Ditto on the kudos. You guys are great. Thanks all for the advice. Problem is that one sentence leads to a question, and on and on.
1. Does the left muffler also have that drainage hole? (still waiting on the Clymer's) 2. If you go to a stainless steel brake line, then you would not have to worry about the amount of slack in the line and could order to whatever size you wanted. Finding longer cables could be a son of a gun. Noticed that my brake line does not go through the fork mounted guide that the tach cable does. Fortunately I can use the risers on the DR to get an idea how much room there is to play with. 4. Needed to make a fast brake at a changing light. Found my rear end sway to the right. I know shoes are not as efficient, but that never was a problem on the Shadow. Something else to check out. 5. I have seen the spacer throttle mod and it does make for faster acceleration. Being old school, I learned to drill out the mixture screw cover and after raising the rpms to turn the mixture screw in until the carb starts to stutter, then back off about a half turn. 6. Round the world, that cyclops headlight would need some sort of a cover. Big target. 7. Over the rear brake light, the fender has two seams running from front to back. Looks like a compartment cover. Cannot seem to open it. Access to the storage area without having to take off the seat?? Dapple is going into storage soon. The wife was not thrilled about having a motorcycle off of the family room last year. Working on the bike over the winter did however keep me busy, sane and out of her hair. :) There is a saying that goes along the lines that life is an open book. Those that do not travel fail to get beyond the first page. A recent digital bike newsletter came up with the title, "Places to Ride Before You Die." A take off on the books on places. Turned out to nothing more than a plug for a few Latin American tours. My two cents in the matter goes that riding adventures are not so much placed on distance or how exotic the locale. An adventure is how far do you dare go beyond your comfort zone? My greatest rides have been the early ones. How far can I ride in one day? Well, if I can do that then I can ride around Lake Michigan, If I can do that, maybe I can ride Route 66, and so on. Sometimes it is good to be a newbie or at least the mindset. How far have you ridden your NH in one day? So off topic, you are riding solo on the trip of a lifetime. It may be 500 miles or 12,000 kms. A major engine failure. What do you do? A contender for long winded posts. Dave On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Allen Thomas <althomas...@gmail.com> wrote: > David your carbs are pretty dirty. Mine was doing the same thing during > cold weather when I got it. In fact if I turned off the choke it would Bog > down if I ran it below 4k for any length of time. Once you clean them set > the needles around 3- 3 1/4 turns out, and definitely do the washer mod. > There is a Big flat spot around 4k rpm if I remember correctly, shimming > the needles fixes it. I'm pretty sure I ended up using a 135 main jet as > well I'm at 1000 feet elevation. I can look up what I used if you want. > Honda tuned the bike extremely lean. Once cleaned, and adjusted like I > stated, mine would start on the first crank even below freezing. Warm up > times were much faster as well. > > Allen Thomas > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nighthawk_lovers/-CSsUSU83QI/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
