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Enjoy this period of your life Lewis. You've earned this by working hard all of your life to get to this point. Sure there will be some drawbacks like learning to live on a fixed income but for the most part you'll be enjoying a new found freedom to do what you want. You can work around home as much as you want, when you want. Didn't finish something today,do it tomorrow. LOL Larry

That's the kind of news we all want to keep hearing from you Jeff. Hope that tumor continues shrinking till nothing but a bad memory for you. Larry

Hoping whatever is ailing ya the Docs get you back to normal. Well what supposed to be normal for you anyways. Larry

WOW Eck!!! When you mess up you do a bang-up job of it. Sorry for the pun. I do wish you a speedy recovery thou. Having been around all manner od mowers and tractors at the golf courses I've seen more than a couple rollovers or runaway insincedents with them. Never a good outcome for either operators or equipment. Hope you don't run out of those meds too soon as you may need them a while. Larry

I've got one as well. Mine would be a perfect candidate for powder coating as there's a scruff mark on one corner.

Joyce & I had a great time at the rally talking & enjoying time with new & old friends alike. Even thou we caged it in the Miata too. Our only trouble was with someone who put a serious scratch on the passengers door last night or early this morning. Grrrr. Unfortunately we didn't see it till we got home. Got a pm from cecdoo confirming it was done at Microtel's parking lot. Don't know if it was deliberately done or by a very careless person but ether way we're saddened. Its fixable and life will continue on. Looking forward to the next VR.org gathering Larry BTW: Ragtop is pretty lucky he even made it home today. Good thing the border agents didn't find his ammo clip when they did a search of his bike. Might of been tough on him explaining where the gun was. Same for the apple pie but I'd beat the evidence was all drunk before this morning. LOL

Puck we left a couple hours after Raggy did. No other paper work involved except show the customs agent our pass ports or enhanced drivers license for those folks who use those. Just normal questions like where ya going, etc. Larry

Found a roomfull of VR riders at the White Star restraunt. Yep we made it here after a late start. Larry

On my 05 I would get some popping on deceleration sometimes. After resetting the floats and bumping the pilot jets up one size it no longer did any popping. I also had better cold weather starting with less choke. Plug readings after the change still left a nice brown tan coloring on the spark plugs. I was using K&N filters as well so that may have influenced stuff too. Larry

Dan you either adapt or quite riding.

Awesome Puc. Thanks for sharing with us and thanks for the "secret'" supporter too. Larry

Know what you mean on pulling the trigger too soon. I had looked at the 2014 Can Am's but couldn't decide plus we looked at the Motor Trike Stallions so when this Slingshot popped up I was all over it. Even to the point of selling the bike before actually seeing one in the flesh. After checking one out last weekend I do feel this machine is going to be a good fit for us. Larry

Yep that's what I've been hearing from the Polaris people and dealers. Pretty much like what CanAm did when they first brought out the Spyder series. After a time they provided what people were asking for including a bigger engine. As to current storage there's a very generously sized lockable glove box and behind each seat a storage compartment big enough to hold a helmet and back pack sized bag. Bottom line is there will be further improvements made in due time along with accessories being offered. Seeing as I have one on order I guess you all will know just what there is to know about them once I get it and put a few miles on the odometer.

Myself I change oil & filter every 5k on all of my vehicles. Sometimes a couple hundred sooner , sometimes a couple hundred after the 5k mark. Changing the oil on the Miata tomorrow in preparation of going to the NY rally. Mileage is just short of 5k at 4875 since last oil change. Mobil One synethic oil. Larry

Yes you'll need both a helmet and /or a MC endorsement for these due to being classified as motorcycles per your state regulations concerning motorcycles in general. In short whatever rules your have on motorcycles in you state applies to these as well. Larry

Gonna miss going to E.S. due to the new owner flying in that weekend to ride the bike home. It'll be both a happy and sad day when he leaves the driveway on the gal. Whatever I'm sure its going to a good home. If fact the soon to be new owner is a current member here but I'll let him make the announcement. This past weekend my son & I went to the Detroit Dream Cruise and while there I spotted my next trike. Finally seeing one in the flesh so to speak as before hand all I saw of them were pics. Having already dropped a deposit two weeks ago with some apprehension on one and now seeing it in person convinced me I'm making the right decision. Without further ado my next trike will be a Polaris Slingshot SL in red. I had also given the Motor Trike Stallion some consideration but went this route instead for at least a couple reasons. More room for the passenger and between $5 & 10k more depending on new or used. Polaris isn't delivering them to the dealers until the end of Sept or early Oct.so the waiting begins. All that out there for now are the demos. Larry BTW: You all are still stuck with me cause I'm not going anywhere. This is my biker home till I get kicked out. I'm still going to offer the items that I make for the Ventures too. Who knows what if anything I'll find to make for these Slingshots.

That's why when I put my led strip lights on I put them on the black portion of the lowers and trunk. But even if one has a light colored bike I don't think the black background of the strips would be that noticeable except maybe on the front fairing. Mine were wired to be on whenever the key was on so the lights themselves sort of blocked out the black background. Larry

On that fairing I'd think you'll have to drill a small hole thru bout the chrome eyebrow and fairing itself for the wires. The lights themselves are self stickon types. On my trike I just run the wiring under the trunk since it was hidden pretty good. Same for the yellow LED's up front. Larry

I used 3 red LED strip lights that can be purchased at most auto parts stores and mounted them on the lower portion of the trunk. 4" ones for the sides and a 12" one on the back. They're very bright and can be seen even in daylight. Also a pair of 4" yellow LED's mounted vertically on the lower cowlings next to the crash bars. I also had converted the front reflectors to LED lights too. Larry

Got busy and forgotten the pics but here they are. Better late than never . LOL

Ya that guy can be sneaky so gotta keep an eye on him.

Can't be of much help on this but I'd go with whatever would be the easiest way to configure the system. And probably keep the heaters or at least leave em in place for easy hookup later. Of course where you live you'd probably never need them

Was I the only one who saw your play of words? Congrats Bill on the new Rukus just the same. Unfortunately we won't see you at E.S. Larry

I used a Kuryakyn 1" "P" clamp. As for the bracket I didn't use the one that came with the gauge but made my own out of a piece of 3/16" thick x 3/4" wide and about 3" long stainless steel. I bent a 90*angle on one end that positions the P clamp and then put a small twist in the main part to get the angle I wanted. I'll take a pic and post it here later today. Larry

Yea he better hope the Feds don't get wind of this. Might has some serious explaining to do