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  1. pegscraper
    Easy there, milky. Baron's makes some that fit our bike. You've seen pictures of mine. Would they work for you?
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    The rear tires are made with more rubber on them. They'll last longer than standard front tires do because there's more to wear down. The MT tire manufacturers can do this themselves, but they have us all on the hook thinking they can't last long and replacing them more frequently.
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    Haven't seen it myself. Possibly your tensioner pulley is getting weak?
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    I have a 1/2" clicker and 3/8" beam type, both Craftsman. Both of them have both metric and standard scales on them, which is real nice. On cars, I've never used them for anything more than internal engine parts. On the bike I tend to use them more because more things tend to be a little more critical, and if something were to fail it would most likely be a lot hairier of a situation. Plus my wrist isn't very well calibrated for aluminum. It's easy to strip an aluminum bolt hole.
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    Really. You have got to be the only person I know of anywhere who likes the Bridgestones. Usually they're referred to as Brickstones. Avon makes the Venom rear tires in sizes that would fit our front. They have both the stock size width and the narrow size that some of us like, both with WWs and without. That's more selection than their front tires offer. I haven't seen a front and rear tire together in the same size, but it is said that the rear tires are made with a lot more rubber on them. My current Avon front tire has 22,000 miles on it. Yes, it's due to be changed. I wonder how many miles I could get out of a rear tire on the front. If it's even half that much more, that would get close to what I expect to get out of my Federal rear tire.
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    Well, I haven't been paying much attention lately, have I? I think I'll just go away.
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    My wife as the passenger also says the Federal rear CT gives a softer ride and feels more stable. As far as a CT for the front, you're welcome to be the first to try it. I don't know of anyone else who has yet. Tell City, eh? Boy, you live in a nice curvy part of the state. Northern IN is pretty flat and boring.
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    Try this list here in the general tech section. Our bike falls into group five down at the bottom. There are over 60 some filters here that will fit. Everybody seems to forget this page exists. oil filters
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    The other do it yourself way would be to take your VMX housing and mill out the boss to accept the speedo sensor. Use the stock housing to duplicate all the dimensions. This is the way did it. I have neither the special tools to remove and replace the rear end gears nor the knowledge to set them up correctly. I guess it depends on what equipment and expertise you have. I'll be interested to see how it goes for you. Sportmax does get an awful lot of money for the job.
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    For sale?
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    I saw somewhere else you were waiting for a tire to wear out to do this. It sounds like this happened a little sooner than you expected. Glad you lived to see it happen.
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    Oh gee whiz, that's absolutely terrible. I must have seen it and after looking at the website it didn't register. Nice to know I'm in good company. Or... maybe Don can edit posts without that fact showing up, just to make some of us look silly. He wouldn't do such a thing, would he?
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    Oh gee whiz, that's absolutely terrible. I must have seen it and after looking at the website it didn't register. Nice to know I'm in good company. Or... maybe Don can edit posts without that fact showing up, just to make some of us look silly. He wouldn't do such a thing, would he?
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    There has been a lot of discussion on using a CT on our bike. Check out the darksiders section which focuses on this topic for all the information. I run one and like it. The wife also comments that the ride feels softer and more stable to her as a passenger.
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    That looks a little better. (Editing a post doesn't bump it up though. So here it is.)
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    DBTires can put WWs on literally any tire, which means they can put them on both sides of the same tire too. I had them do up my Federal. It's not inexpensive, but given the mileage I expect out of this tire, it's still cheaper than buying MTs. The WW material gets vulcanized right to the tire rubber. The tire looks just like it was made with them from the factory. Get the WWs wide enough and they cover up all the lettering on the tire too. It looks real smooth.
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    That's a nice looking set. And only $30. Wow. That's low enough to inspire me. Where did you pick them up for that? (Web price is $40.)
  18. pegscraper
    That's a nice looking set. And only $30. Wow. That's low enough to inspire me. Where did you pick them up for that? (Web price is $40.)
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    You're running Ford Mustang rotors on your bike? Never heard of that one. Did you put on the strut front suspension too?
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    The pilot jets are in the bowls right next to the main jets. There will be a number stamped on the side of them. You may have to remove them to read the number. The jets on the top in the air horn are air jets.
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    Have any modifications been made to the air box? What size are the pilot jets? Only above about half throttle do the main jets come into play. Anything below about half throttle and you're on the pilot jets. The brass plugs over the mixture screws being replaced with a rubber plug means they have been adjusted. How many turns out from seated are they?
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    Obviously they can withstand it, as they take more than that to seat the beads in the first place. As far as riding on it with that much air, just don't hit a bump or ride it long enough to get the tire warm. They can take that much air, but there's no room left to absorb the impact of a bump. It looks like it was just enough to get the bead to squirm a little and seat better. Glad you got it ironed out.
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    WOW! I think I would have pointed to each of the four carbs for the guy and told him what an absolute MORON he was and that he was never touching my bike again for anything. And some of you guys wonder why just because a bike is still under warranty that some of us still wouldn't bother taking it in for certain smaller issues that are just as easy to fix ourselves.
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    Drop C was kind of a common one, I think. I always liked it when I was trying to figure out a song and realized I couldn't hit all the notes they were hitting and they must have used some oddball tuning. Jimmy Page was a master at that. Some of his and John Paul Jones' acoustic stuff was incredible. I liked coming across bootlegs that had duets of those two both on acoustic guitars. There was nothing like that stuff on any of the studio albums. Somewhere I have a picture of Jones with a strange looking 3-neck guitar.
  25. pegscraper
    You must have a greasy keyboard.
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