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  1. Bob Myers
    I'm home! 3423 miles round trip. Left here on Sunday morning, arrived Salt Lake City around 11am on Monday. 1733 miles in 30 hours, including 5 hours sleep. Was disappointed by fuel mileage falling to 38 mpg overall average, but I never had ridden this bike at 80mph for 26 hours steady. Met "utadventure", and his wife and sons. Super, super nice people. Dave helped me straighten out a clutch issue that cropped up en route to the city. Even having never met me nor talked with me, he and his wife welcomed me like I was an old and trusted friend. When I left I did leave as a friend!
  2. Bob Myers
    With the help of ultraventure we ran about a third of a fresh can of fluid through via filling/bleeding. The fluid we drained out of it was very brown, contaminated with moisture, it appears to have solved the issue. What Danj said makes very good sense about the moisture expanding, except for the part where the handle would fail to operate the unit without pumping it several times. But it would explain pushing the fluid back out. Without his generosity and help I would have been forced to do this somewhere outside in the sun. He and his wife were very gracious host, making sure I didn't leave hungry!
  3. Bob Myers
    heading out the door! See you in SLC
  4. Bob Myers
    Actual reasoning for load being high on the mast is twofold, (A) higher means better coverage, (B) there is no ground plane to be utilized so the lower part of the mast beneath the load, acts as a counterpoise to effect ground plane.
  5. Bob Myers
    I tried that. Did not hold.
  6. Bob Myers
    Very innovative approach. A button head stainless fastener would look very good there. As yours, mine is broken too. I will try to find the same item as you to repair and also a button head screw
  7. Bob Myers
    As you stated the hitch is to rotate some on the ball, what is to keep that thing from flopping back and forth at will and causing the trailer to "wag the dog"?
  8. Bob Myers
    My fun is riding, not stopping for fuel, or stopping to socialize(although I will, but find I've spent too much time doing so), and certainly not to partake of the devils spirits. I just love to ride, and with this style you find there are several things you've ridden past a dozen times or more and either failed to see or saw and did not know what you saw. I see things that others may never see, yet I don't ride slow enough to stare at any one thing. That reminds me, I need a spare key for the Venture so I don't have to waste time turning it off for the locking gas cap key and restarting it.
  9. Bob Myers
    Heading out Sunday early (3)am for Salt Lake City, plan on being there on Monday morning/mid day. A friend who owns a KTM dealership here in Lexington and I are planning on making it under 36 hours. A couple guys from SLC have already offered their hospitality to show me around while my friend attends those boring meetings and such. Will attempt to be online Monday night with results-if my laptop decides to come out of its coma. It went comatose yesterday and is now on life support. At this time plans are to leave either Wednesday night or early Thursday morning for return to Ky. I'm gonna have a blast, been wanting to do this for years and i'm going to go even if I have to ride my Vulcan!
  10. Bob Myers
    Actually that was not in reference to the card, it was an attempt at a hijack concerning the SUper 8:stickpoke: But I regress, and apologize for trying that
  11. Bob Myers
    Well, I too have that weakness, and it is a tougher addiction than cigarettes to give up. My best secret for fuel mileage is never rev the engine above what is actually needed to get to the next gear, and pull. I know these V4 love to rev but it is fuel mileage out the tailpipe doing it. On the 86 I only rev to about 1500 to catch next gear until I look for 5th, then I'll run it up to 2500 or so. Never back off the throttle going down a hill unless you are in danger of running over someone slower or you become airborne. Hold that twist grip steady and leave the cruise control off. I do use the cruise some, but it is to relax my arthritic right hand for a few seconds at a time. Yes, I'm slow as molassess on takeoff, usually, and I usually slow down a block back for the red light. Driving this way has produced unusually high miles on my brakes too. My pickup has just over 287,000 miles on the original rear brakes and fronts have over 160,000 on them. My Vulcan has 24,000 miles on original brakes both ends, th 86 Venture got new pads last week at 28,000. The fronts were oil soaked is only reason I replaced them.
  12. Bob Myers
    I too have had issues with the Super 8 in Asheville, 2 summers ago. We know for certain that our room had been searched. We did complain to the manager to which she said"I don't believe you". We checked out and went to Motel 6, with the savings in room fare for the next 4 days I had steak each night!
  13. Bob Myers
    I have possession of an 86 Venture, ride it near every day. It belongs to an old friend of my father and mine, he doesn't want the bike, and he doesn't want to sell it. He even keeps the insurance and tags current on it "just in case he takes a notion to ride". Over the last 7 years or so I have had it for extended periods of time, and have thusly put several miles on it. Of the 27k thats on it, 22 k are mine! Heading off to Salt Lake City on it this coming Sunday, be back on Friday, in case he wants to ride Saturday.
  14. Bob Myers
    Its always done better than that. The man that actually owns this bike let it sit for over a year, on the sidestand, with gas and no stabil in it. We had the bike in our posession for 5 years previously and riding 2 up it always did 46/50, and single it would do 52/54. this is according to the speedometer. I ran yesterday for the first time with my GPS on board just to clock the speed and found the speedo to be a little fast. An indicated 70 is actuall(according to GPS) 66mph. 60 indicated is 57 actual. As for fuel mileage, everything I own gets better mileage than the previous owner got, my f250 diesel does solid 22/24mpg, my Vulcan 800 does consistent 54mpg, and my wifes bike is identical to mine except 3 years older and less miles and does 51mpg. I have taught people to ride,drive like I do and they too improved their mileage.
  15. Bob Myers
    Looks like Tina has done something to her knee, it appears she has an ACL tear or something similar and was in extreme pain all night, so, as much as I hate to drop out on this I need to stay here with her today.
  16. Bob Myers
    Firstly you don't have enough electrical system to operate that amp. It'll pull in excess of 20amps even with MoSFeTs, secondly the antenna will never handle it. The way the antenna is made, it is capacitively coupled at the base, it won't handle much more than about 20 watts, maybe 50 if you were moving and the blowing air was cooling it. A real antenna, and at least 1 more battery paralleled for minimum. Then the stator will complain and go on strike from trying to keep up.
  17. Bob Myers
    Just because you are not riding doesn't mean you don't have to show up for breakfast tomorrow. You are still obligated to show up. Ride the Virago.
  18. Bob Myers
    So, these are supposed to have a 5.5 gallon tank. How much can you really draw? Presuming it is a near straight road where leaning for curves is minimal. Red light was flashing last weekend at 167 miles, riding 2 up( and we weigh a bunch), interstate 75-85mph,,, took 4.1 gallons for fill up. Would I had to hit reserve if I'd pushed it(not literally) another 40 miles?
  19. Bob Myers
    If the swr is bad enough that "overtime" could be as short as 30 seconds of transmit time. If it seems to receive well then there is a good possibility that the swr is close. personally I don't have much faith in swr meters, you can make them tell you anything you want to read. My personal choice is an antenna analyzer but not everyone has access to one of those. Being an amateur radio operator I have a tendency to be very anal about tuning. The antenna could easily be considered the most important 75% of your setup.
  20. Bob Myers
    I'm riding from Ky to Salt Lake City on the 17th(next weekend), plan on being there on Monday. Leaving for Ky again on Thursday. Meeting a fellow member or two would be great. Not sure where I'm staying yet but the guy I'm tagging along with (to keep him out of trouble) will be attending the KTM dealer meet and ride on Tuesday and Wednesday, so I'll be lost and found for those 2 days.
  21. Bob Myers
    When we arrive who's table should we ask for?
  22. Bob Myers
    I removed the nut that holds the upper handlebar in place and machined a nifty little stub fom a piece of 303 stainless to go back in its place. 10x1mm are the threads on that nut and curiously enough that is not a common metric fastener but I did have a tap. After screwing it on in place of the nut I wished I had made it longer but I can always make another to go on the other side.
  23. Bob Myers
    Well I don't know how rank you are but your abilities with the shutter are nothing to ignore, every one is naturally inclined to do something in life, some are blessed to have several abilities. We see one of yours. There was one pic you shot in front of a house with a picket fence around it, is that the museum across the street from Jeff boat works?
  24. Bob Myers
    We will await your word, rescheduling for another weekend may make a larger draw any way. There seems to be a lot going on to our north this weekend.
  25. Bob Myers
    Eddie. I read a post where you went down in Pineville. Are you back on yet or has this next weekend become scratched for you?
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