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Posted by Troll
- May 31, 2013, 19:58:09 PMYa heard that, huh...grinding off the hero knobs is an honorable thing to do..they are about 1/2 gone on the "W"...Just got back from a ridge run on apple blossom drive. I'm never going to get 100,000 on it if I don't ride it...
Posted by greenbarn
- May 31, 2013, 18:46:10 PMHey that was really good. Haven't we ridden this route before? Looks familiar.... Pretty soon we're going to know your neighborhood pretty well!
The left-bar perspective keeps making me think we're going left-of-center. But I think it's the best so far.
Was that the sound I heard of a right running board dragging a bit on a right turn?
Posted by CDNRatMan
- May 31, 2013, 15:57:41 PM 
you have 2 M/C cool.....lol....ok I like the veiw it is really good and it really gives you that leaning feeling as you are cornering. Sound is good too, like the music. What is the golf course at the start? Alpine inn seems to be a popular place...lol....
Posted by Troll
- May 31, 2013, 14:42:53 PM Sooooo, further experiments in mountings. I spent, as it turns out, way more money than I needed with this mount thing. I think you'll agree that the latest permutation is the best so far. Mounted on top of the clutch master (pic), the jello effect is almost non existent. Very steady and smooth video. I'm obviously no cinematographer, but I think I can live with these results. The sound track is not added, it's the MP3 player.
https://picasaweb.google.com/109550952480484427597/GoProVideoClips#5884218525195394914
When you look at the web results, remember they are converting an MP4 HQ video file to flash media. I know I don't have to say this, but let me know what you think......
Posted by CDNRatMan
- May 31, 2013, 14:12:20 PM49 you get a lot of them people in your neck of the woods eh! banjo playin' single eye brow types.....lol
Posted by Troll
- May 31, 2013, 13:14:42 PMJust in case you didn't recognize it...I'm sure Lurch did, that was a didgeridoo........google it.
Posted by 49Reo
- May 31, 2013, 12:18:16 PMQuote from: Troll on May 26, 2013, 11:19:34 AMSometimes, when you agree to make a "house call" in a rural area, you get surprised. By following directions I found that the saying "you can't miss it"in this case, actually was true...the road ends at her garage door. For a while, there, I was starting to think I was in the "outback"
https://picasaweb.google.com/109550952480484427597/GoProVideoClips#5882319352291666530
Nice vid, nice place. With that background music, I kept expecting to see a big-eared little kid with a banjo..... 
Posted by Troll
- May 31, 2013, 07:33:36 AMThe seat is the stock solo with a (made for a 2 piece nomad seat) Mustang cover. I cut the skirt of the stock seat and had it sewn on the cover, just at he rear seam. I added the fringe with some leather glue on the inside of the skirt. I did all this in '11, and ran it that way until I got the dual seat, which I modded a bit and had on all of last year, and this year, until Wednesday. The radio/mp3 player is from firefly designs on eBay..like $50. I added a 500 watt pmpo amp (probably about 15 watts per channel in reality) for another $30. I put the amp in the left side cover, in the tray on top of the tool box. I made sure I can still remove the windshield by having all the connections between the radio and the bike done with molex connectors. I will see how well this works out, and may go to something else, but I had the connectors scavenged from old computer power supplies. I decided to add the music box after deciding that listening to my own singing inside the helmet on those 10 hour rides, just wasn't doing it for me, anymore. That was one of the things I missed about my TourGLide...
Posted by 49Reo
- May 30, 2013, 21:11:15 PMBike is looking real nice, is the seat stock? I would like to hear more about your stereo setup. What is that?
Posted by Troll
- May 30, 2013, 17:48:14 PMOther than REALLY dirty..I love the modular design of this machine. Took off the dual seat and horseshoe, put the solo back on, took off the trunk...that takes about 1 min. due to the mounting system I made. Total conversion time, about 45 mins....Decided a "new" look was in order after all of last year...
Posted by CDNRatMan
- May 30, 2013, 17:40:51 PM I for one am awaiting your next production into the video world. Bike is looking really nice right now.......
Posted by Troll
- May 30, 2013, 15:57:01 PMWhen I was riding back from Winter, Monday, I was mulling over different ways to mount the GoPro so I can get the best possible video. That's when it hit me like a ton of bricks...The top of the clutch or brake cylinders have NO vibration that I could feel. I took some ZipStrip to the clutch master cap, and then polished it (absolutely down to raw metal), and I put an adhesive flat base mount on it. They recommend 24 hours cure time for the adhesive, so tomorrow, if we don't get more thunder storms and hail... I'll road test it. For the time being, I'll just post this picture. I went down by the river, and as soon as I stopped, the storm started. I made it home before the hail started, but just barely. The rain drops are pretty obvious in the water....
Posted by John Hopkins
- May 28, 2013, 17:52:43 PMQuote from: Troll on May 27, 2013, 18:11:05 PMGood for you..too many people wouldn't bother..Rode about 300 miles in rain, wind and 50 deg. temps I rode up to Winter, WI to visit my parents...do this every Memorial Day...Dad was a B-17/B-24 ball turret tech, and Mom worked for Grumman Aircraft.
John.
Posted by greenbarn
- May 28, 2013, 17:11:50 PMQuote from: Troll on May 27, 2013, 18:11:05 PMRIP.I rode up to Winter, WI to visit my parents...do this every Memorial Day...Dad was a B-17/B-24 ball turret tech, and Mom worked for Grumman Aircraft.
Posted by Troll
- May 27, 2013, 18:11:05 PMI'm about 50 miles south of the 45th parallel....but is was damn cold again, today. Rode about 300 miles in rain, wind and 50 deg. temps...bright side, the new to me stock exhaust system didn't change my fuel calibration...got 48 mpg! I rode up to Winter, WI to visit my parents...do this every Memorial Day...Dad was a B-17/B-24 ball turret tech, and Mom worked for Grumman Aircraft.