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which would you choose,I need a new seat
djh3 replied to crowrod's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
On my previous bike a 07 900 Vulcan I had a Mustang with the removable drivers backrest. I could ride all day 12+ and have. I now have just the OEM Pillow top job but so far it seems plenty good. My Mustang ran me in the Mid 500 range. -
Had a good chukle with this. Its almost what I said after the wife and I rode our new to us 09 RSV home. I looked down and I was running about 75 in a 60 zone. Soon after I used the cruise alot to try to keep me out of trouble.
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OMG there are still people living in Odessa? There use to be some fellas that raced out of Odessa and a racetrack there too I think. I've had the pleasure of being there before. We lived in Oklahoma for about 20yr in the southwest part. Much like west Tx. Flat, rocks and tumbleweeds. Dont really mis it sorry.
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The wifes 2002 Durango dont really like the E10 stuff, so I hate to see this comming. So maybe those of us that have classic vehicles that wont run on the junk will get a "cash for clunkers" deal. It worked sooooo well the last time.
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I have wondered the same thing. On the one hand if it would actually run a bit cooler that would be good. The other school of thought is the motor was designed to run at XXX temp. The thermostat is still going to open at xy degrees wether its water, water/glycol or water/water wetter or the like. I think its more a recovery thing. How long does it take for the coolant whatever it is to get back down to a temp that helps cool. How fast it sheeds the heat. If its on sale it probably aint going to hurt nothing, most have corrosion inhibiters.
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I have done the turkey baster thing on race cars. Pull what you can out of the master, then bleed system out. Not as bad as pumping for a long time with the lever of the pedal.
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I was told 40lb front and 41 rear on the E'3. Something like 5lb on the front shocks (I went with about 2.5) and danged if I remember the rear shock I think around 35lb. I havent checked it in the last few days. I guess I should check it before my trip next week eh? I was looking at the profile of my rear E3 and if you get a certian way I can start to see what looks like maybe every 3rd say tread line is slightly raised. I have noticed in the past couple months the noise from the tires has gotten a bit louder in longer sweepers. I'm figuring its soon time to change the tires out.
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I went for a ride today as sort of a "pretrip" check out. Just to make sure everything is up to snuff. I had the GPS running thru the aux port and playing MP3's. I noticed a buzzing noise when comming to a stop. Sometimes it would continue just driving. I read somewhere to just rearange the wires for the comm stuf. I did this once and thought I had it cured. I guess its back. Seemed more prevalant in the right ear. I bought a splitter with a short cable and I think I'm just going to split mine at the aux plug in for now. Have fun, ride careful.
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Redneck: sorry about that. I'm a racer and we have atendancy to use all the info we can get. Did some riding when we were in the Air Force in Oklahoma. Paldero Canyon was pretty awsome looking. But I dont miss the 100+ temps in the summer. Oh and the pop up spring twisters and hail. Enjoy yourself and be safe.
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Well I just checked in on the Tenn DOT site. They say they have 2 lanes going north open and one south now. I may have it backwards but at any rate its open. So I gues we dont have to by pass unless you want to.
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I think so. I belive the ground for the light bar is thru the bolts to the forks. While your in there messing around make sure your wire bundle is up out of the way of the fork stops. I was messing with the fairing and had the lights off and wires pushed around etc. When I turned the forks one way I pinched the wires on the stop. Everything workd OK till a couple days later I guess I put the handlebars on the stop to get out of the garage or something and pop, no lights. I temp fixed them and tied them up out of the way. I had the fairing apart here a couple months back for an HID conversion and fixed them correctly and rerouted them.
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Pictures say Grand Canyon and Los Alimos. Was this a trick question?
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The radio/comm stuff takes awhile to perfect. I'm still learning and I got mine in Jan. Could you hear the radio before you tried the MP3 on the aux side? If you couldnt maybe either the volume was down or it was in HS mode (headset) I havent messed with the CB at all. CD is nice if your going a few hours from the house and dont want to mess with trying to find stations. Here in Central Fl there aint many to choose from. I plug my GPS into the aux on longer trips. I still struggle with finding stations and trying to load them in the "presets" is like learning morris code, tap this twice then when its here press and hold tap once more geeze.
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OH NO possibly the blue smoke got out? Seriously you may be onto something. I supose static might zap it. I would think as long as key was off no voltage going to unit there shouldnt be any way you could short out anything. You didnt hear a pop or anything while working on it did you?
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JohnT, thanks for the tip. Will have to look in to putting on our list.
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From what I remember from my day working at Firestone the sidewall runout isnt all that big of a deal. Granted it makes some but it has to be pretty big. Try to see what you have for runout from the center of the tread. If bead is not seated your right that will cause it to runout. You can try to take a screwdriver and lightly hold it against the tread in the center and spin the wheel. It should make a line and that may give you something to go off. Other option is pop bead and make sure aint nothing under it. Sidewalls are not allways 100% true.
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Man Larry your everywhere too. Like Bob Meyers. lol I'm leaning like I said towards something with the antenna. If it picks up AM it must be working. Have you got an old car antenna laying around by chance to slave in to try?
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PHEW good food is OK. Its when your all ready chompin at the bit and it tastes like frozen warmed up doggie treats or something.
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Funny you should mention it bouncing down the road. Back in 07 when we got the Kawasaki and we took a trip up to NC on it I told her she needed a leash on it if she thought she was using it while on the bike. So we salvaged one off a camera we had around. Been on there ever since. I dont mind on the slabs, but man when you got hills and trees and rivers, screw the games.
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I'm thinking a loose wire, maybe a bad ground. Or a ground link with the antenna. The picking up an AM station tells me it works. Loose/broken connection is my bet.
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As the story goes most of these roads were used by the moonshiners to transport thier goods. Thus the name. I dunno, just plain nice roads. Did you find any good place to eat around there? We have a rule, we dont eat at restruants we have in our town. And we try to eat a "local" type places.
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Nice set up. Any reason you didnt use braided steel line? I have tried to get the wife to ride her own a few times. She just aint interested. She likes riding along playing games on the phone in the interstates and just looking at sceenery on backroads. At least she like to ride this bike.
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I'm trying to remember what I did. For the most part I think I just popped a couple of the plastic clamps loose from the handle bars. Now what you may notice now is a rattleing in the fairing as it dont have the support of them rubber bumper gomers anymore. Kiby had a set of these when I did mine. Stopped the majority of the rattles.
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I try to leave my Tourmaster Air jacket on as long as possible. But anything over about 90 here in Fl and it get unbearable at times. I have done the long sleve t-shirt and wet it when I leved in Oklahoma and it works pretty well as long as its damp. I have allways been a jeans kinda guy I guess, never had the textile pants. Dont forget sunscreen, skin cancer can be a bit$#.
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My son has an 05 Scion TC that ever since new has eaten batteries. Orginal lasted like 2yr. Then it would just up and quit no rhyme or reason or warning. So dealer put 2 more in under warranty with in like 2.5 yr. 3rd time my son said you keep it I'll buy my own. It still goes dead once in awhile if it sits like 2-3 weeks without running. Dont make sense, but something has got to be killing it thru the charging system. Many moons ago we use to have problems with the diodes in the GM alternators "sticking" open. The diode would open to charge battery and not close when car was turned off. Would slowly discharge battery. The first time you saw it it drove you nuts to trouble shoot, second time round you looked like a genius.