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    Be just fine. Twelve volts is twelve volts.
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    Well, if 1st gens are being thrown in here, then I have no idea. I don't know anything about those. All my information is for the 2nd gens.
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    The later ones do, yes.
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    Oh man! You'd better duck, dropping that one.
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    From certain years, yes. I don't know all the years though. Just get ones with six mounting bolts. IIRC, some of them have five, and of course those wouldn't fit. Rotors from an R1 will fit, as well as an R6, FJR, Roadstar, Roadliner, Stratoliner, VMX, and probably others too. They're all the same part. The only difference is that some are solid and some are floating types. Same with the calipers too, but the R1/R6 will be the cheapest and easiest to find. Now the newest models of R1/R6 have changed the calipers again and they will not fit. The previous style from a few years ago is what to look for. The M/C pretty well needs to come from a Roadstar. Ones from other models would fit and work fine, but the looks and style of the thing will be different from our stock ones. The Roadstar one will match. Just make sure it has 14mm cast into the front of it next to the sight window instead of 5/8. Newer Roadstars will have the 14mm piston, older ones have the 5/8".
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    How are these weights different?
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    I don't think I saw this the first time around. Just for the record, as far as the clutch goes, the '96 - '01 Royal Stars are the same thing as the '99 and newer RSVs. Glad you're happy with yours. I have yet to do mine, but it will certainly have to happen this summer.
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    There are threads on it, but it's difficult to search because R1 is too short of a search term and gets thrown out. The job very easy. All you do is unbolt one set of calipers and bolt on the others. Also, you need to swap the master cylinder from a newer Roadstar. The style matches our stock ones, but it has a 14mm piston instead of the stock 5/8" one, and it works much better with the R1 calipers. Then bleed out the lines and you're done. For a finishing touch, get some R1 floating rotors too, but they're not absolutely necessary. Buy used parts on ebay or somewhere, then sell off your old parts, and you'll have hardly anything in the swap, and you'll get brakes that you can operate with two fingers.
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    It might be easier to get a couple of nuts from a hardware store and weld them into your new handlebars to accept the weights. This is what I did so I could mount the weights on my stock Royal Star handlebars.
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    Yes they do.
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    If you're referring to just the RSV, meaning from '99 to the present, like everyone said, they're all the same. It is the 1st gen Ventures that were geared differently in the transmission. They're geared about like a VMX.
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    Our last place was on propane, and our current one is all electric. I don't have any real math to prove it, but it sure seems like electric is no more expensive than gas anymore. I can't see how you could convert the whole house over to an electric system and expect to recover the costs in a reasonable time though. If electricity is actually cheaper right now, it can't be that much cheaper. Heat pumps don't work real well in this part of the country. It gets too cold here for them to work efficiently. The way to do propane is to own your tank instead of renting it, and have enough capacity to last all year long. That way you can fill up only in the summer time when propane prices are down. They really make a killing on that winter time fill up. Then if you own your tank, you can shop around for the best price. If you rent one from some company, you're stuck buying propane from them and whatever price they want, and they probably won't let you have one big enough to last all year anyway. They love that winter time fill up, when propane prices are generally four or five times what they are in the summer. I personally know someone who bought his own tanks and does this. He had recovered his equipment costs in a year and a half. The rest is all savings. If our current place was on propane, this is what I would do. But being all electric here, I'll leave it the way it is. Short of that, put your window A/C units in backwards to blow the cold air out and the warm air in and see how well that works.
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    If you'd like more braking power on your current bike, the R1 caliper swap gives a huge improvement. It's the same system they're putting on all the other new models anyway, that aren't even as heavy. Why do they give their heaviest bike the weakest brake system? This system gives you a lot more control before the brakes lock up.
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    There are only two air filters known to fit, the stock Yamaha, and the K&N.
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    Chrome cleaner or other metal polish of some kind and a rag. I have heard that it's not good to use steel wool for cleaning chrome. Bits of steel will get wiped into the small pits which will only cause it to rust faster the next time. I can't say I've seen firsthand provable evidence of it, so take it for what it's worth. But I don't use steel wool anymore.
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    Leaf stalk? I don't follow. I don't recall holes on the inside of the housing, but it's been a while since I've seen one. It may just be a bad seal. I had to replace the seal in mine in this area too.
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    I've complained about this very thing the odd time, especially about putting videos in the video section. And when I have, I get people yelling back at me about how they're going to post things wherever they feel like it and if I don't like it then I have a problem. It just doesn't do any good to complain. I sure would like to see this enforced a little more strongly though.
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    I see. Thanks. I was always more of a gearhead than a computer geek.
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    So is this wifi device the same thing as what is offered by cell phone companies, or are they different? The case looks similar. They both plug into a USB port. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they operate the same. This "dish" boosts the available range or signal strength. Does boosting the signal strength increase the connection speed at all, or does that stay the same?
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    Long story - I had a VMX centerstand once. Just for grins I checked it for fit on my bike. It's too long.
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    I don't know anything about another post. I do know that VMX center stands are too long to fit our bikes directly. Now if you have the capability to shorten it, it could be made to work. Anything can be done. The impossible just takes a little longer.
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    There are a lot of things I don't understand about computers. I don't know what I'm looking at there. What is that stick? Is that an airport of some sort, or is it the kind of thing that is available through cell phone companies for internet service? The airport card in our laptop is an internal thing. I don't know how I could fab up such a "dish" for this. It was said earlier that with digital signals, one bar of signal strength is all that is needed. So does connection speed vary at all with signal strength, or do you have maximum connection speed with just one bar?
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    They do cry a little bit in the winter time when they don't get ridden.
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    Kerosene heaters. We have two of them, which came in real handy with the two-day power outage we had a couple weeks ago when it was 0* outside. In fact, these two heaters do a better job of keeping the house warm in sub-zero temperatures than our main heating system. They might even be a bit cheaper too. And I can put one in the garage when I want to work out there.
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    That's a nice idea, but it sure would never work for me. I need more ground clearance. I could not tolerate less.
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