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    Yes, the lowers should come off. You may be able to just remove all except the bottom fasteners and just tilt it away, but I would just pull the lowers off. Removing the lowers: First have some epoxy or JBWeld on hand for the bayonet plug that is likely to break during disassembly. Use a hex wrench to remove the fasteners from the front of the lowers -- two on each side of the bike. Then go around to the inside of the lower, where your shins are when riding, and remove the one fastener from there (one on each side of the bike). That leaves the attachment points at the bottom of the lowers. If, like me, you have no lift because this bike is for riding and not for repairing , then lie down on the floor, with phillips screwdriver in hand -- not too long of a handle on the screwdriver. There is a chintzy plastic screw in the middle of the bottom of the lowers. It's not a real screw. Just loosen it about a quarter turn, and it will hang down. Now for the invisible how-is-this-thing-still-attached? part. The two sides of the lowers overlap -- no I don't remember which one is under and which one is over. They also each have a plastic bayonet molded to the inside of the plastic, which fits very tightly through a rubber grommet in the frame under the radiator. You will wonder: do I pull down or outward? Answer: you pull outward, toward the front wheel, but hold the lower securely right at the point of attachment (near center of the bike). Maybe you will get each bayonet to come free of its grommet, or maybe it will just break free of the lower -- a common occurrence. If it breaks off, that's what the epoxy or JBWeld is for. Fix the bayonet(s) now, so they set and dry while you are doing the rest of the work. Note on the silly little plastic pseudo-screw that was in the bottom-middle of the lowers: I removed that and threw it away. I now use a small bolt, lock-washer and a nut. You have to feel around down there to line it all up, but at least it really does something. With the lowers off, do like Squidley said: loosen a hose clamp from each air box and pull the boxes off of the boots to which they are attached. When you pull them off, notice a small hose that hangs near the front of each air box. During assembly, you will wonder: where do those attach? Answer: they don't. they just hang down in front of the air box opening, each hose end sitting in a metal ring-like holder, so that the end of the hose is in the air stream. These are just breather hoses, for emissions purposes, allowing spent-oil fumes from the crank case to be recirculated through combustion. After the air boxes are off, yes, there are long screws in the back of them, holding the caps on. The rest is pretty easy to figure out.
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    It's a GPS: Street and Marine capable, waterproof, with a 5-inch display.
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    new tires

    ahoutzer replied to a topic in Watering Hole

    Here is the information that I keep on my computer, for ordering tyres for the RSV (the front tyre size here is the narrower one): Avon Venom X: Front: (AM41) MT90B16 74H $135 Rear: (AM42) 150/90-B15 80H $160.64 The prices are just what was quoted to me by my dealer one of the times that I replaced the tyres.
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    Thirty years, six months, 22 days. It was a life changing experience!
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    Bike Miles XL100 6500 Hawk 16500 CX500 88500 Shadow 700 23000 Shadow 1100 33200 ACE Tourer 1 1000 Ace Tourer 2 77300 Royal Star Venture 35500 Total 281500
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    It looks to me like Google Earth (free software) can get the coordinates for any address, one address at a time. Enter the address into the Fly to field, then after it flies to that address, right-click, choose Properties and the latitude and longitude are displayed.
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    I am willing to have my GPS coordinates on the POI list, but I do not have a GPS myself (would love to, but gotta send three kids to college, and ZUMOs are way out of my spending range, now). Having no GPS of my own, does anyone know of a way that I can find out what my coordinates are, so I could submit them to the POI list?
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    There is a nice thing about being in the blissfully unprepared South: no road salt. When conditions are slippery, we stay home. That's usually one day per year. It doesn't happen often enough for us to keep the stuff to put on the roads.
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    Can't say about pleasure-only rides. Having work, church and family, there is no such thing. My riding is always related to something that needs to be done, whether work or a class down-state or visiting parents in Florida, etc. That said, the temperature has dropped down to 12*F here this year. Riding season, which goes from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, has not been interrupted.
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    You're right about that hand-air-pump. Not only will you get the right amount in, but you will have a much better chance of getting the same amount in both the left and right forks with this kind of pump. If the fork pressures are not balanced, the bike feels wrong in turns.
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    So, how would this work? Some billionaire who thinks everyone should have all of the music they want has bought up, with his/her own money, lots and lots of music, and now is giving it away? Somebody wrote that music to (in part) earn a living by selling it for money. Money must be involved somewhere, or it is theft. One site was trying to earn money through commercial advertising, so they would pay the record companies for the music with the advertising money. That's the closest you can get to free -- you just have to put up with the advertising barrage. That particular company, last I heard, had not yet convinced the music labels to agree to the give-away of their music in return for advertising revenue. Without that agreement, there is no legal deal. Let's do the right thing, even if it costs us.
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    Interested. I bult a lot of plastic models when I was a kid -- mostly WWII airplanes. I would like to build and have a model of my RSV.
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    I'm six foot one -- not that much shorter -- and the Venture is the most comfortable bike I've owned. The only serious bike out there that I can think of that offers more room is the Victory Vision, which costs more, and you've got to like that particular style first -- some do, some don't.
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    1) Absolutely free: put some air in the suspension! Yammy delivers the bike with zero pressure front and rear. For me (solo rider, 190 pounds) 3 psi front and 15 psi rear is good. Sportier riders and those with heavier loads will want more. 2) Don't just get Avon tyres -- make sure you get the narrower MT90B16 front tyre. 3) Additional lights front and rear. 4) If you ever ride in the rain or fog, you'll want to change that windshield. Shorten it or change it for one that leans back further or both. You won't be able to see through the stock shield in bad rain, prolonged fog, or even moderate rain at night. 5) If you plan on riding several hours or more at a time, get a rider backrest from Utopia or DiamondR. 6) If your arms are not especially long and you plan on long rides, consider Barons risers, to avoid aches between your shoulders. There are a lot more possilities, but it seems to me that these are the big-bang items. Oh, yeah: I always carry a trowel with me. Can anyone guess why?
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    Do you have a Battery Tender? It should be easy to get you up and running again.
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    I also bought my bike from Performance in Seneca January 20, 2006. They do great service, by the way.
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    Yep. Just 25 miles away. I've been lurking here for a while, but when I saw that someone in Toccoa needed a wire screwed onto the battery terminals (sorry -- we all have our gifts and our areas of non-giftedness), I had to respond.
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    I've been riding on Avon Venoms for about five years (this RSV and previous bike Shadow ACE Tourer). I usually ride solo, and keep the front at 37lbs and the rear at 46lbs -- near max pressure written on the sidewalls. These are great tires. As for he ME880, taking them off of your bike was the best thing to do with them!
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    Good grief, Guindalf! Get that thing running and ride it over to Walhalla, and I'll fit it for you.
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