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    Alan Houtzer

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    Walhalla, United States

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    2006 Royal Star Venture (Black Cherry)
  1. ahoutzer
    It's not true that no one uses the heel shifter. There just isn't much about writing a thread that says, "I left my heel shifter alone and I use it."
  2. ahoutzer
    It's not self-explanatory to me. A tachometer is about as useful as a propellor on top of my helmet. What would you use it for? You don't really want to watch a meter to tell you when to shift, do you? If that's the case, then what you really want is automatic transmission. I don't need a water or oil temp gauge because my bike always works. If the bike were unreliable, then I would need gauges and lights to tell me when it was about to break down, so I could seek shelter. The RSV is highly reliable, so I would never look at the monotonous everything-is-just-fine indicators anyway. The only reason I want a voltmeter is because the RSV has too little capacity. Beef up the electrical system and forget the meter.
  3. ahoutzer
    The only ends that I've seen for Kury Iso grips are the flat caps and the stiletto type. They don't have any weight in them -- they are all style and no substance. Are there others that have weight to stop vibration?
  4. ahoutzer
    Put a cover on the gas cap or paint the gas cap. I use the leather cover that Yamaha sold (I don't know whether they still sell it). Some put a drink snaggy there. I think AceHighLeathers has made some really fancy gas cap covers, if I remember right.
  5. ahoutzer
    The Cross Country Tour has an oil cooler. It is not merely air cooled like a Harley. That sounds better to me than just plain-old air cooling, but I don't really know. It seems to me that it should mean that the rear and front cylinders are more evenly cooled than air cooing can do. What do y'all think?
  6. ahoutzer
    If you are using the headlight wire for switching the relay, that's no problem. I used the aux plug inside the fairing, which is easy to find, but either one will work. If you are using the headlight wire to *power*, then that relay isn't doing any good, as far as protecting the circuit is concerned. If you are using 35 or 37.5 watt each passing lamps, that power has to come from somewhere. The idea is to get power from the battery, independent of any other circuit, and let some existing switched circuit (headlight wire or aux plug) switch the relay on (for a few milliamps).
  7. ahoutzer
    Hold on there. Are thou looking for that wire because you intend to use it to power passing lamps, according to Yamaha's instructions? Despite the fact that Yamaha instructs you to do that, it is a bad idea. the passing lamps draw a lot of power and will slowly cause your ignition switch to burn out, because the ignition switch controls that headlight wire.
  8. ahoutzer
    I rode in eight degrees in January and 113 yesterday (these are temps measured on the bike, three feet above the asphalt, where the rider sits and where the bike parts are). My shock has not needed replacing yet, and that's a 105 degree temperature range, bike ridden nearly every day, year around, now at 94,900 miles. By the way, the poll needs a zero (no shocks replaced).
  9. ahoutzer
    2006, still working with the original shock after 94,900 miles.
  10. ahoutzer
    If he DID have a good IT department, all of those machines would already be wiped clean.
  11. ahoutzer
    I don't know if a cell phone was involved in this case either. I do know that I am often tempted to fire my fairing-mounted green slime-splat cannon whenever I see a driver holding a cell phone to their ear while allowing that it is an experience worth killing me for. I resist the urge and back off, getting away from that driver. I wonder if withholding the splat and ooze is doing a disservice by allowing the driver to believe that we all think that this is okay.
  12. ahoutzer
    You already have a clock. Press and hold the Select button under your odometer on the dash.
  13. ahoutzer
    I use Doc Bailey's, too. It is a regular maintenance procedure for my leather jackets.
  14. ahoutzer
    I wear dress-casual clothes to work five days per week and suit and tie to church on Sundays (I'm the preacher). It's just not a big deal. Fold the jacket over and put it in the trunk on top of whatever else you have in your trunk -- a backpack/computer bag in my case. Wear the rest under a riding jacket. I don't wear chaps except when it is VERY cold or I have further to ride. I use plastic rain pants from a hiking supplies store when it rains.
  15. ahoutzer
    I don't know how many sets of Avons I have had -- maybe fifteen. On the RSV, the original tires on my bike were Bridgestones. I went to Avons at 8,000 miles when the Bridgestones went quickly to the cords. For a short time, there was a Metzeler on the back only because of a flat tire and need for an immediate replacement. I got rid of that quickly. I tried a Dunlop EIII set once, but liked the Avons better. They have been my tire of choice on my RSV and on my previous ACE Tourer. The most recent set was put on a few weeks ago. I have never had sidewall cracking. I ride daily, year around. If this problem has anything to do with sitting on a cold garage floor for months of winter, my bike has not been in that environment. We get a couple of days per year in single digit (Fahrenheit) temperatures here. The bike lives in a shed on a wooden floor, but is ridden every day even in single digits, and only sits when there is ice and/or snow on the road.
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