RedRaptor22
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Some other things that could cause it are alignment and loose inner fender, also check to see if the tires are cupping or scalloping on the inside, that'll do it too if you do a rotation on a car with a really bad alignment problem. Stupid idea but check the lugs and make sure their all tight.
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Need help...To Trike or not to Trike? That is the question.
RedRaptor22 replied to Aimhigh's topic in Trike & Sidecar Talk
What about the folding hydraulic outrigger kits? that way when your in motion your on a bike, when you come to a stop they deploy and keep your bike upright. Best of both worlds there, dunno how much they cost or if there is a dedicated kit for the RSV but I believe they make them for wings and such, could be worth a look into and maybe check some local fab shops to see what it'd take to make one work. -
We have the street and steel b-24 helmets at cyclegear that come with a zip-off wind skirt that has built in speaker pockets for $59.99, they are made by bell.
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I had to winterize my bikes about a week ago, by winterize I mean drop 2 pounds of air pressure in the tires and start wearing my textile pants and thicker gloves...other than that there's not much else to do.
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So sorry to hear about your friend, hopefully justice will be more fully served than the case of Anita Zaffke.
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American flag upside down at CALIFORNIA HS
RedRaptor22 replied to Ferrantelli's topic in Watering Hole
What these morons don't realize is that this law is way way more fair than the current federal law. Federal law does'nt require lawful contact or even reasonable suspicion before an officer asks for your proof of citizenship does, Arizona's law requires you to actively be commiting a crime or have some other sort of lawful contact with an officer before they can ask for your papers. In Arizona if you feel there is some sort of profiling or discrimination they added a clause that allows you to sue the police, you have to sit and take it from the feds however many times they do it. Also they can tell just by pulling you over because you can't get a drivers liscense without a birth certificate, visa, temporary visa or green card, but that would fall under the lawful contact clause. I think it's great, 13 more states are working on similar bills, even Massachusets passed one that completely cuts illegals off from public services and support funds, I'm not sure how many illegals they get way up there but I doubt it can be anything like it is down here. -
You could also try talking to the guys over at great day to ride, lots of SV riders send their seats to them modded and have way better results than any off the shelf seat, most get a gel pad inserted with a layer of memory foam over that, they reuse the stock seat cover so it looks original. I think you have to ship the seat to them along with $65 and they usually have a pretty quick turn around rate.
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If it were a real journalist/reporter I would take the time to watch it, but she's just a sensationalist moron, nearly Glen Beck's equal only she's not even entertaining. Well it's never happened at this depth, thats the difficult part, and despite all those methods being tried in that leak they are the standard fixes that more often than not end up working, they are'nt using them because they have a low success rate. To think they would not use the most effective methods to plug this leak is just daft, it's in the best interest of their checkbooks and future worth to get this thing stopped asap so I doubt they are'nt doing all they can. Where things are really failing in on the gvmt end with the containment and cleanup, over three weeks ago Jindal tried to have a barrier dredged up to keep the oil off the coast, two days ago I beleive they gave him the ok to do it, in that time we could have had around 70 miles of barrier up to keep the oil off the coast, now we've got oil covering the marshes while the dredges that could have stopped it have been sitting idle ready to go for three weeks. I do agree that it should'nt have happened, especially in this case because of all of the cut corners with gvmt regulators turning a blind eye because their palms were well greased by big oil. Given the record I think the safety procedures in place work really well....as long as operators follow them and the regulators enforce them, in this case neither of those things really seemed to take place.
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No, I saw it but it was Rachel Maddow and that heiffer gives me a headache so I did'nt watch it but I'm sure she left out some things to serve her agenda in demonizing an industry because it's too successfull despite the fact it accounts for 53% of the gulf coast economy. Sedco 135F was a rig right off the coast of mexico in the bay of Campeche, technically it was in the gulf but it was'nt one of our wells or even in our oil field, not even close. That rig was owned and operated by Pemex, a mexican government owned company so needless to say they have their own regulations and such. Again in our oil fields our rigs have drilled 60,000 over the course of 63 years with this one failure. In case you don't know where the bay of Campeche is here is link to the coordinants where the rig was located. http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=25.183521465658145~-92.10252685546874&lvl=5&sty=h&sp=Point.m717gy795mrh_Ixtoc%20I%20oil%20spill____
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I read somewhere that since 1947 there have been over 60,000 wells drilled in the gulf of mexico without incident untill now....it's still tragic and will impact things for a long time but that's a pretty impressive record...not even nasa has a mission success rate that good.
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I told mine in the begining, I've never NOT had a bike of some sort, but I've been single lots of times, women cause nearly every problem I have and only my bike can make me forget them.
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Varies from state to state, here in LA under a certain length your only required to have reflectors up front, and the tail lights have to also function as running lights.
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I'd also like to know what the percentage of crashes are caused by wet roads since most riders don't ride in the rain lol. IMHO thats another situation where reflex decisions would come into play, One day I was on my way home from work and following a dodge dakota at around 30 yards difference at 45mph when it hit a suburban that turned left and actually spun out because of the rain on the oily roads, I barely managed to squeek between the two because there was another car next to me in the right lane and oncoming traffic in the other lane, any brakes at all and I'd have hit the suburban broad side and risked getting pancaked between it and the car behind me or bouncing into the other lane because ABS or not there was no way I could have stopped in time and even if I did the car behind me could'nt. That seems to generally be the case in most crashes I hear about, even with ABS there simply is'nt enough room to stop once things start unfolding and once the braking attempt has failed there is'nt enough time to try avoiding the obstacle. I rarely go for my brakes anymore when I see something unfolding around me, pretty much any really hard braking tosses control out the window, I'd rather take my chances dodging than going in a straight line hard on the brakes where there might be a chance I can stop with a much greater chance that I'll make contact and/or get smacked from behind also.
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So needless to say from my point of view I absolutely do not think manditory ABS will make a difference in crash statistics, however if they required all bikes to be optioned out sport touring bikes for the white collar crowd the ABS tag may make a difference. I'd rather see manditory low cost new and advanced rider courses, manditory minimum safety gear, maybe a tiered liscense system. Oh and lastly ALL drivers would have to at least have a motorcycle/trike liscense before they could operate a vehicle unless physically unable...so everyone would feel our pain and start looking out for us.
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I've been in plenty of oh-$hit situations and locking the brakes has never been a problem and never once did I wish I'd have had abs. Simple fact is that on a bike experience and practice make the difference when it comes to situations when hard braking is needed. Do you think power steering would help prevent riders from hitting left turners and redlight runners? dont think so. We've been having this discussion over on the SV forums for a while too and the few main things to take into account that these studies do not, while abs bikes do tend to be involved in less wrecks they don't factor in what types of bikes are the ones being involved. Most abs bikes are the sport touring bikes these days like FJR's and such, generally by their very nature and intended segment of riders they are way less likely to be involved in a crash abs or not because they are mostly ridden by older more conservative riders. Most flagship super sports come standard with abs now too and are still at the higher end of the crash chance percentages only because of the type of people who ride them, usually younger people who have little to no experience who have no business on any type of bike, or more experienced riders who simply feel the need to push the boundaries of themselves and their machines...either case the vast majority of crashes on sportbikes involve only the rider and happen when brakes are'nt a factor. Then there is the HD cruiser crowd, well, those guys have a lifestyle to live up to.
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I prefer sealed boxes for anything less than a 12" speaker. Ports do allow for a bit higher output but with anything less than a really good large woofer they distort a lot more, so if your into quality over quantity don't do it. Personally I think bike radios are useless in the first place, you can't hear them over the pipes and wind without cranking them up so high they blubber out and sound like trash...except to the people who are riding next to you that really don't like your music. I prefer some noise canceling earbuds that block out nearly all wind and exhaust noise so that I can keep the volume low enough that it's crystal clear.
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Thats one clean bobber wing, every other one i've seen looks like a total hack job. Money objective? New FZ1 with hard bags, new KTM superduke with hard bags. Money not an object? New norton commando exactly they way it comes off the floor!
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I had the same problem when I took mine off to clean them, and the same problem getting the airbox on top of them. I had to do what I do every time I can't get something in a hole, put some vaseline on it!
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WD40 is the best thing I've found yet for getting brake dust and road grime off painted rims...even gets off chain lube in one swipe, eagle one makes wheel polish in a small silver tin that works real good on natural aluminium.
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If my research is correct for that particular side car to be attatched to the venture you will need a welding machine, side grinder and 12pack.
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Since it's already bought you could do the larger tires and bring it to someone and add a small gooseneck to level it back out, it'd really only raise the rear two inches though, probably would'nt be too terribly bad. Reason for larger tires imo is the bearings, those chinese spindles and bearings would be my biggest concern, not the tires themselves...I don't remember mine having any sort of seals on the hubs either.
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What's best for windshields in rain?
RedRaptor22 replied to scottc's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
I like turtlewax ice "in the tub" it does'nt haze, shines anything and smells nice...when I say anything I mean paint, plastic, rubber, chrome, glass absolutely anything. It's the best thing I've tried yet for repeling water too, I even use it on my face sheild and it will destroy water droplets for weeks. -
I had one of their 4x8 trailers with 12" tires and pulled it up to 75mph on a regular basis loaded down 100 pounds over max weight but I greased the bearings regularly and made sure the tires were'nt over heating. I would throw some 12" tires on there and call it good, it's cheap chinese stuff for certain but as long as you keep an eye on the bearings it'll be good. They sell the larger tires already mounted on rims for fairly cheap in store.
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vapor_kits dash board instrument?
RedRaptor22 replied to 6m459's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
Should'nt be too hard if the donor uses a similar setup, I've seen guys put gsxr gauges on the Sv a few times despite having some different systems. For instance the rpms read double actual rpms and a speedo healer had to be used because the gsxr used 8 magnets for the speedo pickup instead of 4 so without the healer it read half the speed. The vmax gauges would be an obvious first choice for an alternative imo...granted its any smaller and cleaner. -
How else are all of you geriatric types going to listen to your steppenwolf and zztop collections? I mean without having your grandkids put them on disk for you?