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cant find info on this. Its a barn find so to speak. Owner says it ran 10 yrs ago and has been setting since so I know it needs minimum new plug, wire , and fuel plus carb work. What my question is is how much is this thing worth. Theres not a scratch on it and everythings original. Onlly has 2796 miles on the odometer and since its setting beside a 57 bel air with 27 grand on I dont doubt the milage. Any help will be apreciated David
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hey i have just one valve needle that isnt working anyone know where i can get just the one needle valve? edit: scratch that i fixed the old one
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The other day I was cleaning my bike and noticed a deep scratch on the rear of my trunk. looks like somebody may have keyed the bike. I am sure if I backed into something hard enough to make that scratch I would have noticed. How would you fix a deep scratch in the plastic. this is on a 2007 Midnight Venture. scratch appears to be light grey so assume the trunk is really grey plastic painted black. if it is black paint it will be hard to match. Al
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Last night I scored a deal on a car topper from Craigslist. The guy has an old car topper that had been used once and was asking $25 for it just to get rid of it quick. After almost a week of us playing phone tag and email tag he finally sent me an email that If I can come tonight, I can have it for $FREE$. He just wants it gone. Needless to say I beat feet over there, and this thing looks almost like new. I stuffed it into the back of my truck and away I went with the goodies. Now I just have to decide quickly as to whether I should just get the HF trailer (the HF trailer is on sale for $179.95 till the end of this month) to put under this box, or build one from scratch. I know that it will cost a LOT more to build it from scratch, and take a lot more work and time, but I will have a much better trailer in the end that is exactly what I want/need.
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How does one remove the sticker put on the gas tank on a new bike warning about wearing a helmet? I tired with my finger nail but its on very well. I certainly do not wish to scratch the paint trying to remove it. Thank you in advance for the help.
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Left the house 6:00am for work this morning and got about 3/4 mile when a big doe ran out in front of me. I hit her about 50-55 mph.She hit into the fairing and then rolled up onto the saddle bag and back seat.I got lucky and kept the bike up. And as best i can tell didnt get a scratch on the bike..Some blood and alot of hair. She got up and ran into the woods.Put a good scare into me and certainly could have been bad. Thanks Chris:fingers-crossed-emo
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Just curious...... I've dropped mine 4 times...... 3 times sitting completely still and once when it stalled while pulling out. Luckily it didnt get one scratch..... but I have admit even though I'm a big guy the RSTD is pretty heavy when you pick it up yourself. -
Golf is harder than baseball. In golf, you have to play your foul balls. Eight Iron Off the seventh tee, Joe sliced his shot deep into a wooded ravine. He took his eight iron and clambered down the embankment in search of his lost ball. After many long minutes of hacking at the underbrush, he spotted something glistening in the leaves. As he drew nearer, he discovered that it was an eight iron in the hands of a skeleton! Joe immediately called out to his friend, "Jack, I've got trouble down here!" "What's the matter?" Jack asked from the edge of the ravine. "Bring me my wedge," Joe shouted. "You can't get out of here with an eight iron. The schoolteacher was taking her first golfing lesson. "Is the word spelled p-u-t or p-u-t-t?'' she asked the instructor. "P-u-t-t is correct,'' he replied. "Put means to place a thing where you want it. Putt means merely a vain attempt to do the same thing." = The owner of a golf course was confused about paying an invoice, so he decided to ask his secretary for some mathematical help. He called her into his office and said, 'You graduated from the University of Tennessee and I need some help. If I were to give you $20,000, minus 14%, how much would you take off?' She replied: "Everything but my ear rings!" = Fore! My five-year-old nephew wanted to caddy for my brother's golf game. "You have to count my strokes," my brother told him. "How much is six plus nine plus eight?" "Five," answered the nephew. "Okay," my brother said, "let's go." Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle, followed by a good bottle of beer. Golf! You hit down to make the ball go up. You swing left and the ball goes right. The lowest score wins. And on top of that, the winner buys the drinks. If you find you do not mind playing golf in the rain, the snow, even during a hurricane, here's a valuable tip: your life is in trouble. Golfers who try to make everything perfect before taking the shot rarely make a perfect shot. The term 'mulligan' is really a contraction of the phrase 'maul it again.' A 'gimme' can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers ... neither of whom can putt very well. An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play; it is always possible to get worse. Golf's a hard game to figure. One day you'll go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and for no reason at all you really stink. If your best shots are the practice swing and the 'gimme putt', you might wish to reconsider this game. Golf is the only sport where the most feared opponent is you. Golf is like marriage: If you take yourself too seriously it won't work, and both are expensive. The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil. = Scratch Golfer Two women were put together as partners in the club tournament and met on the putting green for the first time. After introductions, the first golfer asked, "What's your handicap?" "Oh, I'm a scratch golfer," the other replied. "Really!" exclaimed the first woman suitably impressed that she was paired up with her. "Yes, I write down all my good scores and scratch out the bad ones!"
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Was wondering if any one has tried the http://www.harrietcarter.com/resources/harrietCarter/images/products/processed/3584.detail.a.jpg Simoniz® Fix It!™ (C3584) Fix it! pen removes car scratches like magic! Fast-action scratch repair filler and sealer pen from Simoniz gives professional results without the hefty cost. After washing, apply to scratch or scuff, gently buff, and then wipe away—no sanding tools or extra “elbow grease” needed! Contains UV hardeners that fill, level and cure on contact. No need for matching touch up paint - works on any vehicle, in any color; goes on clear and dries clear. Non-toxic, water-resistant. Or is it one of those too good to be true.
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I'm having my front forks resealed and new pregressives put in. The guy doing the work for me called me last night to say one of the fork tubes has a scratch on it. He's taking it to a machine shop today to have it "polished" out. I'm not sure what that means but wouldn't a scratch be a groove, not a raised ridge ? How would "polishing" help ? He's pretty confident, but not 100% sure, that it can be polished out so I was wondering , if it can't be polished out enough, and it's not too bad, would it be worth while trying to fill it with Locktite 660 and then polishing it down even ? Anybody ever try a filler on a fork tube scratch ? -
I have ALWAYS worked on my own bikes. But they were Harleys and I knew them from top to bottom, easy bikes to wrench on. I just bought my Royal Star and since I have my big trip coming up here in a couple of weeks, I decided to take it to the dealer for the 16,000 mile service, just this once... The reason I have always worked on my own bikes dates back to the first time I took my first Harley into the dealer for a simple oil change. I went to pick it up and low and behold, there was a scratch on the tank. When I brought it up to the service manager, I was told that it was there before before they began to work on it and was looked at like I was trying to pull a scam. Needless to say, I raised hell but still only ended up with a free detail and did not pay for the service. I was able to buff the scratch out when I got home but that set the precedent for me. Take bike to dealer=get screwed. Back to the story at hand though... I took my bike to the dealer and spent a good half hour talking to the service manager about the pride and care I take in my bike's appearance and that I expect to come back to ZERO scratches/dents when I pick it up. The service manager ASSURED me that he would take extremely good care of my bike, there was nothing to worry about. I dropped it off Saturday for the service and a new rear tire. Well, I swung by today as they are only a couple of miles from my office to see how it was coming along. When I arrived my bike was parked about 10" from the bike lift, which had a dirt bike on it at the time. The mechanic who was working on the dirt bike had to repeatedly walk from the lift to his tool box, each time literally squeezing past my front tire and fender, his jeans actually rubbing on the fender. I immediatley walked over and moved my bike back about 2 feet. The mechanic asked me who I was and told him I was the owner of this bike and that I was not comfortable at all with how close it was where he was working and walking. He looked at me like I was crazy. I then looked at my front fender and big surprise, there is a small scratch right smack on the front of it!! I got more than a little upset and asked him how this happened. He looked at me and shrugged. I asked to speak to the shop manager and all he did was walk to the phone and over the loudspeaker, asked for the shop manager to come to the shop, customer waiting. When he arrived, I showed him the scratch and told him this is exactly what I was talking about! He rubbed the area with his finger and said it felt smooth and that he didnt think the scratch was new. This is after we had already walked the bike on Saturday looking for scratches and dents. As we were discussing this, the mechanic had pulled the dirt bike off the lift and had pulled my bike on and was taking my hard painted bags off. The first thing he did was set the bag and lid on a metal counter, no towel or anything down! That was my breaking point. I went from talking to yelling instananeously! " That is EXACTLY the sh-t I'm talking about!!" and I stormed back there, grabbed the bag and lid and walked right back to service counter where the manager was standing, mouth agape. I grabbed a couple of shop rags that were on the counter and put the bag down on top of them, latched the lid and turned the bag over. Thank god there werent any scratches, but still! At this point my head was pounding so I took a couple of deep breaths and then slowly tried to explain that this is the reason I don't usually bring my bike in for anything, it's not his bike so why, other than pride in workmanship, would he care?? The service manager looked as confused as I've ever seen anyone look in my life. I asked him what his plan was because I'm not happy at all right now. He asked me what I would like him to do. I told hime I would be much more comfortable if he would personally oversee the sevice of my bike, which he agreed to do. He promised me that my bike would be done today. It's 2:15 right now so at 4:30 when I leave I'm gonna head back over. Do you guys think I'm being over the top here or does everyone value their stuff the way I do? Be honest!
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Does any one use that stuff. Talked to people that use it and they like it. I would think it would just rub the dust into the paint and scratch it. I like to use water and rince the bike off. I still use small amount of mild dish soap to wash my bike.
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well i have completed my winter project four years in the making. built a v-twin powered prototype cushman eagle for a machinist friend of mine, with a one off fourspeed transmission that we designed and built from scratch. the whole scooter is hand made and i built it from scratch. he is now manufacturing these transmissions and primary drivetrains. i put my all in this project, and when the day came to start it up and ride it i was really apprehensive. well, i took it for a test ride down my street and it actually worked and shifted great. very fast. it has a briggs vanguard 630 cc v-twin which i built with dual mikuni's. j&e pistons ported with a reground cam. very fast will top 100 mph . you can see a picture of it at http://www.reisstoolandmachine.com anyway looking for a new project for this winter. any ideas. had a vakyrie pass me yesterday on the highway and i had this brainstorm that i have never seen an 1800 gold wing cuiser. maybe i could find a salvage one for a start. i think it would look cool and different. got a few things to wrap up on my zx14 but that should'nt take long. just digging for ideas. bill
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leads to grief... I got distracted by a pedestrian who I thought was going to fall into the roadway when I looked back the car in front of me had stopped! There was a car to my left and I had no where to go. I have practiced emergency stops on this bike a lot since I got it but the rear locked up twice and at the end of the second lock up (this is in 2 seconds...) it caught and threw me. It's my first high side! I can remember thinking "this is stupid" as I got launched onto the road and rolled onto my back. There are some serious scratches on the fairing and I bent the right crash bar so my cowling doesn't look right but overall it's not bad considering the bike almost went right over. I can still hear the sound of the bike hitting the pavement. They are not very pretty upside down... My left ankle is sore and I have a scratch on my right wrist. Not even a scratch on my helmet. Glad I had leather on though... It could have been worse...
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Ok folks, Eileen and I got home yesterday. Now I will start thinking about repairing the new scratch on top of my saddle bag. A few questions for any of you who have done this. The scratch is not real deep but deep enough that I can feel it. I may be able to sand it out but am not sure. Should I even try or should I used some type of filler? If so, what would be the best thing to fill it with? I will probably just order some matching paint from Colorrite. I think that one of their aerosol cans would be enough but from the customer reviews that I read there, the aerosol clear coat that they sell does not work well. The reports are that it does not spray well from the cans and there is a lot of problem with bubbles, uneven spray, etc. Have any of you ever tried it? Would I be better off just ordering the pint size non-aerosol and primer and having it shot at a bodyshop?
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We are staying at a hotel in Parkersburg, WV. Yesterday morning I went out to the bike to find that somebody had keyed the top of my right saddlebag. Bad scratch about 4 or 5 inches long right across the top. Definitely too deep to polish out. Nine years of owning this bike and have managed to keep it pretty much scratch free the entire time. Really ticks me off. So, I guess I'll be looking for a new top of the bag and if I can't find one at a reasonable price, may just put the leather covers over them. I hope I can find one though. I know I could have it repaired but don't know that they would ever match the paint to my satisfaction.
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i need your help on this matter. i bought my wife a brand new helmet($80) to match the bike. got it out of the box and put it in the trunk she got it out and there was a big scratch on it i asked her when did she drop it she said that she didnt so i just blamed it on one of the kids. got it out again sunday and there was another one on it by this time i am getting real mad about it but didnt say any thing to the wife or kids. so today i rode it to work went to put my helmet in the trunk by the way mine is a half helmet no scrathes yet i look at hers again and i can see that it is a fresh scratch on it i looked inside of the trunk and i see paint on the bolts that hold the luggage rack on and i put 2 and 2 together. so my queistion to you guys is what did you do about this problem did you put some thing on them to make the problem go away or did you cut them down or am i the only one with this problem? by the way i gueess i owe the kids an apology when i get home.
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Let's say , "What If" there were no Ventures ever made , 1st Gen's nor 2nd Gen's . What would you be riding ? Myself , I would be on a custom "built" from scratch scoot . Old school scooter made from any possible parts and pieces . And You ? BEER30
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I am going to trike the 92 that I got from JRichard for Mini to ride.What I need is detailed pics of how the rearend and suspension is mounted. I would also like to know what type of rear axle is used.I Do not like any of the kits available and am thinking of making my own from scratch. So please either email me pics at r4774@yahoo.com or post them here so I can get started on getting all parts and materials. Thanks Jeff
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I spent pretty much a whole weekend in cleaning my bike. Although it definitely needed it, the previous owner was not as particular as I am. Washing the bike I use a car detergent, S100, wash cloth and various brushes. I actually scrub the tires with Bleach White. For stubborn areas like under the bike and calipers, I use Super Clean. You have to be careful with that stuff, put it on while the bike is wet and rinse off right away, because it will stain. I polish all the chrome with Nev-R-Dull (http://www.nevrdull.com/). It is a cotton wadding that comes in a can that you can get at Wal-Mart. I don't like using pastes, because they can scratch and get into nooks and crannies that are impossible to get out. Various stages of Maguire’s on all the paint, I hate swirl marks. Don't laugh at this, but if you have pipes that are bluing or starting to tan, use Blue Job (http://www.blue-job.com/). It is a very fine powder and works awesome, although it is a little pricey. Do you guys have any secrets as to cleaning your bikes besides not riding them?
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