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    I haven't checked. Do they mention how many States don't have some sort of licensing/permit requirement? I don't think there are more than a couple. In the end, from both a State and Federal perspective you need to have a permit to transport a handgun in Indiana. Interesting that the article you quoted was from New Jersey. Not long ago they incarcerated an out of Stater who was passing through with hollow point ammo that's illegal in NJ. He eventually got out on appeal. Sure messed up his vacation, though.
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    Indiana doesn't have a concealed carry requirement. Ours is a License To Carry a Handgun. It can be concealed, or right out on your hip. If someone from out of state passes through they have to follow the requirements of their license. If it says concealed the holder must carry concealed. If the individual does not have a license or permit from somewhere, they may not carry a handgun at all - not even disassembled and locked in the trunk, unless it's being taken to or from a repair facility. I had shot black powder on and off (mostly off) for years, and hadn't used a modern weapon since Boot Camp. Then I got robbed at gunpoint in the community college parking lot. Turns out "Gun Free Zone" signs don't impress the bad guys very much. Now I carry either a Taurus 445 stainless with 2" barrel and bobbed hammer in .44 special, or a Colt 1911 Combat Elite in .45 acp. When I got the Taurus I bought a fabric holster and disassembled it. Irene got some black canvas, thin padding, and some lining material. I made a pattern from the holster parts and she sewed a holster into my riding jacket. The left front pocket had developed a hole and needed repair anyway. It became the equivalent of a horizontal carry shoulder holster. We used the thumb break from the fabric holster. Between the thumb break and the pocket snap the Taurus is well secured but available. When I got the Colt I bought a Front-Line vertical shoulder holster. It prints less than the Taurus in the pocket holster. I also prefer it because it points the weapon down and not back. I also like the 1911 better. I think a revolver is a more reliable personal protection weapon, but the 1911 just plain feels better to handle. Because of the size of the cylinder on the Taurus I'm considering a Chiappa Rhino (2") to replace the Taurus. The Rhino has an unusual design which makes it much more narrow. The narrower flat sided cylinder should make it more concealable. It also fires from the bottom of the cylinder to place felt-recoil lower in the hand, and help control the flip experienced in short barrel weapons. I'm not a big fan of .357 mag. I like the .44 special better as a defensive round. I want something that'll stay where it's put and not pass through and endanger others. Still, sometimes compromise is in order. Now, what I'm going to do in July and August when the jacket just won't do, I have no clue. I'll be keeping an eye on this thread, and others on a couple of gun forums, for ideas.
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    Don't you mean left and right not front and back? Left and right are separate circuits. Front and back are not. I haven't done load equalizers, though I did try a load stabilizer. (Then took it off and put the Trick Flasher back on.) However, I tapped wires on a plug under the seat, by the battery, on the kickstand side. I'm thinking the wires are dark green and brown, but it's been a while. Old timers and all that... If you have to splice the equalizers inline you might want to look at the wires on the back fender under the passenger's seat. So did the LEDs kill auto cancel?
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    Mine is motorcycle only, also. I'd have a couple more if it were simply being in 'em.
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    The tests may get thrown out, but the judge should be the one to make the decision. According to the FBI report the draw was done properly. The blood draw was something like two hours later and it still came out a 0.19. That nobody noticed he was sloshed only indicates that he's had a lot of practice. Bottom line: Bisard was driving his squad car at an extreme rate of speed, communicating on his in-car computer, when he ran over two bikes and three people. I can't serve on his jury, because I believe he's guilty.
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    Even though it's been done, I have to mention the Beartooth. Wow. Hands down my favorite road. You might want to check out the Chief Joseph. Dead Indian mountain (on the Chief Joseph) is an unusual rock structure, at least to me (absolute amateur rock wise). While you in the Denver area you might want to check out Mount Evans. It's an asphalt road up to 14k feet. Spectacular. US 40 across Colorado is amazing. Rocky Mountain National park is very nice. Big Thompson Canyon and Cache La Poudre Canyon are both beautiful. While you're in Colorado you might find Royal Gorge interesting. Not as dramatic as the Grand Canyon, but pretty interesting anyway. It has a great bridge. Independence Pass is a nice ride/drive. I-70 between Glenwood Springs and Denver has to be the best chunk of Interstate in the country. Of course, down by Colorado Springs there's Pike's Peak. If you do Pike's Peak, Mount Evans, and Trail Ridge Road all in one vacation you've done the Colorad Triple Crown. Can't beat it, though you need to be aware of the altitude. It can be hard on folks. Wind River Canyon is beautiful. Even though they're probably well out of the way, there's Devil's Tower and the Badlands. On one trip Irene and I rode red roads west out of Jackson and arced south to US 40, then back east. That was pretty interesting too. For those who have not been there, Yellowstone is worth it. Different portions of the figure 8 are completely different. Southeast: lake and falls. West side: thermal amazement. North and north east are high plains and mountains. It's not hard to spend a lot of time exploring the Rockies.
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    You should still have some warranty left. Seems like a good time to use it. Please let us know what you find out. I'm interested in how you can have pressure buildup in a system that you have to use a hand pump to add air to.
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    Hazard relay is inside the fairing. Brake side.
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    Cinderella

    Bummer replied to Wolfie's topic in Watering Hole

    , Cinderella! May you have many more!
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    As always we're thinking of our VentureRider family and want to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas! May you all be as blessed as we have. Steve and Irene
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    At least you remembered why you were posting. That something. Um... Oh, yeah... Welcome Cap'n Quirk! Glad to have you here!
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    Thought you'd sneak this one in under the radar, did you? Well... , Lilsis! May you have many more! Hey, what are brothers for?
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    There are pins and contacts. The three pins are the little alignment pins sticking out from the sides of the base that fit into slots in the socket. Check out this page. Hard to argue with that. That's why I suggest you double check before you spend the money. Both bikes, being '06s from the USA should have the same sockets. Prior to '05 1156 and 1157 would have been correct. My sister's '97 Royal Star Tour Classic uses 1156 and 1157 bulbs. My '06 definitely has the BAZE fronts. The Receipt says I got the 7507s for the rear. I thought they were 1156, which is why I'm going to check. (Probably tomorrow - new job, 12 hour days, winter, day off, etc.) Gotta get this figured out for future reference. Based upon the page listed above I'm pretty sure it's going to be BAZ and 7507, I just want to be sure. Glad to help.
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    With an '06, you should have the three pin bulbs in the front. (Aside for lurkers - I believe that the front signal bulbs changed in '05, but I'm not absolutely certain.) I also don't know where your bike originated, or what differences there may be between bikes made for other places. The safest course would be to check prior to ordering. GEN200-A-BAZE2-T is the three pin amber. This is what I ordered for the fronts. I looked up my digital receipt and found that I ordered the GEN200-A-7507-T for the rear. I ordered the GEN200-A-1156-T for my sister's '97 Royal Star. Both have two pins, but the 7507s are aligned differently. I'd suggest checking them too. If they're straight across from each other it's the 1156. If they're not, it's 7507. (Now I'm going to have to go out and look at the ones in mine to see what's going on. Maturity just isn't all it's cracked up to be.) I'd also like to point out that the backing plates do not always fit. I've done two bikes and on both I had to file two of the plates. It's only a few thousands, so a couple of swipes around the outside with a coarse rasp will massage them to fit perfectly. I didn't mind, since I'd rather they were snug than loose.
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    I have these, which are the same as the ones Midrsv has. They are poke yer eye bright! They are a bit expensive, but I feel they are well worth it. I did not use load equalizers. For quite a while I just let 'em flash fast. It's not really all that fast. In fact I had several people tell me I had a turn signal out, since they flash at about the rate incandescents do when one it burned out. They may also kill auto-cancel. When I first installed them auto-cancel still worked. I swapped the relay to test my sister's Royal Star's flashers, and when I put it back auto-cancel was gone. I'm still not sure why that happened. I didn't try to troubleshoot it very hard, I just put the Trick Flasher I'd previously removed back on. Speaking of which... If you do go with LEDs and do want to do something about flash speed, I'd suggest looking for a digital flasher. I use a little box called a Trick Flasher that has several custom (and technically not DOT legal) flash patterns. These are no longer sold. Custom Dynamics has had similar flashers, but doesn't list any right now. While not actually part of the original question, I'd strongly recommend an LED tail light. I have an older 128 LED unit that is so bright I had to get a separate LED plate light to direct enough light onto the plate for it to be seen over the glare of the tail light at night. The current 100 LED option is almost as bright and not quite as expensive. I do not recommend going with the 32 LED version - might as well stay with the incandescent bulb. If you do go with an LED tail light, you should also get a clear or smoke colored lens, since the red lens reduces the amount of light displayed. FWIW, I also have the Yamaha wing with a BackOff XP on the LED and a modulator on the headlight high beams. You just can't have enough lights doing strange stuff for me. Once run over, twice paranoid.
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    Sorry to hear it. I hope you find something before you need to find something.
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    Yes. Always.
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    , Taz!!! May you have many more!
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    , Bobbie!! May you have many more!
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    Carl and Marca, congratulations! Congratulations to the parents! A warm welcome to little May. Fifteen is a nice number. We also have fifteen grandkids. Of course, if we hadn't adopted our oldest daughter's first little girl we'd have twelve grandkids and three great grandkids. That would make us really old.
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    I think it imparts a greater understanding of history, which can help one understand what's going on today. I know that on my Dad's side my earliest ancestors on this continent came from Basil Switzerland and settled in the Luray Valley of Virginia. I also learned that when people came here in the 1700s they had to buy land where they disembarked. My ancestors sold the land they bought at a huge loss so they could move on. This resulted in what amounted to a rather large tax for coming here. This information helps put modern immigration arguments into perspective. We also learned that our surname was changed when the original father and two sons came here, and we found folks we're related to in both Switzerland and Germany. I learned that my Mom's paternal grandmother was a Native American, though we do not know which tribe. It's believed that she was from a tribe that was assimilated. (Read: mostly killed off, and no longer recognized.) I also learned that Mom's maternal grandfather ran a tavern in Terre Haute. That branch was followed all the way back to Germany. Unfortunately her Dad's side lead to a dead end. Brown can be a pretty hard name to chase back. Add in a Court House fire that destroyed all the records and that was that. During one of the otherwise boring vacations we were taken on as children, we found "Bloody Ford" and Fort Rodes on the Shenandoah river. On a motorcycling vacation in 1990 (on my '85 VR) we found an old family homestead with graveyard. After my Mom passed away I had to catalog all her stuff. I found maps of the Shenandoah Valley indicating several grave sites that the local Historical Society had lost track of. Because of everything else I knew what I was looking at, and that there are others who are interested in this information. Real value? Probably not a lot. Emotional value? Quite a bit, actually. I feel that a web site can act as a starting point to pique interest, but to truly understand it all, I think the individual has to walk around in an overgrown lilac patch and actually stumble upon the grave stones.
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    My family uses MyHeritage. When I was a kid, my parents traced our family trees back - Dad's side to the early 1700s, my Mom's side to the mid 1800s. Some of the most boring vacations of my youth involved Court Houses, with Dad taking photos of huge books using a press camera. Afterwards Dad and Mom sorted through the pictures and copied the information. They put a lot of work into it. In the '80s I data based the info and gave a copy to a cousin. She eventually found MyHeritage, and pretty much went crazy with it. She's entered over 1900 names, and a couple of large boxes full of photos. And that's just for my Mom's side. I'm slowly entering info into GRAMPS (an open source genealogy system). My first effort was lost to changing formats over the years. Now I save everything in GEDCOM formatted backups in the hopes it won't get lost to standards changes. I still have the old paper copies my parents made, and a copy of the printed output from when I data based it all in the '80s. It's a lot of work to do right, but can be very rewarding.
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    Yes, though there's also a plug inside the fairing. You can use a splitter there and route the wire where ever you want. That way you don't have to leave the cassette door open all the time. I have mine routed to the trunk, along with power, with a Cowon 30gig hard drive based player in the pouch. (Contrary to lore the hard drive based player has worked fine for four seasons, though it's just tossed vertically into the pouch so the vibration doesn't bother it much.) I like the Cowon units because I can use a better audio format (codec) and have better sound. With all you have going against you on a motorcycle I think you need to start out with the best audio you can get. Change to AUX and you'll hear the audio from the jack. You'll also be able to turn the volume up and down. You will probably need to run the player at a fairly high volume too. Nope. We're waiting on BikeMP3 to come out with a Venture player that will replace the CD. If they ever get it made and available you'll be able to control it as if it were a factory CD player. This device is, however, beginning to look like VaporWare - talked about but never built. Ok. It'll do. There's an Alpine amp (KTP-445) that is pretty small that can be used to boost the output to 35W per channel, at which point you can add a set of Polk 401s, or something like them, for better sound. It's ok, but you're only going to get so much out of the low wattage and small speakers. I prefer headphones.
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    Inkscape will do it. It's free, open source, and available for Windows. File / Import. Path / Trace Bitmap. Increase the colors in the Trace Bitmap window. (This increases resolution, which also increases file size.) Click Update in the Trace Bitmap window with each change. Save in EPS format.
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    I'm not pusing the cassette, just pointing out a fact about audio quality. I think the wind noise is a bigger problem than small speakers. You can add a power amplifier (Alpine makes one) and better speakers and get better sound. In the end you'll still lack bass and, of course, there's the wind noise... I use a hard drive based music player simply tossed into the pouch in the trunk. Several thousand fairly lo-fi songs. I do my part by using one of the better formats. In the end, convenience still wins out over quality. Such is life.
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