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    We did have a good bunch of rides in IN last year. We had one here again this year that was just a bit too cold yet for me to ride that distance. But there will be more. Not much goes on in northern IN though. Pretty boring riding up here. Northern OH is probably not much different. Southern IN and OH are much more fun to ride. I did a covered bridge ride about a year and a half ago in northern OH. Someone else did another one last year in southern OH, during which I was unfortunately sick. I have some ideas for another ride in NE IN sometime. Interesting spots around here are few and far between, but there are a few odd spots where there must have been a crack in the glacier and the landscape didn't get smoothed out. And there are a couple or so roads here which are basically paved over old Indian trails which are a little windy. I know there are some members here from northern OH from whom we don't hear much. We'll just have to get some more rides going around here. BTW, Ms. Highwaypeg, where is New Burlington, OH? My wife also rides a V Star 1100. I think Dragonrider said it best. If you'd like to see some rides in your area, you're welcome to put one together. Just pick a place or two to eat, one with ice cream is a must, lay out a route to ride with maybe some sights to see and a few rest breaks, pick a date and time and do it.
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    Seats from any model of '96 to '01 Royal Star will fit. They're all the same there.
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    Here is a short article on a BMW site on how to make your own evaporative cooling vest. clicky
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    Yes, it's a waste spark ignition. The plug fires every time the cylinder comes to TDC, even on the off cycle or the overlap phase. But the four cylinders still have their combustion strokes at four different times. The uneven firing pattern is due to the 70º V angle of the engine. One side of the pattern has a 20º overlap and the other side has a 20º gap. A 90º V engine could be completely even, but Honda somehow patented that angle for a V4 engine and no one else can use it. I don't know how Honda managed to do that. His bike is a '98 Royal Star, not a 2nd gen Venture. Rev limit is 6000, not 7500. (The early Royal Stars are what is slower than a 1st gen. The 2nd gen Ventures are not.) The early Royal Stars do not have a counterbalancer in the engine like the Ventures do and they are geared even higher than the 2nd gens are. The Venture engine may run happily all day at 2000 rpms, but this bike will not. It will pound and shake like crazy if you try to run along at 2000 rpm. It needs to be running at least 3500 rpms or higher before it will smooth out. This engine will still vibrate at 65 mph given any throttle at all, even if the carbs are in perfect sync. Fifth gear is so high in this bike you won't get away from that vibration under throttle until you get up around 75 or 80 mph. Here are some suggested shift points to help you get used to this engine: 25, 45, 55, 60. That assumes moderate acceleration and a top speed of 60 mph. If your top speed will be higher, stretch them out a little more. Fourth gear in this bike is what fifth gear used to be in older bikes, and fifth gear is a ridiculously high overdrive at .75:1. Don't shift into fifth gear until you're all done accelerating and you've come to your final cruising road speed.
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    G, these 28mm carbs never had cone shaped brass caps on them like the 32mm Venture carbs do. They came with brass plugs in them, and the fact that his now has rubber plugs in them means that someone has drilled out the brass ones to adjust the mixture screws. How many turns out are the mixture screws? My copies of both Y's factory shop manual and the Clymer's manual say these 28mm carbs have a #20 pilot jet. I don't remember what mine actually had in them anymore. My stock carbs are long gone. If yours have #17.5 pilots, I guess I'll say leave them there and work with that. The needles on the throttle valves are adjustable with shims or small washers. There should only be one shim under the needles. There might be another one on top of the needle too as a spare or for other adjustment, but that one doesn't actually raise the needle. How many shims are under the needles on your carbs?
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    I don't remember there being a lack of sufficient threads left on the bolts. These bolts don't operate in tension anyway, they operate in shear, so they don't have to hold much. I actually made some very short brackets for the top bolts to set the tops of the bars forward just a little bit. I use vinyl covers on mine in cold weather, and that gives a little more foot room for the shift and brake pedals. The lower bolts are missing? What was holding the small guard bars on, or were those missing too?
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    The 150 is stock. So how is getting another 150 going to improve handling? I have a 130 and like it. I don't find any of the other problems that some say they have.
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    Summer is coming fast. Pretty soon it will be hot and we'll need something to cool us down while riding. Check out this cooling shirt. This thing looks great. Then next winter, maybe the lines could even be plugged into a coolant line on the bike and you'd be toasty warm. Seems like someone on this board came up with this idea a couple years ago. I can't remember who though. (No, it wasn't me.)
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    A few blind tests would reveal that your results are a little more accurate. If the K&Ns were really letting in any more air and doing anything for performance, the carbs would require rejetting to match.
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    The straight ones are gone. You're pretty much out of luck. What you could do is find some rubber sheet somewhere and cut some to fit. Scrape or grind the chrome off in the slots and the glue will work a lot better.
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    maple syrup

    pegscraper replied to mraf's topic in Watering Hole

    Good on pancakes. Best on ice cream.
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    Do you have any pictures for those of us who don't know what you're talking about?
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    They quit carrying the Avon tires in WWs a while back too. That right there loses their business from me, no matter what the service is like. Gotta have my WWs.
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    Wow, those do look nice. If mine looked that nice, I might flip them up more instead of leaving them down all the time.
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    Yup, that's the one. I have one right now and like it. The Dunlops out of which I got 16,000 miles were a replacement set. I've heard some haven't gotten anywhere near that much out of replacements sets. I have no idea why.
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    The weighted one goes on the right side. The damper stops the rotor from ringing somehow. I took mine off once and got this loud resonating pitch every time I touched the front brakes. It did it every single time until I put the thing back on. Why only one side is needed and not the other is more than I understand.
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    I can't help you with installation. I am curious which tire you decided to use.
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    I don't know enough about painting to help you. If you don't get any answers here, here's a painting forum where you might turn. autobody101
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    Like I mentioned, I got decent mileage out of my Dunlops. Maxxis are the cheapest to buy but end up being the most expensive to run.
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    As long as it doesn't get less than the minimum gap, it should be fine. If it is less, I'd open them up a little. That's odd, really. They should be the same anywhere on the base circle. The base circle of the cam should not have any runout.
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    Avon does make the front size. Maybe the vendor you were looking at doesn't carry them? They make the stock size in BW, and if you like the narrower front size, they make them in both BW and WW. I currently have 22,000 miles on their narrow front WW tire. Yes, it needs changed. If you want stock sizes in WWs, you're stuck with Dunlop or Maxxis. Why don't you like the Dunlops? I've used them and thought they were fine. I got 16,000 miles out of them. I have a friend who uses Maxxis. He likes the looks, ride, and handling, but he admits he doesn't get very many miles out of them. Radials are fine. They just don't make any with WWs. I like WWs.
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    Well, those are the kinds of questions I ask when I'm falling asleep on a Sunday afternoon in front of the TV with the laptop in my lap.
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    So what are doing about the kickstand?
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