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I was thinking of something as "stand alone" no jeans or anything under them. Heavens knows last summer in Jul/Aug jeans were bad enough. Dont know if I'll make the jump to these or not. Looking for intel mostly. My Tourmaster jacket is pretty much all open mesh, except shoulders and elbow regin. So its pretty cool until high 80's. I think anything can get warm after that realisticly I guess.

Have sort of been entertaining the idea of a pair of these textile/mesh pants to ride on longer trips in. Alot of my longer trips are in 80-90 deg weather. How hot are these suckers? I have a Fieldsheer textile jacket that I'm pretty sure once its over about 60 is hanging in the garage in favor of the mesh Tourmaster. Are any of these pants designed to be worn without your jeans or regular pants under them? Just seems it would be awfull hot with a pair of nylon type materal pants over your jeans. Shoot sometimes the jeans are hot.

Well while killing some time in Charlotte the other week I went to Cycle Gear. Picked up a Bilt screamin green vest. With milatary dicount under $20. Its brighter than in pic belive me. Light enough weight I think I stand it in summer. http://s7d9.scene7.com/is/image/CycleGear/web1001085~59477?$SM$

So what if a heavier fluid was used in place of the "blue food coloring" looking stuff. Say ATF? Would that do away with the bubbling issue? My issue with mechanical "the round gauges" is unless you have really expensive ones youhave to connect each one to the same cyl to zero out and use some sort of adjustable restrictor.

Oh yea I forgot about those. They come down to the faring but are like a total 3 inches or so wider. I may have seen one almost as wide as the faring somewhere also. http://www.accessories4bikes.com/images/STR-4XY02-60-00.jpg

Stumped more than one of us dummies. The horn circuit is backwards to most things we do. Horn essentialy has power all the time and we are controling the ground as has been mentioned. Had me confused for better part of a day.

Are they bendable? Do they come in different lengths? Wonder how they would look on a Second Gen along the "eyebrow".

Usually run mine until it stumbles then flip the reserve petcock. I seldom see the light for some reason. But the light and the stumbling (running out in main tank) dont happen at same time. The light and the coundown meter are connected I think. So when the light comes on it counts down. Its usually about 10 more miles before it has to be flipped to reserve. Of course I know me. If I made it to where it was one bar and that was it, I would probably ride it down to that and then go "oh crap". He atleast we got a reserve, my Kawasaki was FI and no reserve so if it coughed you were in big trouble.

Yup Steve about the same gauge I use when I'm on the road. A couple hours and I'm ready for a strech and I happen to look at the gauge/light and usually I'm pretty close. Seems sometimes I'm 170 range and maybe next is closer to 190. I dunno It dont bug me as bad as the gal that probably just cut me off texting and sipping her starbucks while yelling at the kid in the backseat and applying eye makeup. Sometimes ya just gotta pick your battles I guess.

Yea not real familiar with the gas gauge on this and how it reads yet either. I did some fine tuning on the 900 Vulcan as it was notoriously off. I have sort of learned to live with this one. On the Kawasaki I installed an adjustable resistor and tuned it to where the gauge read correctly. Dont know if the same thing could be done for this one or not. Probably aint worth it. I'm bad about setting the gauge back to the clock after fill up and zeroing out. Then it seems I'm suprissed to find the gauge is in the countdown mode. LOL Guess what I need to do on trips is just leave the trip gauge showing so I know how many miles I have went. I havent done the valves on this bike but the FJ I had is very simular and actually uses the same shims. Valve check is 26K I'm looking into a carb gauge to. Spotted a couple on CL for decent money. I'll shoot ya a PM. Basic mechanical skills we can get ya going. Oil changes are simple and can save you some $$ Most all the PM (preventive maintenance) is simple and good piece of mind you KNOW its been done. Glad you had a uneventful trip unlike some in Wy. Geeze.

I dont miss that weather at all. The entire 20yr we lived out there you never knew if you would have the same house. Just not any kind of way to prepare for that sort of thing. I'll take the hurricanes down here any time. thought and pryers go out to the entire area out there.

Usually they seat with around 30-40 psi I think. If you got one the bead is stuck on, let the air out and if you can pop the bead and try to reseat. Or lower pressure down and slap some dish soap mix with water. spread on bead where your having problem and air up again. I dont think I would go 10 psi over sidwall recomended. Sometimes you can bounce it and get them to seat too. but the soap should do it.

So can I just swap out my current relay for the TD one? I could leave the switch on and relay should do the work.

Makes me think about adding some 2" wide 3m refletive tape I got laying around to my cover. Its a sew on type.

So your home. Its allways nice to go, but good to get back safe and sound too. Youll have to tell me your thoughts now on your RSV as a touring bike. It will interesting. Hope you liked it.

Drain the gas as best you can out of the tank. Get 5 gal or so and put fresh in. Shoot even if you get a couple of gallons of fresh, but get the old stuff out. then directions say 1oz seafoam per gallon. Up it a little to 1.5 maybe. If you go double I have heard some say it will foul plugs up. But new gas and sea foam is probably the easiest and cheapest way to start. Make sure you got fie on all cyl and make a visual of the vacuum lines to carbs to make sure all are connected and not broken.

OK Jeff you know you have to do a wireing diagrham right? Are you pulling your closed (on) voltage from your brake light for a relay? The 10 second relay would be about the easiest to do I think. You "should" wire in a relay anyways and if you just install the 10 second one your good to go. But your idea definatly has merrit my friend, and could easily be done I thin on mine or someone that has the switch installed. If someone has a source for the time delay relays post some links would ya please?? Are they available @ autozone or advance auto parts?

Barry pretty much plug and play. They are designed to be that way and are. But after some consultations with guys much smarter than me here it was suggested to run it thru a relay (the kit came with it) and also build a seperate on/off switch for the light circuit. The reason being the HID bulb has a "safe" circuit buit into it so if voltage is too low it will shut off. What happens is you turn key on, volts are good. Typicaly you hit starter and voltage drops below "safe" for light it goes off then when bike starts it comes back on. The lights are not really happy with a large amount of this on and off stuff. If you decide its something you want to do somewhere I have the schematic and can build you up an switch with a warning light for when its off. Also I think someone researched a time delay relay that was like 10 seconds after the bike started it would automaticly come on. Which would probably be the slick way to do it. But the HID is killer in the dark dude.

Easy way on finding a dead cylinder. Take a crayon and make a mark on the heaer pipe by cyl. Start and run bike, if crayon melts off its firing, if stays same color no fire. Then start looking at coils or maybe a plug. Saves the didgits from getting burned too!

Where you at? You need someone to bring a battery and some tools? Or you figure by the time you change it your too late?

Yea fewer and fewer are comming with audio out. Also seems the ones you can add your own trips too are diminishing.

I Studied up quite awhile before I bought. I felt best band for my buck was the 765t and a zip loc bag.

Left a message on the other post you got going. If not wiped out from weekend activities will try to make lunch.

Sure hope they (victory/polaris) did a redesign on the motor. A friend of mine has like the 02-04 model when they reintroduced it years back. He has had to have the head worked on twice in like 40K. Valves, guides and the like. People today just wont put up with that kind of meticulas maintenance anymore. Heck we had people come in the dealership where I worked part time and had 30K on the car and never changed oil. "The oil light never came on, so I thought I was OK"

Yea I was going to say the same thing man. Even Yamaha saw the light and now offers the I-pod instead of the CD changer. They are heavy and talke up alot of room. If I take the wife for the week I end up taking the changer out of the left saddlebag so I got enough room to put 2 sets of rain gear. Id say go with an MP3 player or if your Apple savy (which In not at this time) go with an I-thingy of your choice. Right now I'm partial to Pandora on my phone played thru the stereo.