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WOWZY WOW WOW WOW,,,, youuuu bandit brother of mine!!! Glad to see/hear your still in the testing/review business and those folks at Ultimate are treating you so well!! Stock bike, no add on's, no high output stator or nothing fancy like that,,, I am guessing that if you stay under 80 to maybe 100 watts of additional output demand you should be ok.. This may sound enemic but actually, the RSV's, IMHO, come from Mom Yam with not much room for excess in OEM form.. Far superior to my MK1's but still enemic with a max output of about 350 watts.. To put it in perspective,,, Yamaha DOUBLED that output on the new SVTC (by running dual alternators though,, which cost in HP loss from the original 113 inch mtr) and rightfully so as, you are discovering, the stator output has always been the Ventures soft point (again, IMHO). Knowing your love for CTFW and how spoiled you are with Ultimate letting you keep all the goodies they send for testing (if they start doing this with bikes - PLEASE remember who your favorite VR brother is if/when your new garage gets to the over flow point ) ,, you may want to consider an upgrade to a high output Stator and regulator so you know your covered if you choose to run all the goodies at once. Hope this helps @VentureFar and CONGRATS on the early Christmas presents from you favorite new brother and others at Ultimate!! On a side note,,, you gonna get a shot at testing the new Indian Challenger? Rumor has it at over 100 horsies at the rear wheel!! Could be a handful of a Stallion if it is :guitarist 2: 20 degree's and snowing like crazy here.. Tip sends her love and is taking EXCELLENT care of me as my hibernation mode is kicking in strong.. Got another grandkid coming in California in February and one coming here in Michigan in Jan:happy34:... :bighug:to you and yours!! Puc

,, BAD TO THE BONE !!! ,, not saying the video of the guy crossing the bridge is not for real but his face in the helmet looks a little video gameish to me,,, probably just my poor old eyes getting blurry just watching him

Soooo glad you are doing better Rich!! PRAYERS UP for continued recovery brother!! Back/neck pain related to spinal issues is absolutely NO FUN and nothing to fool with!! Way it happened to me: Car/deer accident in 03 left me in a wheel chair with MAJOR sciatic pain down legs and numbness/tingling in arms/hands. Primary care Doc starts me on opioids for pain, helps a lot, and sends me to therapist (Chiropractor) to begin accessment of damages. 6 months later, after regular adjustments/spending time on stretching table and on and on,,, Chiropractor recommends visit to a Neuroligist to get a look. Neuro Surgeon was miffed that I was not sent to him right away. Recommends surgery to remove fractured pieces of facia joints on my L5/Sacreum and realignment of my spine (spine was resting on edge of sacreum by 1/4 of an inch so it was "S" shaped instead of straight connection.. Neuro Surgeon upped my opioid script to Fentynal Patch.. Nasty stuff those opioids are,, they really worked for pain management BUT - WOWZY do they dry out the poop action = poopen BRICKS is an understatement plus permanent bowel issues! YES - as mentioned, weight loss is mandatory for low back repair - the Doc made me loose 50 pounds to assist in healing. 5 back surgeries and 1 neck surgery, 1 year in body cast and back on my feet . The fracturing of the facia was only findable by MRI and a good Neuro Surgeon as Chiropractor and Primary completely missed the tiny elements of bone fragments and only the Neuro found them.. Neuro told me that was common and that just the slightest scraping of bone against nerves in the spinal bundle can result in permanent damage.. I did live on opioids for 3 years after surgeries.. They did try electrical stimulus (they run a small wire with little copper electrodes on it) along the spine with an under skin controller. IT WAS AMAZING to be able to dial away pain. Regrettably, the length of the wire was only 8 inches so it could not manage both lower and upper back (could not reach my neck). I used it for 1 year but it did nothing for my arms/hands. Removed the electrical and back on the Fentynal Patch. Eventually weaned off the Fentynal and on to Norco (class higher than Vicodin).. Jumping from Fentynal to Norco proved to be alarming,, found out I was a junky... Went into withdrawels BIG TIME.. Made a vow to get off the opioids and find a way to work with the pain. Had permanent "drop foot" and hand numbness but as I worked off the Norco withdrawels (tough stuff) discovered that if I was careful about what I lifted and stayed off the MX tracks (Neuro Surgeons face was when he saw my first MRI's and asked "what have you done to your back = there is not ONE vertebre that is square shape, there all rounded off = did not laugh when I told him of my love for MX'n and that those early bikes with 2 inches of suspention probably didnt help in my spines survival = NO MORE DIRT BIKES was a promise he made me shake on:missingtooth:) I could now do ok with just over the counter stuff.. By the way,, the sciatic nerve pain in my legs was like having a camp fire going on them 24/7,, I know EXACTLY what you are talking about! Personally I can not stand what misuse of opioids have done in peoples lives - they are potent and addictive. On the other,, I TOTALLY understand the importance of such RX when it comes to pain management.. It's a double edge sword to say the least..

That's sad Duey,, maybe some VIP at Kawi needs lunch money ... A Kawi contact is definitely in order brother!! Not to your here (character flaw on my part) but I just gotta toss this in.. We have a Moen kitchen faucet that has decided to leak at its base.. It's handle has also managed to get tighter over time.. While looking at parts availabilty locally, it was suggested that I contact Moen to inquire about warranty...My response was "on a 20 year old faucet - yeahhh, right".. Noticing the "cartridge" for the faucet was 20 bucks and being a cheap old geezer = ok,,, worth a try.. Called Moen and got the BEST of the BEST customer service I have EVER experienced! COMPLETE rebuild supplies on their way (the phone call was yesterday morning and I already have a shipping confirmation from Moen/USPS) all under warranty!! Duey,, I am thinking the folks at Kawi could learn some things from Moen!

So Tip and I pull into the gas station on Tweeks. A couple little kids across the fuel island were outside their parents van tossing party poppers onto the pavement and enjoying watching them go BANG as the poppers hit the pavement.. I walked over calmly and explained to them what kind of issues could prevail should one of the sparks from a popper ignite some gas fumes.. One of the parents corrected me for correcting their off spring..

"Never argue with stupid people they bring you down to their level and beat you with experience" - Mark Twain

All good advice so far IMHO. I know it's fairly easy to misplace a wire leading to either post on the battery when doing a replacement,, there isnt always a lot of room to play with when connecting things back up.. I would look very closely and make sure I didnt miss a wire on the reconnect too..

WOWZY WOW WOW WOW,, WELCOME BACK BROTHER and WITH A BRAND NEW SCOOT TOO!!! You da man!!! Did cha buy the Bosses? I know his was up for sale and still brand new cause that lop eared varmint dont ride no more By the way, it's the same old place with the same old abiding by the rules of the Code: :big-grin-emoticon:

Got mine in my stack of mail!!!! THANK YOU JIM!! Miss you BONGO!!

G&V, THANK YOU for posting this thread up,, it tied up some more loose ends for me in understanding stuff..

Sure.. Also when you replace the needle and/or seat with new the float height should be checked as a tiny little bit of difference in the new parts dimensions can raise float level too.. It's always best to check the float height anytime you button up a carb bowl even if you just opened it to clean jets... Better to know than wonder

INDEED,, Happy Thanksgiving to all!! And an early MERRY CHRISTMAS just in case Tip and I are out of town during the festivities (got more grand babies coming soon,, YEEEEEHAW!!)!!!

What a WONDERFUL way to spend Thanksgiving brother!! I hope your heart is full of blessing from being a blessing to someone in need cause it should be!!!

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Heyyy,,, don't nobody go hangin my friend now,,, aint really his fault,,, Fool has been desert and southern regioned :stickpoke::stickpoke: for EVER.. All the = nahhh nahh dee boo boo's = cant reach us being played over and over again,,, I think he just snapped and gone off the edge of the ice berg... It's not Fool's fault that friendlies like the Boss just happen to catch the over spray when Fool swings the nozzles on his White Washer to the south in response to those lop eared suthern varmints.. I personally have stuffed rags in the nozzles on his WW but not interested in hurting him personally.. I will say this though,,, if you do Venture yonder into Consin with ill intent,, be VERY careful,, that White Washer and surrounding area is a booby trap zone second to none,,, one wrong move and POOF = PLANETARY ICE AGE HAS BEGUN!!:snow: @Flyinfool ,, if you see this,,, how bout giving us all another shot of my favorite WW Inc thingy:cool10:

It does take some special learning tactics and extra special attention to detail to follow me at times don't it my eternal brother !! Soo glad you are figuring it out Sly!! Mom Yam,, if you are attempting to follow this,, Sly brings up a VERY serious note/point here.. We aint talking about no moped powered scoot (although I do love my mopeds),, we are talking SERIOUS motovational Hybrid power... Trooper has a 38kw electric motor that yields 126 ft/pds of torque right off the line, combined with his 1600cc 4 cylinder engine he gets a total yield of 140 horse power. Sport mode on the tranny will launch him from a dead stop REAL worthy like.. Normal mode on the tranny will yield +50 mpg at a steady +100 mph (Troops cruise control will still set at 117 mph - maybe beyond but that is as fast as I have ran him). Sly (and Mom Yam),, I am thinking a similar arrangement on a full blown, CTFW, touring scoot.. No reason why not IMHO.. Maybe drop the 1600cc engine for a smaller 1200cc V-4 (I am a lop eared old school varmint still stuck on the V-4 bike platform ) like our original MK 1's had. Troops red line is set at 5500,,, the range where our bikes are just getting started in developing some serious HP,,, Mom Yam = using the tiny little (by todays standards) V-4 - you could use the healthy electric torque for a hard hitting linear launch then engage the V-4 when needed and rev limit it at 8 grand.. Another thought for some REAL excitement would be to wrap the project around a Liter bike engine like @CaseyJ955 and I been about .. Tiny little 1000cc engine producing +150 horse and let the electric motor handle any deminished torque needs lost to ICE displacement ... Actually Sly,,, I am (see if you can follow this) talking about a package that slays in all arena's = MPG and performance.. A real game changer as it were!!

I am there with you Corporal Newkirk, 100%!! Definitely gotta have those potty breaks.. On the other hand though,, especially while traveling the endless desert regions,,, not all of them potty breaks found a fuel station attached to the pee area.. Matter of fact,, even though 150 miles sounds like a pretty good distance, we discovered numerous areas that even 150 miles of range was iffy. Matter of fact, due to our love for finding out what is behind those distant mountains,, even 600 miles to a 10 gallon tank on Trooper can get iffy and we had to drift into a fuel station under battery power. Still stopping for potty breaks though

Exactly Jack,, you are onto my point! Way I figure it, if this little 4 cylinder Hybrid Ioniq we have been travelling in can regularly see +60 mpg shooting back n forth from Commie forn ya to Michigan and back again,, aint no reason that someone can't produce a full blown touring scoot with similar design dynamics that can top 100 mpg.. Another point to ponder is that Trooper (our Ioniq), Tip and I camped out down on the south west border at a place called Organ Pipe Cactus NP a while back. 104 degrees at night. Ran the air conditioning with the cabin temp set at 68 degrees. The air pump runs off the high voltage battery and when the battery would run low, the ICE (Hybrid language for Internal Combustion Engine - I learned that since owning this thing,, old dogs new tricks ya know ) would kick on to charge the battery. In that environment the air pump would run for 40 minutes and then the ICE would cycle for 3 minutes.. For a 13 hour camp out, it cost less than 3 bucks (1 gallon of fuel) to stay comfy all night long!! Years ago, when leaving Moab on one of our cross country trips, Tweeks/Tip and I bumped into a VERY serious Electric motorcycle cross country rider named Terry Hersher. He and Craig Vetter (yep, Vetter fairing icon) had worked for many years designing streamlining kits for the Zero electric bike Terry was riding. Terry and I chatted for a longgg time at the gas station we had both stopped at.. He was having a great trip with the only real flaw that he discribed being that he had to stop every 120 miles or so to top off his battery = +4 hours of down time.. Our discussion centered around the need for battery technology to catch up in order for Electric vehicles to become worthy for touring.. Back then, I had no clue about the whole Hybrid idea (still know very little) but knowing what I do now,, I SERIOUSLY wonder if the Hybrid ICE/Electric should not have been discussed during that dialog.

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Polaris has long since been very tight lipped about actual unit sales of their bikes BUT,, this latest recall openly shows the number of units of Big Twins produced from 2014 to 2019 as just over 52000 units. Shown here: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2019/RCLRPT-19V776-9381.PDF If my math still works somewhat, that figures out to be about 10250 units per year.. Polaris closed their Victory after 18 years of production with 125000 units of production during that time stating the Victory just didnt produce sales enough to continue the line. Lets see,, 125000 divided by 18 = 7000ish per year.. That puts the average sales of the Indian brand up significantly from the Victory.. Thinking business thinking and future motorcycle predictions and all that,,, I am predicting that the Polaris Indian is going to make it!! IMHO, another interesting point to ponder (if you are a lop eared pondering varmint like I am anyway,,, the rest of you varmints are probably wayyyy bored by now ) is the thought of how this all compares to the Indian brands number 1 competitor = HD... Figuring HD has been averaging well over 200000 units of their Big Twin models per year during that same time period (well into the 240's if you include the non Big Twin models) that would give HD 1 million units sold during the same time frame as Indians 52000 units or,, stated another way,, this would show Polaris Indian Big Twin at 5.2 percent of HD's Big Twin sales since Polaris introed the their version of the Indian.. Is that enough to actually make the folks at HD know that Polaris exists,, ,,, I think so,, I certainly hope so cause THAT would mean good things to come for us consumers because in a Capitalistic society such as ours,, competition has a way of doing just that I gotta go take some Excedrin for a headache now

:sign yeah that: +1!!!! Woulda forgot had it not been for you Roller,,, THANK YOU for the reminder!!!! THANK YOU to ALL our Veterans,, past - present and future = because of you,, Proudly She Waves!! :usa::usa::usa::usa:

Geezer here,, geezer there,,, geezers geezers EVERYWHERE,,, even in our modern day thread selections :crackup::crackup:

Very very few actually (just under 7 thousand that I personally have put on her).. Maggie (my R1) is relegated to her own "private track" as its just wayyy to easy to get in trouble on her... Our local police have given me a couple "breaks" and asked me to keep her "out of town" ... Wanna hear a story about that? Thought you would .. So my buddy on his Sportster and I on Maggie were out playing around.. The Shell station where I buy gas from sits on top of a hill with nothing but the drive way for a Mr Quicks resturant drive way between the Shell Stations drive way and the apex of the hill,, then a nice longggg drop of pavement with a stop light at the bottom where we turn towards our home(s) on the lakeshore.. Traffic clears,, my buddy on his sporty takes off in race mode,, I could hear him running thru the gears going down the hill.. I turned out of the driveway at Shell,, went braapppp and pulled Maggies clutch in from 1st gear and started coasting down the hill.. About 3/4 of the way down I noticed a Police Officer sitting at the stop light at the bottom and noticed him not moving with the rest of the traffic as it pulled forward .. I figured for sure he was after my bud and I would non shellontly putt by as he pulled my buddy over,,,,,, ahhh oh,,, not so fast,,, he let my buddy go by and was obviously waiting patiently for yours truely.. His lights came on as I rounded the corner... When he approached Maggie, he said "I had your buddy at 55 in a 30 but you I had at 62 in a 30 on that hill top ... As he was balling me out, asking the usual questions,, I was removing my helmet - when I pulled it from my head he about FELL OVER!! His words "I was TOTALLY expecting to see the face of some young kid buried under there",, then asked what my "story" was... I openly told him about Maggie being my "bucket list bike" and some of the health reasons that brought her into my possestion.. He listened carefully as I finished and also as I told him that Tippy would have a great big on her face when she came to lock up to bail me out and that Maggie would be going to a new home .. Ironically,, the Officer turned out to be a fellow biker who also had watched the movie "Second Hand Lions" = looked me right square in the eyes and remarkably said "I get it".. Before he let me go though he asked me to PLEASE keep Maggie near home on her "private track" roadway farr away from town so I dont hurt anybody if I do go down and to PLEASE watch out for Red Barns (you will have to watch Second Hand Lions to get that one ).. I am SOOOO glad that I took the time in my life to own such a remarkable machine Casey.. My health has steadily been deteriorating and has gotten to the point that I probably will be looking for a new home for Maggie this Spring,, things are not like they used to be in balance and judgement - it's an aging thing for most people - I think.. Mags and I did have a LOT of fun though, even though our area is no where near as "open" as I KNOW your area is.. 200ish mph runs with any form of real safety is an issue around here,, wayyy to much forest and inhabitants.. Always wanted to play the Bonneville game on her,, I KNOW for a fact that she is completely capable of bouncing the rev limiter in 6th gear (remarkable machine these Liter bikes are) but have never done it. I think, and this is just my opinion, if I lived in your neck of the woods,, knowing it like I do,, I DEFINITELY would have proven that fact. Soooo many amazing open run areas out there,, perfect for an angel flying to close to the ground .. As you know,, as you, I too have been there with the V-Max.. NICE scoots that I LOVE the performance of.. The neat thing about the Liter bike (and especially your Gixxer - Maggie is an old under powered carbed model of an R1 = EXACTLY what I was looking for but DEFINITELY not a modern day Gixxer of a Liter bike) world is where the V-Max runs out of steam,, that Gixxer will just begin to dance .. Personally brother,, there is NO WAY on God's green earth I would sell that sweetheart of a machine if I were you until I had a chance to be her dance partner a time or two :dancefool:

Hear Hear!! Wasn't long ago (ok,, maybe it was but I aint admitten it Corporal Newkirk ) a few wrenches and a set of torches was all I had to work with... Coat hangers for weld rod = amazing how much fun a grease covered youngen can have.. I could get two pieces of steel to hang together ok.. Even had a couple years of welding in shop class back then (talking 60's here,, back when schools still had "shop classes"). 70's I landed a really FUN and good paying job with the Boilermakers = they were building a new Power House on our side of Lake Michigan and were willing to hire almost anyone not afraid of heights. When the "push" announced the local was gonna be needing welders and asked for volunteers interested in attending Weld School, my hand couldn't get up fast enough (always looking for more "tools" for my life's "tool box").. Class was taught by a Pipe Fitter and WOWZY could he weld and, better yet,, a VERY patient teacher.. Before he even began teaching us to Tig (a class only available to those who passed bend and x-ray on an open butt over head plate = 6010 root/7018 woven cap,, he started with all positions of plate.. LOTS OF FUN!! About 1 week into the course,, he pulled me aside and complimented my welding abilities, his words "you weld really well for someone who cant see what he is doing :big-grin-emoticon:"... I went home over that one Newkirk!! Next class he pulls me aside and ask if I would like to REALLY learn the art of welding,, OF COURSE was my answer.. He then told me that I would have to work HARD and learn to see the puddle.. Took some time and LOTS of practice with a lowely Oxy/Acet torch but,, I will NEVER forget the day it connected,,, watching the puddle lines overlap each other and tie in to the edges was amazing,,, sort of my version of how someone who really understands Algebra (I tried,, I REALLY tried but never got there in Math),, kind of strange eh? From there on out, sky was the limit in learning Welding.. "Walking The Cup" was a BIG thing in Tiggin Pipe back then and before I "graduated" his class,, Terry (the instructer) had me Tiggin mild steel like I had been doing it all my life.. No more riggin,, no more dragging 1 inch cable between Buckstays and hanging upside down from 300 feet to hang pullies or unloading box cars... Full time Pipe Welder including lots of Stainless (REAL PURDY STUFF,, a little patience and practice = welds look good enough to use for a Wedding Ring) and "pimps" (what we called helpers back then) to boot... All because a very highly skilled individual took the time to work with me till I could "see the puddle", never had one weld fail to xray (that I know of) in 3 years of welding pipe.. Probably all sounds crazy but that is the way it happened to me...