djh3
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Unfortunatly probably the only "cost effective" trike conversion would be one of the "add on" deals. I dont really know who makes them but I have seen a few around town here. You still have the motorcycle wheel to drive but it has what appears to me like training wheels. Not my bag. But if your a couple years out, I think I would look for a Can-Am. I have talked to several folks on the road and on stops up in Tn and NC in the mountians. I have not heard anyone say a bad word about them. Met a group last year in Madison Ga that one of the gals was on a Can-Am and the rest of the group was on HD Ultras. She said she got better fuel mpg and never got left in the dust, and a few spots she managed to leave them. The first coupel years of them should be comming down in price now. Only down side to those really is all the bags and touring equip was extra so not alot of them got it added on. Now they make them in a regualr touring model. 883 Harley's are about a dime a dozen now too.
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WOW Dan that impresses me. I am only a couple of steps past power-ground and dont get in between.
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I was trying symothing else experimenting today with the intercom. So I put the nirtle glove finger over it (mic). So next time we both go for a ride we can try it. I'll try to remember to throw some info back.
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Richie, if you think the cockpit is small on the Victory you'd better check out the HD ultra close before the wife gets to "in love" with it. I have some friends that have the HD and that is one of the wives complaint. They felt jammed on top of the driver. They are a big bike but the room for driver and passenger is limited.
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While this bike is not the exact thing your looking for the model is. Its a honda 750 four but its automatic. As you know the ole Honda 750 4 were bullit proof just about. We had a guy back in the late 70's that use to drag race one of these automatic 750's and he won the Motorcycle bracket more weeks than he lost. http://www.gogocycles.com/images/1976-hondamatic-750-for-sale-21331015.jpg Now that should bring back some old school memories.
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Well I'm definatly limited on my electrical skills. But I was intregued by the heading. lol I do have a couple questions though. If its a belt drive lathe it should have different sized pulley's or a "gearbox" on the unit to change speeds. I dont think your going to find a DC motor to fit this thing either. If you do you will have to run some sort of converter for it to run. Is this currently a 220v motor and single phase? 3 phase? 110v (standard household plug) Just fishin for info.
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I just put a stator from them guys in my Kawai a couple months ago. I got gaskets here. It was best price I could find.
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Dont know for sure but as long as your making some sort of payment to them it "shows" your trying to pay it off, as far as a collection agency or credit score. May be a slow pay, but who the heck has like 10K sitting around to just cough up. Its up to you but I know I get those "checks" in my credit car bills. You can use the check to pay off balences and they give you like 8-10 months before they charge you interest. If you worked out a deal paid them and then made absolutly sure the credit card deal got paid off say a month early that might be a plan. Just thrown ideas.
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http://www.faqs.org/car/yamaha-xvz13tf/#bulletins_0 http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53981 Best I could do.
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I think I'm going to try the ballon over the mic trick before I throw $140 at it. I read on one of the threads here about putting a ballon over the mic and then the sock on the boom. I dont currently have any ballon around the house, but I do have some nirtle gloves in the garage that may serv the purpose.
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Royalstar09: good choice on a GPS. I have one too. I studied for a long time before I bought mine. I was of the "I have navegated a long time with out them gadgets dont need one now" thought. But it sure as heck was GREAT this last summer. I was on a Kawasaki VN 900 and bought a RAM mount for the unit, I have since transfered it to my RSV. A buddy of mine in NC took a 2200+ mile trip (for me anyways) from Charlotte to Ashland Ky over to south Cincinati then down to Knoxville (via I75) then down the Dragon and for me to Madison Ga and then back down to FL. Of the 2200 miles I think just about 1000 or so were interstate. We ran alot of back roads and let me tell you, there is no way I would have been able to read a map in my tank bag, make turns and be aware of up comming road changes safely like I was with the GPS. I only have a 4gb card in mine right now. When I went looking for a card the fellow at the store said anything over the 4gb would be a SDHC or something and probably would not recognize it. I dunno if its true but we had a simular deal with a digital camera. For my trip I downloaded a free program called TYRE (track your route everywhere) For me it was the easiest to understand how to work. The map source and base camp had me pulling my hair out. Anyways I sat down with google and pluged in my start and destination then kind of "bent" the route to where I thought I wanted to go on Google maps. The nice thing is most of the time you can look to the right of the directions and it has a little orange guy or something, it means there is a picture. Click on the orange thing and it shows you taht spot so you can tell if its decent road or not. I layed it out in seperate sections for every day. Some of the roads we were on in Ky were really cool thru the old tobacco country roads. I had it on at first when we got to the dragon but I turned it off as it got distracting telling me to turn, turn yea yea I know. the 765t with the traffic was helpful also when I was comming into Athens Ga. That place has a confusing road system of inner and outer loops and to boot there was a reck somewhere and the GPS warned about it. Cool. AS far as weather proof, same as KA zip lock and rubber band. I go with the heavier type freezer bag. I figure if its raining hard enough I think the GPS is in trouble I aint running that fast I need the GPS. I got some velcro cable tie things at Radio Shack to tie the cables to the handle bars and tie up the excess power cable etc. Mine are all black. I might have got them at Harbor Freight too. Good luck with your unit. Have you been to http://forums.gpsreview.net/ good place for info on all GPS units. Just look your type up and searchaway for your info. Just checked I only have a 2gb card in the GPS. It does play for about 4hr though. Maybe I'll just stay with the smaller cardsa and load different types of music on the cards and make it easier to manage. My other MP3 player will allow different folders say rock, country, oldies and you can either shuffle from within those folders or shuffle all. I dont know if the 765 will do this.
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I'm pretty sure its Alum right? The steel would be over the top.
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Goodness that diamond plate just looks heavy! Years ago we had a friend of ours build a trailer. I think it had like 8" wheels on it, a place for the cooler, Was 1x1" box tube mostly. Prob 2ft wide by maybe 4ft long 3 ft high, the lid opened from the front to the center and was maybe 3/4 length to the opening. When it opened it folded back so you could use it for camp stove, or making food etc. We camped mostly on the bike back then. I even pulled it behind a car a few times. I first worried about the being able to lean with a standard 1 7/8" ball. But never had a problem with it binding. You alls trailers look pretty stylish guys.
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I think my headlight modulator has helped me out a few times. You see someone pull up and roll almosst thru the stop sign, then they hit the brake and stop. Anly thing I can think of is they saw the flashing light and it drew thier attention. Other option is handle bar mounted paint ball guns. They cut you off, plaster thier windshiield. That may get thier attention.
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OH YEA big 10-4 on anti sieze. I just did the plugs in the wife Durango. 110K I had one so locked up inthe head it broke off everything but the threads. Had to ez-out, then chase the threads. What a mess. Glad I was right on the recomendation thing. Whats your take on the plugs like the Bosch double platinum or platinum 4 type withe the gaps you dont set and oposing electrods. I'm still undecided. Dont know if its just an expensive "gimick" plug or if they work.
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Down here where I'm at add in the "blue hair" crowd. I agree with the A piller thing being part of it. I know my pick up is wide and has hid stuff on me. But you have to "want" to pay attention to whats going on too. Most are worried about facelook or tweter or something earth shattering like that. I have sat at a stop light before and watched the person next to me fiddleing with a phone paying way more attention to it then the task at hand. After they sit a few moments tap the horn sometime. Alot of the time they will simply hit the gas before ever looking up at the signal. Its especially fun when the law is next to or behind them.
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I have rode them the last 2 yr they have had the demo tour over in Lakeland. If chash was in hand I'd be riding one now. Also rode the Vision, but thats one of them bike you either like or dont. At a stand still it feels heavy. The XC dont. I thought the XC had plenty of power, but at the time I was on a 900 Kawi twin. For the money even though they are pricey I think the motor company had better be looking for the cross hair mark. You get more standard features for less on a Victory.
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I can see this going the way of an oil or Dyna Beads thread. Not an engineer but I think the main difference between say the copper-Platinum-Irridium plugs is life span. The top two may have somewhat of a better burning spark. Milage gains, dont think I would be looking for anything worth changing plugs just to "gain" mpg. I know some folks that work on race engines and last year when I was getting ready to change plugs they told me to definatly stay away from the "gimik" plugs. The E-3, split fire and the like. I have personnaly used split fires and they worked good in some things and others they killed the coils. I had them in an FJ1200 motor used for racing and it killed the coils. Coincidence? Maybe but I aint going to try again. From my short time here I have gathered most of the guys will probably tell you stay with the OEM make of plugs.
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I might go look for another job. But I dont want to move to Mexico, India or China. Dont leave alot of choices huh?
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I knew I wasnt alone. I guess I just needed to vent a bit. Thanks for the opertunity to do so. When you have been in this case a mechanic as many years as I have you have had some 8 ball things go haywire. When you get past it you get to laugh about it. I started working in garages full time back around 75. Those that remember GM had just came out with HEI. Well prior to that spark plugs would zap you but it stung pretty good but remided you to not do that again. Well I was working for a fellow that had, had a broken arm and they had put a pin in it. Being "old school" he grabbed a hold of a wire on this car we were troubleshooting a miss on and it blew fire I swear out his elbow to the fender. Several expectives came out of his mouth, he banged his elbow, then his head, then the elbow again all trying to get away. I personnaly thought it was hilarious @ the time. To bad no you tube back then. We had a cold beer or two laughing about that a week later. Thanks guys I'm likin it here.
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Mine I would say are good. Its more operator error I think. I just picked up the bag the other night and started going thru them real quick. So I know there is some oil in the bag and stuarting the shims. So I thin thats where I'm off from the other night. -
I like it. If I was in the market for a trailer it would be on the list. I know you guys up north of the boarder got some different rules, but why in the world wouldnt it be legal? Double tranportation cost? Spring will be here soon enough and SC would be a nice trip? OR one of our good folks here would make a road trip down and bring part way back for a nominal fee, maybe a couple cood one eh? If I was north I would.
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I'm sure any of us that do some of own work on things, mechanical, woodworking etc have had a day when nothing goes right. Well I have had like 2 weeks of this. It started a couple weeks ago I was working on the bike wiring in a headlight modulator. Somehow I blew a fuse. Then putting the fairing back together, that took a couple times to get everything happy. Then a few days later I attemted teh lowering of the front end forks. When back together the handle bars seemed askew to the right. So a day or so later I took it all apart and redid it. The first time I couldnt get the forks to "slide" up so I had to take the wheel off. So you see where this is going right? Nothing is easy. So today I decided to change the plugs in the wifes Durango. I mean heck it only has like 110K on the orginals. So left bank goes OK. First one on the right bank is really tight comming out. So I do the a little out, then back the other way. About 4 or 5 into this program and "snap" @!#$% I'm thinking I broke of the porclen no biggy right? WRONG it snapped off the bolt part of the plug. I have the entire insulator and electrode everything but the threads and the washer flat part that seats. HMM what now. So I calls a friend @ the Dodge house, his suggestion is an ez out. Well I thought of this but was hoping they had something.... well a little more refined. So I did thru the tool box find the ez outs but the dang things all have square drives. And of course all I have is mainly six point sockets. So off the the store to get 1ea 12 point 10mm. So now I tap the ez out in. I have sprayed several liberal shots of liquid wrench at it hoping to relive some of the corrision. I carefully wind out the troublesome piece. It was a bugger bear all the way out. Should I have expected anything else with the luck I have had lately? Certainly not. Finnaly get the bottom part out and look at the threads, argh the last couple on the plug look like crap. I blow out the hole and try to look but heck its a foot below in a hole. Well maybe the new one will thread in. I have the new plug in a piece of 8-10" long fule line to thread in. No go, should I be suprised? Well as luck would have it the spark plug chaser I have aint right, go figure. It probably went to a ford or something I had 20yr ago. lol So off to the store again for thread chaser. The rest of teh job goes OK and the job is done. But man I'm scared to ride with the way my luck has been the last couple weeks. I think I have put probably 100+ iles on the car/bike/truck in the last 2 weeks or so running up to Autozone or Sears or Advance. The to auto parts places aint but maybe 4 miles one way and Sears is maybe 7 one way. I sure hope I have used up my bad luck.
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House Bills on Ethanol (hope this is not considered political)
djh3 replied to wes0778's topic in Watering Hole
If we were getting ahead of this thing (rising fuel cost possible shortages) I'm OK with finding an alternate additive to the fuel. Our bikes can probably be tuned to run on this junk. But it will require rejetting and some other work. Back when I was racing short tracks we had some late model guys running straight alchol thru carbs. But you burn twice as much to go the same distance. For us highway drivers youd be stuck. If your tunned for higher alchol and stop for fuel and all they got is say reg typy gas I think your hosed. Id rather these idiots figure out away to get the economy going than me spend my money on stupid stuff. I can do that myself pretty dang good. -
Mike, you must have read the posts of me doing mine. I dont know if you would consider me "skilled", but I did mine 3 times. If at first you dont suceed....... Got better each time. I to am more than a couple hundred miles. But there were a couple threads going around about adjusting valves and stuff up in the north Fl area around Jacksonville I think. Hopefully someone will have a chance to help you out.