SilvrT
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bummer! sorry to hear that. I'd be really PO'd if that happened to me.
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ah yes, their advertising methods really work.... not to mention how they've followed Ford's "easy financing" scheme from years ago. Practically anyone can ride home on a new Harley nowadays and look at what they've done to the pricing over the years... they are cheaper now than 10 or 15 years ago but wait.... sign on the dotted line... payments you can "almost" afford for the next 7 years.... hmmmmmmmmm me thinks they're getting pretty good bucks for those scoots in the form of interest. (more "food for thought")
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"bunch of Harley riders" .... to me, that's a form of "Harley rider".... a singular plural if you will ...("bunch" being singular, "riders" being plural). yep... that's "hype" .... "Hype means “excessive publicity or propaganda.” An exaggerated claim especially used in advertisements, sales promotions and movie trailers constitute the much needed publicity for the product. The possible synonyms for the word “hype” are publicity, propaganda, exaggeration, buildup etc. Hype as a verb can mean to publicise a person, product or service by making tall, exaggerated and sometimes misleading claims. Hype can be a part of swindle or done in good faith to generate demand for a product or service. Hype is one of the popular marketing techniques done by businesses in every part of the world. In today’s competitive world, generating hype is one of the obvious means to be “heard” and “noticed.” A successful product or service is one which lives up to the hype. " and the more "Harley" is referenced... the more the hype is pumped up....yes/no? Hey... this thread is doing just that LOL. Awrite...c'mon... let's start building the hype for our scoots and demoting the hype for the Harley....
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like I said... had no idea of the speed and I went to 4th coz it was the next gear up and still had a ways to ge before the "S" turn!! As for what speed I'm at when shifting from 3rd to 4th when cranking it... hmmmmmmm next time I'll have to look..usually I'm watching the tach... now, you're talkin 95 Miles/hr...right? One thing to keep in mind.... I'm pretty certain my scoot has a Vmax rear end so if yours is stock, it's doubtful I'd match that speed.
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Oh, I do the same. not to mention it was a Yamaha... LOL No, that is one thing I don't wonder about although as evidenced by one of my other threads, it seems I do wonder about some pretty strange stuff sometimes....
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ahem!... now let's see... according to that, my head is worth $99 :rotf:
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Good idea!!! "honey...let's grab the video cam and go out and find someone to drag race with..." LOL
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AWESOME! That's exactly what I was looking for... Thanks :D
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trying to find technical guidance (aka step-by-step instructions) for replacing front fork seals on my '87. Trying to search produces a lot of un-related posts. Does anyone have a link to what I'm looking for? Thanks.
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Before this get's into a "bashing" game, I want to make it perfectly clear that that is not my intention... I am in no way bashing Harley or for that matter any other brand.... I just found it a peculiar "oddity" is all. I reference the post by wpredock .... his first words are "a harley rider..." ... why didn't he say "a motorcycle rider..." ??? I simply find this very interesting.... some kind of phsycological thing.... (I guess)
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In the situation I'm referring to, it's not so much the Harley riders buying into the "hyped image" (although many of them do), it's most of the other's...even us here but in a lot of cases, the media as well. We all say "Harley rider" .... rarely, if ever, would we say "Yamaha rider" so it's really us who buy into that ..... ya think???
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This past Saturday, Nina & I were out for a ride... came up to a red light, we're first out with a looooong straight stretch ahead of us on a 4 laner. Another rider pulls up behind... he just happened to be on a Harley (Dyna / Fat Boy / Deuce ... something like that). Light turns green... I crank it to the red line, no-clutch shift into 2nd...check my mirrors....he's right on my a$$.....redline it, shift again (no clutch).... check mirrors.... hmmmmmmmmmm.... he's fallen a ways behind.... redline it again...shift to 4th..... well, he's a bit further behind but seemingly holding his own.... crank it almost to redline in 4th but then had to shut 'er down...big corner coming up ... tight "S" turn onto a bridge.... wooooooooo what a rush... no idea what speed I got up to but that "one-up" Harley rider...oooops, I mean "motorcycle rider" had no hope of catching me up to that point but he was sure tryin. As we head into the turn, he's in the outside lane almost beside us. Around the "S" we went and I cranked it on some.... hey!!... where'd he go??... Onto the bridge..check mirrors...ahhhhhhh there he is....seems he couldn't handle that "S" turn so quickly! I LOVE MY 1st GEN!
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come to think of it.... I really don't know...
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yesssss... a motorcycle ride! that will do it! Now if only I wasn't at work! hmmmmmmm.... my son's scoot is at my place... I could go for a Harley ride this evening!
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It struck me today that whenever anyone brings something up about motorcycle riders, if the person happened to be on a Harley, they say "Harley rider" but whenever it's some other make involved, they generally only say "motorcycle rider" or "guy on a crotch-rocket", etc.... Why not "Yamaha rider" or "Kawasaki rider" or "guy on a Ninja", etc??? Why do we single out certain ones such as "Harley" and not the others? Better yet, why pay so much attention to them...why not put them in the same class as "motorcycle rider"??? awrite... it's pretty obvious.... I'm bored!
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I've posted several times about refinishing my scoot with spray cans .... you can achieve pretty decent results. Check out this product for clear coating... http://www.u-pol.com/countries/en/navigate.htm When I did mine, I had an auto paint supplier fill a spray bomb with automotive paint.... did a great job and I used that clear. You will have to power polish it after it cures to get the best results; however, it's pretty decent without the polishing.
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Unfortunately, sooner or later all of us will either have to accept Vista -OR- switch to MAC or Linux ... and unfortunately, MAC and Linux will get "some" but most will be going to Vista... Next year we will be replacing all our workstations and I'm sure not looking forward to that although we may well just re-use our Windows XP and sell off the old PC's without an OS or maybe stick Linux onto them. We have no choice other than sticking with Windows (something) due to the design of our network and the apps running on it.
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I don't use Vista but in XP, if you don't want a password, do the above but for the new password, don't enter anything... then, when it boots and prompts for a login, just hit Enter (no password required)
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...or as the Italian guy said... "you toucha my ride .... I busta you face" ...another one... "surviving trespassers will be prosecuted"
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Dang!!! this made me laugh! :rotf: (thinkin about my son here LOL)
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Somebody go key this guy's scoot...
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Want to lower my rpm by changing gears
SilvrT replied to CAZCO's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
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Rear wheel whine while leaning left at 80 kmh
SilvrT replied to Cdnlouie's topic in General Tech Talk
Yup... that's gotta be it... c'mon RAIN... I need more WET WEATHER riding time!! Actually tho, this summer is turning out great! I'm luvvin it! -
Maybe for some but I've red-lined my scoot and done the no-clutch shift a number of times...no problemo...ya just gotta make sure you have good pressure on the shifter (not so much that you'd be bending anything) and a full follow-through on the upshift. It takes a very small "backoff" on the throttle but watch out!... in some cases you'll pull the front wheel up. Soon as the shift grabs (which is almost instantaneous), roll on the throttle.... it's a rush! I've no-clutch shifted almost every bike I've owned. I do it under "normal" riding as well as when I'm "cranking it on"; however, I almost always use the clutch between 1st and 2nd. It works the opposite... as you're decelerating, put a little down pressure on the shifter, crack the throttle as though your speeding up....it downshifts... although this is a bit trickier to get the hang of, it does work and once you got it figgured out, not all that difficult to do. I don't do clutch-less downshifts much at all tho on a regular basis.
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That sucks big time... I feel for ya Don. A couple months or so back there was a "keying rampage" going on around here. Some idiot(s) were keying hundreds of cars in various parking lots. The insurance co was going nuts, not to mention the body shops. Take a relatively new vehicle (or any vehicle for that matter), key it along the side...front fender, doors, rear fender... that adds up to a lot of bucks to repair! Someone finally caught the jerk doing it and attacked him... beat him up some before the cops arrived LOL (well, that's the story I heard...hope it's true). I tell ya, if I came across some punk doing that, I think the cops would find him in the emerg!