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  1. Sylvester
    I have my 02 at the mechaninc's right now for the same thing. He is pulling the forks and dissasembling them to check for bushing wear, then repair/replace what needs being done. Also repack the steering head bearings and tighten. I had this done three and a half years ago at 58,000 miles and it cured it then, I now have 114,000 miles.
  2. Sylvester
    Yea, I opened it, but it wasn't intentional. My fingers slipped on the keyboard. THAT IS MY STORY AND I AM STICKING TO IT!
  3. Sylvester
    I am trying to figure out why you did all the work. You have a brand new machine with factory warranty in effect. My first thought would have been to take it to the dealer and make them fix it.
  4. Sylvester
    I have already sent the money via PayPal and they are sold. Finally I read a good for sale post early enough.
  5. Sylvester
    You have a PM.
  6. Sylvester
    I live in North Carolina and all the dealers I have been to are open Monday thru Saturday. I do have to say that my barber is closed on Monday.
  7. Sylvester
    That would be a over the road heavy hauler in a lot of third world nations. rrringgg, bbinggg, bbingg :rotfl: Never to busy on the farm to make funny!
  8. Sylvester
    Ouch! That hurt.
  9. Sylvester
    Is it the tip or the flaking chrome? If it is the flaking chrome, remove the muffler, sand it well, and paint it blsck. This looks great and is a cheap fix. I used fish oil based paint in a satin black finish. You will like the results.
  10. Sylvester
    That is what you get for mixing HD parts with a fine metric machine!!! No one cares what kind of noise I make on the farm!
  11. Sylvester
    Heck, I'll bring my five dogs, all of which weigh over sixty pounds including a St. Bernard. Got to love country life!
  12. Sylvester
    I purchased my 02 RSMV in the fall of 01 and it was as up to date as the 2000 HD Ultra I sold. Sylvester and I have bonded and I can feel his heartbeat. I need no other bike in my future. I treat Sylvester like my five dogs...I talk to him. I will ride out my miles with Sylvester.
  13. Sylvester
    I have left too many good riding friends behind. Sometimes I will be riding solo and in that peaceful state...then I will hear one of my departed friends give me encouragement or words of wisdom. It is then that I know I am one with the world. As close to nature as I can get! Life on the mini farm.
  14. Sylvester
    There is tip over protection on the RSV also. It is called crash bars and they worrk. I have had mine over three different times.
  15. Sylvester
    If I new how to post a picture, I would show a photo of me with a cotton mouth on the Red River of Arkansas. Over six feet long and the game warden's truck in the background to add authenticity. I have never feared snakes and appreciate their existence.
  16. Sylvester
    I just completed wiring the tach and LED to a switched source. Everything appears OK except a minor amount of flicker from the LED back lighting. This deed is done on my part. Now on to rebuilding the forks.
  17. Sylvester
    Same thing happened to a bicycelist about twenty five years ago in my home city of Omaha, NE. Totally unpredictable that a seemingly healthy tree would fall at the exact moment some poor soul was riding under it.
  18. Sylvester
    This is true! Keep your policies. I have never had a problem with insurance companies that was not my fault. I have gotten upset with them, but it was always my fault.
  19. Sylvester
    I believe that this goes back way before the modern motorcycle. The early bikes had such simplistic carbs that just to keep them running you had to do this. I have been riding since 1959, and many of my older bikes needed to be "primed" often to keep them running. Heck, lots of the vehicles I drove had the same problem. My father was a road building contractor, and I can assure you that those fifties era GMC and Ford trucks needed a lot of coaxing. All that being said, I have no idea why I do the blat, blat, blat now!!! There must be some primoreal reason.
  20. Sylvester
    Thanks V7Goose, all is well now. I took the adaptor out of the system and the tach works perfect. I did ground to the coil bolt. The LED back light still does some flickering but I will live with that. If it is a problem for night riding, I will switch it so I can shut it off. Thanks again. No telling how many e-mails with Baron it would have taken.
  21. Sylvester
    So that would explain the problem. No single fire adaptor needed. I will take it out of the loop and see if that solves my problem. I guess Baron's is out of touch.
  22. Sylvester
    I purchased the Baron's mini-bullet tach (BA-7573-00) with brake resivoir mount kit a couple weeks ago. This model has white LED backlighting only. The instructions were universal and pretty much pertained to HD intall. After e-mailing John and getting pertinant instructions (not found in the supplied paper work) I was on my way. There is a tech article here in VR on the installation, BUT there are a couple changes! The blue wire from the sigle fire ignition adaptor runs all the way to the rear coil's (either one) negative side. The black wire from the tach cannot be grounded to the coil bolt but another frame ground. After installation, the LED back light flickered randomly and the tach needle would fluctuate randomly. There seemed no correlation between the two. I regrounded the tach wire but no improvement. My next step will be to remove the red (tach power) and yellow (LED power) tach wires from the positive terminal of the front coil and connect to a switched 12V source. John's only other suggestion, if this failed, is to install a resistor. Any of you weekend mechanics or better yet a seasoned mechanic have any ideas? Within the last month I had a complete tune-up including carb sync.
  23. Sylvester
    Now I am not the brightest bulb on the tree, but how is mandatory insurance a bad thing. It is mandatory in North Carolina also but the illegals and misfits don't pay for it now. When they kill someone on the interstate the feds deport them only to come back two, three, four more times to create mayhem. I wish it were truly mandatory and enforced.
  24. Sylvester
    Try a natural sheep skin. I have had one on my RSMV for four years now and it works great in summer and winter. Yes I have cleaned it.
  25. Sylvester
    I take back my request for an honest report. I believe this is it. It is hard to read eleven pages of posts and remember them.
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