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    Nice shot. Great night for a ride.
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    Well..........all I can do is wish you the best of luck on that. Over the last three years I've only seen two listed on eBay and I missed out on both of them. I actually quit bidding on the rusty looking one when it went over $150.00. Hard to find. The odds are somewhere between finding chicken lips and me getting married again. At least I have hopes on the chicken lips. If you find one in good condition I'll be needing your address. Mike
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    Yep, sounds like the new Progressives are due. OEM springs in these bikes are junk. When I changed mine it changed the whole stance of the bike. You could see the difference even when the bike was sitting parked on the side stand. Raised the front a LOT!! It ended the bottoming problem for good. With the Progressives you can forget the air pressure to the front unless you want to stiffen it up a bit for playing in the twisties. I tell riders to find the proper air pressure that keeps the bike from bottoming out on both ends and rides the way you want it......then play with the dampening to find the softest ride. I'm 6'2" at 285 lbs and I run, for solo 55 in the rear and nothing in the front with the dampener set at 2. If I ride 2 up I'll go to 65 or 70 in the rear and maybe go to 3 on the dampener. It all depends on how you want the bike to feel for your weight load. It's different for everybody.
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    Pretty close Dingy. Ya end every sentence with "GA".
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    That looks like it would work for him. Good price to.
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    Right after I sent that I remembered you were from the Great White North. Man you would think that being what you are the government would be all over helping you out. That sucks. Too bad about the CapTel to. Nice way to handle calls. Good luck. Mike
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    Contact your state offices for The Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. They should be able to set you up with a loaner for your business and even be able to provide a voucher from the state for the purchase of a new unit. And my advice.....take it from a deaf guy....look into the possiblity of setting up a CapTel phone. If you have high speed internet in your office it should be plug and play. If your are not familiar with CapTel it's a captioned phone with a display. You can call out like a regular phone and the other party is captioned on screen. Inbound calls are simple to. The caller only dials a prefix and it goes through a capitioning service and you answer it like a regular call. Very nice. No more CA assisted calls. I wish I still had my old TTY to send ya, but I was given away a while back. Mike
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    Hi and welcome to the site. I ride an '84 also and in the summer months when I start it cold it may need a quick tap to 1/2 choke to fire up. Once the motor had been warmed up it starts fine without the choke. Mine falls into a nice cold idle at 2,000 rpms at half choke. Now in the winter.......I mean temps down to 0 degrees, I set it for full choke and as it fires I drop back to half to let it idle at 2,000 until it warms up enough to keep running without it. Might take a mile or so before I can knock off the choke completely. Now the thing I found with this bike is DO NOT even begin to turn the throttle until it fires up and idles. If crank the throttle even a bit it turns into a figit fest to get her started. Mike
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    I enjoyed the ERC when I took it two years ago. I'd been away from riding for a few years and it brought me up to speed real quick. It brought to light a few bad habits that I had developed earlier and once I got rid of them I felt a lot more confident on the bike. Mike
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    So you would want me to sign a waiver before you send me the set you are going to make for me? Wink, wink..........hint......hint. Ahh DANG! Don't look like they would work with the '86 chin.
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    I tried the lower pressures with the Avons and it did seem to cut the wandering on the rocks a bit. BUT......only a few pounds lower on the streets really changed the handling on the bike in a really uncomfortable way. I can always tell when the tires are a bit low. I know finding a tire that will balance the ride and needs I want may be an interesting search. Just finding a tire with decent load ratings can be fun. The dual sports may fall short there as well. Only research will tell. Mike
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    Yep....that one is one lug short of a knobby.
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    (f) 120/90-18 65h ® 140/90-16 71h
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    Ok, I've been a big supporter of the Avon Venons. I'm happy with them as an all round, all weather tire. But I'm at the point where the set I have now needs to be replaced. The one thing I'd like to gain in a new set of tires is better handling on off the beaten path roads. Lime rock, gravel and dirt. The Avons are not the greatest on these kinds of roads. I'm not going all out off road here but I do tend to wander down any road that will take me to someplace interesting. I live in Nebraska for Gods sake. It takes some effort to get someplace interesting. I ran Contys on my old GWs back in the 80's and they worked pretty well on the gravel roads. They were a pretty well treaded tire. Any recommendations on tire that would be an improvement in this area that would be available in 1st gen sizes? Mike
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    That's the way it works Shaun. Accessory position only. It's a failsafe to keep you from playing with it while on the move. Brakes............check. C.L.A.S.S........check. Carbs.............in process. Front suspension.........Pending. Next project...............to be advised. Moving on!
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    I don't know the specs on the 2nd gen forks but this is what I use for a seal tool on forks. The PVC is 1 1/2 ID with a coupler and a reducer. I have couple of reducers for different tube sizes, each shaped by grinder to fit as needed. The reducers have an octogon end (that I grind down to fit the outter tube) so it is thicker than the PVC pipe itself and fits the seal body well. The upper wiper lip fits nicely inside the ID of the reducer to protect it while being pressed into place. Hey, it's cheap, about $7.00 for everything, reusable and works on several sizes. As far as bushings on yours.....I have no idea. 1st gens just snap into a recess. Mike
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    Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami Move the slider left and right to scroll the new and old images (little bar in middle of each pic) to compare satellite images, taken by GeoEye, from before and after the disaster. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html?hp This link really shows the extent of the damage done.
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    Good to hear Steve. Glad she's back with you. Mike
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    That ain't no joke Karl. :crackup: It is a womans small. I'll say this is no summer jacket. With the liner out it is still a bit warm at 70 degrees. And it is the 3/4 jacket also. My daugther is 5'7" now and the sleeves are still ok but getting a shorter all the time. LOL! If I could only get her to wear it. But have her try some 1st Gear stuff on and see how it fits. Let me know if you might be interested. No hurry....it's ain't going anywhere and it sure ain't gonna get worn out anytime soon. You know where to find me. Mike
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    Hi Karl, Would she fit a small you think in a 1st Gear jacket? It's a Kilimanjaro that has been worn twice I think. Red and Black. I'll take some pics later if you think that would work. Mike
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    Too be brutally honest there are two schools of thought on this mod. "Tree Hugger" or "Pave the Planet?. The whole reason this mod came up I think was to find a way to eliminate that danged hose we all love and has created a boom in long nose pliers world and added some new words to our mechanical terminology. The OEM set up only created a path for the crank case to be vented by a mild vacumn (from the intake though the carbs) to burn off what ever excess fumes would be in the case. Environmently speaking.....a good thing. The "Breather Mod" only creates an outlet for the crankcase to vent under pressure. So the defense will say "what pressure?" There is no pressure created internally in the motor itself. So the vent only would be a vent to equalize the crank case. Now if the motor was billowing fumes out in clouds of toxic gases.......that would be bad. It don't. So adding the Breather Mod Filter is a matter of choice. No change in crankcase pressure to do damage so nothing to worry about there. Flip a quarter. Your call. Mike
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    Hey Shaun, How'd ya come on on bleeding your brakes? It's a learning experience on these bikes. Mike
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    I know that a bit of chain oil DON'T work when it's cold out. I cleaned it up and soaked a Q-tip with silicon spray and it seemed to be doing the trick into below zero temps. Will see how it holds up this summer.
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    You need a woman to teach you how to pack.
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    Once you get that cleaned up and back together you will feel the detent much better. Remember that the "OFF" goes to the 2 o'clock position for normal running and the "ON" goes to the 2 o'clock position to drain the system.
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