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finished the survey, and added a note about HOV lane use A woman here in N.Y was arrested for using HOV lane. She won her case after 2 yrs. But the cops are apparently appealing the court ruling. Their grounds, Sport bike guys use it to escape the cops, so no one should allowed to ride them. If your in metro N.Y . ride at your own risk. Any Metro NYC members had that experience?
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that neither side , biker or cager is beyond a little stupidity. i've had a cager drive me into the stones on the shoulder because he never bothered to even look out his window to see me , i was right along side him , not in his blind spot. A few years later I saw some kid BOTH FEET On THE GROUND along side his bike draggin himself down the highway at 60-70 mph. Its a shame to loose a brother rider i only hope the race was worth it.
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My wife hated riding with me. I thought i'd be giving up motorcycling at the age of 24. Then i suggested we buy her Uncles motorcycle for her. it was a 250 LTD That was it she fell in love and we rode together for 30 years. The new lady in my life will never ride her own bike but was the reason for me buying my Venture and being a part of this great group.Either way I've been luck
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I just had a .o33 plot surveyed to add to my lot . 3 of the 4 pegs were buried. see if yoy can locate them based on the lot size.
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Love those pic's it remionds me of our Adirondacks in many respects. there isn't a bad road in those mountains. Only some better than others. Haven't been up there yet this year but i may just have to go now.
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The problem that attorneys are going to face is that the highway department and police have been doing the same thing for years to truck drivers. how are motorcycles going to claim harrasment if the police can show that uninspected vehicles and such are being caught. We had better have a strategy that will over come that argument.
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Believe me the bike is worth more to you to keep it . Throw a tarp over it if you have to sell what you want and keep the rest. those parts will come in handy and if not they'll help some other member either here or on E bay.
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Well it makes sense that running the tire pressure down would accommodate it to the handling characteristics of a motorcyle. We could do all the members a big favor that want to try this to post some air pressure figures for different types of CT's used on bikes to give them an idea of where these sweet spots are instead of having to find them on their own. Maybe a sticky with some of those figures could be done if it hasn't come up already. I know this topic has been up before if members have those figures hopefully they'll post them again for all considering this mod.
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Your safety should always be a top priority and good luck with the trike they are great fun and more stable than a sidecar. Of course if your wanted to convert the Rhinio into a trike theres a attachment called the Voyager that is two wheels that attach to the bike and turn it into a trike. The bikes rear wheel still drives it but its effectively a 4 wheel trike(?). They'll even paint the fenders the same coloe as your bike. There are actually two companies out there making similar devices . One ( the Voyager) uses car tires with nice chrome wheels the other uses smaller trailer tires with small plastic fennders . they look slike training wheels. I'd personnally go for the Biker wheels and tires. Something for others out there to look into that want that added stability but don't want to give up the old bike.
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That riding device has been around for about ten years. Its mainly for those riding standards or cruisers or even sport bikes. They are a bit pricey but even if the child falls asleep they don't fall off. My wife and I both rode and we eventually bought a sidecar but my son who was the youngest rode behind me on the bike. ( better weight distribition) My Old Yamaha had a movable back rest so we could move it forward then we used a large belt like a seat belt around the backrest to give him (and us) a little added security. We travelled back and forth to the Adirondacks for years that way until the kids got their own bikes and rode with us. But the riding harness always seemed like a great invention
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A 1000 miles to break in the tire/ or become accustomed to its handling. It seems a long time to break in a tire? could it be that if you were riding it hard you were simplying learning about and adjusting to the tire?
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I think it would be safe to say that many of the sport touring tires, as opposed to cruising rubber, might be better suited to the 83. The bike is also in a similar stature as the Honda St1300, and the FJR 1300 than it is even with its 2nd Gen descendant. Not that our 2ND GEN, BRETHERN don't take their tires right to the feathered edges of their traction and ability ( That was for you Don!). It would just be a safe bet that the sport touring rubber that is seen on those bikes, the Connies, and more would be a good starting place as well. Again the types or roads your ride 905 of the time would give you your best indicator. Highways and expressways as opposed to weekend backroad:2cents: riding.
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We love our children and we love our bikes and riding. We teach our children to ride and hopefully they see years of our safe riding to learn from. Then we get them their first bike and send them out amongst the cagers. We believe they are safe because we know we've taught them well but what happened to your sion becomes a parent's and fellow riders worse nightmare , that unexpected manuever another driver makes that me may never have taught them. yes its a parent riders worse nightmare.
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I bought a sidecar off a dealer on Long Island . the previuos owner had a white Lab and it rode in the sidecar. . I know because white lab hair was matted under the rubber mat. For a larger dog a sidecar is probably best. The dog and sidecar even made it to Americade a couple of times. I see no real reason why any animal rights people would bother you. But the dog would need to be trained or a harness used so that he wouldn't jump out at stops. For smaller dogs I saw a couple from Florida that had ridden up the east coast with two mininature poodles they rode in a padded box built over the back part of the seat on the wifes gold wing. The dogs had body harness' and a short cable leash in case they ever fell out of the box. The husband alway rode tail gunner to keep an eye on the pooches. They never had a problem with the dogs.
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Well Don next time your passin through New York I hope you stop by in Waterloo and say hi. Or if need be, we're empty nesters with a spare room to save you a few coin on room rates.Always glad to have members in need stop by. Phil.
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Man bikerwatt you got off lucky considering, I hope your healing okay. I live in dairy cow country and one night about 12:30 am only a 1/2 mile from home I came around the corner to find three cows standing in the road. Lucky the curve cut through the farmer yard of my neighbor with the house on one side and the barns on the other So i always had to slow down while going through there. Still I had to grab a hand full of brake pretty quick . Worse the cows spooked as i came around the corner and the farner and his sons had to chase them down, That poor farmer lost a lot of chickens to that road.
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Hello Bob from a fellow New Yorker. I loved the pix of your bike and I'm wondering if you'd know if those arm rests are still available. My girlfriend would like to have a pair on the bike. PJ Bennetlepel
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Its a Lame scammmm!!!????!!!! I have to get to the bank and cancel that check!
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I've heard all the good stuff about synthetics but my old Honda was notorious for oil starvation in those model years of the 1100. Mostly it was a too small oil return line to the head, there was a kit made to replace it. Anywho my dealer told me to only run 20w50 and i have in all my bikes . They're very happy especially in summer. the only problem i ever had was in my daughter's 650 suzuki . Apparently the oil was too much for the starter motor on cold mornings and the bike wouldn't start. Still I've always found that thicker is better.
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Tom don't forget to give me a call about doin that cartoon for you and the wife. I'm trying to get to know more of the New York riders. Theres another Member here In Waterloo NY Jerry maybe we can ride down and also stop to see BongoBob and anyone eklse along the way.
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The Honda shadow tours have heat shields under their bags obviously they saw it as a problem. Maybe soom of they might help you with some kind of adaptation.
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Let me add my concerns to everyone else's here Dave. Luckingly there are several guys on here with parts bikes available. But what a scary experience gettin beaned off the road by a fellow rider no less. OUCH!
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That was fantastic research i can't wait to see how these might work. I hope everyone looking this over. Thanks again Dr, Bar for the time taken to to look these up. Thats what makes this site great.:bowdown:Phil
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Can't agree more Mraf. I bought a farmhome 25 years ago. Not to to isolate myself and my family from the world but just to get back to a little more efficency. Wood stove in the kitchen, cycle to work, most cars with 4 cylinder engines( American and forgein) Propane for back up furnace, recyled paper and glass long before the blue boxes were around. Simply because like you said, doing is the only way. Whining gets alot of nothin. i'm not concerned so much about who's not doing what. What's more important is what we all can do to help. Together we can accomplish so much more
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I 'm sorry but i wasn't really talking about some pie-in-the-sky pertual motion machine . I was speculating on a system new and different and possibly capable of being made. When the first internal combustion engines were invented they were large cumbersome monsters. No one ever imagined them powering personal transportation in their inception.Today they have been refined to highly effiecent machines and getting better. A system like i was thinking of would only need to super heat water in a line the size of a metal break line. The heat energuywoud come from a battery yes until the generator started to turn genrating electricity to continue the heater process. Of course there would be eventual loss's in the process but water super heated in small quantities is not that out of question or impossible just because no one else ever thought of it before.. We'll never get ourselves out of a dependency on one energy source unless we open our minds to new possibilities. We need more men Like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were iventors of the univented ,not redesigners of things alrady invented. :innocent:I hope I said that diplomatical.
