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Mine is ready to ride, I just need a really small helmet and some goggles.

One Question. Do you have a Wagner radiator grill guard on your bike? If you do you will want to remove it and grind dow the area just behind the fender. The rear of the front fender on lowered bikes can in some circumstances make contact with the Wagner grill. Normally happens during panic or hard breaking events.

David, I got your order I wil work something up for you this evening and send you a quote. Steve K

Chris, If you are interested, I also make some back to back bullet connectors, those will come in very handy when you do the front ones. The front signal wires have bullet connectors inside the fairing. Those "T"-taps you used can wear right thru the wires they slice into, had that happen to me on a trailer wire set up, that is what motivated me to design the Aux Break out harnesses. Send me an email I will send info on the bullets.

Diameter is 2.45" essentially the same size as stock badge. To get the factory badges off, tape the fairing around the badge to protect the paint, heat the badge up with a hair dryer and once hot GENTLY pry off with a small screw driver. Takes some time and patience. Apply the new badge with good quality automotive double sided tape. Electrical connection makes a lighted kit that you can put between the fairing and the badge and it lights up the badge and acts as a turn indicator.

Badges are installed. Here are so pics of the right side badge installed

Only the second Royal Star motor I have heard of that self destructed, Yamaha was so amazed at the first one they footed the bill to replace the motor. That was probably 8 or 9 years ago. I also would not be concerned about a used motor, Pinwall is pretty good about documenting the bikes before they strip them down, usually do a video showing that it was running before the tear down.

Well I for one know that I do not suffer from any type mental disorder I enjoy every minute of it.

Her just announced last night on the F6B forum that the badge business would be on hold for the next few months, he just landed a new contract for some custom motorcycle parts for a company in SD, that will take all of his time. He may take an order and just put you on a list and get to you when he can. If you PM me I can give you his email address and see what he says, worst he can say is no.

I was poking around the Goldwing F6B forum. looking for a set of muffler tips and I came across these things called Hambly Badges. Found out they are custom made badges to replace the Honda Badges on the Goldwing fairing. So I sent him a copy of my Gunslinger Avatar to see what he could do with it. Well here they are, can not wait to get them installed. What do you think?

Crank case is or has been over filled, those vent tubes come from the air box, the crankcase vents into the air box so the fumes will be pulled into the crabs and burnt with the fuel, if the fume get to a point where they collect inside the air box and stick to the walls they condense back into oil and then drip out of the tubes. Make sure when you check the oil level the bike is level and the level is just below the mark. If you pull the air box and wipe out all the oil residue the spots on the floor will stop appearing after a while. Happens to these bikes all the time.

I know exactly how that guy is feeling, I have been granted no less than 5 security clearances for various military service and government contracts I worked on. All five went to the NSA , all five had the same information in them, for past history, family history and those sorts of things that just cannot change because they are in the past. Geeze Louise keep some records for God's sake.

Excellant point about bike not specified, my reply is based on the second gen royal star ventures.

The auto cancel is tripped by distance traveled after the signal is turned on, that is why the time stops when the bike stops. I am not aware of any way to increase the time they stay on. I was always in the habit of tripping the signal back on if I traveled any sort of distance before turning, to keep the signal flashing.

Back in the days when I was working on aircraft weapons release systems, we got a call to trouble shoot an issue one of the load crews wrote up in the log book. Just a bit of back ground, the load crews are responsible for loading the bombs, missles and ammo on the aircraft before the sortie. The last thing they do is to check for stay voltage at the firing pins where the ejector impluse cartridges go. So we get to the aircraft , check the log book and here is the write up from the load crew. "Suspect intermitent stray voltage." So we checked and did not find any intermitent stay voltage, cleared the write up, impluse carts got installed by the next crew and off they went.

I bet all the bits and stuff that is shedding off the friction plates from the gas disolving them is playing havoc on your lubrication system. If it were me I would stop riding he bike until I was able to pull the clutch pack out and see what damage has been done. I wonder what other plastic or rubber parts in there may be affected. Did you fix the problem that allowed gas to drain into your crank case? If not I would also make that a top priority.

Actually just a bit north of St Augustine. My STAR Group will be doing on the Saturday, not sure where we are eating yet, waiting on ride captain to send details on the ride.

Not trying to hijack your thread, but here is a neat event that happens in Florida every year, our STAR chapter is planning to go, could be a Meet and Greet then do the show. I have been a couple of times, lots of nice bikes, restored, show and daily riders. http://ridingintohistory.org/the-event/

Two points: 1) On my 07 Venture I did the SkyDoc spring upgrade, received the full thickness plate but never installed it, pulled my Bushtec with it no issues. 2) On my 98 Royal Star Tour Classic it had all full thickness plates, so it baffles me why Yamaha changed that set up on the Venture, Gary be on to something.

I thought the wire was left out when a full disc was used in the first position, because the extra thickness blocks the grove the wire sits in.

Barry, You know I am thinking that the Goldwing riders are on to something with the way they do their RTEs. Someone posts, "Hey I am going to be at so and so resturant on this date this time" let me know if you are interested, usally not more than a weeks notice, sometimes only a day or two notice. Somehow it works for them they always have 10 to 20 people show up. Now bear in mind that many or most of those guys are retired and most all they do they Ride, Eat and Sleep,(repeat) in that order. Maybe they know something we do not.

Had to do the same, now it works all the time.

OK, so I was off by 1 year, the question remains, what is it about the systems that are not included in the recall? Presumably 2013 and up are not affected, because they are not on the recall list? Is it that 2013 owners and above have not reported the issue on dragging brakes so they have not been included? I realize you will not have those answers, but it seems to be a fairly logical question to ask, I expect Honda does not have an answer for that either. I will swing by local Honda dealer and see if the service manager has any answers, he pretty good and usually on top of things.

Eck, I think that recall does not include the 2012 and up models, I have had no notice of a recall on my 2013 GW. So one has to ask , what did they do different starting in 2012 that does avoids the issue that causes the recall? Whay can't they put 2012 parts on the affect bikes? I am sure it cannot be that simple.

It is part of the cooling system, everyone calls it the Twinkie, the parts catalog calls it a cover, there is an upper and lower cover with gaskets in between them and the block. Here is a link that shows the parts involved. Not sure how you get it out, never had to do that on either of my two Royals. Items 35, 36, 37, 41. http://www.yamahapartsandaccessories.com/parts-catalog/parts/street-mcy?ls=Street&dealernumber=#/Yamaha/XVZ13ATJ_-_1997/RADIATOR_HOSE/XVZ13ATJ_(1997_MOTORCYCLE)/RADIATOR_HOSE_(XVZ13ATJ_-_1997)