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Interesting. If Johnny Cash had thought of that it would not have taken him so many years to build himself a set of wheels :rotfl:

Not sure I have ever seen them. I know I have never heard that term. What are they ? can you post a pic or a link?

The worst part about water pooling on the seat, is when it happens sudden like and the water is cold cold cold BRRRRR.

As the son of Dutch Parents who lived through the Nazi occupation of WWII and whose father, through his early teens fought with the Dutch under ground. Was locked up and escaped from prison camps on three occasions (often helped and hidden by German people who did not believe in Hitler). I too honor the combined foreign forces that helped free Holland of that occupation. Sadly He remembers all too well seeing the sky black with planes dropping Canadian paratroopers, a great number of whom were shot and killed before their feet even touched the ground. My father honored them by passing it forward when he joined the Dutch Marine corp, and helped free Indonesia of Japaneses occupation. While there he led a small Demolition crew who went behind enemy lines at night to destroy their artillery. In those days it meant sneaking right up to the guarded artillery to lay the explosives and run fuses or radio back coordinates to their own artillery. His feeling was that if other country,s could come to free Holland, then He could do the same for another country.

I think I have put on as many miles in the rain as I have in the dry. Most of the options above I have tried and they all work to a certain degree. Most important though is to make sure your face shield catches wind hence the lower windshield. IF the face shield doesn't catch enough wind the water just sits there .

Congratulations Dan. All the best to both you and the warden.

Were do you get them?

That was interesting.

Any of the 250 street legal enduro's would be perfect. probably should choose one with a 4 stroke engine rather than a 2 stroke. Just remember to use either enduro or street tires on it rather than full knobbys. And I agree with the learning off road bit. just don't forget to practice slow riding over obstacles as well as barreling around at high speed. Slow speed riding over obstacles is good for developing balance and control.

You should start by checking the swr of your antenna system. Next make sure your ground connection's are good and clean. Make sure your coax is in good shape. Not kinked or rubbed through.

While riding a friends bike last year it did the same thing. I pulled into Wallmart to check it out and found the offending carb. Pulled of the fuel supply line to that carb and blocked it off. Ran the bike on the three remaining carbs until I got it to Marcarl's who redid the carbs for my buddy. You will also find that the leaking is worse at idle than while running under full throttle because at high RPM the bike uses the gas faster than it can overflow.

If your needle is off the same physical distance regardless of speed (for example 1/4") then it most likely the location of the needle on the spindle. But if the variance is a percentage and the variance increases/decreases with speed than the gear ratio of the drive in the front wheel is wrong or the tire is the wrong size.

London has some of the best hand and limb surgeons in the world. She should be in excellent hands.

Congratulations to both of you. Like riding, manouvering the bumps and curves together are challenging but rewarding. Too many today expect marriage to be a smooth straight road. It may be easy but gets boring fast and you usually get off.

I will third that. And as far as the noise goes if you leave the shield open about 1/4" at the bottom cuts down on the noise alot and also stps any fogging.

Happy Easter to you as well and all the rest of the family, here and at home. May the day be a blessing to all.

Yeh stick around ----We havent had a lot of experience Heckling Victory riders yet and the Harley thing is sort of getting old. We need a fresh target and some fresh material.

I am sorry to hear of her ordeal. A fall is never nice specially at her age. Hopefully all will go well with the surgery and she will come out of it none the worse for wear.

I was kinda looking at one myself last week. But the budget and my sweet wife said NO Not so bad though. I don't think I could part with my faithful old 89VR that easily. I still love that bike a lot.

Gauge is almost always marked on the wiring EG: awg12. And the relay will usually have its amp rating marked on it. FYI metric wiring is often marked in Millimeters which can be converted to Gauge thickness VIA a chart easily found on the internet

Ooops The thread #20 just before mine did answer the situation quite well. I must have overlooked it some how.

A lot of usefull info posted but the simple question (is it safe to go to a 30 amp fuse?) has not been answered. The straight answer on this is most likely not. The reason is simple. The fuse should not be able to carry a higher amp load than the wiring it is supposed to protect. If the wiring is of a heavy enough gauge to handle 30 or more amps than it is not a problem. But if the wiring is too light then instead of the fuse blowing the wiring will overheat and possibly cause an electrical fire. The compressor may be drawing to much because it is defective or it simply may be a heavy duty compressor which requires 30 or more amps to operate. If it is the later simply Run a heavier gauge wire directly from the battery through a 35 amp fuse (if that is what is needed) to a relay. Then from the relay to the compressor. Use the bikes existing horn wiring to activate the relay.

Throw foam pillow on it. Call it a lowrider and go.

Depending on the type of plug you should be fine. However as an added measure of security I would put a patch on the inside as soon as it is convenient.

There is an interesting thought. I imagine using an amp meter and a variable load such heavy duty rheostat light load knob which is available on some of the older AVR machines (assuming of course the normal carbon pile for load testing battery's is a bit too heavy) should tell an interesting story. Unless of course that spec is readily available some where.