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14 hours ago, AndyCBR said:
Hello all, similar post on another forum that only got a few responses.
I’m new here and strongly considering adding the Star Venture to the stable.
I’ve done some LD riding on my Wing (multi time IBR finisher) and some off road stuff on my Tenere. Both of which I plan to keep.
I’m liking the idea of a cruiser that I’ll probably just leave alone and ride. I really like the looks, creature comforts, and luggage capacity. I’ve also never owned a V twin so that would be something new and different.
I’m not really excited about the new Wing with the loss of luggage capacity and weather protection.
The air cooling was a concern but I see the bike is really air/oil cooled due to the rather large oil capacity and the hidden oil radiator.
I’ve seen a few threads of some seemingly random failed top ends. It doesn’t seem endemic but I guess if it’s your bike it doesn’t matter.
For those that have the bike and love it, please let me know all the pros!
Thanks in advance!Had to reach out and call you Andy or I’d be here texting all day! 😁
Pleasure talking with you. I hope the info helped.
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On 10/14/2021 at 5:35 PM, Kent said:
It would be tough mounting it on the inside. If you had the right size hinge you may be able to make it work. The outside hinge works extremely well. Just need to pretty it up some
Although it might work it looks as though you’ve destroyed the automatic opening of the lid by the spring.
While mounting it inside may have been more difficult, the resulting “factory look” is always worth the effort. You may even have been able to find a hinge that was spring loaded to maintain that function.
Case in point when I installed the remote microphone for my dual camera system. Installing it wasn’t easy, but the results speak for themself.
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19 hours ago, Kybronco said:
Hey guys I found a small pinhole in the seam of my seat , what would you recommend to stop it from getting bigger? Thanks
The problem is @Kybronco that your seats are not actually “upholstered” but rather “injection molded”. That looks like a foam fill point.
You can see the seat stitching is not actual stitching but a molded stitch for appearance.
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On 9/29/2021 at 9:07 PM, RDawson said:
Is this the Canadian version? I know of a guy up there that rides in circles and U turns. Come to think of it though he rides one of those three legged things, not a venture. 🤣🤣🤣
No, @RDawsonit not. This is a 2018 SVTC here in NC. Like I said, the “circles” was my fault in the route planning. I learned you need to be very specific on way point placement. Close enough doesn’t work.
The good thing is that it works!
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6 hours ago, bpate4home said:
@ChiefGunner Can you update us on your experience.
No problem.
I was the ride coordinator for a recent forum rally here in Maggie Valley.
I used the MyRoute program and did each days ride with Route, Way points & POI and saved as a gpx1.1 file. Was able to let everyone have the same route whether it was their phone, Garmin, Goldwing or SVTC.
The first days ride had 11 way points with a stop for lunch. The SVTC nav performed FLAWLESSLY! It was exciting to actually have it work the way it was expected. The second days route had 27 way points and did outstanding right up until point 14. It was actually my fault because my way point wasn’t exact. With the Venture nav, you have to make sure that the point you’re going to cross is exact. If not, it will take you in circles until you reach it. I did however in the midst of “circles” find within the nav a place at the bottom which said “Edit Route”. Once I went in there STARTING AT THE BOTTOM I deleted way points until I got rid of the problem one and suddenly the nav system acted like nothing happened and show where to go for the next point. The item that we have to figure out is WHY each of the way points have no info! Even though it was there when creating the route, it doesn’t seem to show on our system. Once we figure out what our system is looking for as far as format or information then the sky is the limit! You can have as many way points with stops as you want, and even delete way points (can do that now)on the fly. Just need the way points info to show up so you know what you’re deleting.
The other days rides had anywhere from 8 way points as a straight out and back in the Cherohala Skyway and others which had 22 points. In all other rides except that one day, the routes worked perfectly!
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16 hours ago, Kent said:
Anything new on the software fix for the 2018 venture?
Sorry @Kent but last news I had is that there will be no new software updates. There is a story on another forum of a guy (actually 6 bikes) in Ontario which were gone over by 3 Yamaha engineers in which all the modules and some wiring harness work was done. It seems hat they put 2020 modules in the 2018 to upgrade them. Despite Yamaha being aware of the problems, there will be NO recall and only a case by case based on who is the LOUDEST complainer.
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On 8/7/2021 at 2:20 AM, ChiefGunner said:
Well, finishing up putting in a dual camera system with night IR capabilities and wi-if for live streaming rides. The button for still shots was not waterproof so I put it in the right cubbie.
UPDATE: well the camera unit mounted in the trunk contains a “built in” mic, but that doesn’t help much. All I’d get is some engine sound and rear speaker music. Fortunately it had an AV jack for an external microphone. I did some research and found a small waterproof mic, mounted it in a perfect place “no wind noise” cockpit. The cockpit acts like a reflector to pick up voice comms, some engine sound and of course music. Perfect blend!
Here’s the final results. It’s the black center dot.
I think it looks factory and you’d never notice it unless it was pointed out. Of course now that everything is recorded, I have to watch my “road rage” verbiage! 🤣
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1 minute ago, saddlebum said:
My numbers are based on the latest post numbers by who. However it is not about the numbers that I am trying to make a point it is about the deception of using percentage to make comparisons. The guy laying on deaths door could not care less were he fits into the percentage table only that he is one of many who may not se tomorrow. The point I was trying to make is simply if that person was only 0.1% that does not change the fact that that 0.1% could still be in the hundreds or even the millions depending on the number it is a percentage of. In other words it can be very misleading. Would you rather loose 10% of a dollar or 1% of a million dollars.
Understand your point and empathize with it. Where is the same passion for the millions who have died annually from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, pneumonia, flu, drugs, suicide, car accidents, abortion? Are they unworthy of your sympathies? Do they not merit concern? If so, what shall be done for them?
Do we not sell certain foods to fat people? Or maybe have a card to prove you don’t have diabetes before ordering a piece of pie? How about permanent license revocation for 1 DUI? Have govt exercise cards to prove you are reducing the risk of heart disease? Shall we lock down & mask up every flu & pneumonia season?
Where does it end?
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13 minutes ago, Du-Rron said:
@Argo, no. The "live" unvaccinated Covid folks are clogging up the hospital in San Angelo, and the "dead" unvaccinated Covid folks I fear will be clogging up the morgues here, like they did last year in Austin & Houston (How soon folks forget refrigeration trucks full of body bags). God forbid I should get into a motorcycle wreck as there will be no room in the Shannon Hospital for me either.
What really kind of chaps my ass is that none of you have offered ANY sympathy at all!!
"Gee Du-Rron, sure am sorry it is tough down in San Angelo." Would have been nice.
Just because it hasn’t been said does not mean it’s not there. The fact is the issue has been and needs to be approached without emotion and dispassionately. Emotions thrown in always tend to cause people to make decisions based on the emotion and not reason or logic.
And before you say anything else, yes my step father is in the hospital with covid. My mom had it 3 months ago and recovered at age 77. My step father is 69 and otherwise healthy except being overweight. He was on a ventilator for 6 days and they took him off yesterday. He’s doing well.
I mention this only because I DO feel, but feelings don’t rule over my decisions or actions.
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2 hours ago, saddlebum said:
Ok so let me get this straight ;
- we have 38,00,000 with the flu so adding another 38,900,000 covid cases is ok even though we now have 76,900,000 sick people
- We have 22,000 flu deaths so adding another 637,280 covid deaths is ok
- of the 22,000 flu deaths how many had no underlying issue versus 38,255 covid deaths with no underlying issues
I fail to understand how these flu statistics justify accepting covid numbers as acceptable losses. It only increases the number of sick people overall. Keep in mind covid does not displace other illnesses, it adds to the total number of sick people adding to the burden of our health providers. who in many cases due to either bureaucracy or cost cuts are already overworked.
Also, I was not making a point of statistics but trying to point out that percentages are relative to the gross number involved 6% off 100 is only 6 but 6% 0f 1,000,000 is 60,000. Therefore using percentages to make a point or comparison, is mute at best. You could say 10% of regular flu victims die while only 5% of covid victims die but if you only have 100 flu victims at 10% that is only 10 people but if you have 1000 covid victims even 5% that is still 50 people.
Your numbers are not accurate but part of the “hype” to keep the fear factor high.
This is about control not about dealing with a man made illness. We already know factually that hospitals and Dr’s are being pressured to make a covid diagnosis. The pressure is so great that if I myself were to go play on a highway and get hit by a semi and become decapitated so that there is ZERO question as to the “cause of death”, and they test me POST MORTEM and find covid antibodies then my “cause of death” would be listed as “covid related”. The obsurdity of such a practice is nothing less than deceptive. It is dishonest and it’s only public purpose is to keep the fear factor high.
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13 minutes ago, Du-Rron said:
@ChiefGunner I might also add that you should not just "Self-Treat" with Hydroxychloroquine. You must get sick with Covid, put in a hospital, and then to be in a very elite group to get any. The Vaccination is free, for anyone over 12, and is designed to keep you out of the Hospital. In San Angelo, please read carefully, San Angelo I say, the dead ones are currently the unvaccinated ones.
Did you not read that the vaccine has caused blood clots and does cause sterility?
Oh, and let’s not forget the proven fact that those who have had covid whether mild or severe and recovered have stronger immune response than any given by a vaccine and therefore do not need to be vaccinated.
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7 minutes ago, Du-Rron said:
@ChiefGunner, no, at this time Hydroxychloroquine is not. Plus, it also costs a fortune, which is out of the realm of this ladies article advocating low cost use. Horribly expensive compared to the 5 Billion doses of the vaccination already given and cannot be made in the needed quantity either.
https://www.goodrx.com/hydroxychloroquine
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/06/09/hydroxychloroquine-study-n2590700
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12 minutes ago, Du-Rron said:
@ChiefGunner, this lady is advocating in this quote you presented, to treat folks with "Ivermectin", an over the counter de-wormer for farm animals available at Tractor Supply. This is what Caleb Wallace did and what he advocated others to do. It didn't work. Aren't we past that yet.
Nowhere in that article does she advocate Ivermectin. Nice “red herring” to divert away from the real concern of sterility, blood clots and other issues. What we do have that we know works best is hydroxychloroquine. It’s been safely used for 50 years and is inexpensive and no side effects. But that’s not acceptable is it? -
14 minutes ago, WildBill1 said:
This is “Hog Wash”/“Bum Wad” people don’t believe this crap! She is not even a MD! She is a PhD. Short for “Post Hole Digger “!!!
Well it’s pretty obvious her qualifications and insight are far above your opinion. Your opinion is valid in that it is yours however, hers however has earned credibility.
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1 hour ago, saddlebum said:
6% may sound low but of 4.5 million world wide deaths, that is still 270,000 world wide, 38,255 Americans, 1,614 Canadians all of which died directly from covid with no underlying issues, that alone is an unacceptable high number of deaths, that for all we know could maybe have been preventable.
Since you want some facts, here you are from the CDC regarding just flu cases in the US alone, not worldwide.
“CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2019–2020 season was moderate with an estimated 38 million people sick with flu, 18 million visits to a health care provider for flu, 400,000 hospitalizations for flu, and 22,000 flu DEATHS (Table 1).”
And those numbers are for a moderate flu season. It has been around for how many millennium with a vaccine (one properly tested) for decades. This does not even take into account the annual pneumonia deaths.
And despite all this, do you go into lock down every flu or pneumonia season? What about demanding people wear masks or isolate? Where’s the demand for flu injections? Especially considering those 2 illnesses have killed and DO kill annually far more people than have ever died of covid.
The hyperbole just doesn’t match the facts.
Remember that YOUR quoted number of deaths from covid is NOT an annual tally but a RUNNING tally. Therefore the simple flu numbers posted completely eclipse covid.
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3 hours ago, saddlebum said:
The others being Joe blow down the street. groups of under educated know-it-alls many which are no more qualified than the equivalent of couch potatoes sports expert coach wannabe's and then there are the totally off the wall extremists like some groups we are well aware of.
I would caution your rhetoric here @saddlebum as to this point everyone in this has just presented various opinions without denigration. Your statement above begins to clearly cross that line in your reference to those (myself included) who do not agree with your assessment.
Let’s keep this reasonable and respectful, which it has been to this point.
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8 hours ago, bpate4home said:
These are the extremes that are being used as fear mongering as they can be documented and they are the rare outliers. Again there are estimates as high as 40% of the population have had COVID with little or no symptoms but unfortunately these cannot be documented. I personally know 15 - 20 people who have had COVID or tested positive for the antibodies who have had little to no symptoms. I also know 3 that have died with the Virus but all 3 had severe underlying conditions of Cancer, major heart conditions and diabetes. I personally don't know any one who died strictly because of SARS-COV-2.
I do have a ministry team member who’s friend knows first hand of 7 family members and friends who have died after receiving the JAB.
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10 hours ago, Marcarl said:
Scary!! That's why we have vaccines and why Marca and I got stabbed. When it gets to be our turn, maybe, just maybe it won't be as bad. As in motorcycles, it's not 'if' you drop your scoot, but 'when'.
As previous stated by renowned Dr’s and medical specialists... the vaccine does not prevent you from getting covid nor does it prevent you from spreading it. Therefore what is it’s true purpose? Would you buy a car that didn’t work? A boat that sinks? Food that is rotten and you can’t eat?
The only thing that has been proven at a medical summit by pathologists and hematologists is the damage it does to your organs, and that it destroys your own innate immune system in favor of the RNA.
Roll the dice baby, it’s your life but some of us don’t like to gamble.
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14 hours ago, Argo said:
HERE HERE HERE.
Finally, more and more people are getting oxygen to that third brain cell.
Lets hope that this keeps expanding and the truth gets out to as many people as possible.
Argo
Some more historical truth & context.
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4 hours ago, WildBill1 said:
So where is my heart symbol so people can respond? Guess I’m being sensored....
I just gave ya one. 😁
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And since we know this will never see the light of day through the MSM, let’s just deposit this here. Remember that every one of the “vaccine” manufacturers made sure that they cannot be legally liable for any side effects.
This is not just some YouTube rant from an ignorant individual but is a summit meeting of some of the worlds leading pathologists, hematologists (blood work).
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Just don’t get why people are so freaked out (actually it’s the media fault) over a virus with a 99.97% recovery rate?
More people die every year from flu not to mention pneumonia. Then let’s throw in heart disease from obesity and diabetes. Are they mandating flu shots every year? Do we go into lock down and distancing every flu season? When was the last time you were ordered to put down the ice cream spoon, push the bowl away and get off your fat lazy butt and exercise?
As this whole Saul Alinsky plan is implemented we are losing more and more of our freedoms under the guise of “safety” and “the greater good”. This is the same exact path (for you true historians) that Germany took in 1938.
I pray America wake up before it’s too late, for once freedoms (any of them) are surrendered willingly they can only be regained by force.
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3 hours ago, saddlebum said:
And there in sits the confusion. When the experts cannot agree how is the average person with an average or less education to fully grasp the situation. Yet millions on both sides of the discussion profess to know it all. For myself though I do not know the exact nature or all the true facts of this virus which I am sure can be said about most of us, I do feel that masking and vaccines have made a difference in curbing the spread of this Virus. Will it end it? possibly not but taking steps in an attempt to limit the spread and devastation of this virus certainly cannot hurt. We all know that the numbers at one point went to frightening levels in some areas and yet some hospitals that prepared for the worst did not see the numbers they prepared for. However just because some areas did not reach epic numbers does not IMHO mean we should throw caution to the wind. It seems every time the numbers go down and we relax in our precautions the numbers start to rise again. That in itself must say something. Like the cold or flu it may never go away and true even though vaccines for the flu are only effective against the flavor of the day and need to be revised for each new flu variant they do seem to help reduce the spread. As well you would not want someone with the flu or a cold coughing in your face whether you feel you are immune or not and when we know our kids friends have the flu or a cold we tend to keep our kids away until those kids are over what ever it is that ails them, So why are we so resistant to taking whatever steps we can to limit the spread of covid. for these reasons I personally believe wearing a mask is a good safety precaution and a good consideration to those around you in case you unknowingly are afflicted. Am I totally sold on the vaccine and whether or not it is the right choice? I have questions, But I do believe it is still the lessor of two evils and may not be the perfect cure but may buy us time until we do find the perfect cure.
This is just my humble opinion and certainly not meant to start a political debate. But if the monitors see fit to remove I fully understand.
2005 XVS1100 Custom Project
in General Tech Talk
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Hey everyone. I’m sure we may have some riders here who either have or have had an XVS1100. My daughter gave me a project bike to fix up for her, and anyone who has done any engine work or final drive work would be a valuable source of info.
Yes, I have the shop manual but YOUR personal experience can help avoid pitfalls.
Thanks in advance!