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Title: It`s official Post by Sgt_Mike on 10/26/04 at 17:05:45 Hi folks; I am now an official member of the Savage forum :D. I submitted a question under Mike Hebert as a visitor. The info and tips that you gave me helped make a decision on which bike to seriously consider. I' ll stay in touch with you fine folks. It's unbelievable the amount of knowledge so unselfishly shared in this forum :-*. Thanks. Semper Fi & be safe Sgt Mike |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by sluggo on 10/26/04 at 18:25:30 glad to have ya aboard "jar head" ::) that from a "squid", as in sailor so you non military types don't get me confused with sombody who rides a sport bike.. and rides like a maniac. well i have been known to do that. here's a tip. the best accessory you can buy for the savage is FUEL......... anybody see a common theme with my posts.. next tip you get between 80 and 90 miles a tank, and you can count on at least 20 miles on reserve. i once got 34miles all the way to empty on country roads around 50. hwy speed it drops considerbly. so 20 is my limit. use small luggage combination lock as a trip meter hang it off a control cable by the zipp tie works great. enjoy the experience, bone up on thumpers as it will be a conversation piece at fuel stops.. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Susan on 10/26/04 at 19:16:03 sluggo wrote:
Nah. I don't think I've heard you say that before ::) sluggo wrote:
I can go 100 miles before reserve easy but I don't do a lot of highway driving and I am working off a stock exhaust. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Paladin on 10/26/04 at 20:03:59 First, Welcome Mike, from another Mike an ex E-5 Wing-Nut. Riding to work today Thumper started running rough, missing, coughing, wanting to die. Flipped the fuel lever forward and he smoothed out. 105 miles since I put in under $3 worth of gas. And I let him idle for a couple of minutes in the morning. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Diane on 10/26/04 at 21:19:03 Ha! I can top all of you. When I was riding the back country roads in New Mexico I actually got 70 miles to the gallon. Maybe it has something to do with a rookie going easy on the throttle but I was keeping up with 3 Harleys. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by sluggo on 10/26/04 at 21:27:08 susan, it must be your riding style for that exceptional milage. me i burnt off the original equipment tire in just over 4k. i'm kinda nursing it along now. hoping santa will bring me a new dunlop k555 for christmas. it's not like i do burn outs last time i tried that at 1700 miles i "high ho silvered awayed" it. lucky for you and jbird that i had already removed the original indicators.. in my state signals are not required, you are just required to signal.. now of course these days nobody knows what hand signals are, well except the one finger one. everybody knows that. i added some red running lights that i wired to the brake circut to help with the stop light. i attached them to the wheel adjustment bolts simple procedure ran the wires down inside the shock springs. my experience has show cages dont see any of the lights let alone the whole machine. i just have good medical insurance and an attorney on retainer. that way my better half gets some bucks if a cage runs over me. :( |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Greg_650 on 10/27/04 at 03:44:59 Sgt_Mike wrote:
Okay Sarg, does this mean that inspite of my "devil's advocate" statements about the Savage/40 that you still intend to buy one? Cool. Another ex-squid ;D |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Mike Hebert on 10/27/04 at 04:49:15 I sure will Greg. When it comes to the Savage/S40, the pros definitely outweigh the cons. My local dealer is getting 4 of them by mid Nov., 2 whites & 2 blacks and I've got first dibs at 'em. Now which color to get. Decisions;;; Decisions. Is white easier to see than black or vise versa? A little help on this one folks. Semper Fi & be safe. Sgt Mike |
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Title: Re: It`s official Post by Sgt_Mike on 10/27/04 at 04:54:59 Oops, I forgot to log in this AM. Senior moment? Semper Fi & be safe. Sgt Mike |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Greg_650 on 10/27/04 at 04:55:12 Mike Hebert wrote:
If it were me....I'd get the pearl white one, and I doubt that "visibility" is much of a color issue from the front or back either way. Besides, there are a lot of black Savage/40s, and I like to be different. |
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Title: Re: It`s official Post by Sgt_Mike on 10/27/04 at 04:58:44 I agree Greg. On photos anyhow, white really looks cool/great. White it is. Semper Fi & be safe |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Susan on 10/27/04 at 05:33:05 The other thing about white is maybe you will look like a cop and the cages will look twice... |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Paladin on 10/27/04 at 10:06:15 sluggo wrote:
I figure the reason the Whip brought up replacing a car with a bike was for the insurance. Which reminds me -- I have to go to t he company site to up my life insurance to a quarter mil so the wife gets the same whether I retire or die. We have rain in L.A. -- yet yesterday and today at 6:30am I walked out to wet streets under a dry sky and rode into work. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Max_Morley on 10/27/04 at 10:28:36 Folks tell me my yellow bodied and whittr fairing and bagged 96 is hard to miss. I also wear yellow textile jackets with a white helmet. One of the boards recently had some information that lead one to believe a black and white bike with a white top, black lower helmet had higher visibility and less folks admitted to not seeing that any other color. Seems like they all know what a cycle officer looks like. Max :) |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Greg_650 on 10/27/04 at 10:46:24 Max_Morley wrote:
I read an article not long ago (AMA, I think) that stated that orange (as in "orange and black") was the most visible color.... |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by rkutzner on 10/27/04 at 13:02:24 Semper Fi from another Pearl White S40 Jar Head owner! White gives you more options on the tank....like a nice airbrushed Eagle, Globe & Anchor ;D I went back and forth alot between the S40 and S50 and am VERY glad I got the 40 because I have TONS of twisty back roads around here and most of my time is spent rolling left/right/left (a Marine thing?). The lighter the bike the quicker the response and the power is plenty for the steepest of hills. The bike is just a HOOT !!! When you get it adjust the idle mixture screw out to the highest idle (then turn the idle set screw back some to where the idle speed was before). For me it was 1.5 turns out (factory was 1/16th out :-[). This will eliminate 95% of the backfires you will experience.... |
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Title: Re: It`s official Post by Sgt_Mike on 10/28/04 at 05:09:48 You have read my mind. An Eagle Globe & Anchor is going to be air brushed on the tank. The screw that you're refering to. Is it the air/fuel mixture screw or the idle mixture screw? Is it the one that I keep reading about in this forum? The one that's under a brass plug that's got to be popped out to gain access to the screw? Thanks for the welcome and making me feel at home folks. Have a great day :). Sgt Mike |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Savage_Rob on 10/28/04 at 05:52:54 That's the one. It's under a brass plug with a dab of paint on it. Just drill a hole in it (being careful not to apply much pressure since the screw behind it is also brass). Then screw a sheetmetal screw into it and pull it out with a pair of pliers. Oh yeah, a squid here... maybe I'll just use the fouled anchor. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Greg_650 on 10/28/04 at 06:53:41 Oh, First Class Petty Officer, I see...hmmmm. Yeah, drill it carefully...but when I did mine, the drill must have relieved the pressed in force on the brass plug and the whole thing came spinning out with the drill anyway. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Savage_Rob on 10/28/04 at 07:09:26 Yup, used to be an STG1. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Greg_650 on 10/28/04 at 08:13:20 Savage_Rob wrote:
I guess that I wasn't a high achiever. Just knock off the bottom stripe for me....I was an ADJ2. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by PRH111 on 10/28/04 at 08:26:42 Am I the only ex-Army guy here? E-5 as well (as most people here seem to be/have been). Diane wrote:
Higher altitude in New Mexico, thinner air...means you had a more optimized air/fuel ratio (without adjusting from the factory) and therefore more available power for the given amount of fuel and required less throttle input for a given speed. I remember doing the BATAAN death march in New Mexico (4000' elevation, just hitting 90 degrees, 25 miles of sand). |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by sluggo on 10/28/04 at 08:59:28 me i was a real achiever after 4 years i made it all the way up to mmfn that's a e-3 for you green uniform types. that and never lost a stripe.. ;D |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Savage_Rob on 10/28/04 at 10:13:41 Ahhh, Machinist Mate - Fireman.... sort of a fresh-air snipe. Well maybe just a plain old hole-snipe. I guess you could only be called fresh-air if compared to a BT, huh? |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by sluggo on 10/28/04 at 10:57:16 Savage_Rob wrote:
roflmao.... got that right. fresh air on the first ship " A" gang . hole-snipe on second. on the second my job was tied closely to a BT i was distill tank feed, bt was several feet away as boiler feed. it's been 30 years and yet sometimes at night the damage control drills just start running and i swear i was back on the ole thomaston. for the rest of you that means we sat in the bowels of the ship in 125 -130 degree heat for up to 12 of the 24 hrs in a day. when we wern't on watch or sleeping we were training. because at sea there ain't no fire department or ambulance to save our butts if something happed. i think that's what led me to thumpers. simple machine that i can do all the maintance my self and take responsibilty for my personal safety. oh yeah on the thomaston we did drag the "jarheads' from the philipines to japan to korea. back to okinowa (sp) back to the p.i. with them "hugging the rails". now don't get me started on the way back machine.. and the P.I.... because i believe this is a "g" rated forum. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Savage_Rob on 10/28/04 at 11:13:51 Heh, I know that feelin'. I was 7th Fleet for five years aboard two frigates... FF-1071 USS Badger and FF-1055 USS Hepburn (formerly DE-1071 and DE-1055) and both were DFM plants. Even though I was a twidget, my first six months aboard ship was DC maintenance for my division. I am well acquainted with Olongapo and Subic myself and am also a proud Shellback. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Greg_650 on 10/28/04 at 11:45:07 Yipes, the place is crawling with Blackshoes all of a sudden. Aren't there any Airdales around here? |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by sluggo on 10/28/04 at 13:04:38 ff 1073 robert e peary. 73 -76 i too am a proud shellback kenya was a kewl place back then. my party place in olongopo the "L" club, and peralla's located in officer country. i was the only enlisted man that hung out there. it bothered the officers but not me. i rode a honda cb 350 there. when out to sea the poe city police chief used it. corruption sure had it's perks. ;D i brought it back to pearl, never could get it registered as it was a japan market machine and didn't meet u.s. specs.. pretty much gave it away at that point. ":-X" i never encounter this smiley there. ;) quick funny story. between westpacs the main street was paved in poe city. i came out of the "L" club crossed the street, shore patrol stopped me and said olongopo was now "civilized" and we must use the cross walks.. i said you could pave the street with gold and it will never be civilized laffed and went on my merry way. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Savage_Rob on 10/28/04 at 13:50:08 No doubt, did Mombasa myself... even the Tsavo wildlife preserve. Drinkin' Tusker and Whitecap. Back to the land of San Miguel and Red Horse, I went straight down Magsaysay Blvd, grabbed a jeepney and went to Barrio Barretto - hung out at a little joint called My Other Place. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by rkutzner on 10/28/04 at 17:26:16 Sgt_Mike wrote:
After you set the idle/mixture screw to get the highest idle rpm, then look on the left of the bike and there is a brass thumb screw to adjust the idle speed (NOT mixture...just RPM). Adjust that back down to around where it was before. I tend to like it a little lower for more 'shake'. Email me a pic of that EG&A when you get it done (rkutzner@ccpl.carr.org). I made E-4 in my 4 years (not an easy task in the Marines) 8).....0311....grunt...grunt...... |
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Title: Re: It`s official Post by Sgt_Mike on 10/29/04 at 08:31:48 Thanks for the additional info about the idle speed screw. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by MK on 10/29/04 at 20:19:42 If you can't decide between the black or white, maybe get one of each! ;D http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/225938/ http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/225939/ http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/225940/ Whichever you'll get I'm sure you'll love it! |
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Title: Re: It`s official Post by Sgt_Mike on 11/01/04 at 04:36:33 Thanks for the pics MK. Great looking rides. The white one sure is KEWL. How come you have the same tag number on both bikes? You didn't think I'd noticed did you? Have a good day. Sgt Mike |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Greg_650 on 11/01/04 at 04:46:23 Sgt_Mike wrote:
Better take a closer look there, Sarg 8) |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Sgt_Mike on 11/01/04 at 05:07:55 Ok Greg I give up. What did I miss? Looks like the same number to me |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Susan on 11/01/04 at 05:09:07 Look for a letter that looks like a number. :) Did I make that too easy? ::) |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Greg_650 on 11/01/04 at 05:22:29 Susan wrote:
Nope. Bet he doesn't find it ::) |
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Title: Re: It`s official Post by Sgt_Mike on 11/01/04 at 05:39:33 Inspector Clouseaux I am not. But after closer examination and your tip "Eureka" I found the stupidity of my ways. Have a great day. By the way a little humor don't hurt, even early in the morn'. Sgt Mike |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Greg_650 on 11/01/04 at 05:58:03 ;D I bet that I couldn't spell Clouseax this early for sure. |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Kropatchek on 11/01/04 at 07:40:22 You's absolutely correct, Greg. It's Clouseaux. ;D Good morning Kropatchek |
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Title: Re: It`s offical Post by Greg_650 on 11/01/04 at 09:58:56 Kropatchek wrote:
It's always good to be right when you're wrong 8) |
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