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    OK....Here it is. We ended up raising.... $3260.67 Thank you to all that donated and we are looking forward to seeing a bunch of you folks in Memphis on the 18th
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    The person you should contact is Pegscraper, I dont know if the heads are the same dimentions as the RSV's. If they are I would imagine you could swap out a set of pipes onto your Royal star and get a set of HD mufflers. You would probably have to modify a set of mounting brackets as I dont think your bike would have the mounting area where the stock RSV pipes go.
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    Keep flapping those gums Froggie, if you need a hand getting it back together give me a call.
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    The door is always open my friend and the spare bed is comfortable
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    Tim, Your still more than welcome to come over and we can double check all of them with the carbtune.
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    ....and there you go Dan Glad I could help
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    Lonna and I went out this afternoon too, about 100 miles and yep we too stopped for Ice Cream
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    I'll add something here, even though I will never put one on any bike I own. It seems to be just with the heavy bikes that I have heard them failing on and always the rears. All the HD's I heard them failing on were the Ultras and comparable sized bikes.
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    Mine is the trunk rack as it's very useful on long trips, the battery covers on certain colors would be my second.
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    Good to hear your having a good time Nice pics and Lonna and I are planning to head to the Grand Canyon next year after going to the international. Be safe and we are looking forward to seeing the THOUSANDS of pics we know you have
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    Changing the clutch spring (there is only 1) in the 1300's is very easy and can be done with the bike on the sidestand and without changing the oil. I have installed half a dozen or better PCW kits, and I highly recommend them. If your really worried about changing the friction discs then do it for your piece of mind. I have never changed any of the friction discs in all the clutch changes I have done, just added the PCW kit and as mentioned clean the glaze off the steels in the clutch setup. http://www.pcwracing.net/
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    Kind of a subjective question, I would imagine it would be all in how you hit the tire and where in the length of it you ran it over. Regardless it wouldn't be fun and lots of pucker fator would be involved. If I had to hit one I would try to hit it square and somewhere in the center of the length, so it would be evenly split by the bike and unable to kick up on the side of the bike.
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    Something you might want to think of is if you plan on keeping the bike for a while then perhaps it's time to upgrade the front brakes to an R1 set up. Go into the search bar and type in R1 and it will bring up all the threads on these brakes.
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    Thank you for noticing Jim
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    Metzler makes the rectifier too
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    I have only heard about the rears, wouldn't put ANY Metzler on any bike I own (I Know thats not what you asked to hear)
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    I was very happy with being able to go through the CU. My local bank didn't even offer a Cycle loan and they actually called the CU for me and got all the info. Funny thing is this all came about because the GE moneybank that Yamaha financed my loan through wouldn't give me my title. They hold onto it as I went to Ohio and bought it. In Michigan we own our titles, there is an area on the title for the finance company to have the lein on the vehicle. I couldn't get my title and that just irked me so bad that I decided that they weren't going to get my money. Kinda funny getting mad actually saved me money...whodathunktit
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    Yeah I do remember them, we met them when we were at your place last year. Good to hear that things are OK for them, glad you got to see them again
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    Now that some of the others have piped up, it got me thinking when does it slip? The clutch spring was mentioned but you didn't mention where it was slipping. If the spring is getting weak it will typically slip between 4th and 5th gear under harder acceleration. If the oil that you put into it is something new that you changed to then I would swap it out and rplace the oil 1st. As a rule of thumb I have NEVER in all the clutch changes I have done, needed to change out the friction discs. I have measured the thickness of last 5 clutches that I changed and they were the same thickness as the new ones.
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    Dawg, No sweat, just change it out and replace it with the Rotella T 15/40 it will start to clear up shortly after that.
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    I usually found that I was grabbing a gear at about 8200 on the 1st gens. I could feel it start to wain a bit, but never floated a valve.
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    The tour would have been nice, but I'm in agreeance (is that a word ) with lets show up and donate the monies and ride. Mean Dog would have wanted it that way and when we ride from St. Judes...Mark WILL be with us. Lewis, I can't thank you enough for grabbing the bull by the horns, your the stuff leaders are made of. Let us show up and share eachothers company as has been mentioned and have a great day knowing that what we are about to do will make a huge difference. I want to thank EVERYONE that donated to this cause and we will see you folks in Memphis on the 18th
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    There are Many of us that have done and still do this, matter of fact I make a set of brackets to install them on the RSV. The sound is good and even drilled out they aren't obnoxious. It really is the simplest way to get a better sound out of the RSV, I still have to put the set on my new one that I bought in July
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    I have to tell you Jim, if the '08 H/D had the Vrod motor in it...I would probably own one. I have said it here many times that H/D listens to their buyers, Yamaha doesn't. If H/D does go ahead and put that engine into their big frames....the Japs will be in touble. I still like to go fast and have good performance in the curves, the RSV gives me that. As soon as the Harley will keep up with the V4 we have, and dont be laughing boys, I will own one.
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    I just refinanced my '08 through a local Credit Union and went froma 9.9% finance to a 7.75. The Yamaha finance SUCKS! I have good credit and as usual I couldn't be approved for the best rate...go figure That is a great deal on that bike and I would efinitely look at going through a CU. I took $150.00 and put $100 in a checkibng account there and $50 in a svings and filed for the loan while I did it all. 1 day later it was come in and sign the paperwork...that easy BTW Mike...congrats on the payoff, now more monies to ride
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