Chaharly

Absolutely awesome!!! Wish I could've been along for the ride! As far as your mileage goes on those 65mph roads, I bet if you wouldn't had used 5th gear at all totally loaded you probably would've snuck back up to at least the 35mph range. I use my 5th like a 6th gear. If that makes any sense lol. You got some beautiful pictures and I'm glad puc could help you out! I imagine the ferry would have been a heck of an experience as well! Glad you had a safe AND FUN time! I hope to someday ride with the legend Cowpuc myself!!! I think I may try to make the MD next year! Keep up the good work, and try a few different seat and backrest combinations. If you got the bug I reckon you got more than ONE more motorcycle trip in ya!!! (IMHO, gotta be careful with those! )

Reposition the booster and throw a button on the handlebar and you'll have a wheelie button!

I haven't had one die on my 88 yet! But I think I may follow your thread and see the route you go for the new pump. I worry about it when I'm 500 miles away from home and as far as I understand the first gen and 2nd gen pumps are the same?

I'll just pick up a handful of gravel and throw it in there! I decided to take do as puc says. Spin the tire 180 degrees on the room. If that doesn't do it i'll be taking the tire off and removing the beads and static balancing the wheel myself. I think I understand how to do it from cowpuc's video. It seems easy, but maybe time consuming. Dunlop has not contacted me back, but I'm sure they're busy. If its still rough after that, I'll be looking into a new tire!

Definitely a cool idea! I dont know how I'd trust that myself

I believe you can rebuild the points on your pump. Then bring your old one with ya as a backup!

Welcome to the site! Just wanna say I'm totally jealous of your new baby on her way. Charcoal or Red they are by far one of the prettiest bikes on the road (IMHO!). You'll have tons of reliable smiles on that girl as well because Yamaha makes a quality machine. I'd also just like to say thank you for talking me out of a BMW. I'll never own one if they are truly as finnickey as you say! You'll find lots of knowledgeable people on here who I hope becomes as close a family to you as they have to me!!!

Did you get the clutch parts you needed figured out?

Just a seam. No oil's comin out of it or anything It definitely would be fixable. But I stopped into our local welder and he's gonna want just as much as one of those used ones off ebay so I'll probably just go the ebay route

BC as in British Columbia? Is that scrap yard a "U-Pull It" sort of deal or could I contact them and have them send one?

After removing and replacing my clutch cover I couldn't stop it from leaking so I cleaned everything up real nice, put a brand new gasket on and low and behold she's leaking again. I got down with my light and upon inspection found a crack in my clutch cover... Will one off a 1200 fit? and can I replace the inside chrome part so it doesn't say YICS and says 1300 like its supposed to? I dont think I should JB Weld this particular spot, and I dont know about getting it welded either.

And I agree it seems like they balance for the rim more so than the tire from the factory. I wonder if I would have left the factory weights on if I'd even notice a vibration

That's my plan, I know Dunlop is a reliable company and we'll get it sorted out! Yeah if you cant throw em in while the guys putting em on then its just not worth the effort! Puc, I sure hope you are kidding about someone calling you and threatening you! You don't THAT BAD!!! Really though, what childish behavior. Disgusting... As far as the beads go, I've been reading that the reason why the Professional Racers don't use the beads is that when going over rough surfaces at such high speeds the beads get disrupted and tend to knock those tires temporarily off balance. If I go so far as to break the bead I might as well just remove the beads and get it balanced the old fashioned way. (I don't have an air compressor so I gotta do it at my pa's ) Thanks for the insight puc and I'm glad I'm not the only one on here with that issue!

As far as I know, lane splitting works in England. But I wonder if people in England may just tend to be more motorcycle aware than people in the US. They shave HOURS off their city commutes there (but I think most of that country is city isn't it?)

That's the way to do it! I still like to come up during Sturgis, to keep it going, but I think the best time to come to the Hills and pitch a tent would be right now! Like next week

Do you mean it slips like a beast? or theres no pull when you pull the clutch lever?? Is it froze up?

I'm not entirely sure that the MK1 clutches and the MK2 clutches are the same. I think they changed them to the single diaphram spring set up in 86 and used that through the production of Royal Stars as well. I agree with everyone else, I'm running the skydoc kit on my 88 and theres absolutely no slip! Just be sure it will work with yours. If it wont, I do believe the barnett conversion will! Good luck!

I think its been getting dark around 10 30 here. I'd sure love another hour of light though! That BBQ sure sounds like a good time too!

Well you know how it goes. You figure new state of the art tire, might as well make sure I've got all new state of the art balancing technologies too!

One time on Highway 16 in the Black Hills we came around the corner and there was a boulder about the size of my mustang on our half of the road! Anything can happen!

I have to work tomorrow or else I'd consider it! Thoughts sent up to their families

Understandable!

Yeah I'll be going back to traditional weights. I'm glad they work for some, but I wonder if I have an imperfection on my rim or the inside of my tire. I think they balance for the rim more than anything. My dad who's ridden hundreds of thousands of miles on wings absolutely never balances a new tire, and I never have either until I put this E4 on. We'd always just have them match the mark to the valve stem and call it good. Never any problems!

I mean if there is a vibration at 60 its slight enough I cant feel it over our normal Nebraska roads. That's why I contacted Dunlop. I had a shinko on the front previously, one of the cheapest tires I could find and had very recently ridden on that same tire over 120 once and over 100 several times with absolutely no shake. Now I'm afraid to go 90! I may have assembled something improperly, and I guess I'll find out when I take this tire off again!

Its go this mark:think: I cant wipe it off like tire chalk so maybe this replaced the dot. I'll pull the tire next time im at dads. Its real smooth at 65