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    That gooblygook stuff you just babbled on about the the % and speed thing is what kept me from actually installing this unit on the bike when I first got the device.. HOWEVER, on their site, there is a prog that does your calculations for you, input what your speedo says, and input what you know to be the TRUE speed and it will tell you what dip switches to toss for an accurate setting on the speedo healer.. and it worked!! I installed it last year and still find myself very close to accurate to what my GPS reads and the chase car. Have a look on their site for the calculator.. makes life SO much easier.
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    I ride with High Beams ON all day long.. and only dim them at night if I get flashed by a car.. with the HID lights, I have them aimed so high beam is set just right.. them HIDs throw a lot of light out there..
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    I have this one in my garage.. Works SUPER great on the VStar but it does require more heft with the RSV as you're lifting 900 lbs off the floor. I bolted the handle together instead of using their screw knob.. I didn't like how loose it felt. But the thing works as advertised. I liked the one Goose showed me in Texas, but I couldn't find it available in Canada so bought the one you linked to. Good for those quick and dirty lift jobs you need to get done..
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    When I ride for the fun of it, I'm lucky if I can get 38 mpg.. that's dropping the hammer, riding it on the power curve, riding it like I stole.. If I'm going for distance and trying to have fun anyway, I can get it into the low 40's.. My BEST ever, was 52 MPG coming up from Key West Florida last May.. riding slow speed at highest gear possible without lugging the engine, a stiff tail wind.. No fantasy, no lie.. that was the ONLY ever time I had ever gotten out of the 40's with fuel mileage on my bike.. My worse ever mileage was 28 mpg out of a tank riding into a stiff 40 mpg wind gusting 60.. man now THAT was hard on the body!!
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    You're doing better than mine.. I tried on two diff bikes and I can't get any of the signal lights to slow down what so ever.. 4 ways yes.. no signals. I tried the electronic flasher and well, that was useless.. I have another set of load equalizers coming in from another company to try out.. if those work I'll give you a shout. I think it's just figuring out WHERE to connect them is my main issue to be honest.. What ever wire that sends the blinking power to the socket is the one I hook it up to, correct?
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    The HID headlight, single bulb double action 35 Watts came from http://canadiancruisercustomizing.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=49 at 6000K colour temp which best matches the white LED lights. The 6 Watt Bullet lights are http://canadiancruisercustomizing.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1 again at 6000K temp. I tossed the Marine shyte driving lamps over the side as they were as useless as the company who sold them.. Instead, I installed the Genesis Sun Spots GEN-162W from customdynamics.com I covered those in metal duct tape to get rid of the very little RF interference, just for good measure. Now THESE lights are properly constructed and work as intended, and backed by a real warranty (yes I still have a hate-on for them greenboat jerks) Signal lights are also from customdynamics.com Sounds like your bike took a beating with the deer, but more importantly, how did YOU fare? All good now? Phew.. I get hit with a lot of birds.. luckily avoiding the deer.. !
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    Here's a photo of two bikes I wired up recently with LED lighting. Someone wanted to see the side marker lights lit up.. which you can in this photo. The highway lights are LED which doesn't interfere with the radio signal at all (coat the light with metal tape to shield it..) the Signal lights on both bikes are LED. VERY bright indeed. The bike on the right has the Moon Shinez lights, super bright and white, and complies with Motor Vehicle Act here as it requires front running lights from WHITE to AMBER in colour.. I carry a copy of the act on the bike as I know it's going to be queried at road side stops. .. The bike on the left has LED signal clusters amber front and both bikes have rear LED signal lights as well as LED brake lights.. Down on the engine guards on both bikes are 6watts (left bike) and 4watts (right bike) bullet lights that give a wide splash of light around the bike and the sides of the front wheel.. My mantra is that should anyone crash into me and claim 'I didn't see him' deserves the beating he's going to get.. The headlights are covered in this photo as the HID headlights would over power the camera's ability to show the other lights. The HID is very bright and throws a nice splash of light around and in front of you, so much that your ordinary PAR36 highway lights do not cast enough light to be seen in front of you. However, when these bike are facing you on the highway, it's one hell of a big blob of lights taking up a big space on the road, something that you will notice and pay heed to, more so than a bike running a single 55W incandescent headlight. Later on when the weather cooperates (thunderstorm then snow storm in the same afternoon??) I'll take the cameras out and get photos and video on how it looks from different angles so you can see for yourself. Some people might say it looks goofy to have so much lighting on a bike but I'd rather be seen than worry what someone thinks of it.. Notice there are no tassels.. now THAT I would worry about
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    I ride with mine on all the time (LED) but have them on a separate circuit on a switch and relay. The previous owner had them wired in to the headlight system and it almost cost me my life one dark night on the back road. The used bike was new to me and the previous owner wiring job was horribly done and the cabling was routed in such a manner that it would get cut and shorted out against the fork stops. I couldn't see this at the time but one night on the back road, all of a sudden in the middle of a tight turn the headlights AND highway lights went off at the same time.. BOOM total darkness.. and I knew there was a guardrail coming up.. I immediately put on the 4 way flashers and surprisingly enough it gave me enough on / off / on light to bring the bike to a safe stop.. a quick fuze change and I got the bike home just as the lights went out again when pulling down my street.. I got the wiring sorted out and move the highway lights onto their own separate electrical circuit so that if the headlight went out, I'd still have lighting..
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    Did you try rotating the levers up more so your fingers don't have to reach down and around as much? Might not sound like a viable fix but if your hands don't have to reach down and over, it might help you get more grip on them..
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    Depending on how much popping and back firing it's doing, it would sound like you have a blocked or clogged jet (possibly).. I had a similar issue last summer while on a road trip.. The bike would idle OK, and run fine on the highway but when I would come off the throttle to slow down I would hear the think backfiring etc.. Turned out the pilot jet was clogged. What led us to find that was that one of the jugs was not firing at idle.. the exhaust port was cold. But when you turned up the throttle, the other jet would kick in and all would run fine. Luckily there was a decent dealership that took the time to look at the bike and drain the carb, which fortunately dislodged what ever it was clogging the jet. not sure if this is what is happening with yours, but check to see that all jugs are firing in idle..
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    Ahh good points about the grounding issues.. Something to 'redo' in the next maintenance down time for sure.. I don't have a pic of them on as during day time you barely notice the lights on and at night.. well.. Ok.. I'll have to get some pics soon..
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    I installed the LED amber front marker lights on two RSV thus far using this method and it works great.. The lights you get from JP Cycles have a black and yellow wire.. the power wire is yellow and looks terrible when running up the brake cable.. So what I do is snip the black wire (ground) and solder it to the snipped yellow wire, heat shrink covers the joint and the short yellow wire end. The ground wire gets an eye end connector which I then connect to the attachment bolt for ground. The new power wire, now black, gets routed up the brake hose and wired into the system.. works like a charm. There might be easier better ways of doing it, but this works for me.. However, on the last bike I did this to, one marker light wouldn't lite up so before automatically assuming I had a bad or cold solder joint, I tried touching the ground to different bare metal parts on the bike and sure enough.. that was the problem.. Strange indeed.. on that particular bike, the lower fork wasn't grounded at all.. I literally had to run a ground wire up higher onto the upper tree area to ground the light.. Any bare metal exposed on the lower end wouldn't give me ground.. Just happened that all the attaching parts were shielded with a good layer of paint at assembly time..
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    What happens if you get loctite on your ABS ?? We have to use blue loctite on some hardware but what happens ?
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    Of course.. duly noted in a previous post.. I'll be digging into the books to adjust my throttle cable as well as it's got a lot of play in them.. Cheers M8
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    I have the Buddy Rich knee blockers on mine and what a difference they make in the cold! And in the summer time.. My biggest issue is that when I ride, I can feel the wind coming right up from the knees and thighs straight up to my face under my glasses, causing my eyes to water and causing a little discomfort. With the knee blockers installed, that blast of wind is routed elsewhere. Next time you're cruising down the highway, put your hand down by your thigh and feel the wind coming UP to your face.. you'll notice the breeze on your face diminish as well.. The knee blockers help with that a lot. With the knee blockers installed, you can also feel the wind moving about two inches above your knees when you're riding with feet on the floor boards (knees upright).. This keeps them out of the blast of cold air. They will still get wet in the rain, but not as much but they'll be wet.. I ride with them on more to keep the wind out of my eyes than anything else..
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    Well I had a full day on the bike in the high winds again and yep, the winds do affect it.. however, I pulled into the garage and swapped out the tall-wide Clearwiew for the 13" wide version and what a difference that made.. Nothing I could do to knock off the cruise control.. No joke.. The tall and wide windshield is great in the cold cold weather and I don't often ride with it when it starts to get warmer.. I certainly hate looking through a windscreen in the rain.. but it's so large it offers up more wind resistance than a smaller windscreen and that affects gas mileage and cruise control.. No doubt my system needs some adjustment but the larger windscreen makes it more susceptible to higher gusty winds. Interesting... Now its time to sell the tall wide windscreen..
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    Ok that should help me out enough to sort it out.. if it's "painfully obvious" to find hehe.. At least I know it's working and if I find it in need to adjustment then bonus, I should be able to engage cruise control in high winds.. maybe Cheers
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    Ooh, interesting.. can you describe better what I am to be looking for under the left lower cowling? That might be what is causing the issue.. I did notice the slack in my throttle grip might be excessive as well.. something to be tightened up.. Thanks
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    I had the bike out today before it snowed to test out the cruise control, paying careful attention to details as to what the bike was doing... if the dang thing would fail.. and it wouldn't fail. OK that's good news.. But what it tells me though is that when confronted with gusting head winds, I won't be able to use cruise control, and the surging of wind pressure against the bike will kick off the cruise control. Today, the winds were cross ways on the highway, I couldn't get anything on the nose or tail of the bike. And the bike performed as expected.. Still took about 5 seconds for the throttle to catch up after I set the speed before I could let go the throttle properly, and on a slight grade, 5th gear 65 MPH TRUE speed, at 3,000 rpm, the bike slowed to 60 mph and sped up to almost 70 mph when it caught up on top of the grade.. and then settled down again at 65 mph.. it was a significant grade.. In 4th gear, that same grade was barely noticeable at 4,000 rpm.. as expected. Still.. I'll check this out again when the winds are high to see what the cruise control indicator lights are doing towards trouble shooting signals.. Cheers
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    Ahh so you're an optimist after all... Sweeeet! heading out to test ride the cruise control.. not the aux fuel tank.. ;0
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    LOL.. braggard... I have large hands, still can't find proper gloves.. My buddy had the same complaint about the levers as the OP did.. and all it took was rotating the levers up on the bar a little more to make them easier to access.. doesn't bring them closer to your hand.. but makes it easier to reach..
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    Lol.. a pessimist always sees the glass as half empty .. not half full Wait, field test it as crashing the bike, picking up the pieces and getting back to you after a hospital stay? Ok, see you in 6 weeks
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    Check out the literature on their site, Dan.. you'll find their tanks are constructed very well and quite solid. Its a stronger gas container that the bike's gas tank. I would feel nervous carrying a plastic gas can on the rear seat of the bike but i would have full confidence of mounting one of those metal tanks to the grab bars on the rear of the bike. If I knew I'd be doing a few runs on long distance roads where fuel stops are few, I wouldn't hesitate to install one of these on the bike.. I'd still be make safety stops to stretch and all.. as comfy as the bike is, I don't think I could take 4 hours in the saddle non stop.. ouch!! but, to each their own..
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    the tank itself is more solid than anything else on the bike.. Heck, I'd put it on the rear fender for added protection! Drink the rest of your half empty glass
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    I'm still laughing out waaaaay too loud.. LOL.. Now THAT was priceless.. Thank YOU!
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