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    Do red lenses exist for our turn signals? I don't want to make red turn signals. I want to use the lights for something else though, and would like red lenses. Are they available anywhere? I'm not finding them.
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    I would choose a V Max, a Valkyrie, and the Yamaha ST1300 (not sure of the model name there, their sport touring model). Honda isn't making anything right now that I would want. The rest of them never did.
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    Maybe this is bad timing or poor taste at the moment, but this happened to me yesterday. I pulled onto a four lane highway and headed into town. The next vehicle down was a garbage truck. (He was a ways down there. I had plenty of room.) It was still a bit dim and with a light mist in the air. Plenty of visibility, but it's extremely humid and my helmet visor wouldn't stay clear. I pulled off onto a side street where I took the visor off of the helmet, and put it in a sidebag so I could see. I put the helmet back on and get back on the highway. A few miles up the road I see there is an accident just after a crossroad. I hear sirens as police and an ambulance are just arriving. As I go by I see a minivan in the ditch, and the garbage truck is on the side of the road, looking like it's totally untouched. I'm guessing that the minivan driver didn't see the garbage truck and pulled out right in front of it. If someone didn't see a garbage truck, the person sure wouldn't have seen me. Sorry it was him, but glad it wasn't me. I would have been the one in the ditch rather than the minivan. The guy in the garbage truck probably wasn't hurt at all. If I hadn't pulled off the road to remove my visor, I would have still been in front of the garbage truck. :yikes:
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    Wow. Will do. There's just too much of this happening. Were they members here? I don't recognize the names.
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    The main point of this was to have a cheap way to get rid of old tires. Annoying the CC companies and costing them money was a side line. Stuffing their envelopes with scrap papers and sending them back requires more effort than I care to expend on them. Junk mail doesn't bother me much. It takes only a second for it to land in the burn barrel. Junk phone calls on the other hand...
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    I asked my local postmaster about this today. He got a good, long chuckle out of the idea. He said it won't work though. He said that the arrangements between the CC companies and the USPS is that whatever is sent back to them has to fit inside the envelope. Anything that doesn't fit in them he can't take. Too bad. I really liked the idea.
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    Trike looks more like a Roadstar. Two RSVs in the same showroom. We just don't see that up here. The dealers around here don't move very many of them.
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    Just the wiring diagram I think would be enough. I'll send you my email in a PM. Thanks.
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    The TCI 'knows' which Coil to fire by just simply counting the Revelations and give the Signal to the next Coil in fireing Order. I suppose it could be done like that. But what if it ever got out of sync? Or what if you change the TCI module? The thing has to be able to orient itself to start with somehow. Actually, a D3K TCI module for a V Max is just exactly what I have up my sleeve here. The spark advance curves are much better, and the rev limits are higher. (With the V Max cams in my bike, it feels like I only get about halfway through the powerband and the rev limiter kicks in, and with the V Max valve springs the engine can certainly handle higher rpms.) I have a wiring diagram for a V Max, but I don't know what year it is. It shows four pickup coils though, so apparently it is an older one. So you're telling me that the post '90 models use the same pickup that the 2nd gen models do? That might simplify things a little.
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    I need an electronics expert. As I look at the wiring diagrams and the ignition modules for the 1st gens, it looks like there is a separate pickup coil for each cylinder. And as I look at those things on the 2nd gens, I see only two wires for the pickup coil. It looks like there is only one pickup coil. So how does the ignition module know which spark plug to fire?
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    No lift. An old oval shaped pale green granite pan is what I use. It lasts. I find that any of the plastic ones warp and crack after a while.
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    I hear you. I'll ask about that too. The thing is, the guy who originally posted this where I read it said that he will purposefully put his return address on the envelopes hoping that the CC company will take his name off of their list. He says that hasn't worked so far, but also says that he has never gotten any tires back nor heard anything else about it either. If this were to actually catch on, I'm sure they would try to do something about it. It must not be a big enough problem for them yet.
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    I've done that sometimes. I'll take a county road map with me so I can always find my way back when I decide it's time to come home. Usually I can figure it out though, or stumble into another road that I know. It's rare that I lose where north is. It's happened, but the last time was about 10 years ago. The problem is that there are a lot of gravel roads in northern IN. I frequently have to turn around and go another direction.
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    Yeah, but what's the fun in that?? I haven't asked my postmaster about it yet, but if I can really do this, I'll ask to keep my old tires next time I get new ones just so I can do this.
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    I don't know what they look like. Does anyone have a closeup shot of that bezel? What material is it? I have a mill. It's not impossible that I could make one.
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    If this isn't a poor man's tip, I don't know what is. I read on another motorcycle forum about this method that someone uses to get rid of old motorcycle tires, one that I doubt anyone here would see. He takes a postage paid return envelope from an unsolicited credit card offer, tapes it to the tire, and takes it to the post office. Postage and tire disposal expenses paid by the credit card company. To read that discussion, it sounds like he's serious. It doesn't sound like a joke. How hilarious. I'll be asking my postmaster if this can really be done.
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    Stuck in the 1st gen rut, are you. Many are. If you are smelling unburned gas, and can shut off the fuel petcock and it starts running better up to the point where it runs out of gas and dies, that sounds like the float levels are way too high. The floats probably ought to be checked out of principle anyway. When I checked the float levels on mine, I found that no two were even the same.
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    Wow, I'd sure like to see this kind of outrage against seat belt laws and the related propaganda and agendas.
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    I took mine off once because I have the rotor covers and they're not seen anyway. I was going to put them on the wife's bike. But I discovered that the front brakes squealed without that weight in there, so I had to put them back on my own bike.
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    I've heard it said that the only people who don't need to wear a helmet are those whose head is harder than the pavement.
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    I have heard here and elsewhere the odd time of someone who has or built a rack to carry a bicycle on a motorcycle. Does anyone have pictures or more details of how to make one, or where or how the bicycle is carried?
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    I just happened across this picture of some custom intakes made for V Max carbs. This would be a real nice way to go, if one could weld aluminum. I can mig weld steel pretty well, but I've never tried aluminum and don't have the correct gas for it. Maybe I should learn.
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    I used to own two '85 Honda 350X three wheelers. They were only made for two years ('85 and '86) before three wheelers got cut off. Those things were mean. Riding them was great exercise. I broke a few ribs, and snapped a collar bone once. Time went by to where I hardly rode them anymore, and no longer had any friends who did. So I finally sold them off. I preferred the thumb throttle on these myself. When I was sliding around a corner sideways hanging on for dear life, at least I didn't have to worry about twisting the grip and cranking the throttle around. On a three wheeler, throttle control is a big key to whether you flipped over in a corner or not.
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    I look above and see where you agree with someone who said that a lean idle mixture had nothing to do with the problem. Then when I say that a lean idle mixture is the whole problem, you say I'm spot on. So what gives?
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    Those are a HUGE help. Thanks.
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