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  1. concours
    Get a dirt bike and get some experience. It's the only way. All the "do this' and "don't do that" bits of advice are too vague. You have to see, feel, respond to, deal with varying traction first hand to learn how. I rode 20 miles up and back down a gravel road on the side of a mountain with my 6'-2" GF on the back... had a throttle party the whole way. Go get a cheap dirt bike and play with it.
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    He's right... my VW Jetta TDI gets 50 mpg, weighs 3,000 lbs., has a faster top speed (chip modded) than my RSTD which gets 30mpg, weighs 800 lbs., and is slower than any Yamaha has a right to be.
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    Nope. The powers that be obviously feel cruiser riders are too dumb to handle any real power, reference the Royal Star and also the Triumph Rocket III Tourer. I've ridden both "before" and "after" models. The RIIIT wouldn't bust the tire loose in the rain... the original RIII did wheelies and scared me.
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    I used the GPS speed and distance for my calculations... speedo is 7mph off, distance was 6% off... Low fuel light was on at 100 miles.....
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    Air filters are new, stock paper elements. I synched the carbs recently, etc. Yesterday afternoon, I tore down the carbs to have a look. Not a lot, a few small things. Idle mixture was at three turns, hauled it back to two. Choke linkage was bent slightly, two enrichener plungers were being POSSIBLY held off their seats. Probably by the original owner who dis this.....
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    E G G Z A C T L Y !!!!!!!! I got the same stuff, chugging, lugging sound, low power, poor economy (25 mpg) and I've fixed a lot of machinery over the years... heck, my WIFE noticed and asked if something was wrong..... but it comes and goes, miss mixes in with the V-4 uneven cadence... hard to say for sure...
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    I've gotten 25mpg at 75 mph (actual GPS speed) for the last three tanks.... all stock except for cored out pipes. For those who've changed their own spark plugs at the 12k miles interval did they look used up? Or still plenty serviceable? (I'm over on mileage for those)
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    Sooooo..... what are the numbers? Any performance increase? Baseline hp & torque numbers? After the mods? Inquiring minds want to know...
  9. concours
    My neck is ON FIRE... never thought about the BIKE doing it to me... to the guy with the Flanders bar change info... do you have before and after top views?? Any more info?
  10. concours
    had the ultimate as well.... the seat is still "V" shaped and KILLED my tailbone. The Russell is even MORE $$$$$!!!!!! DOH!!!!
  11. concours
    Try again... http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm98/gsx800ltd/Royal%20Star/
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    Dude said it was a '96 Royal Star... didn't say Venture. JFWIW
  13. concours
    my gawd..... have someone fly and RIDE!!!!! It's just down the street!!!!
  14. concours
    I don't have any images.. Their website has two pictures of the seat on a red RSV (close enough to same for RSTD). I just took pictures, measurements and such. Told him higher is OK, etc. Seat is perfect...
  15. concours
    www.day-long.com solved my problem. I had the Mustang, but it was too far forward and shaped poorly.
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    Here's what I did.... http://[img]http://pics.tdiclub.com/data/3881/medium/Royal_Star_cut_pipe_1.JPG[/img]
  17. concours
    Buy them here.... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-SAMSON-EXHAUST-YAMAHA-ROYAL-STAR-TOUR-DELUXE-97-99_W0QQitemZ310038763886QQcmdZViewItem
  18. concours
    Don't lug the engine... wind it up... 5th gear is reserved for expressway cruising only.... 50 in 5th is killing it.....
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    Beware... different bikes have totally different ergonomics.. I had a Mustang and an Ultimate on a Valkyrie... AWESOME!!! Ultimate on the RSTD sucked.... because the frame of the RSTD dictates a too far forward, V-bottom seat. I had to keep searching to get away from the small, V-shaped seating area. Soooooo.... what works well on one bike model is not always good on another. JFWIW
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    www.day-long.com nothing else I've ridden even comes close. 36 years experience...
  21. concours
    TIRE noise is the most likely culprit if the noise changes when you shift from side to side... the OEM Brickstone scallops and makes a LOUD noise when leaned slightly...
  22. concours
    It's a lot of work and your resale value goes DOWN. Nothing personal, just a fact of life. Enjoy.
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    My bike also needs NO CHOKE when starting in the morning. Garaged, unheated... usually 60 degrees or so. I bought the bike used so don't know what normal is.. smells rich on the idle, maybe someone backed out the idle mixture screws. Can anyone else chime in on this? Need more baseline info. Have you all tried cold starting with NO CHOKE and a CLOSED throttle?
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    I have the turn signal conversion kit from here... http://www.electricalconnection.com/ which retains the amber bulb for turn sig, but adds a ring of RED LED's at HALF brightness for running lights, and also changes to VERY BRIGHT RED LED's for auxiliary stop lights as well. I recommend it highly. I've always used the SOS Priority Lights in the past but this rocks way better. All trying to stay alive in Boston traffic at rush hour.
  25. concours
    No, no, no.... 30 something MPG means he's WAAAYYYYY too rich.... and NOT a vacuum leak. Been "jetted"? for aftermarket pipes or air filters? or stock? The enrichener system (choke) can be the problem if one or more carbs has a plunger not seating properly. Also a sunken float (or misadjusted float... anyone been IN those carbs?) will do it. Fouling plugs is either too much fuel dumping in (MOST likely) or an ignition problem (coil, wire, cap, etc.)
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