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    46 MPG! Hot dog! I got an 84 myself last week and finally started driving it today (It took me a while to get insurance and a helmet). I got mine specifically to help ease my gas bill as I've been driving an '05 Dodge Ram 1500 quad cab 4x4 with Hemi. I eagerly await the fuel savings.
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    Thanks! At least now I know what kind of cheap tools I'm missing.
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    Many years of riding dirt bikes at the Canadian River north of here have taught me that if it cain't be fixed with bailin' wire, duct tape, vise grips and a screw driver, it's time to load up the bikes and go home.
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    Thanks guys. I was getting a bit flustered, I've been digging all around the bike and hadn't found it yet. I'll go ahead and get a tool kit assembled and will throw in a small roll of "The Handyman's Secret Weapon" for good measure. (Handyman's Secret Weapon = Duct Tape)
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    Thanks Guys! In installing the one light last night, I applied power to it before I put the lense back on and noticed that the LED's on this red running light were in fact red. Ifigured there must have been a reason. I'll go ahead and start swapping them out.
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    As a seasoned professional truck driver, I've seen and welcomed the arrival of LED running and tail lights on our equipment. I immediately noticed that they are much easier to see, even if the lense is dirty. So, I got to wondering if I couldn't swap out some of the running lights on my VR with some of these LED running lights. The only drawback I've seen so far is that the LED truck running lights aren't as stylish as the original equipment, but they ought to be easily more visible. I've got one light mounted, but haven't tested it yet due to fears that I may put too much of a strain on my stator. Have any of you good folks experimented with this? Have you tried replacing this? http://i32.tinypic.com/2vv9ge0.png With this? http://i27.tinypic.com/m8gok2.jpg
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    Come on guys. I'm serous about this. I haven't touched a bike in 28 years and I honestly don't know where this tool kit is supposed to be on the bike. I'm not trying to be a troll about this. I honestly don't know.
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    Hi y'all! Newbie here again and I've got yet another stoopid question. Where's the stinkin' tool kit supposed to be hidden on my '84 Venture Royale? I suspect it's supposed to be in the bottom of one of the saddlebags and the safety chain in the other. I have nothing in either bag and trying to find out where it's supposed to be in the owner's manual is proving to be a fruitless search. Now the next part of this stoopid question is, if in fact my original tool kit is missing (I bought the bike used), was it ever really worth having in the first place? The bikes of my youth were always equiped with tool kits that contained things that resembled tools and could sometimes be used as such if the user was frustrated enough. My thinking is to make a new tool fit containing a universal screwdriver and a small pair of vise grips.
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    Do they just screw right in to the existing holes? Did you have to do any modification to make them fit? I've got to replace my right mirror is why I asked. And yes, I like bigger mirrors too (brings out the truck driver in me).
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    I had already joined the "Other" site and made the comment to my friend in Carrollton, TX that if I wanted full membership on that board it'd cost me $20 per year. Being a member of many other free boards and the administrator of my own free board, this didn't set well with me. My friend is a far better googler than I and he e-mailed the link to me.
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    That's kinda what I'd thought. It seems like I'd heard some techs saying to use the clutch for all shifting when I was younger, but being bulletproof and stupid I was going to do as I pleased. And we wore the bikes out before the trannys ever had a chance to go out. I wouldn't have given it a second thought had it not been for the fact that I fell in to the practice just recently when test riding a few Gold Wings. I'm not in that big a hurry any more and I can afford to spend a fraction of a second to use the clutch.
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    OK, now here's the deal. When I was growing up, dad had bought us kids the traditional little Japanese bikes for puttering around on at the local dirt bike riding area. Once we would get the bike under way, we never used the clutch for shifting because they shifted so easily without it just by letting off the gas and hitting the shift lever. That was when I was young and stoopid. Now I'm old, cranky and battle scarred (married:Avatars_Gee_George:). As the owner of a recently purchased Venture, I've got a question concerning proper clutch use. It's been a long time since I had a bike and I caught myself using the clutch for all shifting (force of habit caused by all that truck driving). This got me wondering. I've never had a bike with a hydraulic clutch and I've certainly never had a Venture before. Is it in the bike's best interest to use the clutch for all shifting or do I need to revert the ways of my youth and use the clutch only for starting, stopping and downshifting? Thanks y'all!
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