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  1. ahoutzer
    I'm about four hours from there. I have a spare set of rear brake pads in my shed. If there is some way I can help -- carrying them to you or if you want to nurse your bike here (depending on how used-up your pads are), etc. -- let me know. I hope there is a closer solution, but if not, I'm willing to help.
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    What?
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    Two pages of responses, and they all seem to come to this: everyone should be allowed to break the law some, just as long as it's not a lot. We should be able to break into anyone's house or business and take something -- just not too much. Murder? Some, but not too many. Police are just being a pain when they stop us for breaking the laws in small amounts.
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    Are you talking inot the back side of the microphone instead of the front of it?
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    The Corbin saddle will drop it about an inch. I have a Corbin, and enjoy it. If you are getting rid of your stock seats, please let me know -- I would like to be able to switch back to the pillow-tops occasionally, when my wife rides with me. She likes the stock seats better.
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    Lock-tite.
  7. ahoutzer
    Well, I guess there are no backpackers in this group! Everyone seems to be carrying a small house with them!
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    SC Hwy 11

    ahoutzer replied to barend's topic in Watering Hole

    I haven't see one, and I live in that area (my bike is a black cherry 2nd gen), so I guess that it was someone passing through, and probably not someone who lives here. If there is a venture rider living that close by, I hope to meet them.
  9. ahoutzer
    Try here: http://www.yamahasportsplaza.com/pages/catalogs/detail/26/198/398/20148/3/0/0/1/4/90/69/57995/saddlebag-trim-rails.aspx
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    The stock fuse is only 5 amp.
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    Black cherry 2nd Gen, purchased January 20, 2006. Now pushing 53,000 miles. I'm looking forward to another 100K, at least.
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    I wear boots full time, and the problem that I have is finding boots that are *not* for wide feet. Practically all boots are for width D and EE. Just try to find a B!
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    I wear cowboy-style boots, but NOT with leather soles. They are comfortable for walking and wearing, not only on the bike. No problem operating the heel-toe shifter -- I out-shift some o my friends who have toe-only shifters on other kinds of bikes. Mine are size 11. http://www.leatherup.com/p/Motorcycle-Boots/Mens-King-Harness-Boot/42215.html
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    No envy here. The nearest public transportation stop is ten miles from my house. My office at work is fifteen miles from a bus stop, and ten miles from my house. Using public transportation would only get me further away from the office, after driving over twice as far as just driving to the office! Rush hour traffic here means two vehicles lined up at the stop sign at Country Junction Road. There are a total of three stop signs between my house and work ten miles away. No parking problems, either. Apparently we don't all live in the same conditions. City dwellers might go nuts out here, with no 'civilization' to keep them occupied, entertained, whatever. As for me, any time I have to go to Greenville (sixty miles away) and sit in traffic, I'm glad that I don't live in such a place. To each his/her own. Anyway, for those of us not dealing with city parking and roads owned by wild cabbies, and also away from snow country, riding to/from work each day is the routine. My wife drives a four-wheeled vehicle; my son and I each have a bike (V Star 650 and RSV) but no four-wheeled transport. I ride about 17,000 miles per year, mostly routine commuting -- not a luxury.
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    Salty, I don't use WEP on my home WiFi network, so I don't have experience with that on the iPhone, but Apple's support documentation says that WEP is supported. On my home network, I actually have the router set to allow only the specific MAC addresses of my family's devices. About RoadRunner and POP: I have never used RoadRunner, but here is some information about iPhone and eMail accounts. iPhone supports POP, IMAP, Exchange, GMail, Yahoo Mail and MobilMe accounts. I have used a POP account on my iPhone and it worked just fine. I don't use POP any more because it was annoying to manage some eMail on my iPhone and some on my computer. Right now, I have one Exchange account and two IMAP accounts on my iPhone, all working nicely.
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    Turning off 3G is easy - just a setting in the iPhone's preferences. I keep mine off because I'm in a rural area (no 3G available) and my house and work both have WiFi. -- This message posted from my iPhone!
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    I pay an extra $5 per month for texting. I think that gives me a 200-message-per-month limit, if I remember correctly. That's plenty for me. Remember that you have eMail as well as voice phone and text messaging, so there is not much need for texting, but some. Now if you're like many teenagers and 20-somethings then texting is what you do instead of talking to the person who is right in front of you! The iPhone is great (I have a 3G version, since August), but beware of the few surprising things that it does NOT do: 1) No voice dialing 2) No MMS (i.e. no ability to send pictures from our iPhone to another cell phone, and no convenient to receive pictures from another cell phone ). About voice dialing -- I don't miss it. I have a Zumo 550 on my RSV with the BuddyRich cable, so I can answer calls easily. By using the phone book on the Zumo, I can place calls with a gloved hand while stopped, or hit the 'Call Home' button even while riding. I don't place many calls while riding -- just answer incoming calls -- so I'm satisfied. About picture messaging, again remember that you can easily e-Mail pictures from the iPhone, you just can't send them to a phone number nor receive them directly from another cell phone. I don't know why Apple left this obvious and common feature off, but they did. Battery life is not great compared to a plain cell phone, but I don't know how it compares to a Blackberry.
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    I got mine from Electrical Connection: http://www.electricalconnection.com/other-lighting/led-reflectors-rectangle.htm
  19. ahoutzer
    Handle? Don't be silly. A bike like that is only for Hooter's on Thursday evenings. Put it in a trailer, park two lots down the road, then unload it and ride it to Hooter's. How good does the handling have to be for that?
  20. ahoutzer
    Acoustics make a difference, too. Although your XS1100 may have a Yamaha shaft drive similar to the Royal Star Venture, the shape of your cockpit is probably different. All of that nice weather-protected space in the RSV's rider area seems to trap and amplify the noise made by its running gear. The good news that acoustics don't stop with the cockpit. Your choice of helmet and whether you install in-helmet speakers can make a big difference in what you hear. The RSV chirp never bothered me at all until I put a headset into my helmet. Then, with a narrower open space around my ears (the speakers having filled up the ear pockets in my helmet), it was bad. A different helmet or different speakers changes everything. In short: 1) Your XS1100 may not be a good example of the RSV's sound; 2) If you get an RSV with sounds that bother you, there may be simple and inexpensive ways to improve it.
  21. ahoutzer
    Y'all are nuts! That's all I have time to say -- gotta get ready to leave for Florida today!
  22. ahoutzer
    Nothing wrong with good hot grits! ... and no, we don't have any snow tires. I'm about twice as far from the airport as BarEnd, and will be just returning to the area from a week in Florida anyway, so it looks like BarEnd is your best bet -- despite that he doesn't appreciate grits!
  23. ahoutzer
    I have replaced my tail light with the LED panel from CustomDynamics and also replaced the front turn signal/running lights with LED and replaced the four side reflectors with LED lights that act as both running and turn signal lights. I do not use a load equalizer. My turn signals blink faster than normal, but not fluttering-fast, and the self cancelling turn signals still work. I think that if I replaced the tail turn signals with LEDs as well, then they would flutter or not flash at all, so I did not do those.
  24. ahoutzer
    Most of the time I do not work from home. Therefore, I must get to work. I travel to several locations at work most days. Then I must come home. I also need to get to church and various stores, and need to pick up my six-year-old from school on Thursdays when my wife teaches from 8AM to 8PM. So that's how I get all of those miles in -- about 1,400 miles per month.
  25. ahoutzer
    1,500 miles per month average in Maine? I'm impressed!
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