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I'm failing to see what is so funny. None of you keep sales brochures around of vehicles that you've owned or wished you could have owned, or otherwise like?
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Fake tree. I don't miss picking pine needles out of the carpet when we haul it out. Besides, we got two of them at a local auction for a dollar. They were begging us to take them. They're decent trees too. Lori misses the smell of a real pine tree, but I don't smell them anyway. She tells me my nose doesn't work real well. Traditions? Opening presents and later on calling any family who isn't there.
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I recently replaced mine with a Sylvania SilverStar #9003ST from Mallwart. I thought I'd be frugal and wait until my stock one burned out, which I did. But man, if I had realized how much more light this bulb would put out, I would have changed it the day I brought the bike home. It's still a 60W/55W bulb. But the difference it made riding after dark was like, well, night and day, so to speak.
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No VMAX Rear for an '85?
pegscraper replied to GigaWhiskey's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
Yes, the V Max came out in '85, but the casting it used for the rear gear isn't the same as that on the 1st gen Ventures. It is what came to be used in the later Royal Stars and RSVs. I don't know if they can be made to fit the 1st gens or not. -
Behold My Wallet
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There aren't enough BMWs in this area to get much of that. I know of only one guy who rides one and he seems decent enough. To look at him, you would think that he could never afford one. But he owns three. It's what he likes and has always ridden. He's ridden for many years and has been through all 50 states and parts of Canada. I used to know a BMW car owner who certainly fit the bad mannered and wealthy label. I'm glad his and my paths don't cross anymore. I chat with this BMW biker from time to time. Fridays at a local lunch pizza buffet is where I usually see him. He likes telling me about how technologically advanced his bike is. He's real proud of his bike, and I don't mind listening and knowing about it. Changing the antifreeze in them sounds like a particular chore - something about an air bubble that gets trapped up in the engine and is difficult to get out. And then when I hear about how a computer has to be plugged into the thing to bleed the brakes, I pretty well conclude that I will never own one, no matter what, whether I like the looks of them or not. There's no sense in that. I want something I can work on, not something that needs a computer to bleed brakes.
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It's not a bad idea to check most or all of the stuff the first time around. Many things that are supposed to be greased or lubed or whatever from the factory are frequently bone dry - things like driveshaft splines. After that, things should be good for a long time. I don't look at the owner's manual for maintenance schedules myself. The figures are only pulled out of the air anyway, and they usually recommend more frequency than is really necessary, just to protect themselves. Since you're not afraid of wrenches, and if you do very much of your own car maintenance, you probably have a pretty good idea when stuff should be checked anyway.
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Indeed, and on a brand new bike. A hardy soul. Well done.
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No. The carbs seldom need synchronized, unless they've been tinkered with. Many go more than 50,000 miles and some much more than that. And if you're inclined to do service work yourself, go ahead. Just the hassle of dropping the bike off and having another ride available and leaving it for days and then picking it up again, is enough for me to figure out how to do stuff myself. Even if it is still under warranty where there's no other cost. That is, unless there is a major problem and parts need replacing. But for general service, do it yourself.
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There are many other good tech articles on the general tech page of the BMW site that Scott mentioned. http://www.ibmwr.org/otech.shtml Some are about heated gear, and some other general tech stuff. Check out this one on repairing an electric vest. It shows a pic of the inside of a Gerbing vest and describes it in detail. Interesting. http://www.ibmwr.org/otech/vestrepair.html For next summer, there's a good one on making your own evaporative cooling vest.
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Yes, the filler neck "tube". I don't have any pics for you though. I've never seen a tank apart. I don't mind removing parts for pics if someone needs to see something, but cutting a tank... Sorry. Venting the filler neck will let you get another 1/2 to 3/4 of a gallon of gas in the tank, or about another 20 to 30 miles or so farther down the road.
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If you're riding in a group, a stop about every hour to hour and a half is nice, or about 100 miles or so. Riding alone you can easily go longer. But I don't think I'd take a group on a 175 mile stretch with no breaks.
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I once was chatting with a guy in a gas station who was riding a later model Honda Magna when he told me that he pulls his bike on a trailer when he goes on a vacation. I asked him why he didn't ride the bike for the vacation. He said that his wife absolutely refuses to ride, but that that wasn't going to stop him from riding where he could and enjoying different parts of the countryside on his bike. It sounded good to me. I wasn't going to laugh at him and think he was an idiot. If your wife won't get on one, what are you going to do? Fortunately, my wife rides, her own bike even.
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That tube goes in there so that the fuel level won't fill up any higher inside the tank than the bottom of that tube. The air bubble left at the top of the tank gives room for the fuel to expand, particularly if the bike is left in the sun. Venting that tube will let out that air bubble and let the fuel level in the tank go higher than the bottom of that tube. You get more gas in the tank and more miles out of a tank of gas. You will have to be careful though, that you don't leave it in the sun when it's filled all the way up like that. The fuel will expand and dump out of the overflow hose onto the ground, wasted. But if you're going to immediately put at least 20 or so miles on the bike after filling up, that's not a problem.
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Yes, I think I saw "practice" in every single post. My sarcastic humor was apparently so dry y'all missed it.
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My brother and I went through there on Labor Day of '06 on our way to the Dragon. We stopped and he took my picture by this sign. I'm holding an Indiana Auto and RV sales flyer. If you take a picture of yourself reading one outside of the area where you bought it next to an identifiable landmark and send it in, they'll send you I think $20 or something. I went to the trouble of getting this pic, and then never sent it in. I suppose I still could at any time.
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I see, the teflon insulation is for the high melting temperature. I don't know what the melting point of the Kynar 460 insulation would be. That's not given on RS's website. Thanks for the links, Scott. The first one I had seen, the second one I hadn't. I'd been wondering how I might do gloves too. I would really rather buy premade stuff, but I'm just too broke for it right now. It's too bad I didn't know Janice had a home grown heated jacket on. I would have liked to have taken a look at it. Did you do the sleeves too? By the time I got home that night at around 8 PM, I was one tensed up wadded up knot from the cold. I'm pretty sure that's what put me in the chiropractor's office two days later with my neck out of place. I was wishing that night that I had some heated gear on.
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V Max cams are a drop in fit and will give you another 30* of duration plus a little more valve lift. The V Max carb bodies are identical but have a 1mm larger bore - 35mm as opposed to the Venture's 34mm. That would probably not be noticeable. If you wanted to try them anyway, I think the only real difference in the pack is the choke linkage arrangement, which could be swapped over. What would probably help though, is to open up the airbox for more airflow and then rejet the carbs to match. You could always add the V boost system from the V Max too. That's fairly easy on your bike. I don't know if the V Max rear gear could be made to fit the 1st gens or not.
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Old thread, I know, but still good information. The usual wire mentioned for wiring your own is teflon insulated stranded wire. This wire mentioned here is neither teflon nor is it stranded. Does the insulation type really make that much difference? The stranded vs. solid I suppose will relate to flexibility. Will this wire work just as well anyway?
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I've put on 30,000 miles in the two years I've owned this bike with no trouble whatsoever.
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For those of us who like the Kuryakyn custom grips... K makes a set designed to mount over top of the heated grips on the newer GWs. I've wondered why it wouldn't be possible to put the GW heated grips on our bikes and then use the K covers over top of them. Custom heated grips.
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All these responses and I haven't seen anybody say "practice" yet.
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I can remember hearing a couple sonic booms in town, but I was very young. A few years ago when my brother was in the Navy, I visited him on a "family day" where they took us out on a ship for a day long cruise. One of the events was an airshow, and they did several sonic booms right beside the ship with the plane just barely over the water. You could feel your bones rattle inside your skin.
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Down at the bottom of a page there is a count of how many members have read that thread. Not how many times it's been opened, but how many different members have read it. You don't have to ever post to be counted in that number. That number rarely clears 400, and many of them don't even make it to 200, even on some of the most read topics, which usually are something about a biker down. This is how many members we really have, not any 3800. Some of these absentees ought to be sent an email to see if they still have any interest, and if there's no response, they ought to be deleted.
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How many of these members are actually active?