RDawson

They were your idea anyway 🤣. I’ve got some pretty strong front dive after 80k on it. I started reading posts here thinking about progressives and found several posts by you and Rick Butler about the Sonics. I placed the order yesterday, when they get here I’m going to install them in a lower mileage set of Midnight forks from a parts bike I bought. Hopefully having the forks ready will make a quick job of pulling the fairing and swapping forks. I already have a hook in the ceiling to hang the inner from doing head bearings a couple years ago. I saved them with the idea of liking the chrome forks someday.

Seems like every spring somebody posts a reminder to check fluids, tires, pressures etc. Handling on my bike seemed to get loose last fall, and I really didn’t look into it past tire condition and pressure, rode it last week and it didn’t ride well at all. I finally started looking at it and figured out 0psi in the left fork vs 6psi in the right makes it unhappy(bad Schrader valve core). I ordered new Sonic springs and fork oil to solve this problem permanently. Moral of the story: Don’t be complacent and do a better job pre tripping your bike than I’ve been doing. Easy to get lazy on a bike that rarely shows a problem.

I was hoping you could make it but have a good trip up there. The New Hampshire/Maine area is one of the trips we hope to make someday. We’ve never been past west New York.

@Marcarl you can come here in June. I have an 86 that’s been setting 6-7 years, you can practice working on it. It needs a carb cleaning and scrubbing to sell it.

Fin and feather still has a few rooms/cabins left. I haven’t checked the others lately.

I’m interested in the remote and possibly the cassette. Price?

Those are cool. I’d buy a couple of the stainless if you want to do more.

Awesome. Hope she loves it.

Gotcha. I went through the whole fabrication thing on one and decided I had wasted my time since I use a hydraulic jack and the adapter.

There are instructions somewhere here to do it. The downside to me was you can’t use a motorcycle jack with it installed so I took mine back off.

Need 2 pics. One going up the road and one coming back after turning around.

Does the handlebar remote work?

Maybe you can swing through that little town in Ohio and wrangle that Bird guy on the Harley to come with you.

Load it up and bring it down here in June for the rally. Ah forget that beer is cheaper here just bring the Eh Team with you.

Installed saddlebag guards, yanked the side covers off to start a stator/regulator upgrade, put bearings and seals in the VMax pumpkin so I can get it back under the bike. I’ve been running the OEM pumpkin since Vogel.

Contact @M61A1MECH , he makes plug n play lighting kits and breakout wiring harnesses. Steve does great work and good to deal with. I have a couple of his things on my bike.

Glad you like it, twisting the rod back and forth usually finds its way through the tab. I have mine up on one right now too. Voltage running a little low, thinking stator/regulator change is due after 80,000 miles

Glad to hear it went well.

No need to run off. We’ve ridden with about every make out there on VR trips. Sorry to hear about the back, got a few issues going on myself. They want to replace 4 discs with synthetics and do fusion, I’m putting it off until after the June rally, couldn’t let ‘em ruin my whole summer.

I put the pic of Lakelands business card on here with phone number, they don’t use online reservations anymore. I didn’t realize y’all stayed there, I thought you were at Kenlake Lodge last time.

If anyone wants a regular hotel Murray is about 15 miles from Aurora. Best Western is usually the best bang for the buck. There are a few others. Stay away from the Red Roof Inn, it’s a dump.

Which place did you check? Wiz texted me and said Fin and Feather was filling up fast. Kenlake was at 50% yesterday. Lakeland was almost empty.

The WNY Rally crew needs to come down, and the EH Team and MD regulars. Love to see everybody, we haven’t been together for quite a while. I’ve heard from some of the Vogel group hope to hear more.