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  1. footsie
    What tires were you running. The reason I ask is because, the 2000 model had a dunlop on frount and maxis on back when I got it, and it would not stop, tires would slide at any hard braking. After putting radials on it, mainly the avon cobra on frount, it stops great. And there is one thing to think about, Me and my friend Bobby who rode one of the voyagers in the kawasaki demo rides, talked about was the fact that before you got on the brakes on that Voyager you had better look in the mirror to see what was going to hit you in the rear. YOu need to be able to stop, but no faster than what behind you. My wife has already had that experience, we were in a group ride and she was on her magna(her old bike) following a stratoliner, which will stop in half the distance that the magna will. Well the guy on the strat started under a red light that turn yellow as he got to it. He first started to go then he decided to stop so the group would stay together, well a stratoline is like the Voyager stops on a dime, but Karren's magna would not, she moved left and side swapped him, she did not go down. Just scared her. Did $900 worth of damage to the yamaha, none to the honda. Gregg
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    I don't understand how the CT works on some and won't work on others. My RSV is rock solid with kumho on back, pressure really does not seem to matter, I have ran 28 to 38 lbs, like the ride best at 32. I still believe some of the problems is with those who are running bias ply tires on frount. I think you need radials on both ends. just my thoughts Gregg
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    Try the new Kawasaki Voyager I rode one at the demo rides in daytona, and it will stop on a dime. I rode the ABS version. Gregg
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    I have had one RSV that the rear was lowered on, I really liked it that was, did scrape the pipes at times, but no real problems. Never lowered the frount. But I am 6'2" with my boots on and a 34 in inseam. My wife's road star is real low, she has the dually exhaust, no she has to be careful about dips going in driveways, and turning sharp at low speed. On the highway in curves I have never seen her have any problems. She only 5'2", I had to put her bike just about on the ground.
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    I have a friend, that is a trucker he uses Rotella in his trucks, and his dodge cummins, I have delo in my cummins, mine seems to run quieter than his. Gregg
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    Delo 400 comes in dino or syn. but Syn is high Gregg
  7. footsie
    Your past the addiction, and YOU can beat the habit. You will feel better and have more energy, after it all gets cleared from your system, and your lungs have time to heal. GOOD JOB Gregg
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    I know we have beat this horse to death, and I have always advocated Mobil 1 syn. Some background on where I am going with this, before I became a Nurse, i was the Public Works Director for Turner County, in Georgia. 10 years in that position and 15 years before that as the assitant director and the Shop forman. We used delo 400 15w40 in everything, the caterpilliar motorgraders have something incommon with our motorcycles, WET clutches that run in the engine oil. and at the time CAT recommended Delo 400 for the engine, transmission and every where else, on these machines. They still use it there now. We never had an oil related failure in any thing. We were running graders 20,000 hours before any internal engine work. Can not remember any clutch problems. Ok to the point, I walked into O'rielly's and bought oil for the cars, van, and was getting the oil for the venture, and noticed the Delo 400 was $12 for a gallon. the mobil one I use is $9 a quart. I decided to go home and compare the data on these two oils. Delo is rated for use in all engine applications Both are rated for wet clutch applications. The Delo has a higher bearing load than the mobil one. The best I could fine on the net, Mobil is a 300 hour oil. Delo is a 400 hour oil, The oil analysis we did at 250 hour oil changes on the cats always showed around 60 to 70% of the oil life used (that was at 250 hours) meaning the oil could have been run close to the 400 hour mark. (Caterpilliar recommends 250 hours oil changes) All that depends on how the engine is preforming, air filters, oil filters, temp and other factors. After looking at all of this, I found myself thinking, why am I paying $40 for an oil change when it could be $12 for the superior oil. I change every 5000 miles anyway, that is only about 100 hours on the oil. I many here run Rotella 15w40, which is simular to Delo 400, don't know what rotella hour rating is, but I put the Delo 400 in my RSV. Will post the results over time, I had very little chirp or whine with the mobil. Gregg
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    Try webroot.com spysweeper with anti-virus, has worked well for me. 39.95 per year
  10. footsie
    I thought it was the stock tire on some of the volkswagons, and kia's. However 15 inch tires are becomeing a thing of the past. But right now they seem to be plentyful Gregg
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    My wife said she would like to come over on fri, but I think there will be too many of us to stay with yall. Gregg
  12. footsie
    Ted What day are you ridding over, and which route do you take.
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    I would suggest the seat first, then lowering, I like the rear lowered, some don't, say it makes the bike handle bad, but I think handling is better with the rear lowered. If you are new to the RSV, it is a bike you have to learn, handling is different, it has it's own personallity, once you learn these, the bike is very easy to manage, and to me is thei handling touring bike I have ridden. The only one I have not ridden yet is a Victory Vision. Gregg
  14. footsie
    Buy her a Road Star, My wife rides one and most of the other ladies we meet that has them say they love their's and would not consider any other bike. Some traded harley's for the Road Star after riding one. I have to admit, I really like Karren's. Gregg
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    You can see in the pics the reverse flow design, the exhaust gases flow to the back, pass back forward through the short tube then flow back out toward the outlet. If you cut the outlet tube into, and push it aside, you can look straight through the muffler. Well not perfectly straight, but you can see through it. The deeper you make the cut the more back pressure you keep, quieter. I have mine cut about 1 1/4 inch from the outlet. Gregg
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    rain

    footsie replied to footsie's topic in Watering Hole

    I was bored, when I get bored someone should take away my comp. But every now and then I do come up with a interesting thread. Gregg
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    I really don't look at it that way, but your are right if your goal is to save money on tires. The pirelli might be the way to go. But it would depend on the tire life. I went to the radial car tire on rear, and radial in frount for ride and handling was my main goal. One of mine had pirelli's on it But I have seen A couple of Avon Radials on the frount of Valkyries with 20,000 miles on them. TED Have you received you Iron butt stuff yet. Gregg
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    rain

    footsie posted a topic in Watering Hole

    Its raining and I did not get to ride to work last night, and it still raining to day. Gregg:95:
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    Becareful on your ride home, and you made a great choice. Gregg Why are Harley dealers afraid to put a metric bike out frount????
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    Ted I don't change for two up, but I don't ride 2 up alot. Karren did ride some with me in daytona, a couple other bikers told me my back tire looked low, I was not having any problems with handling with Karren on back, and she's over 150 lbs. So later I checked it had 27 lbs in it. It was a little baggy, so I pumped it up to the point where it looked like it should be and that was 32 lbs. So I left it there, rode home 250 miles, no problems. Ted I was reading your post about the frount, take my word for it, put the Avon cobra on frount, the pirelli is a much better tire than the bridgestone, but its does not compare to the cobra radial. Just ask Bloodbought1 and gunboat, their believers. Gregg
  21. footsie
    Check the fuse on the side of the starter relay, if itas corroded, it causes many problems, such as the battery not being charged properly. If you live near salt, or where they salt the roads for ice, the back tire throws water on the area where the fuse is mounted. But more than likely, you have a dead cell in your battery. Gregg
  22. footsie
    A high quality oil is enough, I just use the lucas in the proper mix, to quiet the valkyrie tranny and makes it shift better. I do use mobil one 15-50 syn. and syn lucas. I use it all my bikes, have never had clutch problems, but I don't ride the clutch either. But there I a million different opinions on oil, I would not give you a dime for all the AMSOIL ever made, it is over priced hype.
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    If you look in the outlet end of your stock muffler, you will see a tube that runs the lenght of the muffler, these are a reverse flow type muffler, meaning the exhaust gases flow from the input to the back and then back to the frount and back again to be expelled. This is how the exhaust is muffled, there is no plate in the muffler full of holes to muffle the sound, the back and forth flow does it. So if you cut the tube approx 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inches up the outlet end, and prize it over to one side, the muffler becomes straight through flow, with some backpressure formed by the part of the tube that is remains attached to the rear cone. I have done this to my 2000 and my 2004, it gives a good sound under hard accelleration, and has enough back pressure to prevent the popping. Running down the highway it quiets down, I don't even notice the sound at highway speed. But sounds great running at 55 and around town, but not loud enough to be noticed by Law enforcement. If you look at the mufflers you can't tell that they have been modified, in daytona I have seen Law enforcement stick a billy stick up the end of the muffler to see if the baffle is there, it won't go in. I will try to draw a diagram and post it. You need a dremel tool with a cut off wheel to do this mod, it takes several wheels because they break easily. To me it sound better than the road king mufflers. I am willing to help. Gregg Gregg
  24. footsie
    Mine opens 90 degrees straight up, and like goose posted, the bracket does not appear bent, it will look like its made that way, simply open the lid to the straight up position slowly, the bracket will bend back up, and then make sure no one pulls on the lid when its in the locked up position. My wife bent mine a couple of times before she learned to lift the lid up before going down. Gregg
  25. footsie
    There are two ways to look at it, My wife has been riding since we first got married, she was only 16, had a GT380 suzuki, when kids came along, we always rode with ours bike well apart, if something happen to one maybe the other would escape it, so the kids would not lose both at once. Which happened to a couple near us, they were both on the same bike, a little old lady was in a turning lane, stopped and waved for them to go on, guess she was afraid she was going to hit them if she tried to make the turn, she was in a pickup had the guys view of the lane blocked, he pulled out and was hit by a ton truck pulling a horse trailer, they were both killed instantly, their kids lost both in one second. Guess it was meat to be, Me and karren rarely ride together on the same bike since. I worry about her on her own bike, especially when she takes off alone, but what if she is riding with me and I make a mistake, which did happen in 1980, we went down in waycross Ga.. Now I was the one banged and skinned up, but she did have a couple of abrasions, but had she been on her own bike, she would not have had any. But in my mine I hurt her, I let the bike go down with another person on the back. I glad your wife did not have any major injuries, Buy her another bike of her own. Gregg
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