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  1. Sylvester
    To Seaking and all, My chrome strip does not rise or flutter. Never has and I don't know of any of my fellow Venture riders in this area that have this problem.
  2. Sylvester
    He is not my president, I did not vote for him, therefore he is not mine!!
  3. Sylvester
    Man, I feel left out!!! No chirp and no whine on my RSMV. I hear a little cam action at idle when the choke is out a bit. I use the Yamalube synthetic and whatever filter I can buy. 104,000 miles and loving the ride.
  4. Sylvester
    I have three windshields for my Venture and change them often depending on season and use. Cecdoo said ten minutes and that is about right. My Venture is eight years old and the chrome strip has never given me any problem. Taking it off gently will keep it in good shape forever.
  5. Sylvester
    Is there some kind of roof or do you just blow the conditioned air into your face?
  6. Sylvester
    A very good friend of mine bought a 2008 Gold Wing and triked it last summer. He spent $38,000 including the extra chrome. Maybe this isn't so expensive.
  7. Sylvester
    I have installed several after market headlamps (Adjure is one) for people. The procedure I used has to do with cutting away all of the original headlamp and saving the tabs that attach to the mounting plate. Then I mount the new headlamp with J B Weld to the tabs and install. This has worked well except for one case where the J B Weld let go. It may have been a bad mixture or product.
  8. Sylvester
    I feel your pain. I left Rolling Thunder in DC Monday and when I arrived back there was no shine anywhere except the seat of my pants. Mucho rain!!
  9. Sylvester
    I sat on the new Kaw Voyager in Spartansburg, SC last winter. Really well laid out machine. The options are expensive. The thing that killed it for me was the minimal distance from the tank to the rear passenger back rest. Also the air cooled V-twin worked on my very weak mind (read Harleys and Road Stars).
  10. Sylvester

    Yahoo!

    Sylvester replied to friesman's topic in Watering Hole

    And I thought you were sending me an e-mail to my yahoo account. Enjoy the weather, I always do here in North Carolina.
  11. Sylvester
    If you have clutch and brake lever leather streamers, this will do it also.
  12. Sylvester
    Without admitting that I am an "old timer" I do own one of those brake tools made by Snap On.
  13. Sylvester
    On my last trip to the Dragon, there was a stop on the road due to some kind of problem, and after checking it out I helped pull a sport bike up out of the woods where it and the rider went off the road. He was tore up but walking and the bike (after we hauled it up the mountain with a rope and a Jeep for pulling) looked pretty bad.
  14. Sylvester
    I purchased an 81 Goldwing in April for $600 (I didn't know anything about them). Brakes were frozen up. I rebuilt the calipers and all was well. Wife told me one MC was all I was allowed so I put the Wing in Craigs list. I had numerous calls and sold it for $2600. I found out since that I sold it too cheap.
  15. Sylvester
    I must lead an exemplary life, since after nearly eight years and 104,000 miles I have never heard the "CHIRP". I hope I never do!
  16. Sylvester
    HUH? If you are raising the rear (aka Diamond R leveling links) you will have better balance and rideablity at low speeds. This is a easy conversion. I don't quite understand your question.
  17. Sylvester
    I take the ERC every three years and learn that I have aquired bad habits. Well worth the money and time.
  18. Sylvester
    Have you ever thought about the oncoming traffic? Just because you feel comfortable with the lumen output and can see far down the road, think about the person coming toward you who is blinded by your light. That person may wind up in your lane. I will stay with legal light output, thank you. Just an old fart!
  19. Sylvester
    Looks like the 2010 will fit in with the new governments fuel consumption policies. Albeit not fast enough to excape the dragon fly coming up from behind.
  20. Sylvester
    I can feel for you, Brakepad. My wife and I plus four other couples road back from DC yesterday after Rolling Thunder. Everyone wanted to stop for lunch (2:30) in Burlington, NC. I said if we do we will most likely hit the T-storms building in the south. Sure enough after lunch we get to Salisbury where eveyone else exited, I have to go another fifty five miles to my home in Bessemer City, NC. I need not tell what happened. It was so bad we spent twenty minutes under an interstate bridge with thirty other motorcycles. Well when we got home-still raining-I got the bike in the garage and changed clothes. I guess lunch was a good idea for the rest.
  21. Sylvester
    Absolutely, positively, certainly, with out a doubt, most likely and maybe a bad shock. I think I covered all bases.
  22. Sylvester
    You can call anytime. I will be leaving Friday 6:00 AM for Rolling Thunder, but I will have my phone all weekend if not riding.
  23. Sylvester
    I hope you use a pin to hold the standards. I made a smaller version of that for my RSMV and lost two flags. Then I got smarter and drilled from the side through the pole and used a fine threaded screw.
  24. Sylvester
    I will spend Friday riding my bike to Washington DC with flags proudly displayed. Saturday I will go to the VA hospital and visit each and every room to thank the soldiers for their service and sacrifice. In the afternoon I will visit the tomb of the unknown soldier. I will ride into town Saturday evening to visit the memorials of our fallen soldiers. Sunday I will awake early and meet tens of thousands of like minded souls in the Pentagon parking lot and then ride in formation past the Marine at attention to the Lincoln Memorial. I will then cry when Jerry is presented in his tiger cage (a true POW who survived Viet Nam). After many dignitary speeches I hope to see Nancy Sinatra and Paul Revere and the Raiders again. I will get back to the motel late. I will have cried alot, felt horrible alot, had very few happy moments and sleep poorly. I will get up early Monday and head back home. I will look forward to doing it again next year like I have so many years in the past. This is not a weekend for me. It is a weekend for "THEM"
  25. Sylvester
    Rather easy to install: clamp the lower bracket to the passenger hand hold use a smaller drill bit and mark the center of each hole drill a 5/16" hole up all the way through the hand hold throw away the screws they supply with the kit buy 1/4" carriage bolts run the carriage bolts down from the top of the hand hold bolt the lower bracket to the carriage bolt with nylon lock nuts complete installation of the arm rests
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