OB-1
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Thank you very much! Sorry for your trouble, but thanks again for telling us! You just saved me some major aggrevation.
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Got a new wood spliter for the tractor. Split about 2 cords this morning... and my body is telling me I'm not as young as I used to be...
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Hmmm... 14F. and snowing:snow:... not a good day for a bike ride so I plowed a little snow with the ATV.
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I haven't found any snow tires that will fit the bike. We only got four inches or so...but it was very wet. Didn't even need to plow the drive. Now everything is mud. Maybe I should try some dirt bike knobby tires on the ?
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Snowing here... :cold:Supposed to have 6-12 inches by morning. I put ths snow plow on the tractor this afternoon.
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I use the cheapest gas we can find. Never had any problems or performance issues.
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Yep, it's the car tire. Read my posts here: http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=23909 Just wait until you ride on a Roto-milled surface. My bike did such a wild dance that I thought we were going to part company. IMHO, a car tire and the RSV are not a good match.
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25,000+ miles, 4 rear tires & 3 fronts, still the same brakes. The pads looked very good earlier this summer when I changed tires.
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Sounds mean, don't it! I did the same thing earlier this summer. My wife made sure I put the mufflers back on.
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Hi Steve;
Yep, got your original message, just haven't gotten around to doing anything yet... Except for riding...rode Bear Tooth Pass 3 times and Chief Joseph twice...got back from Billings, MT last night, most of that ride was in the rain...24,000+ miles on the bike so far
Adios!
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Thanks for that bit of timely advice! I was just planning on using Loctite.
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Pay the fine and then move to Wyoming... We don't have speed limit that low outside of town!
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Yes, the car tire was balanced. Like I said in my original post, the bike always had a weeve or wobble, like going through a sweeping turn with bad shocks except that you weren't in a turn and your shocks aren't bad. No hint of any handling problems with M/C tires, and I can scrape the floorboards with confidence...as long as my wife isn't on the back seat!
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In my experience, a car tire provides increased traction in straight line riding under all road conditions. My main problem with the car tire is the instability it causes, constant weave or wobble. Car tire on a motorcycle; I tried it and I don’t like it and wouldn’t recommend it on RSV. Your experience and opinion may differ.
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2006 RSV Observed Fuel Mileage, Two-Up riding: 80mph on cruise control: 30-35mpg depending on wind. 65-70mph on two lane: 38-42mpg depending on wind. The mpg calculations were made using the trip odometer which appears to report approximately 3.5% more miles than measured with a Garmin Map76 GPS.
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Ditto.
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Rider education can go a long way toward reducing motorcycle accidents. 25+ years ago, in my USAF days, I was involved in motorcycle safety training for the USAF. All you nice taxpayers sent me on an all expense paid trip, (TDY), to become as MSF Certified Instructor so I could come back to my home base and teach motorcycle safety. There was a fair bit of resistance from a lot of the riders, but the military folks had no choice and the civilians working on base had the choice of either going through the training or not being able to ride their bikes on base. I don’t recall the statistics, but our accident rate dropped significantly. And, the most important part, it was my Air Force duty to ride my motorcycle! At least some of the time.
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You might want to send "Bubber" a PM. He has an 06RSV with Road King mufflers. I don't know if he still has the stock mufflers, but he might. He's riding through the Black Hills today and won't be home until Monday.
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And the winner is?????
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Thirty years ago I rode a chopped Harley. I rode it because I built it and really liked to ride it. It was a very nice bike. Some people seemed to think I was Billy Bad A$$ because I rode that bike and they couldn’t have been farther from the truth. I was in the USAF at the time, (short hair, no beard, uniform to & from work, etc.). In 81 I bought a new Yamaha XS-1100 Venture, (the first Venture), and sold the Harley. Why? Because I was tired of eating bugs, needing to own stock in a bungee cord company, and I wanted to ride more than wrench. I was also tired of being hassled by cops and red necks, (especially since I was also a Sky Cop and a red neck), for riding a chopped Harley. I haven’t owned a Harley since. I think they’re nice bikes and I have a soft spot for the Ultra, but IMHO, they don’t measure up to the RSV. I think that most of today’s Harley riders are buying an image instead of a bike. If what you ride is more important than the fact that you ride; you missed the point.
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Yes you could, but why would you want to?
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I bought a pair of Michelin Commanders from them about a month ago. I ordered the tires on a Thursday and they were delivered the following Tuesday. My only complaint was that they provided no way to track the shipment. What's the problem you're having?
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I don't believe your CCW permits are valid in NY.
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Do you, or have you, experienced the woble or weave that I experienced during my car tire trial?
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My GPS-speedometer-odometer experience and numbers mirror yours. Also, the owner's manual claims that the cruise control will not engage or maintain speeds above 80mph. The GPS confirms this; however, the speedometer indicates 86mph. This leads me to believe the the errors, (indicated speed & indicated mileage), are intentional and designed into the bike.
