RDawson
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3 hours ago, saddlebum said:
I am thinking on it and I know @Marcarlis as well as we talked about it. I just have a few issues I need to get out my way before I can confirm.
Great!!! I was talking to @skydoc_17 today about ways we could get y’all down here without having to drag you down with a log chain. 🤣🤣🤣
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11 hours ago, Marcarl said:
EH?
Looking for “yeah we’re coming” not Eh.
🤣🤣🤣Haven’t seen any of y’all since Covid.
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The wife and I rode a couple hundred miles today starting to map out a few rides for the rally. We’ll do some more rides in the coming weeks to get it narrowed down. This brings up the questions I need y’all’s input on. I mentioned earlier Hannigan Motorsports factory is here in our county and Boss Hoss is a couple hours away, both offer free tours but they need to be scheduled ahead. So the big question is if there’s interest in a tour or would you rather ride and fellowship more with other members? If I remember correctly I think the Hannigan tour was around two hours led by Dave Hannigan himself last time.
If anybody living near the border could slip across and light a fire under some of them EH teamers and herd them this way it would be nice to see them again also.
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1 hour ago, Freebird said:
I think you will like the Sonic Springs. In my opinion, they are the best option for the RSV.
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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, Riderduke said:
Well shoot, I was really looking forward to this... I have a family obligation in Hew Hampshire that I can't get out of. I'm going to miss this event.. On the plus side I will be riding up there so I guess there's that...
I guess I'll see some of ya'll in Asheville..
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.
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@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.
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Fin and feather still has a few rooms/cabins left. I haven’t checked the others lately.
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9 hours ago, bigboy81 said:
Yes
I’m interested in the remote and possibly the cassette. Price?
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Those are cool. I’d buy a couple of the stainless if you want to do more.
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Awesome. Hope she loves it.
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5 hours ago, luvmy40 said:
I don't have room to use a hydraulic MC jack. I will have to take a look at whether it will interfere with the scissor lift I have. I would just like to be able to do an oil change without dragging the scissor lift out. It would also be nice to get her off the wheels for the winter storage.
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.
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2 hours ago, luvmy40 said:
IIRC, the gen 1 stand can be installed on the Gen 2 with minor mods...Right?
If that's the case, I would like the center stand.
PM inbound.
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.
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1 hour ago, Marcarl said:
Spyder country.
Does it help to post more than once?
Need 2 pics. One going up the road and one coming back after turning around.
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2 hours ago, bigboy81 said:
Also. Does anyone need a radio, cassette player, cb, etc....???
Does the handlebar remote work?
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29 minutes ago, Marcarl said:
YEEES,, we were about it speaking.
Maybe you can swing through that little town in Ohio and wrangle that Bird guy on the Harley to come with you.
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8 hours ago, Marcarl said:
I got some beer in the fridge,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,just sayin
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Glad to hear it went well.
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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.
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WKY Rally 2024
in Watering Hole
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Plan and post a get together and I’ll head that way😁😁😁. Even rode with y’all from Bongo’s place to Don’s so it wouldn’t be my first trip. I miss the WNY rallies.