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just looked. Got just about everything around that, 255, 265, 270, 235. figures right? Depending on what kind of dealer you have close buy the shims fit a number of different types bikes. Honda CBX CB1100f Yamaha fj1100 & 1200

The Hagon is a good replacement I think for the money. The OEM is a roll of the dice if it will last 10k or 80k. The Hagon is rebuildable. When you install I recommend do it so the clicker (adjuster) is accessible from the right side of the bike. That way when parked on side stand you can have a bit more room to access it. They do certainly ride a bit stiffer than the air shock.

MMM Frankenmuth. There use to be some good mom and pop restaurants there back when I lived in Sandusky in the early 70's

I dont think so. SOmetimes I do, sometimes I dont. I can tell you in the fall in high concentrated motorcycle areas sometimes you just cant do it or your tuckered out from it. LOL My favorite is when the cruise is connected and I come across some of the other brands of touring bikes, I like to give them a wave up high with the right hand. Does that make me bad? LOL

nd gen I use a 2x4 piece and slip under the side stand. Makes it pretty level.

Could be a bolt or tab handing down and upon compression hit the tire. I would check and see if any markings/damage in bottom of treads. See if the tread blocks appear to be chunking and coming apart. Definitely look up in wheel compartment and see/feel around for something protruding. Ride it for awhile and keep close eye on it. Say mark side of tire and photo it. Then in a week go to same spot and photo again to see if any worse. Keep tabs on it and see what you think from there.

Yea and pattern is big too. They dont exactly allways say its a pencil beam or a wide beam etc. And I dont know about you, but lumins other than bigger is better theroy..........

Road debris. Inspect, see how deep and how far. Hard to say with just a pic but dont look too bad.

Might throw some seafoam in and synch carbs. Are you getting and carb overflow on floor after sitting, say over night?

Yea did some reading. 2015 will come with cruise. Dont think I really want to go backwards and use throttle lock type deal.

A buddy of mine bout the Strat a couple years back just before a long trip we took from NC to up by Toronto. He never lacked keeping up with my RSV or the HD Soft Tail that was along. I liked the bike. I really think IF Yamaha goes back into making touring bikes, this will be the format they use.

The 900 vulcan had holes under the floorboards. I guess manufacturing pickup point or something. Anyways on this tab under the boards was a hole and guys were taping them out and putting soft grade bolts in them for the same effect. 1/4x20 soft bolt from hardware store about .08 each.

Yea Steve I know what you mean. A "good" paying job is $10hr here. Guess I can go work at Micky Ds when they raise the wage to $15 bucks like these idiots talk about.

But its a dry heat ! Yea rite, like an oven. Glad you finally made it home OK.

Hate to say it, but visability wise I think you touched on part of it. I painted my shorth helmet with hi vis yellow plasti dip paint pretty cool stuff. I also try to wear a hi vis vest to help out. Even behind the fairing I think the vest helps some. If you are not running a HID headlight and dont plan to, I suggest a headlight modulator. They really grab attention. The lights I have could be mounted up by the passing light if I wanted to. Dont know if you have the passing lights. If not you can probably mount them up on the turn signal bar. I have thought about a strip of LED lights that have the double stick tape on them and maybe run them like along the edge of the fairing by the clear lowers.

Well the factory Yamaha connects to the CD player cable in the left saddle bag. Usnig the C-bus connector allows it to be controlled via the handlebar control. Thats kind of what I was hoping for.

Dang you should have asked around. The Hagon would have probably been a beeter buy. Under $500 But the shock removal is as mentioned pretty much 2 bolts drop out bottom. However I did find it easier to loosen the dog bones on the swing arm and get them out of the way. I went ahead and pulled them, cleaned and greasd everything up before putting together.

I used a piece of channel alum I had that the micro toggle switch (from radio shack) and momentary off button would fit inside. So switch on lights are on. You have to look at them to see if on hi low or flash. but then push button to cycle thru to where you want them. The alum bracket once I was ready a couple small holes and zip tied around handlebar.

Should have instructions. But the one in the pic black-good ground, blue is power to radio/amp and the red from the gizmo goes to power wire of unit. Now the one you get may have different color scheme, but same idea. I installed on on a power amp converter thing I installed on mine for the GPS/aux input. I used a Boostaroo and made a power converter so the 3.5v unit would work off 12v.

OK Thanks Steve. I dont know really if I can make anything happen. Priority right now if job hunt. And around here I'll be lucky to make bills much less a payment.

So Puc here is the pic I told ya about. This one was the wife and I'S first trip on bike up to North Carolina. So you see the packing thing comes natural sort of. LOL Prayers up my friend. Good things to come.

Seriously though if you want to stay with an auto type radio there are so many jobs out there now that would probably fit. In my experience the radio reception is pretty bad. Dont matter if its a RSV the Kawi Voyager guys complain about those too. The range just aint that good. So almost everyone traveling is going XM or MP3 or using their phone for Pandora or the like. Look at a lot of the new bike like the Victory Cross country bikes I dont even think they have a radio option anymore. It is ll bluetooth comm and i-pod. Just makes sense I guess when you get right down to it.

I sure have leaned towards this a few times. The wife and I like different types of music. I try to play her type for some of the trip but after awhile I'm going nuts. And I'm sure she gets the same way after a couple hours. Separate music for each would be a plus for sure.

Doug, what I have started doing on my ends that are the crimp on type and if I happen to use a crimp connector, I actually heat the plastic outer cover thing and strip it off. Put a piece of heat shrink on the wire and crimp together, then some dielec grease and heat shrink it up. Those big plastic insulators get messy and take up a lot of room. As far as crimpers go I am still using the old $4 pair I have had forever. Not fancy but work well and don't usually over crimp. I did recently buy a pair of "automatic" strippers from harbor freight that work well. They were like $10 or something.

You know I think that was one of the deterrents to pursuing this project. Once I found out how much they wanted for i-pod even used I was like never mind. The newer i-pod touches still go for over $100 for like and 8gb.