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  1. pegscraper
    Or, since you already own PdaNet... Are you aware that Androids can use PdaNet without rooting the phone? The iphone requires jailbreaking to use PdaNet, but an Android phone can use it right out of the box.
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    I'll look forward to seeing how these work for you. This looks interesting. And an R1 upgraded to something else? What is there to upgrade to off of these?
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    I wasn't interested in rooting my phone and doing that kind of technical stuff until I learned that I could block ads with a root app. That was it right there. I rooted the thing. My phone is not advertising space. Since then, I've done a few other things. My phone had a particularly horrible tink sound when I would adjust the ring volume. I found the sound file where that is and renamed it so the phone system can't find it. Now I can adjust the ring volume silently. I did the same thing with the start up sound. I don't like such things. Being rooted you can make backups of apps and operating systems. I'm to the point now where I don't take any app updates until I make a backup first. Sometimes the developers screw things up - they don't work right, they take away features, they add ads for no reason whatsoever. It happens. If I don't like an app update, I can revert back to the one I like. I have several now that I will never update again. If you're rooted, you can break off app permissions you don't think are necessary, which is a lot of them, things like phone location, SIM card number, phone serial number. Even some games want phone permissions that they have no legitimate reason to need, to know who you call and when. I don't think so. I break that garbage off. You can block the forced updating of operating systems from your carrier, which I find do little more than take away more and more features and do nothing to make the phone more useful. Two or three operating system updates came out for my phone over the past six months and they all ended up getting retracted because they had so many problems and the people who got them had nothing but headaches. Major things like phone doesn't work, data doesn't work, e-mail or voice mail doesn't work. (I really fail to understand why people get so excited about operating system updates.) But I didn't have to deal with any of those problems because I blocked that garbage to begin with. You can choose the operating system you want that has the features and look that you want, and there are several of them out there. There is no end to the customization you can do with a rooted phone. And like revinger mentioned, you can get rid of carrier installed apps which are generally garbage and which you normally can't uninstall. I don't do much more with mine than what I've mentioned, but it's enough. Some people do a lot more with them than I do. But I wouldn't have one of these phones without rooting it and doing these things. I hope you can get an answer to your other questions. I'm fairly certain you can use your phone over wifi. I've read such things on the phone forums before and people get it to work. But I don't know how to do it.
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    I'm not certain, which is why I said I wonder. I have an HTC Thunderbolt which I rooted and my wife has a rooted Droid X. I know just enough about these things to be dangerous. Here is a Motorola Cliq forum where you can find out all you want to know. http://androidforums.com/motorola-cliq/
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    I'm pretty sure you should be able to use it over wifi without being activated, and probably the phone too. I've heard of others doing it. I wonder if it will need a SIM card in it though. I knew someone with an ipod touch (or something like that, I'm not sure exactly what it was) that was not really a phone and could not connect to cell towers but could be used as a phone over wifi. Find a forum for your phone and you can find out all you want to know about it and much more. BTW, jailbreaking is for iphones. Android phones get rooted.
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    That should be, "... look UP the word UP in the dictionary." And why do slow up and slow down mean the same thing?
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    They fit. I've had them in mine for a few years and probably have over 50,000 miles on them. N2IT's bike has them according to the description. And we aren't the only ones who have ever done it.
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    Yup, that's the dude. The bikes those calipers came on were never sold in the US. Just about the only way for us to get them is to find a European seller willing to ship overseas.
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    Good to hear from you Dan! Take care of yourself and get better soon.
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    Those calipers will bolt on our bikes and would be a huge improvement. However, they are designed for use with a 5/8" master cylinder, which the 2nd gens have. I don't know what size master cylinder the 1st gens have. I looked around for a set of these for a while, but they're not easy to turn up in the US.
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    RSV cams: lift: .305" dur. @ .050": 206º dur. @ .020": 228º VMX cams: lift: .325" dur. @ .050": 236º dur. @ .020": 258º The VMX cams and valve springs are a drop in fit in these engines. I have them in mine. If you still want bigger cams than these, PCW does have them.
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    Pulling the heads on an air cooled engine is much easier. Yes, I make the adapter plates. If your current heads have the blank bosses on them for the 32mm intake bolt pattern, you might just drill and tap the other set of holes. Then you don't have to mill the intakes down either. I've done this on a couple bikes now and it works fine. You will need about a 12" extension for the drill bit to get past the frame and put the bit where you need it. I also can machine down a VMX rear gear housing to mount the speedo sensor. It's a lot less than trading for another housing with the gears already swapped. I posted pictures of this operation last spring. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=59347
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    I'm a little behind catching up with this, but wow, I'm sorry to hear it. They don't come any friendlier than Dan. Take care of yourself and get better soon.
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    Yes, the later heads will bolt on the earlier engines fine, but I don't think I'd say "simply install". Removing the heads requires removing the engine from the bike, plus removing the heads is a lot more teardown. That's why I with the help of a machinist friend of mine came up with the adapter plates. The RSV exhaust cam is the same thing as yours. The RSV intake cam is slightly bigger, not very much, but supposedly more in line with the 32mm carbs. If you're really looking for more power and you're willing to tear the engine down to this point anyway, I'd say get some VMX cams for it and be done.
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    We're out of town right now and have very limited access to the net, thus the delayed response to your PM. It looks like you have already been pointed to the carb swap article. That's how to do it. Depending on your mechanical skills, it's either very easy or very difficult. I forget the years on cams anymore. There are only two sets, pre-emissions and post-emissions. I'd take the earlier ones, but even the later ones would be a lot better than what you have now. The earlier ones have a model number that starts with "1FK", and those three characters are cast into the camshafts too, so you can tell what you're looking at even if they're out of the bike.
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    It's not real clear here. Do you still need a cam or not? I have a junk one not doing anything.
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    I did the same thing. The heel was really nothing but in my way.
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    Distributorless crank triggered waste spark system. Separate coils.
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    Not enough bad things can happen to those people.
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    What is repinning the carbs? And like has been said, his rejetting is way too rich. You can still get better mileage than that.
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    They are a drop-in fit. You'll find though, that the exhaust cams are the same thing between these bikes. Only the intake cams are different. BTW, VMX cams are also a drop-in fit.
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    Here is a huge cross reference list posted on our own site. Our bikes use group 5 down at the bottom. I've used the Casite CF240 and the Supertech ST7317 and they're both decent. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=523
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    He's mostly right, but it's the spring that works backwards. When the bike is loaded, the spring doesn't compress, it stretches. Without my bike setting in front of me, turn the preloading lock rings so that the spring stretches out more. Most or all of the owner's manuals from this era will tell you to adjust it backwards from what needs to happen, so if you're doing what the manual says to do, that could be causing confusion.
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    No bike or rider either.
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    The carbs don't need synced that often either. I've done mine maybe twice in 50,000 miles, and only that much because I played with them a lot.
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