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Most of my cars were pretty tame compared to some of yours. Here they are in order though from when I first got my license at 16. There have been MANY more since these. 1959 Chevy Bel Air 235 6 cylinder with 3 speed on the column. 1969 VW Beetle with semi-auto transmission and factory air. 1966 Pontiac Lemans with 326 and automatic. 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454. First new car and I bought it when I graduated from high school. After that, there have been many many many cars. Everything from 1969 Camaros to early 70's Dodge Challengers to Triumph Spitfires and a lot of trucks and SUVs.

This is what REALLY ticked me off with Progressive. From the HD website, I got a quote. It came to under $300.00, I don't remember the exact amount. Then I did it again and it asked who my current insurance was with. Well apparently Progressive is the company that HD uses and when I entered progressive as my current insurance, it told me that they could not give me a quote because I was already insured with Progressive and I had to go to them to get a new quote. That came to over $500.00. So if you are a 14 year customer with them with no claims, they charge you over $200.00 per year more than a new customer. Something just isn't right with that. Now it worked for me the other way also. I've had my house insurance with State Farm for about 15 years. It has gone up every year even though I've had no claims at all. This year it went up again to over $1200.00 per year. I shopped and ended up buying a policy from Progressive with lower deductibles and the same coverage for $660.00 a year. Now I'll just wait for it to start steadily increasing and them change again. What a racket.

It's all very strange. I had my house with State Farm for 13 years. I've had no claims but it went up every year. Two weeks ago I moved it to another company. Same covered at almost half the price. I just called Progressive. They got the motorcycle down from $515.00 per year to $385.00 per year for the same coverage. I told them to cancel it and just got a new policy from Geico with higher limits for $260.00 per year. Could have got it for as little as $180 for full coverage but I raised some of the limits.

My motorcycle insurance comes due the 28th of May. I've had it with Progressive for more than 14 years and never filed a claim. I have full coverage on the Road Glide and I still have liability on the RSV that I sold to Yammer. My premium for both bikes is just over $400.00 per year. If I drop the RSV, I lose the multi bike discount and my premium goes up by 97.00 just over $500.00 per year. I also have my autos and home with Progressive. Now I just got a quote from Geico on the Harley alone and even though I increased some of the coverage, it comes to $234.00 per year. I am not really surprised. It just seems that a person has to change insurance companies from time to time to keep the prices down. I will call Progressive today and see if they want to take another look at it but otherwise, looks like I will be making a change.

I'm sorry but I don't agree at all. I've seen a LOT of these bike that the insurance company decided to total after a relatively minor accident. The frames are not damaged, forks are fine, it's just that Yamaha wants so darn much for the plastic parts that the repair costs are high. If a person is willing to find the parts on Ebay or wherever and do the work themselves then they can be repaired fairly cheaply and there is absolutely no way they should be tagged with a salvage title. Nobody is being cheated if they buy a bike that has had saddlebags, fairing and etc. replaced.

Very nice and we are very happy for you. I know you've had it on your mind for at least a couple of years.

Beautiful bike. A local friend just bought one that is similar but in a gray color. He loves it.

He is absolutely amazing but it is also amazing that so many people around can completely ignore it.

I just bit on two different pins with no problem.

I'll be heading to the Buffalo area in a couple of weeks. Could get them back to my house in Oberlin.

It does look very nice though. I like it.

First of all, great job on the video. I really enjoyed watching it. Of course I absolutely LOVE that old bike. You are a lucky man to have it.

NO NO NO....just hate seeing my baby abused.

YIKES...you are right. I fixed that.

Dan Dan Dan.....I think that maybe I need to come get that bike and keep it here until you are old enough to handle it.

The only one that I know of is from Corbin. You might check their web site. Carbon One does make some arm rests.

Did you see this post in the tech library? Not by me but jarred my memory a bit. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=8810

I guess I had better quit talking. It has been several years since I did it. I was thinking that there were two wires going to the tach. I know there are also two for the lights but I'm talking the actual tach. I thought there was one that went to the positive side of the coil and the other went to ground. Instead of going to ground, I had hooked it to the negative side of the coil and that caused the problem. When I moved it to ground, it worked correctly. Like I said though, it was several years ago.

Looks good and looks almost the same as the one I had except it had the reservoir mount. Strange the way it's acting. Mine would rev to about that same point and then go to zero. I think it was Eddie that had the same problem when he was installing one. I told him how I fixed mine by removing the tachs negative wire from the coil and connecting it to the frame/ground and doing that corrected his problem also.

Everything I've read says that they do absolutely nothing on cars or motorcycles.

Did you get it working?

No, sorry but it was too long ago and now Yammer Dan has that bike so I can't look. I can tell you though, don't wire anything to the negative side of the coil. I assume that the black and blue are for the light in the tach? Then the green is the ground for the tack itself? Remove it from the negative side of the coil and connect it to ground instead.

I ran into that exact same issue when I installed the Baron's tach on the RSV. The instructions had said to hook the positive wire from the tach to the positive connection to the coil. I had done that. The instructions said to run the other wire from the tach to ground but I had hooked it up to the negative side of the coil. It caused it to do exactly as yours is doing. I disconnected it and grounded it to the frame and it worked correctly. Somebody else had the same problem and when I told them how I fixed mine, they found the same thing on theirs.

Not very often. I'll try to work on it over the next couple of weeks though.

There are a lot of threads here about that issue. Very simple fix. Here is one thread that will get you started. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65768 They are cheap and easy to replace but a fix that has been used by many here is to glue a dime on the inside of the fins so that they put more pressure on the existing plugs.