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  1. Freebird
    I think yours have been modified. The First Gens came with a single antenna with a splitter. If you have two, then I think somebody has modified it but apparently you DO have two CB antennas.
  2. Freebird
    Mobil 1 Racing 4T 10W-40 for motorcycles. Been using it in my '99 Venture for almost 11 years. I also use Mobil 1 in everything else I use. Won't be changing to anything else. I've used several different filters but have use the Walmart filters for a couple of years now.
  3. Freebird
    Yes, that's pretty much common for the errors. I don't know of any way to calibrate them separately.
  4. Freebird
    Hate to ask the obvious but you DO have it on speakers and not set to HS right?
  5. Freebird
    Yea, I'm not sure but I think that Kennedy makes something that would help integrate it all together. Try doing a Google search for Kennedy Cell Sets or something like that.
  6. Freebird
    I've owned a lot of bikes over the years but I'll just limit this to the time after I got back into riding after a few years without a bike. In 1996, I decided that I had been too long without a bike. I found a very nice '95 Honda Shadow Ace and bought it. I loved the bike and Eileen loved riding about as much as I did. It wasn't long before I decided that I needed a bigger touring style bike for the trips that we wanted to take. I didn't want to sell the Shadow though so I found a very nice '88 Venture Royale complete with trailer and added it to the stable. The Venture was a great bike but just didn't fit my body that well. I just couldn't find a way to get comfortable on it. I still liked riding the Shadow more than the Venture. I then ran across a one owner '86 Harley FXRD with 17,000 miles on it. I flew from Dallas to Tulsa, OK and bought it and rode it home. It had a bit more of the cruiser styling of the Shadow but had the fairing, trunk, bags and etc. of the Venture and I was pretty happy with it. We rode it for about a year and I have to say that I never had a single issue with it. It was never in the shop for any reason, was comfortable and overall just a great bike. Then in 1999 Yamaha came out with the RSV. I loved the way it looked and after I saw and sat on one at a dealer in May of '99, I knew it was the bike for me. I bought the '99 RSV in the middle of May of '99 and have been very happy with it. I sold the Harley on the same day that I picked up the RSV. I admit that I sometimes miss the FXRD and often wish that I had kept it also but it just didn't make sense to do so. The ONLY thing that I didn't like about the FXRD was that it was a very limited production motorcycle. Harley made the FXR, FXRT and FXRP but the FXRD was only made for the one year, 1986. It was named the Grand Touring Edition. It had a different exhaust that the other models and a bit more HP. The problem was there due to it's limited production, there was really no aftermarket for it. Accessories were pretty much impossible to find. This is a picture of the bike at the previous owners house in Tulsa. It also came with a riders backrest that he didn't use but I had it on before I left and never removed it.
  7. Freebird
    Bill notified me a good while back that he was going to be unable to hold the event. I'm not sure what the reason was now but he asked me to remove it.
  8. Freebird
    I've been sort of looking for something. Send me a PM with what it is and how much you want.
  9. Freebird
    What size are they? The system will try to resize them for you but if they are too large, it often doesn't work. They need to be no larger than 640 x 480 and no more than 200,000 bytes.
  10. Freebird
    So...you worked for Roland Satterlee at Southbay. Glad it was you and not me. That was one of the very few meetings that I stood up and nearly walked out of after we had installed a plating line for him. He insisted that the tin bath anode baskets be stainless steel. I told him that stainless steel baskets would be complete eaten up by the bath but he insisted that the Shipley chemistry they were using was compatible with SS baskets and wouldn't listen to my recommendation for titanium baskets. A few days after the line was put into service, they called me in from Dallas, TX for a meeting and when I got there, he wanted to know if we were going to pay for all his tin baths that had to be dumped because the baskets were eaten up. uh....no....we were NOT. He got a bit ugly about that. There was also a big customer in San Jose....I'm trying to remember the name but for the life of me I can't right now. I remember the guy that I negotiated with ... Jerry Bauer was chief purchaser and he was BRUTAL but a good guy and we got the deals done. I think we hijacked this thread...sorry about that...you will not be returned to your regularly scheduled program.... though I think that this discussion is safer than where the other one was headed.
  11. Freebird
    I agree with everything you said...though I couldn't have said it as well as you did. I've had oil pressure gauges on a lot of vehicles over the years and there is pretty much always air visible. When I installed my guage, I didn't bleed anything at all and though I haven't looked lately, there were at least several inches of air and it is probably still there. It may have compressed and look like less now but there still has to be air or I would have a leak somewhere. It read oil pressure as soon as I started the engine.
  12. Freebird
    Jeff, I was western regional manner for a company name Process Automation Int'l Limited. We manufactured automated plating lines, electroless copper lines, black oxide lines and gold tab platers as well as some waste treatment equipment. I even moved to San Diego for a few years to establish relationships with manufacturers reps and continued making trips out there even after moving back to Dallas. There probably aren't a lot of plating shops that I wasn't in at one time or another. I had a lot of customers in CA, AZ, WA, UT and OR. I don't know who you worked for as there were a LOT of small shops also but some of my larger customers were Industrial Curcuits, Herco Technology, Tyco, Southbay Circuits, Multek, Continental Circuits and some in house platers like IBM, Hitachi, Motorola, Zerox, etc.
  13. Freebird
    I was in the plating business for almost 15 years. Not a plater but I sold automated high volume plating equipment for plating circuit boards as well as general chrome plating for auto bumpers, grills, etc. I left that business because the EPA restrictions had all but killed the industry in the USA. Most of my customers had moved to Mexico or South America or to Malaysia, China, etc. I made many trips to those countries before I finally got tired of it. Zero waste is almost impossible if you do any kind of volume and do it correctly. There must be rinse cycles between the various plating steps and there will be heavy metals in the rinse water. There are also various kinds of acids that will be present. I wish you the very best and it's NOT that hard to do but I can't see where waste treatment won't be an issue. As for the "backrest" issue...I'm not one to turn my back on a good investment but I'm not one to jump into anything site unseen and I'm also a hands on type partner.
  14. Freebird
    Since you have posted pictures in the past, I would guess that the ones you are trying to post now are too large.
  15. Freebird
    The problem may be that what you saw was the mufflers being installed on the '05 and newer RSTD. They are very similar to the RSV and the mufflers are slip on. Sounds like the first generation RSTD's are different.
  16. Freebird
    Just a straight cut. No reason to strip.
  17. Freebird
    I just ordered a set too Larry. I kept meaning to make some but never got around to it so thank you for doing this. I've already paid with PayPal but it didn't mention shipping cost. Let me know if you need more and I'll get it sent.
  18. Freebird
    Yep, I got it thanks.
  19. Freebird
    I've seen this debated on many sites for a long time and there are people that will argue both ways. In my opinion only, QUALITY leather gear offers better protection. I just don't think that any of the Kevlar or other choices offer as much abrasion resistance. That is just my opinion though and my preference due to weight, comfort, etc. is textile.
  20. Freebird
    I agree that something isn't right. I know of no differences at all between the various years. Are you sure that they all have the same seats? I know that the optional Yamaha touring seat was made by Corbin and they will seat you a bit lower.
  21. Freebird
    My order since going to the Edsets would be a bit different. With past headsets, I would agree with you. After the Edsets though, I place the headsets ahead of the bikes speakers by a long shot. I've not tried the earbuds but may one of these days. The Edsets module has a earbud jack built in so you can just plug them in and use them instead of the headset speakers if you choose to. I've been happy enough with the Edset speakers though that I just haven't tried it. I have no doubt that they would sound better though.
  22. Freebird
    I'm really happy to hear that she is improving. I think that you are probably not being a good enough nurse. You ARE waiting on her hand and foot aren't you?
  23. Freebird
    LOL....but then it wouldn't be Freebird's Maintenance Day which has always been at Freebird's House. That is not to say that you can't hold one there also.
  24. Freebird
    It IS an open forum and I don't think that anybody has gotten nasty with you for having your opinion. People have just expressed their OWN opinions which differ from yours. Didn't you expect them to do so in an open forum?
  25. Freebird
    If the vent is the only issue, I wouldn't worry about it. The round vents are very easy to install and the Goldwing style vent is not all that difficult. I DO wish that they offered it in the light tint though.
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