Kandaje

Greetings... YES! I am definately getting at least one of those for The Tersiphone next payday! Just about EVERY time I go west past Hwy 50 and B 1/2 (a nasty blind merging lane) - someone is chattering away with a cell phone glued to their head and going too fast. The wimpy stock horn gets used a LOT there! Anyone know the current draw when operating? I'm thinking possibly 2 of them, 1 ea side mounted inside the fairing so they sound out the fairing intake scoops. Cut a hole in the ducts and mount it so that the horn is pointed into the duct. I'll make a cardboard form and see where there's enough room. I like the pitch, though a slightly richer and deeper resonanced pitch, I think would be a plus - Make the commuters think that a big heavy truck is in their blind spot! See how many cell phones I can make them drop! A new Contest? In any case - this would at last - free up the stock wimpy horn mounts for driving lights!

Greetings... I don't have to take off my boots to get my frogg toggs on - they have a nice zipper on the ankles - I can get my size 13 1/2 Herman survivors into them just fine! On or off - though, it really helps if you ARE sitting down when you stick your legs in - Just so you don't loose your balance and step on the trousers in the mud and mess up your seat! They FEEL so flimsy - But they are SO tough! And light! I've tried many gear over the years, and Frogg Toggs are the absolute best I've ever found.

Greetings... Yeah - they certainly aren't cheap - unless you can find a blind pawn shop owner, that has one sitting behind a stack of rifles, from a hocked bike he sold 15 years ago for spare parts and had removed the kit to tighten up a light fixture, then forgot about it, and has been moving it around the store to get it out of the way, and is willing to let you get it out of his way permanently for ONLY $20... My left Saddle bag IS my tool kit.

Greetings... Driving a bike on gravel (or wet grass) is like driving a car on ice, or a boat on water... It's about balance control, knowing when, where, and how much it's going to slide out from under you, and NOT panicing. In other words - Practice... At first, it's very scary, but the more you do it, the more confident and competent you get. So find a place and practice until the butterflies in your belly go away. Both 1 and 2 up. Load up a backpack to simulate a backseat passenger if 'SHE' doesn't want to practice with you - But 'she' really should! I think the best pieces of advice I've seen so far in this thread are - Don't go TOO slow - you can't hold a line, and don't go too fast. Basicly, always be prepared to hit the dirt and choose your speed appropriately. And take your hand OFF that front brake lever, the very last thing you want to happen is your forks diving down when you start rolling over because the front wheel is just pushing rocks, and NOT actually steering... Stay off the crested piles, and follow a track if you can see one. If you have to cross a pile, do it straight up with the wheel straight, or be prepared for the slide and the obligitory countersteer, tossing your weight to the high side, prepared to step off and roll if she does go down. Be aware that any depth of deep gravel is like quicksand to a bike - you have absolutely NO traction and no support - It's worse than Ice - At least Ice supports the weight, unless of course you are driving over a lake on thin ice... If the road is also rutted - go another way if possible. Ruts are even MORE dangerous than gravel, you can get trapped really fast, and tossed off the bike - because you have just lost ALL balance control. Avoid the temptation of putting your feet down at any speed greater than stopped unless you are slowly walking it, That's a good way to break your ankles - especially if you do it in a panic. You'll be instantly surprised just how easy it is to permanently high-center a Venture on a rutty road, when you discover that the rut you were following now goes into the ditch - and you tried to climb over it! Tow truck time... Here, Let me show you how I know! http://i33.tinypic.com/hueflx.jpg Approx: location - 30 1/2 and C road in Grand Junction Co.. The actual road? The green fuzzy stuff with the lumpy things, between the bike and the fence line... The tractor trail to the right looks mighty inviting - but there is no way to get there other than through the ditch... The tree line at the end of the 'road' is 31 rd - 1/2 mile away. This happened at about walking speed, because I got trapped in a rut, lost balance, put my feet down and lost any ability to control balance when I did, throttled a tad too much to get out of the rut, was going too slow to maintain my line on that track just above the ditch and hit the front brake in a panic stop. The front end dove down, the edge collapsed and the front tire dropped into the ditch... I basicly violated every principle mentioned in this thread in about 2 seconds... But this WAS a practice ride - I went out there deliberately - not to get stuck, but to practice in a place where I COULDN'T really get hurt or even hurt the bike! - much even IF I screwed up really bad - which I did!! Dramaticly! The only damage - a couple of easily repaired fairing tabs when my knee slid into the lower right side. Total cost: a 12 pack of Fosters for my father in law for pulling me out, and about $4 for a tube of Devcon, and i had to clean the camera lens for my GF. (you can see the mud streak) Which is the point of my post - Practice!!! Practical training! Don't be afraid to practice! You'll be a better rider for it, and you'll know what to do and what to expect and what you'll need, and who to call - when the bad stuff happens for real! And have fun!

Greetings... I have #5 I think? 2 months ago, It would take me at least 30 seconds sitting there pondering - how to get turned around on ANY street... Today, without even thinking about it - I pulled off a 270' U-turn in less than one lane on a steep climbing hill. Yes, I said 270 degree... I was in the far left of a left turn lane almost on the line, alone at a deserted intersection, waiting for the left turn light when I suddenly realized that my beer cooler was empty! The Trading post being just behind me to the right, the parking lot entrance just down the hill - Zoop, swoosh and into the parking lot - all within the single lane. Didn't even come close to the rubble and gravel near the curb. All in one smooth slow acceleration using the principles of the Video. Haven't managed to actually scrape my pegs yet, but I'm getting close! I practice the techniques pretty much Every time I ride. I look for real world opportunities to do some practice in everyday practical situations. I know, I know - for most of you - it's old hat, but compared to my incompetance of just 2 months ago - I'm kind of proud of my growing low speed maneuvering skills... What with all the new bikes and bikers this year - compared to last, I've been noticing that a LOT of them have trouble just STOPPING at the lights! forget them being able to perform low speed close quarter maneuvering - Watched a guy nearly tear his foot off yesterday - was still moving too fast when he put his foot down, wasn't balanced, front wheel swinging back and forth, got his foot jammed under his floorboard and flopped over the left handlebar! His brand new Wing went down real hard, they must have a factory installed bank angle cut off switch? 'cus His engine stopped instantly... He was alright - nothing broken, just a bad bruise on the back of his calf no doubt. At least he was wearing boots! I switched on my hazard lights, dropped my sidestand, made sure he was alright, then showed him just how you get a monster wing back on her feet..

Greetings... Yes - that's why I eventually choose the midland AVPH1 as the helmet set - Just in case the radio itself was not a "Great one". It's at least upgradable. The Midland double pronged mike/speaker plug is the closest thing to a standard that currently exists for these consumer grade GMRS things. That was actually the deciding factor. I only want to build the intercom-interface ONCE! I've read as many reviews as I could find on the XT511 - Certainly - A very mixed set of reviews. And I'll certainly real world field test it before building the box. We've got a number of other walkie talkie style GMRS units - which even the cheapest 8 mile ones we've tested - can communicate indoor-indoor at 2.5 miles between my and the GF's House... The ONE thing that I have 'discovered' since I decided on it, is that the AC/DC power option is possibly recharge only? - It doesn't actually power the radio directly? This isn't yet clear, until I actually receive the unit. I can't find any hard facts on the unit from people who've experienced it. Even if it turns out to be a dog on the bike - It will still find a useful home among our traveling gear - as a back up unit at least... I'm willing to be the guinea-pig on this one - and I'll definitely share my experience with it here!

Greetings... Similar: A heavy Ruger branded lock + Day-glow Yellow rubber sheathed cable through the front wheel, forks and exhaust headers - Brand name on the lock, UP and visible - and the P-95 to back it up. Front wheel turned to lock position - and ignition locked. I doubt that it would stop a committed thief - just slow them down long enough for me to take aim... On our last long trip - the GF driving the cage - I tossed my 40 lb tow chain duffel bag into the trunk - in case she broke down (or I ran into another ditch!) - and used that to chain the back wheel to a guard rail at a motel parking lot in Santa-Ana...

Greetings... The starter itself is up behind the radiator on the front of the bike. Unless someone has it torn down to that point - it's kind of hard to get a camera in there! I'll look around and see if I can find any Tech-article pictures...

Greetings... I did seafoam in the crankcase when I first got my 89VR. I was shocked at the amount of SOLID crud that came out the first time! So I did it again the oil change after. But I probably won't do it my next change - It won't need it... The last oil change - I noticed that the used oil STILL had an nice viscous amber cast to it - Not the usual full nasty watery black. I use 3.5 qts (1st 1/2 quart given up passed through to get all the old stuff out) Valvoline 20W50(for wet clutch), Fram CH6002, and change around 2-3k. I love the stuff!

Greetings... Agreed! It does look sweet! - it's still top-shelf $-wise - About $200 - That buys a LOT of beer. I find that 2 -12 packs of Fosters Cans inside a padded cooler bag, Cargo netted on the back seat performs a similar function. - That IS a recuring cost anyway, but I get a tweak of enjoyment - squeezing every ounce of performance out of my beer...

Greetings... Was driving a car through the mountains one dark and stormy night - the Oil Drain plug decided to abandon us somewhere in the middle of a state forest - along with all the engine oil! Plugged it up with bubblegum, and filled the crankcase with all of what we had in the trunk- 2 quarts of ATF, AND a quart of power steering fluid! then drove it about 150- 200 miles back home - then around the city the next day - looking for a replacement plug. Before stopping in at a full service station for a complete change - New oil and filter. When we heard the Yelp of surprise from under the car - and explained what happened to the mechanic - He said as long as we didn't do it all the time - it Shouldn't hurt anything - In fact it probably helped and cleaned up the inside of the engine! Never had any problems come of it- wouldn't worry too much about it...

Greetings... I'm going to be doing an install/replacement of the CB with: Midland XT511 base camp. Midland AVPH1 open-face Headset. No doubt I'll have to build all the interface connectors myself. It's definately - not straight drop in - but I will have it tied in to the standard 5 pin DIN intercom, and the handlebar PTT button by the time I'm done... DC Powered while on the bike, 28 mile (10 real world) range, Portable, Easily replaceable if damaged, destroyed or fails. All in all - it meets nearly all my requirements - I had considered a used Chatterbox - But the severly limited range (no better than CB - which is unacceptable to me) and limited channels/codes was a turn off... The funnest part of this build will be designing and making the armored box for the Base camp radio so that it is quickly removable and hide-able. And it will all come in at Under $100.

Greetings... Let's see if I got this correct - A stereo plug broke off inside your aux input jack - and it's stuck in there? If that's correct - then try this - I've actually done it. If you are careful it will work. If you are sloppy - you'll have to clean up after yourself. And of course - It only works so long as you can actually see the broken end of the plug! You'll need some superglue - and a needle. A cheap pair of high mag reading glasses - and a steady hand! Wallmart has some $1 a tube cheap stuff... Dip the needle in the small drop of Superglue at the end of the application tube - You DON'T want a large drop - the smallest you can get away with. Stick it on the exposed end of the plug and hold it until the needle stands up by itself. Give it a few minutes to completely harden - a drop of water to accelerate it (or just breath on it!) - if you want. Then put a drop of WD-40 in - It won't hurt anything and it makes the Detent more slippery! Then gently pull - straight up and out. Don't de-flex the needle - you'll break the superglue bead - straight out!! The super glue should hold just long enough for you to get the plug past the 1st detent - where you can then grab it with a pair of needle nose pliars... If you break the bead and fail to extract - do it again - building up a bigger and bigger 'mound' of superglue on top of the broken plug end. You might even try a very small penny nail - one with a divit in the head.. Or did I completely misread your post - and the aux plug itself broke off inside the panel? LOL!!

Greetings... Ft. Collins, CO - If that's where it all started. - And then it should stay there... It's fairly centrally located. Drive time is important. Weather is also an issue. Especially in July. Southern coast states are usually in a rainy season June/July, Hurricane season Aug/Sep - and next year isn't going to be any better than this year - that's for sure... But really, the most important issue - is that it shouldn't move around. A random location every year - eliminates any possibility of the local population of the location getting into "Dependant Support Mode". A good example of this effect is the Annual Rainbow Gathering. They move around every year and have been doing so for decades now - and encounter resistance from the locals wherever they go - Even necessitating a legal team just to deal with it. Contrary to say - Sturgis or the various annual Poker runs. Those kinds of events, while they might, at first surprise a local population, eventually get dependant on the annual economic injection - as the event gains popularity and begins to grow every year.. Dependant Support Mode also simplifies the jobs of the organizers. It gives them some economic barganing power when negotiating terms, and helps promote new economic opportunities for the locals if they can actually DEPEND on the annual influx... If the event continually moves around - it will only ever get smaller. If you think THIS year -Our economy is in the tank - Just wait till next year! Ft. Collins.

Greetings... Depending on when you arrive - Just south of Boone (just north of Des moines) on the Highway ( 30? in the 30's anyway... a nice alternative to the interstate), is, I think it's called, Ledges State park. Very nice camping. If they still allow it. Haven't been there in a while... I was born in that area. It's a beautiful area. Depending on where you are leaving Minn from - Decorah - along the Upper Iowa river road, is also quite a nice ride loads of free places to camp or just stop for a lunch... - Though again, the recent unpleasentness may have affected the area.... And certainly - Don't miss out on the lovely fragrance of the farmers spraying Pig Poo and Ammonia on the flood soaked fields! You certainly wouldn't want to miss out on THAT!! Anyway! Have fun, and keep your eyes open for those tall green 12' plants with the funny leaves growing along the fence lines! Grandpa always said that they are excellent for headaches and toothaches, and oddly enough for making rope! Don't fall alseep in Nebraska. - Ah, the Tornado's will probably keep you awake anyway... That's the only advice I have for THAT stretch of endless monotony...

Greetings... Nah - Just get (or make) a wood-stove and save yourself some heating cost next winter! LOL!! If Ben Franklin could do it in the 18th century without renting a welding equipment rig for a day, - certainly YOU can here in the 21st!!! Heck, a simple small, metal box and a fan to circulate the air - a stove pipe and you can heat the entire house a full winter on that one tree!! Ask me how I know!! Hehehehehe.... -

Greetings... Valvoline 20W50 (for wet clutches) - and a squirt of Sea-foam... Oil and filter changes every 2-3K. (around here you kinda have to...) takes 30 minutes tops... No complaints...

Greetings... A grampa! And yet still a puppy yourself! LOL!! Well, get a 1st Gen parts bike, and let it sit for the next 16 years, so he can discover for himself the wonders of Sea-foam and the Zen of motorcycle mechanics...

Greetings... Excellent! That's SO much fun isn't it!!.... I have a somewhat similar story: - The 40 mile stretch of Hwy 50 between GJ and Delta - It's rare that the last light going south at 32 road ISN'T green, but this day it wasn't - and the intersection was strangely deserted... I pulled up to the abnormaly red light right behind a guy on a little rusty Kz 400, smiled, nodded to him, My very first bike was a KZ 400! Way back in the late 70's. Turned up the classic rock station on 107.9 FM so we could both enjoy the Golden Earring tune playing... Two rich-kid youngsters on their brand new rice rockets pulled up in the right lane, nodded,revved up a few times, and then, another on a German machine, right behind me. It was one of those we don't have enough iron over the sensor to trip the light, so I waved the rice rockets over and yelled, "Hey Guys - it looks like we need to get a bit more metal over this here sensor, otherwise we'll all be here all day!" So we all got bunched up over the square cut in the pavement in the left lane, and finally managed to trip the signal after waiting for about a minute - according to the clock on the dash... Sure enough the 3 youngsters boosted off at full power down the hill, and got about a mile ahead in a surprisingly well disciplined close 2X1 left-right formation. The older guy on the KZ took a left at Whitewater so he was out of the picture by the time I hit the speed-checked-by-aircraft zone. , I topped the hill looking over Kannah creek, doing the speed limit - 65mph - My New Ebay radar detector showed NO electronic emmisions, a quick visual glance showed no state sponcered-gestapo Sin-tax-collector troopers lying in ambush at Pronghorn, and the youngsters were just topping the hill on the other side of the valley - maybe a mile ahead of me. So I goosed The Tersiphone, and as expected, she tried to leap out from underneath me, my Julie-Dew tassles flapping in the wind... I caught them near the base of County line hill a few miles later, the climb had reduced them to about 65mph, Mind you - Your typical 4 cylinder cage can't usually do more than 55mph up county line even fully juiced and down shifted, and usually ends up at 45mph by the time they reach the top. Tractor trailors are even slower! But there was no one else on the road for as far as I could see by the time I reached the top... I flew past them at 85mph about half way up the mile long hill, AND accellerating. Radio blaring - I had just installed some L.A. Sound 75 watt speakers, that I found new at a local pawn shop for $20, which easily handle full volume of the stock Venture Amp without distortion. Passing them in the passing lane, just as the Devil was playing his violin solo. I couldn't have asked for more perfect timimg from Ol' Scratch - Lucy himself... Flashed them a high left hand 'V' for Venture sign as I climbed the hill. They - all hunched over their tiny little wind deflectors, right elbows straight down, Me, my roll-your-own cigarette burning in the left corner of my mouth, smiling, reaching for my Aquafina bottle, taking a casual pull... They dissapeared from my mirrors by the time I reached Fools Hill, (Dominquez Canyon). I slowed to 85mph, after all, while The Tersiphone is STILL a teenager (only 19 years old!), I don't like to push her TOO hard in the diving corners... I really don't know how fast she actually got on the down-hill flats between County line and Fools hills - I was too busy concentrating on staying in my lane and looking calm and cool to look at the speedo... I pulled over at the Escelante Canyon rest stop, about another 10 miles down the road, just past the new gov'ment bird-flu farm, ('scuse me- avian influenza research facility - according to the sign) to roll another cigarette and took 4 nice, big, frosty Fosters out of the cooler bag on top the travel/helmet box. Sure enough, all three of the youngsters, pulled in about 3 minutes later, and I handed each of them a big blue, glistening, cold, sweaty, oil can, with a smile... "Well, Boys - this here's a 1989 1st Generation Yamaha Venture Royale - probably older than you are! No commercialy manufactured machine before or since can match her on the open road. So Don't even bother blowing your muffler baffles trying! Here- Have a frosty cold one on me, and don't forget to toast well engineered Japanese mechanical excellence. She can't do wheelies and stoppies like you boys, but then - that's not her style. - Oh Hell! You're all probably too young to appreciate anything but HER shear power, speed, comfort, and beauty anyway... 'Cept maybe that Beamer there. By the way, any of you boys know how to do a carb sync? No? Well, she's really NOT in tip-top shape yet - I'm still working on her..." LOL!! (for some reason, I've got a weird nasty thing for BMW's! After I helped a friend build one from parts many years ago down in the Florida keys- and I just couldn't resist the dig...) They took off their helmets, put them on their mirrors, tossed their gloves on their keys, took off their expensive leather jackets, and all raised their cans to toast the meanest machine. - After all - She earned it! Anyway, we sat there, listening to the music on the radidio, smoking hand-rolled cigarettes, swapping lies, and they made a few toasts - for about an hour and a half (according to the clock on the dash), enjoying the lowering, setting sun in the 100' high desert, discussing God, girls, the law, and the consequences of speeding, and drinking, before shaking hands, exchanging our known-as', wishing each other good fortune and safe-careful-active-response-able-offensive riding and going our seperate ways... - In that order... - I think The IKV Tersiphone actually made an impression on those fine young men... - Respect for your Elders?... LMAO!! -- > - "They shall look apon me, with wonder at the glory of God..."

Greetings... If you WANTED a harley - you should have gotten a harley... You should trade that nasty ugly thing in for a Good "1st" GEN...

Greetings... I bet it's real easy to sync the carbs though!!!

Greetings... Yeah, makes me think about all the propaganda we're bombarded with non-stop these days... I find it sickening. War is a force of nature - That doesn't mean that I have to like it. It SHOULD be terrible. It SHOULD be horrifying. Lest we enjoy it, and get used to it. War IS hell, and so it should be. Killing is easy, living is difficult. - NO cheering allowed... Sorry - Been there - done that - got the scars. I enjoy my hot showers to help wake me up now. Don't get me wrong - I'm not in-sensitive - Just DE-sensitized... - And I HATE propaganda. I don't like anymore, being TOLD what to think or feel. It disgusts me - when I see things like this. It makes me angry to think of all the youngsters DUPED into it. HUR-RAH for our side and all that BS. Death isn't pretty... Anyone who can participate in war, who survives, and isn't driven functionally insane - is a hero in my book. It takes courage to live, AFTER you have considered yourself Dead. Born again... - and is invited to enjoy as much free beer as they can drink at my house anytime they want with the other ones of us that show up - still alive. We don't talk much about it, but we do drink a lot of beer, and read our bibles and say prayers for those on the line. God speed them home. With their shields or on them. - as long as they get home... And Every Combat Vet knows EXACTLY what I'm talking about...

Greetings... Just add some rubber bumpers on the top - so when you open it you don't bash anything on the back end of the bike and it'll be complete! Or maybe some chromed door stoppers? Just in case you forgot the lid was open and tried to take off...

Greetings... While it's true that truckers used to use 19 - there's also a why: It's the center of the dial - if your SWR is properly set - it gets the farthest range...

Greetings... Yeah, I was prepared for that! Been doin' too much of that too... Oh well, Maybe I'll just keep it on my desk - where it's been living...