turtlecreek

wunderbar!! ob sie nach Tennessee kommen, mitnehmen deine motorad bitte!! i mochte es fahren! :fing02:

What is the model of your LED voltmeter & where did you get it? Do you have a picture? Thanks filterfool here is the entire thread with options. mine came from signal dynamics (same one HS used). i looked at the link/web site and couldnt find it. maybe you can give them a call. if not, there are several other options on the thread.

agree with above....dont use a meter that needs seperate inputs. do a quick search. there are a multitude of meter options already tried by this board. mine is a simple LED that glows red, orange, green depending on the voltage powering it. tightwad has on option too.

i read BIKE and VISORDOWN all the time. i love the pics of the countryside. thanks for sharing some more. as everyone else said....everything sure is green! :laughing6-hehe:

i have the CL14 along w/ AC15 and SHark RSR2 (top end sweet helmet). while there is a difference, i dont think this is your issue. i am 6'2" and had a touring windshield (it was a little taller and had a curled lip on top). this moved the windblast to hit me right in the helmet. i didnt know any better at the time, but it stunk at speed. after a crash, i put the stocker back on and the wind began to hit me in the chest. when i sit up straight, my helmet is in clean air and has no buffeting. oh, and it is much quieter too in the clean air. at your own risk, while cruising at speed, stand up and get your head above the wind stream and see how it feels before you spend money on a new helmet.

Shouldn't be a problem but before I answer 100%, you say when you flip them on in 'daylight', what determines 'daylight'. How do you stop them from flashing at night if you just want plain old high beams? it has a simply light sensor so it flashes during the day and is off and therefore allows hi beam opps at night. if i remember correctly, it simply plugged on the back of ONE of the high beams and when power is applied ot it, if the sensor sees daylight, then it modulates power. if dark, then it simply allows power through like normal. pretty simple. sounds like this shouldnt impact your deal any.

if i have a flasher relay tha works with hi beams (flashes high beams when you flip them on in daylight), is there anyreason this wont work with that circuit? you said hi's stay the same, so i assume not, but...

This is almost exactly what I did as well. Pull the rubber stopper off of the old exhaust headers, and install the new headers. When you swing the centerstand up it will hit the exhaust on the right hand side; just JB Weld the stopper on to that spot on the c-stand so you don't have metal-on-metal. I actually trimmed the stopper down some so the centerstand retracts up higher (more ground clearance, y'know...) Could maybe drill a hole in the centerstand too, then just re-insert the rubber there? I just don't trust JB Weld much myself. 2 years, thousands of miles...no problem and counting.... :laughing6-hehe: I've witnessed JB WELD fail on several occasions, usually after about two years or so in the field. Something happens as it ages which causes the bond to weaken significantly. what does fail mean in this case.....the rubber stopper falls off? no big....put another on. it isn't holding anythign significant and the loss wouldnt hurt you. this is a very simply way to stop the center stand from hitting anything is all.

This is almost exactly what I did as well. Pull the rubber stopper off of the old exhaust headers, and install the new headers. When you swing the centerstand up it will hit the exhaust on the right hand side; just JB Weld the stopper on to that spot on the c-stand so you don't have metal-on-metal. I actually trimmed the stopper down some so the centerstand retracts up higher (more ground clearance, y'know...) Could maybe drill a hole in the centerstand too, then just re-insert the rubber there? I just don't trust JB Weld much myself. 2 years, thousands of miles...no problem and counting.... :laughing6-hehe:

i took the rubber pad off the cat unit and cut off the little nub and then jb welded it to my center stand so that it rested against the header. that is the only modification I had to make. it will work just fine :)

what do you mean by electrics shut down? does the dash go dark? if you are losing dashboard/guages too, you probably have a loose terminal on battery or grounding problem. you said connectors looked good, but what about terminals on battery? are they tight? a momentary loss of ground or a momentary short could cause this if guages are going out.

the lower pressure is good for the track, but i would go 36/42 on the street. you just dont need the grip for any street riding PLUS the heat will go up and the life will go down. i see the pic, but dont really see a lot wrong with it. you might be getting a pinching on the edge with the low pressure.

dang SV guys....stealing all the lime light :) once battery is charged, check voltage (12.8V) let sit over night.....still should read the same.... put in bike and connect turn on bike at idle 13.5V across battery terminals rev to 5000 RPM....14+V across terminals...i think 14.8V is right but not more than 15.xV let us know what you read. depending on these readings, we'll know more about your RR/stator circuit.

The issue as always is $$ vs needed performance. The power one set is $40 dollars more that the PR's. I bought a PR5 to save the money and the performance should be good enough for me. Regarding the front, I have read that for our tracks/temps, the PO B is better for most riders (short of the super fast) than the PO V. Now that I look again, they do have the PRD for the same price as the PR5, so next time, I'll be sure and get that one. Thanks again for the help.

thanks gents! i just wanted to make sure what i was seeing was normal. i'll flip the medium/soft for one more day, but start using the PR5 for the future. i would love to stick with the streets, but i just dont have the confidence in them anymore....maybe i just ran them too many days, but the last time i used them, i was sliding and pushing and scaring myself. i know plenty of people that can run them faster than i, but it is the price i'll have to suffer through.

I ran my first track day on DOTs last week. I had Pilot One B on the front and Pilot Race Medium/Soft on the rear. I was running reasonable pace w/ a GSXR 750. It was 80 degrees The question/problem: At TallyGP, you run mostly lefthanders w/ just one right. My rear is almost down to the wear bar in just one day. I watched my pressures closely and the wear pattterns look good (a little to much rebound damping maybe, but the rest looked great.) While I can flip it and get another day, I was wondering: 1. Am I going to only get 1-2 days out of a rear? 2. I bought a PR5 to replace it. Have you run this? should I expect Better life? Difference performance? Will a PR5 be a better choice for 90+ degrees that I will see in July at Tally? Any perspective would be nice.

that is what i think too.

I dont know the older bikes, but at 4-5K RPM, the voltage should be around 14.8V shouldn't it? it sounds like you are not getting enough juice to keep the battery charged and running it is draining it.

Sam, thanks for leading us. You did fine, definately not you're fault about what happened. Hope you didn't take offense about me wanting to run faster, just seems to take more concentration for me to ride at that pace than faster because I have to make sure I don't run too keep into the corner. My name's Matt BTW. I had a great time chasing them as well. We all need to get together and ride again soon. He was there for a fallen rider when needed and that speaks volumes. Tell them I said hi. Speaking of captions, this picture definately needs one. I'm sure we can come up with something good............. apparently he is referring to the aftermath of following the signage's direction to frisk and pet... :beer:

their website works great: kn-204

have had two of this exact helmet....LLLOOOOOOVVVVEEEE IT! saved my life once no doubt as the impact cracked the helmet right behind my left ear and left a nice imprint in the internal protective shell. :laughing6-hehe: i went right out and bought another one the next week.... :biggrin:

LOL! How did you know....She waited until we were waaaaaaaay out in the middle of no where, kicked me :blink: and drove off...... :goofy:

BR: I bet we pulled in around 11:05! Sorry we missed you :goofy: toddulu: it has been a VERY wet year to say the least (it is raining right now). the smells of the honeysuckles, fresh cut grass and other fauna make it worth it though :fing02: polar bear: the grapes are actually from Washington for now. They have planted the vines, but they are too young to produce yet. They had a couple that were nice. Here is the web site: http://www.amberfallswinery.com/wine-list/ I bought a Meriwether Lewis. The Blanc Du Bois was NOT GOOD.

Sunday was just a magnificent day and on short planning, TN_VFR_GIRL and I decided to make use of Mother’s Day and the great weather and get in a nice ride in Middle TN. We met at my house and the first thing I did was BREAK HER BIKE!! :ohmy: She showed up on the BMW and showed me how her power connector for her heated jacket had gotten water in it and rusted. I shot some WD40 in it, and tried cleaning it out. But being so small a connector, I couldn’t reach into it enough to clean the rust out and decided to get a small piece of wire…..DOH! I forgot that even though the key was off, power was still available to this output as it did not have a relay….the 24VDC system arced and popped the fuse. We wanted to ride, so we just ignored it for the time and headed out. I was hoping that wasn’t some omen of how the day was going to go… :blush: Well, I shouldn’t have worried at all. After a nice lunch in Leiper’s Fork, we proceeded to try a few new roads and headed south. The roads had a good bit of erosion from the recent heavy rains and floods. There were many trees and fences down along the way, but all in all, the roads were in pretty good shape. We took a familiar route, but within an hour, had found the road blocked off for passage and we had to improvise. This single event turned out to be the best event of the day as we just started meandering down some back roads with no particular place to be. With the perfectly blue sky, a brisk 60 degrees, and a moderate pace, we explored roads we had never been on previously. Besides the gravel/sand that would be in the corners with some frequency, the ride was a joy. We ended up near a small town call Hampshire and found a vineyard that had tastings. We stopped and sampled the vineyard, finding it was a very nice place. I would recommend it to anyone in the area. They have a nice setup as you can see in the picture: They will have a Cajun festival the weekend of May 22nd, so I hope to get back soon. After enjoying the rest and buying a couple of bottles, we decided to head back. We looked at the map, decided on a general path and headed home. Unfortunately, with my leadership, we ended up doing a large loop and 30 minutes later, arrived back within 1 mile of the vineyard!!! DOH! After reevaluating our path, we figured out my error and took off again, this time, we took the “left turn at Albuquerque” :goofy: By now, the shadows were getting long and the debris in the road was getting hard to see. We needn’t worry about the debris though as it was the HUGE potholes that should have been my focus!! I learned why getting “intimate” with your motorcycle is not a good thing to do when I hit 2 potholes in a row! I looked for dents, because it felt like I had hit the tank hard enough to leave some, but there was no evidence to be found of my folly (except for my inability to breath, and the grimace on my face of which Shannon was kind enough to take a “sympathy photo”. The rest of the ride was uneventful and we arrived back in Franklin after a great day of riding. Oh, and we still had enough time to poke around, find the blown fuse and get the heater circuit back in order as it should have been. All in all, a great day of riding and adventure!