had the comm. system connections come undone under the passenger seat before. To keep the connectors together I took 6 cable ties (number depends on how long your cable ties are). 2 I looped loosely around each end of the plug after it was plugged together, then I took two, put them together and looped from 1 cable tie on the end of 1 connector to the cable tie on the end of the other connector. I did that on both sides of the connector. Then tighten the 2 ties that you have wrapped around the ends of the connectors and then tighten the 2 pairs you have running from end to end of the connector. That should keep the 2 plugs together.
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    That would be him alright!!! I peruse the "highlights" page, on occasion, and this was one of the highlight shots.
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    Who is this. I remember crazy frog but can't remember who this is. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LxZ4Mi3rR3Q/SsQQLXGaypI/AAAAAAAAbu0/sUWi-F6e0eE/s1600/img_2205.jpg
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    Just sent money for 2-2nd gen pins. Thanks
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    Well, they say you're supposed to hook a hose up and run it someplace where there's less chance of the inlet getting dirty and sucking in dirt. Most that I know of don't bother though and mine still works fine.
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    I'll go for 2 of the second Gen. Let me know when and how to pay.
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    Wow, I have no idea how I missed that thread. Very nice!!
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    What do the ones your selling look like? I might be interested.
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    Too Late!! Sorry to hear about the mishap. Glad you guys are both okay though. I need picture though, I can't envision all that!!
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    For putting your life on hold and coming to my aid yesterday. That and being moral support and hauling me to fulfill the purpose for my visit to Denver.
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    Yeah, I know!!!! Believe me, I thought about you guys while I was standing there on the side of the road. I don't know what I hit but it made more of a slice than a puncture. Just before it happened I was wondering which direction the wind was blowing and how hard. I turned my head to look at some flags at a car dealership and then heard the sound. Don't know if I'd have seen the offending object, had I been looking, but I was glad that it happened as "gently" as it did.
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    Besides that, Mark is a member on this site!!
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    Goose, Are you saying that you DO NOT have to pry the tabs up to adjust the nuts?
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    Well, I've been eying an 06 in Denver and made plans to go down and check it out yesterday. Start off and get about 20 miles down, to Longmont, and here a loud pop at the back of the bike... You know, the kind of pop that you here if your back tire catches a rock just right. Bike seemed to handle okay and nothing seemed to be wrong so I continued. About 10 miles later, at the Lafayette/Brighton exit, I feel the bike getting, kind of squirley... Hmmm could be the rain grooves but I've never had a problem with the Avons on rain grooves before. I push right on the handle bar just a hair and the back end starts to fish tail and scared the crap out of me. I think "I've heard enough flat tire stories on the VentureRider forum to know that this is how the bike handles when you have a flat rear tire. I immediately pull over to the shoulder and try to assess the situation. Sure enough flat tire. Rolled the bike forward and kept looking for a hole but I really couldn't see much of anything. Then the tire went completely flat. You think pushing this thing is hard with 2 good tires? Try it with one flat. I had called Leland and, when he got there, we used his Slime pump and pumped it up some (I had also called progressive for Roadside assistance) We determined that there was a slit, about 1.5" to 2" long on the right middle of the tire about half on the surface of the tire and the other half going down into one of the grooves. I wasn't too sure his patch kit would be of much use and, about the time we were going to try, the tow truck showed. Had it towed to a local Royal Star shop and had to order another Avon (Thanks Goose for the confirming that I wanted the H Venom... The people on this site are a Godsend!!). While I waited for transportation home Leland and I went to the dealer where the 06 was. Nice bike but it had been sitting and the guy thought it was running funny so he pulled the plugs and found the fronts fouled. So I didn't get to ride it but it looks sweet. May have to run over for a test ride when I go back to get my bike. Don't know if the man upstairs is trying to tell me I shouldn't get the 06 or if my bike was jealous and doesn't want me to get it but I really don't like the way either of them told me. I think the Ride-on allowed me to go the 10 miles at 75mph. but it did come out all over the mudflap and the swing arm. As I think back on it, that 10 miles bought me a lot less, dense traffic so I could pull over more easily and an extra lane as the road adds another lane about 3 or 4 miles up the road. So I'm thankfull for that. Tire had, almost exactly, 10,000 miles on it and it looked about 1/2 used up. But then it was a V tire and they wear faster than the H.
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    Send it here!! Been in the 50s, cloudy and rainy all week. Haven't gotten to ride the scoot all week.
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    Scott, Just had a thought. If you want to change the color of your wires you might be able to buy colored heat shrink tubing that you can just put on the wire, while you have the caps off, and shrink it to the wire. That would certainly do the trick if color is your only concern.
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    Scott, Don't know that you can change the wires on the coils. Although I don't know what you had planned. The wires and the coils are made as one piece, which is why you have to buy the whole coil as opposed to just the wires.
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    I thought the same thing about the lawyers. I've not had a problem on either one of my motorcycles. I also came across the same thing about their motorcycle filters that you said as well.
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