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PM Bob Myers- he is the guru on the Bluetooth-cb gizmos stuff. He was telling me back a couple months ago how to make the cb and uhf radios and something else all work thru Sena blue tooth. WAY more info than I needed.

First 2 things we tell our auto tech students on electrical issues. FIRST-check ALL connections. Power and grounds. Then for any starting/charging system issues you need a fully charged battery. If your bike battery is old, maybe you can use a car battery and run bike and see if it charges correctly before running out and throwing $100 at a battery. 4yr is pretty good on a bike battery unless it is a gel.

Might be worth a try Steve, if someone just cant get a good feel. I would say maybe just enough fluid in reservoir to cover bottom and you should be OK. So potentially you would need 2 syringes. One for the new fluid your pushing in, and one to empty the reservoir.

I have a electric fuel pump out of something. So I just hook it up and suck the fuel out. I have sucked down my fair share of fuel thru a hose. So the fuel pump is now my option.

There are some places that make what they call "highway bar close outs" or something like that for open highway bars. Actually the lowers can be a PIA. In the summer they dont vent and get HOT. They are god in wet, but your knees still get soaked as all the water is now forced between the fairing and leg lowers. At least the lowers on the Victory Cross Country have vents in them that work.

When I was in USAF they went thru a time when flight crews doing air drop mission on cargo aircraft like C-130 and C-141 (which I was assigned to) wore some sort of a composite helmet with visor, sun shield etc. Fancy bugger anyways sounds kind of like yours. We didnt wear them on regular missions, just airdrops. So as a precursor to this story of helmets. When I was doing my flight physical and they did all the poking and prodding etc, they also take you finger, hand and foot prints. Wondering why I asked how come. They tech doing the work said "so when you crash we having something to go by to put pieces with parts. Ohhhh So back to the question of why we had to wear helmets only on air drop missions? I Dunno, because chances of a helmet helping with a fall from 10,000 feet @ say 300 mph? Not much.

LOL man sure made me laugh. I liked the part at the beginning about not caring about stupid people. Lewis black is a guy that can crack me up too.

Try to find something with "slim ballast". Usually a little better quality outfit. Easier to hid also, although on the RSV not a big deal.

Puc, even though I try to "preview" a route I have built and uploaded on the GPS. More often time then not its still an amazing "holy crap where does that road go" or "how did I get here?" LOL Unlike you I dont cherish 2 trackin on the 2nd gen. I have not been on a dirt bike in oh...35yr or somtin and shure as heck dont want to on this behemoth. Now I do use the google maps thing to check out the roads and kind of see what the scenery is going to look like. that way if it dont look interesting I can develop a plan B.

WE just bouhgt 2 new Bell Mag 9 with the Sena mounts built in. They have to drop down sun shield in addition to the clear face shield. We had the previous model and they were getting like 7 years old and padding getting flat so figured time to replace. Cowpuc-I'm sure I can look around for you man and find like a pack of 10 stickers that say "DOT" That should be less painful.

Clamp has a single bolt in center. So you can move clamp around bar to sort of aim direction, then point light and tighten the center bolt. With the lowers on the bike I have to be careful on how far in they are pointed as I dont want them rubbing the fairings. I thought about making a bracket to mount them to the forks at one point.

I can say Rick products are good in my use. I had to replace the stator on my 07 Vulcan. Its a weak spot with them as well. Every guy I talked to on boards used a Ricks when theirs went out. All have had flawless performance.

Gary, the load on the small looking wires is what concerned me. They look pretty puny on the RSV 2nd Gen. maybe 16ga. I really liked my 80/100 bulb but the wiring had me concerned so I went HID. Now looking back I think a fellow could wire one of those up and mybe use a relay and be OK. I dont think the "heat" per say would be an issue unless its an all plastic housing/reflector.

Off e-bay. Look here for similar lights to mine.

30w 1200 lumins

Link dont work for me. But if its an H3 bulb they make a CREE LED bulb to fit. Thats what I have in my passing lights. Now they make different lengths of them, so you need to know the depth you have available. I used my calipers to measure how much depth available. If you dont have that, you could use like a tie wrap and push in hold finger at mount hole and then measure what you get to give you depth.

Man thats got to be one of the best descriptions of FB I have ever heard. Bravo

Wifes Durango has had 4 upper ball joints (2 were recall changed) 2 lower joints and 1 tie rod end I think. Truck has about 160k on it. My 96 2500 Ram has about 120k on it. 2 yr ago I put all new upper and lower ball joints in it. But neither goes off pavement much just highways and our roads where I'm at in Fl are pretty decent.

While this is a "Venture" site. I have been educated and re-educated on some electrical systems and wiring etc. For me that has been worth the price of admission. There is a lot more info available here than just for Yamaha's. I am on a couple other sites for different bikes Kawasaki from when I had my Vulcan and recently I have been on the Victory sites doing research. I am on the Delphi Venture forum and those guys are good folks also. But as was mentioned a couple threads up mostly info is exchanged on those. I have met some of the folks on here and from the very first meeting Brake Pad has made me feel welcome and like a part of the group.

I would have to agree. the Face look or whatever it is has killed a number of forums. I belong to an online racing league, the only way we get any info is e-mail or the face thingy. I dont do that so I'm usually behind the curve. Do we have a FB and someone whom watches it and posts pertinent things? I dunno what that would be, but maybe updates on a meet and eat in an area or something. While a thousand members is a large number in my mind, how many were paying members vs trial? I think thinking about adding possibly other yamaha "touring style" (fjr, strat) bike areas may be something to look at. Like someone mentioned we are all riding out of production soon to be antiques, and you have to upgrade or change sometime. I check in a couple times a day. This place is like a family get together. You just never know who is gonna get picked on next.

Just got a HF flyer in mail yesterday. There is a trailer in there wit the little cargo trunk thing installed and 8" tires on it for $379. pn#66771 lot62644 I dont know which number you would need to look up so there is both.

I added a pair of those type lights on my 2 gen. I put mine down by the foot bars. I think they work pretty good and dont suck a lot of power which is good.

I dunno if they are reasons, or excuses. But 1-not everyone can ride 2-I can get on, go for a ride and I have to put out of my mind the troubles-worries-thoughts that are bugging me. Why because motorcycling requires us to pay attention to what the heck we are doing at hand. 3-Things just look different when your out in the wind. Yea cow poo and dead roadkill smell worse, but man its just FUN.

Just south of Avon Park. In the subdivision where you turn in by the Florida Hospital. Might take a road trip here in a week or so over to Ft Myers to look at a scoot.

I first read this all I could think of was the bicycle I bugged my folks for probably a year. http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag62/Kittlebomb/0226131244_zpsa3504154.jpg First bike titled in my name was an RD 350. I had rode some dirt bikes prior. Ran Hodaka 100's for a bit. In volved with a dealer and some kind of promo thing. Would take the Ace and strip lights off and run them. I guess to show them off. I didnt care I got to ride. lol http://tenwheel.com/imgs/a/c/e/l/y/1968_hodaka_ace_100__condition_2_lgw.jpg