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I will be going through my dealer , there in the trike biz, but just became authorized dealers for hannigen trikes , the owner and his crew are going up for training for there kits in 2 weeks then we are good to go.! they also have the bring one bike with them, I am hoping it will be mine *BWG*

Butch, I noticed that the Antennas are missing. what replaced them and were are they? I also have mine scheduled for the end of March to have this conversion done by hannigan, This will be on my 2000 MM , I just can not handle the wight of the bike anymore. Legs and back can not handle it anymore *sigh* I guess I do liston to FM once and a while. hardly ever use the CB.. but mostly I liston to my Wife or the Zumo MP3's *lol* Jeff

Dave, the new electric inserts are very real looking. and you can turn off the heat. so you can just have the flames. We have two over electric fireplaces like that in our home. even if the heat is on it blows outward into the room. Jeff

Plasma's have less glare then LCD's? huh? what am I missing here? We have 4 flat screens and one is plasma (keep that one) in the Media Room cuz of no glare downstairs. otherwise in a well lit room it glares way to much, I do like the picture better on the plasma better though then the LCD better richer colors. and as far as 1080P I guess I am still trying to see the difference. I can't tell at this point. I do not think DirecTV is even broadcasting in that mode yet. I just keep all my sets at 1080I I still see no difference even from 720P , maybe I am blind. but man DO NOT go HIGH you will never turn back. I still need to figure out how to get rid of our last Analog 32 inch Sony *lol* my wife loves that thing. Jeff

These do help a lot,, helps push the sound back into your face http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/products/2007/696/h696B050311-fp.jpg I am happy with my sound now.. I do have a 250 W amp in the trunk though. Bass Blockers also have helped in my set-up , the problem with the boom mat is you have to trim them and get creative on making them stay in place. (notice how much better the sound is coming from the rear speakers?) That is because there in-closed more in there pods, not like the fronts were there is so much more open space. One other thing that I have noticed with the sound is to make sure my music that is stored on my Zumo or IPOD is copied at a higher KB or whatever you call it ~S~ (just my 2 cents worth) Jeff

I love my new HTC as well. can even watch all the TV I want *lol* But I will NEVER give up my Zumo!

Just order a mini opener and attach the ring to the back of your back-rest and say HONEY open the garage door please!! . or if she is not with me I reach back and hit the button myself.

Have you tried to run the bike with the gas cap off yet in the garage? Mine stopped running like that last year, come to find out that my vent to the tank was totally clogged. The bike would stop running.. if I removed the cap she ran just fine. so I cleared out the metal vent to to tank. no problems since...just a thought. Jeff

Looks Like time to Kreem... http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=524 Jeff

Wonder if the soft water helped? we have real hard water were we live.

I want a backpack blower when I grow up one day! got the Toro at goodwill for $8.99 ! lots of power but wish I had a gas powered one.. like before I had an electric pressure washer now it is gas. only way to go!

Well, I decided to wash the bike up today and get her ready for winter storage. This last summer I purchased a (gas) power washer (Ridged 3300) not just for the bike... been using it for lots of projects! Anyways , I decided to try something different today, I hooked the hose to a soft-water outlet, then washed the bike with a medium power spray nozzle. then what was the best is that I used a Electric Toro Leaf Blower (850} to blow the bike dry.. (worked perfect) no spotting on the chrome what so ever. dry time was about 10 Min's. The blower was able to get into those hard to get chrome area spots. Just thought I would share my fun washing expereance with you today! Jeff

3200 RPM and above on the tach the whine will go away in any gear.. I have been through ALL the Alphbet of the clutch baskets (5 or 6 now) on my 2000 MM RSV. 10,700 miles on her. Going to be interesting to hear what it sounds like when I get the bike triked this next year. Jeff

each one has a (letter) stamp in them.

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Yep, Freebird is right. I forgot that I did add the leveling links as well GREAT IMPROVEMENT! Jeff

Good Question--- I have playing with that for 3 years now. My Wife and I always ride together. Sometimes if I do add anything to the rear shock she complains that the ride is too hard on her.... We even pull a trailer once in a while and I might add 20 lbs when doing that. but have found no air at all or maybe 10 to 15 lbs for us would be the max to where we are still comfortable. This will have to be up to the two of you to decide I think, Good luck and have a safe trip, Jeff

BTW, Did I say EXCELANT WRITE-UP? EXCELANT!

Mr Bird.. Can you add this to the tech libriary? maybe in two places? ONE in under carb removel..... And it's own seprate section as well. I went throught that last year and talked about how far my floats were off after I checked them.. Mr Goose's pictures and on how he explians it is excelant. I had no idea at first on how to adjust then but ended up doing it like he did. The manual does not explian this very well.. thanks, Jeff

Yep, Looks like my wife and My Work place in Coralville,Iowa will be flooded be Tuesday... Still gunna go to work Monday and see what happens. Thank God that Our home is 20 miles away from all this mess! Now there is water problems and ALL kinds of other problems now... Folks are ask not to take shower, clean clothes , ect... we should all be very stinky soon! So in the past few weeks we have had an F5 Tornado and All this Water now! Jeff

I am so glad it helped you.. I just love picture's on tearing things apart! And your very welcome! (see it didn't take that long right?) Thanks, Jeff

I have tried D, E, G, H, AND I Baskets , It just moves the sound around a bit... The -I- at least lets me make the sound go away at 3200 RPM.. (Jack, I completely understand about the HEAD-HURT) good luck, Jeff

Good Luck on the RSV when using the color-tune to view the front plugs though.. I wish you success. Jeff

Nope, not at all... I even found a local dealer and he even made good on the units even though I did not buy them from him. Jeff