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About TexasFlyer

  • Birthday 11/06/1949

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    Larry Miner

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    Sugar Land, United States

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    Sugar Land

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  • Home Country
    United States

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  • Interests
    astronomy, flying, fixing things.
  • Bike Year and Model
    83 Venture w/ 1300cc engine
  1. TexasFlyer
    Sure does make my heart swell with pride when I see all those Texas flags waving on this thread!!! If you look inside the hardcopy of Texas Ride and look carefully for where they publish the magazine, you might notice the name of the city begins with an "S"... I picked up my free copy the other month (yes, you can get them for free by stopping by the Texas Welcome Stations at the borders) and nearly let out a loud Whoop as I saw the place where they publish the Texas Ride magazine is about one mile up the road from my house! Cool! Great magazine! Shiney, classy and well done.
  2. TexasFlyer
    Congratulaions! It has got to feel great when the project is complete and she purrs! See ya on the road!
  3. TexasFlyer

    83 Venture for sale

    Images added to a gallery album owned by TexasFlyer in Member Albums

    has 87 1300cc engine/transmission, hitch, trailer wiring, great exhaust. I am moving to Papua New Guinea to serve in the mission field, so gotta sell.
  4. TexasFlyer
    It really was a great video. I did recognize quite a few of those cracks in the road!! What surprized me was the small town with the water tower - I just do not remember it anywhere. Oh well, I have been living in Springdale, just north of Fayetteville by four miles, for nearly 2.5 years, and drove through the B-B-BBQ rally on my way to Texas last weekend. As of today I will have three weekends and four weeks to find that mysterious water tower as I am moving out of Arkansas back home to Sugar Land Texas on October 31. My bike and I will try to get real familiar with Arkansas before I go home. And the colors are just now starting to turn!! I love Arkansas!
  5. TexasFlyer
    Actually, MasterGuns makes a really good point - it will pop, backfire and make all kinds of ugly unless the airfilter and airbox is in position and tightened up. I used to get a kick out of looking down into the carbs from above and watching the sliders move when I revved the engine --- until a particularly nasty one of those "backfires" tried to reach up thru the opening and grab my face. Close call. Never again. Once is enough.
  6. TexasFlyer
    I saw more than one mention of solid engine mounts. Can someone point me to a link for those? I would like to go that way next. Thanks!
  7. TexasFlyer
    ...oil levels in the fork... well, they are within a couple TENTHS of an ounce of each other. But I would take a lot of convincing to get me to think that the 10-weight oil which is used for the dampening of the front wheel bounce could have any effect on the handling issue I am experiencing. But I will listen to everything - that is why I come here. Great group of friends!
  8. TexasFlyer
    Some of our forum readers may not know this, but in Texas there are areas on the roads in certain parts of the state that have no posted speed limit. I know that sounds silly, but when I am riding along and come upon a sign that says "reduce speed ahead", and when I get to the next sign it says "speed limit 85" or on a different road says "speed limit 80", that is, well, pretty cool. I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could. (All my kids were born in Texas.)
  9. TexasFlyer
    My handling issue on my 1983 is really a 'weave' like you mentioned. Not really fast enough to be called a wobble or a shimmy. And it is worse when being buffetted - aka slapped around - by the Semi's and SUV's windstreams. It was not detectable even at 85 with my old E2's. It started the day I changed the fork oil, tires, and repositioned the handlebars all at the same time. I do have a troubleshooting list I made to test and eliminate the problem step by step, and the first on my list is the front tire pressure. Took the whole trip at 32psi. Testing will go higher psi. I'll let you know what I find when I find it!!
  10. TexasFlyer
    Nope - no hop. The tires really do feel well balanced and I cannot detect any "tire vibration" - seem real smooth. My issue is a slow back and forth meandering, or weaving, of the bike. I posted this issue in another forum, as I believe this thread was pointed toward the Shinko tire.
  11. TexasFlyer
    Hi Guys. I mentioned this on another thread, but this looks like the correct thread. My 1983 Venture. I had both tires replaced 10 days ago. New Shinko on the front and new Avon on the rear, both mounted by my Yamaha dealer. I changed the fork oil (the same day as the tires) for the first time in unknown decades. Put it all back together, torqued up and jumped on for a ride. My dad (been riding for 70 years) says "not possible", but I claim the bike has a completely new feel to it. Old Dunlops felt really heavy and took muscle to steer. New tires are like riding on razorblades. Whew! Feels fast and light on it's feet. HOWEVER, now when I get around 75 or more, the bike has a real slow 'wobble'. If I begin to feel the wobble, my instinct says 'back off' as it feels like it may become unstable. Really weird to me. I did everything I knew how to do (I have the factory manuals for the bike) to verify that the bearings and all the parts of the fork were happy. I just took the bike out for a nine-day, 1763 mile trip and everything was very very nice as long as I stayed under 75. After thinking about it, it almost feels as though the handlebars/tubes/fork are not "stiff" anymore. I will pull it apart again later this week and check the bearings in the fork. Wheel bearings are good. Oh! A detail: I installed the new 'dynamic balancing beads' inside the tires, and I think they are super! I am just now wondering if they are contributing to my wobble at high speed? Comments are solicited!! Thanks.
  12. TexasFlyer
    Just got back from a 1763 mile ride thru MO/IL/IN/MI/WI and about six hours of the ride was in the rain. My Shinko from the same store mentioned above performed flawlessly. I have a new AVON on the rear (both mounted the same day by my motorcycle shop). Water was no issue. Side note: my old Dunlop's gave my bike a very stable feel, almost heavy feel. The new Shinko/Avon duo makes it feel like I am on razorblades. And I am now looking around for a possible answer for why the bike wants to slowly 'wobble' when I get above 75 or so, which I did not notice with the old Dunlops. But so far, two thumbs up on the new tires. They worked well for me in the rain.
  13. TexasFlyer
    Oh yes, my '83 whines real good. I been all over it, my maintenance manuals, and the internet, and have come to the personal conclusion that the bike likes it that way!
  14. TexasFlyer
    I was at the WINGDING last weekend. Goldwing rally in Tulsa. I watched the techs change tires on the goldwing - up on the center stand - on a raised platform (with safety straps of course) and it was nearly as swift and simple as a car. I was impressed. Now I must spend time considering my '83 Venture - almost 900 pounds - as a candidate for the darkside. [bTW - went to Daniel Meyer's website and WOW - and I ordered his books. I am impressed. Let you know later of my review!]
  15. TexasFlyer
    I read everyones messages here, above. But when the very same thing - same thing - happened to me, it was the carb diaphrams - had tiny holes that became bigger when I road the bike and shut it down, and presto - the next day it would not start BUT WOULD BACKFIRE. To get a temporary fix while my new diaphrams were ordered (there is a thread here somewhere that you can find about getting new ones) I took each out one by one, and sealed the holes in the diaphrams with a tiny layer of the blue silicone gasket maker (YES - I know it says don't use for gasoline applications - but it will hold for maybe 800 miles or so). That is at least one idea that you can try with immediate go/nogo test results. Additionally, the silicone gets yucky after a while, so don't leave it in there forever, just a short temporary trial.
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