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If they don't wave, I open fire. It's my way of encouraging riders to show respect to each other. Frederic

I like how the forum automatically finds related threads and groups them together. Here's what I saw when logging onto the forum this evening. Fred

The last page of the 07 manual has the entire wiring diagram, in color. Fred

That's an odd one. The water drain hose and the vent hose both go through the fuel tank. I haven't looked, but I assume that the lines inside the tank are metal. Best guess, the one that's leaking is broken inside the tank. I don't know how inverting the tank would do that, but it seems to...

If the V35 bags don't unlatch from the bike easily, they could benefit from a nailfile and some white grease on the latch internals. I wrote about it here. Fred

That picture reminds me of a great story about what one Austinite did with his when Hurricane Katrina hit. Read it here. It's an impressive tale. Lone Star MVPA - ('05 Hurricane Katrina Experience) Fred

Nice bike. The design has many elements taken from the Yamaha GTS1000, so that ought to make the Yamaha purists on this forum happy. Fred

In theory, the crush washers are single use. In reality, if you don't shift them around, and didn't have them overtorqued to begin with, they'll reseal with no problem. As evidence of this, I've bled the banjo bolts on any number of bikes and never had a problem. Fred

I can get a better bleed, and faster, using the manual method. My Mity-vac is in the garbage. Skip the bottle of brake fluid on the end of the hose. It's useless except as a catch can. Pumping the lever with the bleeder screw open will get you nowhere. Open the screw. Squeeze the...

Nice smooth landing. Way better than what I've been doing. Just looking at your David Clarke headset makes my ears hurt. I hate those things with a passion. Fred

Halloumi. It's cheese. You grill it. Then you eat it. Fred

I bet it just blew. Light bulbs are pretty simple things, and the only way to make them blow is to either shake them, smash them, or apply too much voltage. There's no way you could have applied more voltage than what the battery is putting out, so my guess is that it was just old. Fred

I'm late to this thread, since it looks like you have it squared away. I used the brown wire with the blue stripe, which is tucked down inside the left hand frame. That wire splits off to four fuses, and then goes out to various accessories. One of those accessories is the Blue/Red wire...

I rarely get excited over anything to do with exhaust systems. But that right there is very lovely looking and I like it. Fred

The starter mounts, I believe, to the section of engine that is covered by your cracked cover. So there is a possibility that something is interfering with the starter and making that noise. When you change out the cover, you'll probably find the problem. Fred

Notice that the valves and springs didn't start to rotate until the RPM's went up. So the next time somebody tells you that running high revs is bad for your engine, point them to this video and explain that you'll see better valve sealing and longer life by getting the engine into an RPM range...

Well, bikes get sprayed with high pressure water as part of their testing, to make sure that they won't short out or fail in any way. So in theory, you should be fine. But that being said, I wouldn't. I've used a coin wash in the past and used the sprayer on the bike, but I was careful about...

I think it can be best translated as,"California's public education system has failed." Fred

36.3 psi Fred

I spent the last eight months working as a CAD drafter for a defense contractor. This involved very little actual drafting, and a lot of paper shuffling. Yesterday was my last day there. On Tuesday I am going to start my new job, programming and running CNC mills and lathes for the Texas...