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WOW, First Ride
Freebird replied to bkuhr's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
Yep...you are certainly looking at some fork work. You gotta remember. Those springs are almost 30 years old. They have outlived their life by far. Most of the members here end up putting Progressive springs in the front. Do a search for "Progressive" and you'll find lots of into on them. Sounds like new fork seals are needed also. Here is a great article put together by Condor on installing the Progressive springs. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=505 and here is one by Fred Vogt with more pictures added by George S on replacing the seals. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=496 -
OK...I've decided. I want this one but I want a trunk with integrated passenger backrest similar to the Venture or the Ultra Classic. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FLA-CUSTOM-ROCKET-III-CORBIN-CONVERSION-AWESOME-L-K-/360260245322?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item53e12f174a
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Had my rsv dynoed tonite
Freebird replied to adventurer 08's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
There is a small independent motorcycle repair and accessory store about 2 miles from my house. I noticed last week that they have a sign out front that says "We now have a Dyno". If anybody is interested, I'll see if they will offer us any deals for dyno runs during my Maintenance Day. -
Congrats...you have every right to be proud of what he has accomplished and thanks for sharing your joy with us. Now my philosophy is a bit different when it comes to exercise and working out: NO PAIN...NO PAIN
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Good luck Annie. I hope all goes well. You've been through enough already.
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Yep...that is a true friend. Now I've done it too but for me, it was a financial decision. After maintenance day a couple of years ago, Sleeperhawk's bike stopped running. We traced it down to a bad relay. This was on a Sunday so there were no Yamaha shops open and I doubt that the local shop would have had the relay anyway. So I loaned him the relay off my bike to get him home. Like I said, it was a financial decision. Either loan him the part or FEED him until it arrived.
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Not much help from here. I think the only one I might have is from Texas just before moving to Ohio so it would only be about 10 years old.
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OOPs...just thought of another one. I said Harley Ultra and that would probably still be the strongest contender but I would also look at the Triumph Rocket III Touring. Sure wish they would finish dressing it out with a fairing and etc. though.
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Sounds like you ran across an idiot salesman.
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I'm really sorry to here of this accident. Skydoc is always there for us when we need his help...sometimes before we even KNOW that we need his help. Was really looking forward to seeing him at Maintenance Day. I hope he can at least ride in the car by then and you can both come. I promise to have a nice lawn lounger for him so that he can just sit back and relax.
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Well I love the cruiser styling so for me it would probably be a Harley Ultra.
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Royal Star kickstand hole size to fit 2005 Venture ?
Freebird replied to cb1313's topic in Watering Hole
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There are several places that sell seats for the Venture. Corbin, Travelcade, Russell, Mustang (recently announced) are some of the more common ones. You will find folks that love and hate all of them. I have the Corbin and love it.
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I wish I was in the area, would be happy to help out. It can be hard to find that sort of problem.
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WOW....good to hear from you Lowell. So you are a free man now.....Lord help us all.
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The Mic-Mutes works fine with the Buddy Rich cable. You just toggle on the mic before you start your call so that they can hear you.
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Thanks. Haven't seen the package yet but I'm sure it will be here soon. Thank you VERY much.
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I don't remember the internal memory but it lets you use a SD Card. I have an 8 GB card in mine. For some reason, Garmin limits you to 1000 songs but that is a lot.
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Nice...but it's going to be a LONG time before I'm in the market for another bike.
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Very nice camper and I understand your reasoning in regards to wanting to spend time with your son. Dylan is a senior this year and I can only sit back and be amazed that the years have gone by so quickly. We will miss you at maintenance day though. I think you have been to all of them.
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I don't wear a full face but there are a lot of threads here about what folks do wear. Do a search for helmets and you'll find a LOT of information. Webbike World also has some very good reviews on a lot of different helmets. http://www.webbikeworld.com/motorcycle-helmets/motorcycle-helmets.htm You will also get differing opinions in regards to whether the Snell rating is preferable to the DOT rating. Some tests indicate that it is not but since you want Snell rating, I won't go into all of that.
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Here you go. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=13180
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I don't use any of them. I had a request to add the feature and it didn't require too much programming on my end so I added it. Have no idea what advantage it offers.
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Ironic that you just posted this while I was making another post about an Iphone app that I just added us to. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=48372
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OK folks..I know very little about this as I don't use an Iphone, Blackberry, etc. I had a request to add this feature so decided to give it a try. If you use one of the phones that support this app, you are welcome to test it out. I noticed on their website that they do have a beta app out now for the Blackberry also. Tapatalk is a mobile forum app for iPhone / Android and soon to be on Blackberry and Nokia. Tapatalk supports vBulletin (3.x and 4.x) and phpBB forums and forum owner can activate this service for free. Tapatalk supports all the usual forum functions plus full screen image viewing, image upload, caching (less reload), private messaging, all these features are accessible in just a few simple taps. Tapatalk for iPhone: Showing New and Unread Posts: http://www.quoord.com/tmp/iphone/IMG_0036.png Full Thread Viewing and Pagination Support: http://www.quoord.com/tmp/iphone/IMG_0037.png See Who's Online: http://www.quoord.com/tmp/iphone/IMG_0038.png Reply to Post and Image Upload: http://www.quoord.com/tmp/iphone/IMG_0041.png Some of the large forums activated Tapatalk support http://www.quoord.com/tmp/iphone/IMG_0042.png Tapatalk for Android Total Android Look and Feel http://www.quoord.com/tmp/android/main.png Same feature set as iPhone: http://www.quoord.com/tmp/android/threadmenu.png Quickly Reply to a conversation: http://www.quoord.com/tmp/android/thread_bottom_menu.png Latest and Unread Posts indicator and multi-tabs support: http://www.quoord.com/tmp/android/latest-v.png Full screen image support - support landscape mode also http://www.quoord.com/tmp/android/imageview.png Check out http://www.tapatalk.com for more information!