04-27-2010, 09:44 PM | #16 |
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I have one similar on mine and I love it. I am 58 years old and I am having more fun than I had when I was 25. That is how old I was when I sold my last bike, my wife said it had to go. We are still married, and she likes my bikes, but she does not ride.
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04-27-2010, 09:45 PM | #17 | ||
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Re: Bug Defflector
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04-27-2010, 09:48 PM | #18 |
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Once you get up to about 50 Mph, your speedometer will read about 7 MPH faster than you are moving, unless they have fixed that. I think it says MPH but it is actually in kilometers.
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04-27-2010, 09:55 PM | #19 |
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As long as you're using four stroke motorcycle oil, I don't see a problem with synthetic. I've broken all of our machines in on synthetic, and none of 'em burn any oil.
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04-27-2010, 10:05 PM | #20 |
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I have a great deal of respect for Weldangrind, but I disagree with him on this one. Come on guys what are your thoughts on the oil?
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04-27-2010, 10:07 PM | #21 | |
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04-27-2010, 10:17 PM | #22 | |
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50(mph) divided by 57(mph) = .88 50(mph) divided by 81(mph) = .62 If my math is correct you would have to be reading 81mph and only going 50mph if it were in km/h. Must be a sensor gear ratio problem. |
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04-27-2010, 10:26 PM | #23 | |
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04-28-2010, 02:11 AM | #25 |
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That's pretty cool! 8)
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05-02-2010, 10:38 AM | #26 | |
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That is the concensus, did you get any kind of owners manual? |
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05-02-2010, 12:27 PM | #27 |
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was wondering what speed this would get up to comfortably... can it go on the highway? I have a friend who likes cruisers and this is the right price but he needs to go down to the valley and thats 65mph
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05-02-2010, 12:34 PM | #28 |
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My opinion is that with stock gearing, 65 is not a reasonable speed to maintain. I also don't think you can maintain that speed with altered gearing. Others will disagree, but that is pushing that engine past its limits.
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05-02-2010, 10:39 PM | #30 |
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I got tired of waiting for my parts to arrive and threaded my last two threads on the shifter linkage into the elbow joint and put ten miles riding around my property today. Its been 25 years since I've been on a bike but after I got over the jitters I was alright. If I decide to do any more trail riding though I think I'll have to adjust the shocks to be a little stiffer. That back tire is great in the dirt/rocks.
I didn't have any shifter problems. All shifts were easy and positive. Easy to find neutral running or not. Of course I changed the oil to synthetic before I even first started it. Hopefully the parts will be in this week and I can take it out on the road. I was reading the manual today. Whoever wrote it must have flunked English class. Some of it is hard to figure out what they are trying to say while other parts are quite comical. Did you know that I have a rear winker? The first 500 kilometers(315 milies) I have to go <25mph and the second 500 I have to go <35mph. I don't think I'll be following the recommended break-in. Oh yeah, it also says "Foltiden heavy load and sharp ramp". What the heck is that? :? |
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