RDawson
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It's been so cold here this week people are buying up used HDs, they run an exhaust hose outside and use them for heat.
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The fact I'm 600 miles away with snowy roads is all that's keeping me from going to check on it. If I knew she'd ride it I'd suck it up and go but she suffered a bad break in her right arm ina car wreck recently. Dr isn't sure she's going to get full motion back. While it's a good price I wouldn't profit from flipping it after my time and costs to go after it and fixing any issues it might have. You know there's always something even if it's just preventative from not knowing the service history.
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If you have a hydraulic shop near you look there for o-rings. I rebuild cylinders now and then on some of my equipment and have found buying them separate instead of a kit saves a bunch of cash. Take your parts and they can mic them to gets perfect fit. The shop I deal with stocks a ton of sizes and types, the last ones I got for a brake cylinder cost a couple bucks.
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I'm 600 miles away and the only trike I have any experience with is my sister's Hannigan 1500 Wing. I don't know how well the training wheel trikes handle and perform. She's not one who'll drop the hammer and push it but I do want something that handles fairly well. We'll have to start from scratch as she's never driven anything with a clutch, fun days ahead for me if we get one.
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I ran across this today. I know nothing about the Road Stars and admit it. The wife has somewhat considered a trike of her own instead of two up all the time. I'm not ready to go that way yet personally. I know this is a cheap trike kit but am considering checking it out as a starter bike for her to see if she likes piloting her own. She had never been on a motorcycle until I got back into riding 8-10 years ago. $1700 seems like a cheap test bike. On the other hand I don't want a terrible handling ride to turn her off riding altogether.
Does anyone have any input that might educate me a little? (Just on the bike, I know I could use more educating on other things). Or anyone in the Appleton area that might have a few minutes to put an eye and an ear on it for me?
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Rode the RSV Wednesday, temps around 60. Rain all day yesterday in the low 60s. 18 today with a good layer of freezing rain under a couple inches of sleet and snowing now. Gotta love living in an area where you can see multiple seasons in a 24 hour period. Now to watch cars sliding everywhere. We were working a fire call at 3:00 am in the rain and by 6:00 cars were frozen up under a layer of ice. Temps dropped 30 degrees in 3 hours. Went to work in a t shirt and left in coveralls.
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Come on guys, how about some consistency? High of 62 tomorrow, low of 20, then up to a foot of snow and ice. You're making it hard on us in the South.
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Wow the title had me scared to even look. Good laugh.
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I posted a tongue in cheek post recently poking fun at everyone up north about how we get very few days of too cold to ride weather and don't get a season to work on our bikes here. I might have slightly exaggerated our year round riding season in the interest of humor. Now I'm cryin UNCLE. It was 60 degrees here a year ago, today I took a picture in town that many of you wouldn't call cold but it's killing me.
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Look in the 1st gen read only tech section. You can install a resistor and shut the light off. One of the first things I did to my 86.
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Merry Christmas to all.
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Ok it's flying in the air in west Ky now.
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We'll be traipsing around East Tennessee down to north Florida the 1st week of April. Would like to find a Venture group if anything's going on.
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One of the great things about living in the Bible Belt is we don't get politically correct. Nobody tells us what to say or how to think. Too much southern rebellion mentality for that. Merry Christmas has stayed the norm for us. Hearing happy holidays around here will get you bad looks or a quick correction. I'm glad to hear it's spreading around again.
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Congrats.
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I haven't spent the night outside of the umbrella of city lights in many years. I need to get out and regain some perspective. There aren't many married men that just decide that it's a nice day and take off at the drop. I'm not whining. I got a pretty good gig goin'.
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I get it. When I decide to take off I usually take the wife. I think we both need it, we just cruise eAch in our own little world inside the helmets. Back in October we had a vacation planned and work had me stressed to the breaking point, she and the girls took a car while I rode the 850 miles on my own. They had their hen party on the drive and I arrived a different person. We then spent the week as a family vacation, probably the last one as my oldest starts med school this fall. Cell phones during the drive then turned them off the rest of the time.
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Don't know how the car got in here but I can't remove it.
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I use Pandora all the time. I run a Bluetooth receiver inside the fairing through a splitter to the stereo. It runs through the speakers or helmets.
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I really like the looks of the fairings on these bikes. I have an MKII I'm starting to think of customizing. Since I have a brother that did the body design and built the molds for most of Hannigans new stuff the last several years I'm thinking a third gen style fairing on my first gen bike might be in the future.
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is it running on all 4? That's how my 1st gen acted when tci fried. I had let it set for a year before that happened.
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Kids playing with Fire sticks burn houses. Or is that matches?
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Although we dont share exact taste in vehicles, I have to say that I have some healthy respect for the contents of this post. Buying for cash with no payments and saving buttloads in financing charges and interest, and hassle. All this and you got a vehicle you both love. If you can drop $21k in cash you sure could have put that down on a more expensive vehicle, but instead went this way, and searched out the best price. I have in the last few years started listening to a mentor and radically changed my attitudes about managing money and living beneath my means. I know a whole lot of folks upside down in their vehicles that should have taken this to heart. This is a good example for guys like me who sometimes loose our good sense when it comes to vehicles. Hats off to you, Just sayin'.
I wish I could say I've always had this way of thinking. If I did I could've bought a nicer car now. We are reaching a point close to retirement and are thinking more of that. Though we'll both have pensions they won't be great ones. We want to enter retirement flush with the world and no debts. We've worked hard to pay off the house early, finished that this year. The youngest child will be 20 when I get to retire from the fire service. I own a small business that should finance some travel on the RSV through the years. That's why the lifetime warranty meant so much to us. Time will tell if I made a good choice. 🤞🤞🤞. We'll get to retire in our early 50s, plans made in our 20s. I wish I could say the pensions would be enough but reality is I'll have to run the business part time for years to come. We just planned to have a few good years of retirement before it all ends. The best laid plans right?
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:mo money:I had really planned on selling it and keeping the RSV but who knows, this could be fun.
Cleaning and Bleeding Brakes
in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
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Just make sure they know it's for brakes to get the right type of rubber. Some rings don't like brake fluid. Like I said the shop I go to has a huge stock, kits for some of my bigger cylinders cost $200-250 but I get them apart and take in the parts to get them sized and just buy what I need for around $40. These are 6" diameter rams 6' long.