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Hey folks. Let's chat up the CT section

ThreeWheels

ThreeWheels

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The weather is getting warmer. Let's start planning some rides.
My wife (well this one anyway) never really liked my motorcycle but she's expressed some interest in riding with me on the Spyder.
 
Been lazy all winter and dragging my feet on all the winter upgrades. Now I just took it apart this weekend. Got the wood stove going in the basement and working on da Spyder as we speak. Should have it together in a few weeks ready for spring. I heard something like 60s are coming by the end of next weekend.:2thumbs:
 
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I forget to check the CT Chapter, just happend to see this one.

I am usually lingering around shop talk for ideas.

But anyway, sounds good, count me in. :2thumbs:

I am not to familiar with your area. Depending on how far you want to go, we can meet up somewhere along RT 7 or 8 and head up to Kent Coffee or Vanilla Bean. Bones knows some good routes.

Mark
 
Mine is still in the garage. I have a bunch of upgrades to put on the bike from Xmas. Probably going to wait about another month.

Smylinacha; Are you referring to the normal power steering not working problem? I got mine fixed last year in Waterbury at Land n Sea and then towards the end of the season it felt like it stopped working. Was thinking about bringing it back in this season to have it done again. I havent been reading the boards too much, but is this what other people are complaining about as well?
 
It locked up on me twice when I was in TN. I always had power steering (I think?) because it was never hard to turn the bars. They replaced the DPS (2nd didn't take but 3rd did) but now my steering feels "different" - almost loose or as I said previously "Floaty". If I have to sit it out this season I will since I want an answer as to why these dps problems are happening. I refuse to be a test pilot. No thanks.

There are DPS problems such as:

DPS code shows up on screen

People lose the steering so when they use more strength to steer, the dps suddenly kicks back on and they unintentionally oversteer - some into oncoming traffic.

DPS lock up - the bars "get stuck". Mine happened in a right hand curve and as the road straightened out, my Spyder wouldn't. I pulled pretty hard to the left and it seemed to pop back into position. Did this twice.

So some different stuff going on.

GoodHouse said:
Mine is still in the garage. I have a bunch of upgrades to put on the bike from Xmas. Probably going to wait about another month.

Smylinacha; Are you referring to the normal power steering not working problem? I got mine fixed last year in Waterbury at Land n Sea and then towards the end of the season it felt like it stopped working. Was thinking about bringing it back in this season to have it done again. I havent been reading the boards too much, but is this what other people are complaining about as well?
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I'll still be snowboarding on weekends up at Killington for at least the next 4 weekends...

Would love to have a little meet-up at Marcus Dairy some Sunday morning later in the spring
 
HDXBONES said:
:2thumbs:


How many miles are you up to now?
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well, I have a confession to make; About 5 weeks ago, I picked up a Honda Element... This is the first car I have owned in 5 years. It was becoming increasingly difficult to find people to go up to VT and rental cars just get too expensive, so I dropped the hammer.

The car has had a massive impact on my mileage cause for about 3 weeks I just drove the car to work everyday. It was odd to sit back with the radio, climate control and coffee in my hand.

So, it's looking like I wont be reaching my intended goal of 100k by my 2 year anniversary on the Spyder. Besides with all the insanity of flipping my gauges twice, a replacement at approx 75k miles and the 9.5k miles that I have on there now... I'm loosing touch with how many miles I really have.
It could be 80k or 85k...
 
Is that 92 mph I see in pic #5? Hope you aren't driving with just hand at that speed and taking pic with the other.:D
 
 
Hey, SKS06460! You are too funny. Just to let you know that the folks in Cali are listening, and for you to know that there is always hope. My hubby has poo-pooed the Spyder ever since I started talking about it. Then one day I heard "toot, toot" coming from the garage. Sounded like my Rosie. Well, here was my husband on Rosie asking "how do you start this thing?". The rest is history. Take care, MM :ohyea:
 
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