M61A1MECH

Check the display on the audio control head to see if it shows "HS" that means someone toggled it to the headset position and not the speaker position. If it is on "HS", turn the volume down before you toggle it back to speakers or you will be buying new speakers.

I am pulling front desk duty at the office all day Saturday, so I out.

Go here; http://www.shop.shinhopples.com/main.sc and search for ShinGrips That is what I using on my wing, very similar to the old Grip Puppies that I had on my Venture, but cannot find anywhere these days. You could Google Grip Puppies to see if anyone has them, I always bought from California Sport Touring, but at last check they were out of business.

So I have desk duty at the office on Friday, so Friday is out for me, right now Sat and Sun are open, but need to know what the plan is. Tom is your trip still on now that the storm is past? Oh, forget about riding A1A , most of it closed due to storm damage.

I saw that also, I like it.

Or Bourbon:cool10:

Finally got power restored last night at 8PM, life is good.

I like the idea, yes a general forum for OFF MOTORCYLE TOPICS and subdivided into functional areas as you suggested , cars, tucks, computers, appliances, tools and whatever. It could make searching for a specific topic easier.

The power is being turned on little by little, the power company has folks , many from as far a way as PA, working 24 hours a day. I just got my power turned back on about an hour ago after being off since Friday.

Most of the storm has passed us, now we are getting the backside winds, still pretty high gusts from time to time. Got some limbs down with one laying on the roof and gutter. Tuff Tom should be in the clear , hope he faired well.

Two places I checked they are $4.84 each, here is a link to one of the places. http://www.boats.net/parts/detail/yamaha/Y-90338-11152-00.html

Not much high ground here in Florida, we are abut 3.5 miles as the crow flies from the Atlantic, but lots of stuff between there and us to buffet the winds down. The storm at last check the eye was going to be about 10 to 20 miles off shore, so should be interesting. I have all the loose stuff stowed but have not decided yet if I am going to put the shutters on the windows or not. There is time in the morning.

In Mike's case his GL trike is an 08, that model was the same up to 2010, then in 2011 Honda moved the GL production line back to Japan, and retooled. There was not GL in 2011 and in 2012 the current version was released, seats from models prior to 2012 will not fit 2012 and up models. I am not sure when Honda started the F6B, but I am fairly certain it was after 2012. Plus as Mike noted they are different and the GL passenger seat uses the trunk as part of the support for the passenger back rest.

Mike, A later post on the GL forum thread on the F6B with 750 miles, the owner confesses that he and his wife are not riding enough to justify keeping the bike.

Mike, PM sent

The trick to keeping Meltzer tires healthy is to keep them inflated at the pressures recommended by Metzler, do not use the Yamaha factory specs that are for the stock Bridgestone tires.

I wonder if that works for IPhones as well?

You fell asleep on the keyboard?

I stepped away from my laptop for a few minutes to attend to something and came back to find one of the cats sleeping on the keyboard not the first time she has done it and you never know what havoc she will cause until you try to use the computer again, normally just something simple like a few hundred key strokes entered into the test box on a search function. Well today the keyboard appeared to be totally frozen, nothing worked, not the keyboard on the laptop itself nor my USB keyboard I have plugged in. Found after several minutes that it required you to hold the keys down for 3 to 4 seconds before they would respond. I type slow enough as it is, I do not need any additional hindrances. I activated the virtual keyboard, amazing that it worked just fine. I was able to get some help from GOOGLE. Somehow she turned on the filters for sticky keys, found a small stopwatch looking icon that when double clicked it opened up a control box so I could turn the filters off. Now it is all working just fine, good news for the cat. So lesson for the day; put the lid on the lap top down when not attended, so the cat has a warm place to sleep and so she cannot goof anything up. As with everything else in the house it is her's after all, just ask her, and I am just part of staff here to take of her. Next time I may do dogs instead of cats, at least they treat you like family.

I know a great Mexican place, not the cheapest, but great food and service, one in Ormond and one in Port Orange. Tom keep us reminded, so we can plan our schedules, right now my weekends are taken up with sitting open houses as I try an build a client base, hopefully that will ease up in a few weeks, so I can get in some riding.

Take the black shroud that goes around the ignition on the top front of the fuel tank off. Pull the rubber tube off the tank vent tube and blow some compressed air down the rubber tube, put a plastic bag or cup on the end of the tube to catch what ever comes out, probably some sort of insect nest or egg pack.

Jay, Each type of connector can have different means of locking the contact pin or socket in the housings. As noted above, generally there is a small wing(s) or tab on the contact itself that needs to be depressed to allow it to slip past the locking the shoulder it locks on. Sometimes you have to push the wire in from the back a little to get the locking tab off of the shoulder. Some connector bodies (plastic part) have the locking tabs in them and there is a recess in the pin or socket that the plastic tab drops into, those you just push the tab up out of the way and pull the contact out. This applies to most Japanese connectors like Hitachi that is common to Yamaha. If you do in fact have a MOLEX connector they take a very specific type of tool that is a hollow tube style to depress both wings and also have a push rod or spring loaded pusher that pushes the contact out. Visit this site http://www.cycleterminal.com/index.html to get a look at the various tools you can buy, but for simple Hitachi style connectors a very small bladed jewelers screw driver or sturdy piece of small wire with a screwdriver shape filed on the end should work to depress the tabs. Avoid any sort of abrasive like sand paper , use contact cleaner and a lint free cloth, I general use connector grease that you can get from auto parts stores, they sell it for putting on connectors for boat trailers and for putting in the light sockets on boat trailers where the lights get submerged when the boat is launched or retrieved at the ramp. If you are not sure what you have , send me some photos and I will try to ID them for you and recommend a suitable tool.

Do not know of a loop that includes St. Augustine and Ormond. There is a loop in Ormond that is shown on the site Dion listed, just be careful cops are all over it and the speed limits are strictly enforced. Best way to get to St. Augustine from Ormond is up A1A and back south on US1. There are a few good roads around, most of them are west around Deland and Deleon Springs. Depending on what is going on with me at the time, maybe we can hook up and I can show you around a bit.

Cannot tell you the price is good or not, but I will say make sure you get a good quality hitch set up, like Carbon One makes and use a wiring set up that has an isolator to protect the bike's wiring , something like these depending on how the trailer is wired. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/photopost/showproduct.php?product=459&title=5-wire-plug-n-play-trailer-harness&cat=18 http://www.venturerider.org/forum/photopost/showproduct.php?product=458&title=4-wire-plug-n-play-trailer-harness&cat=18 I pull a Bushtec and I am always looking behind me to make sure it is still there, they pull almost effortlessly. If you get it, remember it is back there when you are crossing traffic lanes and pulling into gas stations, do not want it hanging out in traffic or hitting the bollards around the gas pumps.

Steve K , "M61A1MECH" and Marilyn "Momma Bear" made it home to Florida just about 1PM Saturday.