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Yeah Yammer, it's probably as good as it'll ever be. Broken collarbone, big bump in the bone, ER Dr said they should've probably done surgery. That's all in the past now, we bought a camper last June, new adventures!!

Well,, I'm BAAACK! It's been a while, but I missed you all. No bike since the deer accident back in June '16, but I thought if it was ok with the boss I might lurk around and keep up with what's happening. Haven't completely ruled out another bike, but my screwed up right shoulder is still saying no. Good to see some familiar faces are still around.

I like the looks of the HD mirrors on the RSV. If it was me I'd just let em ride as they are, just to give folks something to talk about. BTW,, I haven't been around much lately,, but when did you get the Midnight?

Yes videoarizona, I'm just really glad we were on a 800# bike. The first person to find us said it was a big deer, and it wasn't dead, so he finished it off. I stripped off all the accessories I could, because if there is another bike it will be another RSV. Yes the insurance settlement was better than what I expected, just hated to see her go. Thank you all for the posts, it gets better every day. As for the Miata,,, well, my fiancé has a red '09 Mini-Cooper convertible that will do rather nicely for now.

She has gone to the great salvage yard in the sky, well, she's actually at CoPart in Louisville. On June 1st at about 9:30pm a deer stepped out in front of us on a local county road, it was a direct T-bone impact at about 40-45mph. I got a lot of rash, a concussion and broken clavicle. My fiancé didn't fare quite so well, she had 2 brain bleeds, lost the tips of 3 toes on her left foot, had 8 broken ribs, and was airlifted to UofL Hospital in Louisville where she was unconscious for 34 hours. The doctors said the thing that saved her life was her helmet, it impacted the asphalt on the right rear and cracked it up the side about 5 inches. Mine was just scraped all the way around, no cracks. We are both healed up for the most part, and we've been released by all our doctors. We never saw the deer, and I just remember a couple of "flashes" from the accident. Ruby suffered a badly busted up fairing, a LOT of damage on the right side, and a bent frame at the neck so she was a total loss. We are going to take the rest of this year off from a bike and see what next year brings. We both have been riding over 50 yrs and this has been by far the worst accident for either of us. Just be safe out on the road. I know there are things that are out of our control, but we just accept the risk cause we love riding.

Thanks for the kind words gang. Yes, it does get better, getting better every day.

Just wanted to let all my VR friends know that I haven't died, I'm still around and kicking. Been a rough last few months, went thru a pretty nasty divorce back in January, but I survived it without too much permanent damage. Got to keep Ruby, so at least that was one bright spot to it. I'll still be lurkin' around, so if anybody needs anything, or is passin' thru be sure to give me a yell.

Ok,, here are the voltages taken from a digital voltmeter tied in to my tender port. Key on - 12.8 volts, starting - 11.3 volts, idling - 13.3 volts, 2 lane road speed - 13.6 volts, interstate speed - 13.8 volts, but if I turn the driving lights off it climbs up to 14.2 volts right away. I have not seen the indicator lights on the dash "flicker" as they did the day it first acted up, nor are there any sudden drops seen on the meter. I removed and cleaned all the fuse legs and fuse slots, checked all the connections in the fairing as well as the wiring around the neck where they exit the fairing. I still think that there was a "funky" connection that I "fixed" and just didn't realize it. Oh well,,, just gonna ride it and see what happens from this point on. Thanks for all the tips and help. Ride safe!!

That's about the only thing I know left to do Jeff, and it's drivin me CRAZY!!! Well,,, "crazier", if that's possible.

Either of the 2 forums SilverT mentioned are great, I belonged to both when I had my Roadie. The only issue I had with my '03 was it would leak fuel out of the carb in hot weather. I re-jetted and reset the float and all was well. I loved mine,, and I'll have another one again one of these days. Congrats and good luck.

Ok,,, I have checked all the wiring from the battery out to the fairing, all the fuses, all the connectors. With a digital Fluke meter on the battery terminals here are the voltages I get,,, key off - 12.7 volts, key on - 12.5 volts, starting drops it to around 11.1-2 volts, when running at idle it gradually climbs to 13.6 volts, when ran up to rev limiter - 14.2 volts. The ONLY thing I have found is with the driving lights on it will top out at about 13.8 - 14 volts, when I turn them off it reaches 14.2 volts. I am going to get a digital volt meter and plug it into the tender outlet so I can temporarily monitor it while I ride. There must have been a connection that I "fixed", but I did not see any evidence of a bad/loose connection anywhere. First chance I get I'm going to take it to a shop and have the charging system checked. So starting tomorrow morning I'm just gonna ride it like I stole it!!! Thanks to all for the help and suggestions.

Mine is at 13.8-14 volts at that rpm.

Well,, I haven't had any luck with the roll start thing, always seems to happen on level ground. After I went thru all the wiring the O/D light does not flicker or dim now as it was doing Sat afternoon. I have been over all the wiring I can get to,, I am going to pull the outer fairing this afternoon when I get back in and check everything in there. The battery tested good and hot with all 4 of the testers that Batteries Plus had,, he even bounced it on the counter just to be sure there wasn't a "loose" plate. I'm convinced there was a loose/bad connection somewhere that I fixed but didn't actually see. I really cleaned the ground at the engine block, as it grounds to aluminum, but did not see any evidence of corrosion or a bad connection there either. Thanks guys for all your help and guidance, I'll post the issue if I find it..

Yes, that's what I was thinking too, but we bounced the battery hard, turned it every way and it tested good. The only other thing I can think was that there was a loose connection that wasn't obvious and I fixed it when I went over the wiring. Just gonna keep an eye on it but it was fine when I rode it yesterday afternoon.

I had an issue yesterday with the battery/charging on my '99 again. I replaced the battery back in April due to a bad cell, under warranty from Batteries Plus. Yesterday I rode about 300 miles total, with he first 200 being uneventful. I made what was going to be my last stop before hitting the interstate to come home, turned the bike off,, it would not even click the solenoid it was so dead. Finally had a guy give me a jump,, which took several minutes to get enough charge in the battery to start it. Got home and took the battery out of the bike,, at that point it was showing 9.2 volts. I put it on charge overnight, this morning it was showing 12.8 volts. I took it to Batt Plus,, they load tested it with every tester they had and it tested good. I came home and tore into the cables and wiring,, checking/cleaning ALL the connections I could find, and did not find anything loose or corroded. One thing I did notice on the way home last night was the O/D light would "flicker" as I was hauling down the road. It didn't have a definite "pattern" to it,, more like a "loose connection" flicker. After putting it all back together it now shows 13.8-9 volts at the battery terminals when running,, it drops to about 11.6-8 under starting load. Any help would be appreciated,,, THANKS!!