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About Old Miner

  • Birthday 12/29/1956

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    Neil

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    Derbyshire, England

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    Derbyshire

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  • Home Country
    England

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  • Interests
    Looking after my RSV. Riding. Computing and local history.
  • Bike Year and Model
    Yamaha xvz 1300 Royal Star Venure TF 1999
  1. Old Miner
    My radiator went porous and you could see several damp places around the fins. I took it to a local radiator repairer and had it re-cored it was quite expensive, about 300 dollars in your money but a new one was about twice that or more. I have had it on now for about two years and it is fine. (Touch wood).
  2. Old Miner
    I have just come across a short(ish) article from Yuasa about motorcycle batteries I thought I would share it with you. I have just lost my battery, dead whilst running. Home on the back of a trailer....... ouch! http://www.yuasabatteries.com/motor_battery.php
  3. Old Miner
    Ditto that but with a sponge pad underneath.
  4. Old Miner
    Fortunately I have a life time warranty on the bike so the dealer will hopefully put it right next week when it goes in for repair. You can completely remove the tape deck and have all other sound units working but if it was fitted as standard it should work, in my opinion.. Neil. Old Miner.
  5. Old Miner
    I have seen many threads regarding battery drain. Here is my addition. My battery conditioner suddenly started showing that the battery was not fully charged. No green light on the top of the charge indicator. Showing that the battery was discharging or not holding charge. This was on a fairly new battery, fortunately or not after a few days of investigating the problem I heard a faint clicking noise coming from under the front fairing. I stripped the fairing down and found the noise coming from the tape deck which at this stage was still working. Upon disconnecting the multi-pin connecter the noise stopped and the drain stopped and the battery charged to full capacity. I left the tape deck dis-connected and have had no further problems. I have since re-connected the tape deck and the drain starts again and the tape deck is now dead so I have proved beyond a doubt that even with the ignition off a bad tape player can drain the battery. Hope this might be of use to someone else. Neil.
  6. Old Miner
    Ditto to that but with poor radio reception. Toss a coin good lighting or bad radio reception...... Perhaps that's why they still have the cassette fitted. Old Miner.
  7. Old Miner
    Ditto. 8k front and rear after 18 months. Old Miner.
  8. Old Miner
    Hi. I contacted the manufacturer, I trawled the Internet all to no avail so I found that converter on e-bay fitted it in line with the arial and to a power supply and forgot about it. I think the most annoying thing is that the majority of UK radio transmissions are on the frequency that the stock radio wont pick up like 102.2 and 107.4. As it skips these frequencies. All the best. Neil. Old Miner. www.oldminer.co.uk
  9. Old Miner
    Hi. Have a look at my thread: http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?p=341840&highlight=Radio+Gaga#post341840 I had the same problem and cured it. Old Miner.
  10. Old Miner
    Hi. Just purchased one for my 99. Try the parts manual page C5 (Exhaust section). http://www.venturerider.org/private/RSVparts.pdf Neil. Old Miner.
  11. Old Miner
    Hi. The Idea is to condition the battery over the period the machine is stood in areas where mains power is not available to run my battery tender. Having checked the charge rate etc it is more powerful than my Oximiser and that will top the battery up within a few hours from flat. When I get back I will run the battery flat and then see how long it takes to charge. watch this space. Neil. (old Miner).
  12. Old Miner
    Hi Everyone. Having recently been stood at the side of the road after a camping trip with a flat battery. (Was my own daft fault) I have added the following system to my bike to top up the battery whilst it is stood in places without power. I have at home an Oxford Oximisor battery tender in my garage but use camping sites with no power on them. I purchased a cheap 12v 100ma solar panel and fitted it with two copper pipe clips with screws and spacers to fit into the panel screw holes which enables me to clip the unit onto the rack on the back of the bike. It can be fitted and face in any direction to catch the sun. I then converted a 12v plug in acccessory unit with a plug that fits my battery tender, you just plug the unit into this and can run 12v items from it or charge a mobile phone, sat nav etc. The unit comes with crocodile clips too so you could charge a loose battery too. I know it is not the ultimate charger nor the ultimate system but it will come in very handy. Neil. (Old Miner) Cost about £20 would be $15 ish.
  13. Old Miner
    Hi. Does the relay 'click' in and out when you press the horn button on the bars? If it doesn't I would suspect the contacts on the horn button or its wiring. More so the button. I had this problem on a regular basis with my '99 RSV until I found that every time I washed the bike water got in to the handle bar switch and flooded the contacts and over time they corroded, albeit very slightly but enough to stop the relay energising when pressed. I stripped the switch, bit fiddley with small parts and found the silver contacts for the horn button blackened and not making a very good contact. I polished the contacts up and serviced the other switches with a bit of WD 40 and some fresh contact grease on the other moving parts within the switch and then put it all back together.... No further problems. OH and I cover BOTH the handlebar switches when I wash the bike. Best wishes. Neil. Oldminer.
  14. Old Miner
    Great, Thanks. Neil.
  15. Old Miner
    Hi everyone. Will a V-Max clutch plates fit a Second Gen. Venture. If so which model do I go for. Problem is I am having problems sourcing clutch parts in the UK other than genuine Yamaha ones for my 1999 Second Gen. But there are hundreds of sources for V-Max clutch plates and spring. Your thoughts please. Best wishes. Neil. Old Miner.
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