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  1. Freebird
    Well I know very little about trucks. I've never driven trucks and probably never will. I see a LOT of them though because I'm on the road so much. I met one the other day and didn't know what it was but it was the first big truck in a long time that caught my eye. It looked beautiful coming down the road. I had to do some looking online to figure out what I had seen but I finally found it. Now I have no idea if they are any good but going by looks alone, this is what I would want to drive. International LoneStar.
  2. Freebird
    I give the edge to the 665 but just barely. The XM for the 665 does not seem to get as strong a signal as the 550 did. The touchscreen on my 665 is not as good as the 550 but some people have reported exactly the opposite on that issue. The lane change feature is very nice but really only works in certain major metropolitan areas. That's really the only time it is really needed though. The speed limit indicator is a nice feature and I also like the fact that it automatically changes time zones when you cross into a new one. 665 will handle a LOT more MP3 tunes. Overall, knowing what I know now, I'm not 100% sure that I would upgrade from my 550 to the 665. If I didn't already own either one, then I would recommend the 665 unless you came across a fantastic deal on a 550.
  3. Freebird
    No, never heard of them. I'll be back there soon enough though. I'll try to remember that.
  4. Freebird
    Woke up early this morning, around 3:30. I've been in Louisville, KY all week and will be heading home later today. It has rained most of the week and traffic and rain really wears me out. Eileen says it has rained off and on all week at home also but the forecast for tomorrow is showing a high of 47 degrees and only a 10% chance of rain. If it's that good, I plan to find the time to get a little ride in. I sure need to spend some time in the wind to clear this old mind...or what's left of it.
  5. Freebird
    I posted a Dyno chart here: http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showpost.php?p=533041&postcount=5 This was done several years ago and I'm also 100% sure that it was done at the Dyna facility when Kent was working with them after they first released the Dyna module for the RSV. The red lines are with stock ignition, the others are with the Dyna installed and a couple of different settings.
  6. Freebird
    It makes very little difference in actual HP or torque. In my opinion, the only REAL advantage to it is that it allows you to raiser the rev limiter. If you never hit the rev limiter now, then I would say that it is not worth the money at all.
  7. Freebird
    Sorry folks, I tried to move and merge two threads but since it does it by time posted, it put them out of order. Al's question should have been the first post of the thread.
  8. Freebird
    I think that this would be the right forum for it.
  9. Freebird
    Very cool old bike. I'll have to look and see if I have any parts for it....hold on.... Nope...nothing here.
  10. Freebird
    I think the issue is now resolved. Much of what you are suggesting is just not possible in the forum area. The current classifieds already do most everything you have mentioned.
  11. Freebird
    As for Glacier, Eileen and I were there a few years ago. I don't remember the name of the hotel where we stayed but it was the one inside the park. Rustic but very clean and we really enjoyed it. No telephone and no televisions though. There is also a pretty decent restaurant connected to it. Road to the sun just shouldn't be missed. Beyond that, there are a lot of things to see and do in the area. Eileen and I did a whitewater rafting trip that was fantastic and at the end of it, they grilled great steaks there on the bank of the river. We really enjoyed it. Don't remember the rafting company either but it was right at the entrance of the park. Here is a pic of us with friends in front of the hotel inside the park. Like I said, it is nothing fancy but we really did enjoy it. The other picture is Eileen and I at the top of the Road to the Sun. I don't remember for sure but I think this was mid to late July.
  12. Freebird
    120 in fifth? I don't think that mine would but I may be wrong. Now remember, my speedo is corrected so if you are going by the speedo, you are actually running about 111.6 when the speedo indicates 120. As for the problem we are discussing though, one other thing to check is that the boots are properly seated on top of the carbs. That caused major problems with mine when one boot had crept up and it was sucking air.
  13. Freebird
    It's been several years since I installed the Dyna on my '99 but I THINK that Dyna recommended to not go beyond 7250 RPM unless you install heavier valve springs. I don't even remember now if I have mine set at 7250 or 7500.
  14. Freebird
    Thanks but please don't get the wrong idea folks. I'm not complaining about there being too many posts. That's why we are here. I'm just trying to make it better for you and easier for us to maintain. I also just pruned the "Welcome New Members" forum. No reason for those to be there forever. They are to welcome the new folks here and I set it for 30 days. That one change got rid of more than 189 pages of threads and over 13,000 posts.
  15. Freebird
    110 MPH is probably about the top speed for these bikes in 5th gear. You just run out of torque in overdrive. It will actually run faster in 4th.
  16. Freebird
    No, either way it's the same process. You have to look at all of the 373,000 plus posts if you really want to decide which are worth keeping and which to delete. It's nothing new, just the nature of any forum. There is no way to automatically prune threads based upon keywords. For example, there is no setting to automatically search for and then remove threads with the word "Craigslist". You can do a search but then have to select and delete each thread manually. There is an automatic pruning feature built into the software that allows you to automatically delete threads that are over so many days old. That is a forum wide feature though which means that it would also delete threads in tech libraries and etc. that we don't want removed. Even many of the threads in the watering hole contain some good and relevant information that I wouldn't want to just automatically delete. Yesterday I installed a new feature that does allow me to auto delete messages over so many days old that is also forum specific. That is why I created the new area for the sale listings. I have set that single forum to auto delete threads after 30 days. I have set the Prayer Requests forum to automatically delete all threads older than 180 days. The "Testing" forum also deletes threads...after ...I don't remember what I set it for but it is less days than the others. Rides and Rallies threads go away after a year I think. So, it's getting there. So, this will help. for the watering hole, tech discussion, etc. though it is pretty much a manual operation to ensure that informative information doesn't go away.
  17. Freebird
    Folks, I'm not saying that you don't have problems, you very well may have but I do know that you are not going to get strong acceleration if you are running 45 MPH in 5th gear. It's just not going to happen even with a perfectly running and well tuned RSV. You are way out of the power band in 5th at those speeds. If I needed to move out quickly at those speeds I would certainly be dropping to 4th and possibly even 3rd.
  18. Freebird
    Really sorry to hear about your problem Bob. I know that you've been through a lot already with your other foot and certainly don't need additional problems. Please know that you are in my prayers.
  19. Freebird
    Just to be clear. We are not running out of space at this time. All is good. It's just about good housekeeping more than anything else. Eventually things have to be cleaned up and it takes a long time to do so. This is just one attempt to do that. I've spent close to 4 hours over the past two days deleting old Craigslist and For Sale posts that no longer have any significance and there are still hundreds to remove. The new area will prevent anybody from having to do that in the future.
  20. Freebird
    No, you can delete posts but not entire threads. Once a thread has replies, it would then mean that you would be removing other folks posts also and that could, in some cases, be a bad thing.
  21. Freebird
    Eck, I think we are on the same page but just to make sure that everybody else is. I don't want to delete ALL old posts. There is a LOT of useful information in them. It's just the for sale type posts that I want to get rid of. Most of them are completely useless after 30 days or so. Now, I've created a new area specifically for the for sale type posts and for those who feel the need to create a thread to let everybody know that they have listed something in the classifieds. It is NOT meant to replace the classifieds. Any for sale ads will be deleted. Short post to let us know that you have listed an item is fine. If you wish to post a link to your classified listing, that is fine also. The new area is specifically setup so that all posts there will be automatically deleted after 30 days. Any such posts made in any other area of the forum will be deleted. I thank you all for your opinions and suggestions. Most were very good but some are beyond my programming capabilities. Pop up windows, automatic posts triggered by a new listing in the classifieds, etc. Those are all good ideas but beyond my expertise and would be expensive to have somebody do custom coding to accomplish I hope that this is acceptable to everybody and will make it easier for all of us.
  22. Freebird
    I agree....total waste of time. I don't think it hurts anything but certainly doesn't help.
  23. Freebird
    OK folks. I have no answers, only questions. Once upon a time in the early days of this forum, I had a "Classifieds" topic area right here in the forum. That worked fine for the most part except that when somebody sold an item, they never posted that it was sold and it became full of items that had been there for months and/or years and nobody knew if it was still for sale or not. Even if it WAS marked sold, it still required me or one of the moderators to constantly go through the ads and delete the threads for the sold items. I determined that a better solution would be the classifieds software which I then purchased and installed. The advantage of the classifieds software is that items are automatically deleted after a pre-determined time unless the seller renews the ad. It really is the best way to do it except for one problem..... People who post their items in the classifies most often feel the need to then come to the forum and post that they have listed their items in the classifieds. That completely defeats the purpose because we are right back where we started, we have thousands of posts of items that we don't know are still available or whatever. Those post end up being here for years and do nothing but take up space, slow down search functions, etc. I've been trying to clean things up a bit but it's a slow process. This morning I did a keyword search for the word "Craigslist" and found over 600 threads of things like "seen on Craigslist"....since ads on Craigslist only run for about 30 days, almost all of those threads are useless now. I've deleted hundreds of threads this morning but still have a long way to go. I haven't even started on the "added to the classifieds" or "for sale" type threads yet. There are hundreds of those also. So what is the solution? A forum area dedicated to "seen on Craigslist" type ads? At least they would all be in one place and I wouldn't have to search the entire forum for them. I could just delete any in that folder that are over 30 days old. Same for "listed in the classifieds" type posts. They could be posted there also and deleted routinely. I'm looking for your suggestions. Unfortunately, there is no function available to automatically delete these forum posts after a certain amount of time. It has to be done manually, that is why they are best kept in the classified section but that does no good at all when a member feels that he has to post it here also. It would be easier if I just did a search, say for "Craigslist" and then just delete them all in one click but not all are items for sale. Some are discussions on how to search Craigslist and various other discussions. I now have to search and then click on and read most every post to determine if it needs to be deleted or not. It takes several hours to do.
  24. Freebird
    Well...to be honest...it was those air box covers that prompted me to buy the carb covers...I mean....after I bought the air box covers, they were begging for the other matching bling. I will be selling a pair of smooth air box covers but the chrome is flaking in several places. I was planning to put them on Ebay. They would have to be re-chromed though if they are to look good.
  25. Freebird
    Oh YEA? Well you're not getting your mugs either. well...not tomorrow anyway.
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