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HGWT

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  1. Load it, balance it, weigh the tongue weight to around 3--35 lbs, I see no problems.
  2. We would all like to find one for $10K.
  3. I am min my 3rd year running the Commander rear tire on the front of my trike. No complaints. Enjoy!
  4. Sounds like a bad gremlin, I hate those. They can be hard to find the little suckers will run from one place to another making them hard to isolate. In reality if you start checking the ground side of the system I am sure you'll find the problem there. But the ground system is hard to trace.
  5. Very low pressure, I think it is around 7 psi max.
  6. I just received my Baggershield a couple of weeks ago and got it installed. So far I like it. I previously had a Tulsa Tall tinted windshield. I used it for a little over 100,000 miles. I loved it. It would shed water excellent at speeds over 30 mph. The reason I installed the Tulsa windshield was I had had them exclusively on previous Goldwings that I had owned. Again they shed water unbelievably compared to any other windshields that I had used but the biggest thing was I had fewer complaints from the backseat passenger about her shoulders hurting and her neck hurting from wind buffetting. Since I no longer have a back seat passenger I an trying the shorter shield.
  7. I would like to put an auxillary tank on my Motor Trike conversion. Does anyone know of a tank that will fit my Motor Trike. Any pics of tanks where they are installed, size, dimensions, or anyone that can weld up/fabricate a custom tank. All help, constructive ideas, etc. is genuinely appreciated. I already have secured a fuel pump to utilized. I love my 2nd gen. and I love my trike conversion. I like the fit and finish of the Hannigan conversion better than the Motor Trike. The sad reality was I got the last Yamaha conversion done by Motor Trike and Hannigan was not building conversions at the time.
  8. I sometimes wish that I had opted for the sidecar instead of the trike. I wanted to have the sidecar so I could take the wife and the dog along. Now I have no wife and still have the dog. I just can't seem to teach the dog ( a great pyrenese 40 inches to the shoulder taller than me when she is standing on her back legs and 130 pounds) to ride in the passenger seat.
  9. I think it was Kuryakyn that made the 6 into 6 pipes for the Valkyrie's those were great pipes. You know the Valk was originally marketed as the F6.
  10. The TCI units and coils seem to be failing with about the same frequency as the ignition switches, and rear shocks. The sad part is Yamaha can and should be able to turn out a better product than this. All Mamayama will do is deny that their are insufficient failures to declare a problem as they have done previously.
  11. What do you want for it mine quit?
  12. HGWT

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    I had a bunkhouse from B&F specialties. By the time we got it loaded with all the gear, ice chest a/c etc....... it was almost 450 lbs. The bike pulled it fine. Braking required a judicious use of the brake on the bike. Fuel mileage suffered tremendously. It cost less to pull the bushtec and stay in a motel.
  13. Pinwall won't seperate the brackets from the boards and they have the boards and brackets priced @ $139 each. I feel that is a whole lot to much.
  14. I am searching for the brackets that attach the passenger floor boards to the bike. I have searched the wrecking yards, they have the brackets and will only sell the brackets with the floor boards. I don't need the the boards just the brackets. If anyone has them I could surely use them.
  15. I was wondering how the angularity of the drive shaft turns out. As the folks at Motor Trike and Tri-wing have rotated the 7.5 ford rear bell housing 180 degrees to obtain the proper angularity of the drive shaft to minimize vibration.
  16. I am having a senior moment, and the clock stopped a few days ago. Not the clock on the bike. My brain clock. I want to change the pic on my profile, also change my signature line to include the maps of the places I have been and cannot for the life of me get in to the area where I need to do this. When I set this up my grandson was here and did it all for me. He's gone now and I have to learn the complicated stuff on my own. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks to anyone that can help, or if you have a smarta$$ teenager that you would like a vacation from maybe we can work something out.
  17. I have run and both, no noticeable difference. My first bias had 72,000 miles before replacemennt and it wasn't needed then in my opinion. I replaced it just because I had extra cash and wanted to spend it prior to the divorce attorneys digging their claws in.
  18. I will answer one question. You should not tow it by the front tire raised off the ground. The reason is the transmission is integrated into the engine and lubed, by the engine oil. The engine is not running and the transmission is not being properly lubed. This may result in premature transmission and/or engine failure. Now you can do what you want, and you may not have the aforementioned failure, but do you really want to roll the dice? That's $15,000 to $25,000 you are putting on the table. If you should decide to throw the dice a lot of people want to know if you are a winner or loser. Report back to us.
  19. #1. Flling a gas tank with water, and freezing it will only cause a tank to split at its weakest point. Try filling a bottle with water and putting a sealed lid on it, or a pan with a lid and seal it up and see what happens. #2. As for air pressure you will need enough pressure to move steel, and then how do you direct the pressure and confin it to only the area you want to move. Otherwise you will receive the same result as #1 a failure at the weakest point in the metal.
  20. I have never heard of anyone using a radial tube on anything other than a spoked wheel. That caveat I'm sure was placed there to cover older cars with spoked wheels like the Jaguar XKE. Even bikes with radial tires used on spoked wheels like the H-D Heritage Softail require radial tubes. I would try one myself but I just replaced my front tire a couple of years ago, and based on my previous tire I don't anticipate outliving this tire.
  21. It was the Coker site, Coker Tire 64308 - Coker Classic Nostalgia Blackwall Radial Tires Representative Image Product images may differ from actual product appearance. Coker Tire#257-64308 Coker Classic Nostalgia Blackwall Radial Tire 550R16 ( 4.5'' x 26.8'' - 16'' ) $227.99 Ships 02/26/13 Click for JEGS Online Price Match Accessories Add to Wish List Continue Shopping Complete list of Coker Classic Nostalgia Blackwall Radial Tires
  22. I am currently running the Michelin Commander radial tire. This is the second tire I have used, the first was the Michelin Macadam and really did not need to be replaced but I did it anyway. Check with Coker tire they have a lot of unusual sizes, and it seemed to me they had one (CT) that is, but it might have been Cooper now that I think about it. One of these two had one in a radial.
  23. Option #1 is the preferred patch-plug Option#2 is the "Stop & Go" plug gun. It is compact enough to carry on the bike for on the road plugs My favorite is the "Ride on" tire sealant. Install it and you would have never known you had had a nail in the tire and that it had come out. Seals off any hole up to sixteen penny nail.
  24. If you have the option to get an auxilary fuel tank by all means do it on the initial install. A;so if you can't get one try and have one manufactured. You will not be sorry in the long run.
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