Sylvester

That's what we do down here in God Bless Carolinasjust a quick mulch an get on th bike. Only 71 today, but I can deal with the cold.

A set of stock bars off a Royal Star Deluxe work great on the Venture. More pull back and much wider. Love mine on my 02 RSMV, like power steering. You'll need two inch longer brake and clutch hoses.

It has been 70's here in God Bless Carolinas for awhile but it has rained most of the last two weeks. I will wait for dryer roads since all are covered with wet leaves now.

That may be an option, Mike, but sounds wrong to me. They are in business or not in business. But I do like hearing from you, my friend. When you have time you can come up and help me get the 1980 XS Eleven Special running. It will put smile on your face that nothing will wipe off.

Good plan but I hate flying anywhere.

I may be biased but North Carolina has some of the best riding in the country and there is no Eagle Riders here. Not good for me to be a member, I think.

I promise to ride more this winter.

It is a chilly and rainy 69 here in God Bless Carolinas today and about the same tomorrow. I have been through NM many times pulling loads and that is some changeable weather and usually for the worse. Arizona is also bad.

I do love your videos. After reading my reply I felt like I came on too negative, didn't mean to. BTW I can't get my wife to film me doing anything.

Some times when I read your posts I think about genius, and other times...well less. You do have an inquisitive mind and I relate to that. Replace the diode and be done with it. I have done this on my space heater in the past. Nice to see you getting on and feeling better.

The panhead was a great motor. Had one on a 47 hardtail chopper. Great looking resto.

I am talking 13 volts on the high and 12.5 normal. Usually with Halogen headlight and two 35 watt pass lights it is 12 volts. Although I have never had a discharge battery.

All is work in progress. What HID did you use? The light out put of the headlight was brilliant, just misplaced. If...I adjust the headlights down, then the low beam lights are in the dirt or roadway. One big positive of the LED is that my ampmeter has never been so high. Just blowing in the wind until I get more info.

Due to weather issues and work schedule I did not have a chance to ride in the dark until this morning. My results not encouraging. The afterburner was very little improvement over my Silverstar Ultra on low beam and overshot the road in high beam (I mean like tree top high). I have a PIAA Extreme white H4 that I will most likely replace the Cree with to see how that effect works. The Larsen lights in the pass lights works very well but I am concerned that oncoming traffic will not like the bright diffused light it casts. I guess that two hundred dollar experiment is an overall failure. To be fair to the Afterburnner, I do have an Adjure wave cut light reflector on my Venture. Anyone have experience with "Truck Lights" pass lights?

I am committing to this adventure. Is it a week trip? Wife loves the idea. First thing she said was we can't ride Sylvester there!

I am confused, probably since I own a RSMV, but why take it apart for the winter. Granted we just ride them twelve months a year, but I would just park it whole.

Very sick, I love it.

No ride this weekend due to much rain and Jouquin coming ashore. All is bright in the shop.

Update!!! Kuryakin is awesome, they are sending me a new LED repair kit since the circuit board on the right turn won't work. They wanted me to send the whole thing back but it is installed and a pia to take apart. Other issues are that my bike is fourteen years old and upfitting wiring then is way different than today's heat shrink and cold solder. All works now and will take a morning ride this weekend, I hope. We are in a rain pattern that I appreciate since we have been in a deficit all year, but looks like rain through Sunday 10/4/15.

Being from Omaha, I could be interested. Keep us posted. And it really isn't that far, SlowrollWV. I can show you the way.

OK, got the headlight and all else back on as should be. Have an issue with a run/turn in a new Kuryakin rear mirror. I can deal with it. Hoping to finish tomorrow after work and ride it on Tuesday morning back to work. Then I will post the results as I see them.

All I can say is that yesterday it worked great. Today I got up to make a ride early in the dark to see how it performed, but before I got out of the drive it dimmed and started flickering and then blew the 15 amp fuse. I sent email to Canadian CC about warranty and then later today I re-installed the halogen bulb in the light and it did the same thing. I will be working on this for the near future for sure. I don't think this is a problem with the Afterburnner. It was perfect on Friday and lit up the shop. Old Sylvester has over 200k miles so this could be an age issue. I will keep all posted.

The Canadian Custom Afterburner arrived today, I received the Larson Lights yesterday and all are installed and working. All I can say about the Canadian light is WOW. Haven't had it on the road in the dark yet but that will happen soon. The Larsen Lights par 36 are very white but can't tell until I get it on the road. Much better than the halogen from before. Will post again soon.

Amen

I went with the Canadian Custom Afterburnner 4500LM and the Larsen Lights PAR 36 Trapazoidal LEDs. Hope the Larsen Lights don't make Sylvester sound like a Farmal Tractor, LOL. Thanks for all of your replies, the fall isn't far away and I needed to do something quick. I do find it interesting that I can have product shipped from Canada cheaper than in in the US, even though it is postal.