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BUB has replacements for some of the Harley pipes, nothing listed for the Venture, I have emailed them, I am hoping for some help from them.

Gary, Thanks, but I certian that the pipe for the baffle must be more than 2.5 inches long. Essentially there is no baffle pipe to wrap with repacking, I can see where the pipe has been cut off with a hack saw. The end caps are just aluminum, no chrome, if I get the baffle issue worked out I will eaither polish them or black the out with high temp paint or powder coat. I have contacted BUB, will wait to see what they say.

OK so I came across a deal to good to pass up, a set of used BUB slip-ons for a Venture for $70.00 including shipping. The seller said they were on the bike when he bought it and they were to loud, he found a set of stock mufflers and liked them so he offered the BUBS up for sale. I grabbed them, figured I would try them in place of my KromeWerks and keep which ever I liked the best and sell the others. Well turns out that some knuckle head has taken the baffles out of the BUBS, all that is left is about a 2.5 inch stub of baffle pipe on the inside of the end cap cones. I am sure I do not want to run straight pipes, the KromeWerks are loud enough. Does any one know if the baffle pipe in the BUB slip-ons can be replaced? Or have any ideas on how to fix a set of baffle pipes back into the cans? I assume the baffles are supposed to be removable so they can be repacked. I will be contacting BUB to see what they say. If they cannot be repaired, does anyone want a set of gutted BUBS for their bike?

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Mr T n Orlando , FL has a 1999 second gen with over 325,000 mles on it.

My realty is, I love cats, big ones and little ones. The housecat variety keeps me entertained, makes sure wake every morning at 5 AM and they keep me warm at night. I have one for each of those functions.

Yamaha are you seeing this? It is time for MamaYama to step up to the line and offer a real high displacement power cruiser that looks like a classic cruiser. Can you hear me now?

Try this link to Pashnit, http://www.pashnit.com/product/fuzeblocks/index_fuzeblocks.html Not cheap , but looks like a nice unit.

Good luck Larry, hoping for the best.

Condor, I was thinking the same thing, I generally log onto the site 3 times a day, first thing in the AM, noon and after work, not long ago the average number of new posts between my log ins would about 25, sometimes upwards to 35, the past few weeks it is down to about 10 new posts and has been as few as 2 or 3 in an 4 to 6 hour period. I am hoping it is just a phase, but we are ending the riding season for many.

Probably act similar to a MotoGuzzi, and want to roll to one side or the other , as you noted.

It has been working as advertised for me all along, I use it every time I log on, another thing I do it hit the "new posts" button just before I am ready to log off, just in case it did not refresh while I was logged on and a new posting was added that I can not see, that way I do not miss as many as I did in the past.

Bustec has a few on their used list, here is link. http://www.bushtec.com/default.asp?page=xPreOwnedInventory Also check out this Delphi forum, sometimes there trailers listed. http://forums.delphiforums.com/MCTrailertowing

I use DRAFTSIGHT from Dassault the same folks tha make SOLIDWORKS, they offer a free down load of their 2D system that is nearly identical to AUTOCAD. http://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight/ When they took away all of the AUTOCAD licenses at work this what the IT guys us to use for 2D work if we were not drafters, designers or engineers with a need for 3D SOLIDWORKS. I use it at home also. The oly problem I had was one version did work the current video driver on my laptop, so I had to update the driver and it was all good.

Thanks Keith and Jeff. I tweaked them again this morning, took her for a short test ride with a good deal of hard braking and they seem to be OK, I may be able to get a smidge more tight on them, but think I will wait and see. I am about half way thru the rear install right now, not nearly as much fun as I thought it would be, but gettin her done.

Has anyone else had problems with getting the banjo joints on new SS brake lines to seal/seat. Installed a set on the front of my 07 last night and had problems with the banjo joints weeping a bit, double checked the torque, they seated just a bit more when I did. Dried them off , left the lever pulled back using a heavy duty wood working rubber band over night, and found them all wet again this morning. Just weeping a bit, not gushing, but brakes should not leak period. Anyone else have issues getting these to seat? The lines were supplied with new copper crush washers. What am I missing here, seems it should be straight forward, tighten and fill with fluid, bleed and go. Thanks for any input, have lines for the rear and the clutch, but not sure I want to do those untill I work out what is up with the fronts.

Funny you should ask, a few weeks back when we had Biketoberfest here in Daytona, I purposely rode the Stratoliner Deluxe and the 1300 V-Star Deluxe to compare them to each other and to my Venture. Neither one compares to the Venture by any means, but I actually preferred the 1300 V-Star over the Stratoliner, the Strat has lots of grunt, but the 1300 just fit me better and really is no slouch. Not considering either of them at the moment, but if I needed to replace the Venture I could consider either of them.

You only need load resistors for LEDs if you are replacing regular incandesent bulbs in the turn signals with LEDs. For tail lights and brake lights no load resistors sre needed. The load resistors are used to make the turn signals flash at the correct speed, LEDs take less current to operate than the incandesent, so they cause the flasher to operate faster that normal, the added resistance of the load resistors fools the flasher into thinking that the incandesent bulbs are installed, so they flash at the correct speed.

I put LEDs in mine when I first mounted them and used this style, http://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/tail-brake-turn/1157-led-bulb-dual-intensity-2-watt-adjustable-right-angle/816/

Yep works now, looks like a nice day.

The link takes you to an upload page at Photobucket where you have to log in, I think that is not what you wanted.

Tom Got date and time in mind?

There were some versions of the original Royal Stars that had 4 into 2 set ups, I know the Tour Classic and Tour DeLuxe from 1998 to 2001 had that set up for certian, not sure about previous year models, but many had 4 x 4 pipes. If his has 4 x 4 set up he has a lot of adjustments to make, one of which is a place to hang the mufflers on. If he has a 4 x 2 set up now he needs to understand that the mouting setup for hanging the mufflers under the bags is different between the original Royals and the Venture. Probably not a big deal to fab an adapter, but they are not ready to bolt on.

Condor, Go to this tech article. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3768 I am not sure what the real name is.

If you have when was the last time you checked how secure they were? While washing the bike today I found my Harley tailights very loose. Took them off to investigate and found the two small bolts that secure the mount for the license plate holder were loose. Removed them and reinstalled with a bit of blue loctite, checked all of the other associated hardware while I was in there , good to go. So if you have not checked your Harley lights for a while, go out and give them a shake to make sure those parts are not teaching your Yamaha some bad habits.