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Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip
Reply #1095 - 07/05/10 at 09:36:37

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Midnightrider Serious Thumper Offline Alliance Member Posts: 3244 Winston Salem, NC	Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip Reply #1096 - 07/05/10 at 11:11:33 Here's the website for the Laurel Springs Station Inn Motorcycle Lodge. http://www.stationsinn.com/index-a.html I'll try to ride up to the campground and gather some info this week.
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Oldfeller--FSO Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Hobby is now "concentrated neuropany" Posts: 12671 Fayetteville, NC Gender:	Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip Reply #1097 - 07/05/10 at 15:56:04 Ask about camping, specifically mulitiple people in the same tent. Ask about rooms, how many can stay in a room, how they calculate the additional people charges, etc. We get the Deals Gap Resort down to $25-$30 a person a night by filling up the rooms and we take advantage of multiple people per tent as well.
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Midnightrider Serious Thumper Offline Alliance Member Posts: 3244 Winston Salem, NC	Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip Reply #1098 - 07/05/10 at 16:03:19 OF here is all the info you requested on the rooms. http://www.stationsinn.com/html/rates_reservations.html The campground doesnt have a website so I'll post what I find out this week.
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Oldfeller--FSO Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Hobby is now "concentrated neuropany" Posts: 12671 Fayetteville, NC Gender:	Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip Reply #1099 - 07/05/10 at 16:23:33 If they are like Deal's Gap, business is very slow right now and what they will actually do for you isn't on their web page -- you have to ask for the best deal.
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Reply #1100 - 07/05/10 at 16:54:23

If there's enough interested and we get a head count and set a date I'll ride up there and bargain with them. Its only about an hour and a half ride from home. There are some great local roads bsides the Parkway for anyone who wants to partake of some "spirited riding" I might even show up on my Ninja LOL. According to the last link I posted rooms are $80 a night for 2 people and $10 for each extra guest up to 2. In other words 4 people could stay in one room for $100 a night, about the same as Deal's Gap. My son and my brother told me the food is great, they frequent the restaraunt regularly. I'll check out the campground this week and report back. Let everyone get back from their July 4th holiday and we'll start playin with dates and try to get a headcount and go from there.

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Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip
Reply #1101 - 07/05/10 at 18:00:44

Ok, let's start popping off some dates ....

When do teachers go back to school? That's an end date for Toymaker.

Lancer, now that you know what's wrong, when will you be running again? That's a start date for Lancer.

Whatever date you pick in between the two, it will be assholes and elbows for everybody to get the bikes ready again because IT TAKES PREP TIME TO GET A RELIABLE BIKE FOR A MAJOR OUTING.

I think with gas tanks, tires and clutch cables all giving up the ghost this past time we have all learned to spend a little more time getting the P's & Q's all dealt with before starting the trip.

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Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip
Reply #1102 - 07/06/10 at 04:47:49

I just don't freaking know at this point.
I got it going and it SEEMED to be running right but ......it started messing up again.
I think it has Legionaires Disease or something !

Maybe I left a marble in the engine last time ! ? Lips Sealed

Anyway, I would love to catch this next ride but at this point I cannot say what will happen so don't include me in the scheduling of the thing.
If I make it I make it, and if not then I won't.

I am continuing to search for the elusive ROOT PROBLEM.

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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5835 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip Reply #1103 - 07/06/10 at 05:48:01 I doin't think there is a person on this site that doesn't want to see and hear REX go. Lancer what kinda of stuff is REX doing? If I understand right ... Rex has a oversize dome piston , a high long cam , a long intake manifold with a rich carb on the end of it , and has lost a lot of weight . Is that close ?
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Toymaker Serious Thumper Offline Dragon Rider Posts: 1534 Granite Falls, NC Gender:	Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip Reply #1104 - 07/06/10 at 06:38:03 Lancer, could it be a "slightly" bent valve?
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Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip
Reply #1105 - 07/06/10 at 06:48:35

You will have to count me out for this year. Not enough vacation time at work to make another trip. Plus, I taught myself a lesson yesterday -- rode almost 300 miles, 10 hours, too many twisties. I was begging for the interstate, my body was screaming for my hot-tub... but I was too dead to get in it when I got home. Relaxing bubble bath was a decent substitute. Aleve is the substitute today... ugh.

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Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip
Reply #1106 - 07/06/10 at 08:09:44

MMRanch wrote on 07/06/10 at 05:48:01:

I doin't think there is a person on this site that doesn't want to see and hear REX go. Lancer what kinda of stuff is REX doing? If I understand right ... Rex has a oversize dome piston , a high long cam , a long intake manifold with a rich carb on the end of it , and has lost a lot of weight . Is that close ?

piston...yep
cam....yep
intake....yep
weight....yep
carb &/or carbs .... crazy stuff going on

I found what I thought was THE problem, but it was not all of it.
The intake tube from carb to head was made from pvc which was ok until I removed too much material in the effort to get a better fit and when tightening the clamp the pvc cracked which made for a huge air leak...see photo .....................
so I reverted to the VM carb which now has a metal carb-to-head tube which will not crack, but there is still sililar symptoms.

It will start, with some difficulty at times;will rev pretty good most of the time but will cut out periodically; and will cough/sputter back through the carb.

My thoughts about a bent valve or cam chain jumping the sprocket are that the symptoms would be more regular, instead of the on & off nature they are now.
What do you think ?
Would a valve or jumped chain cause the erratic symptoms ?

I really do not want to have to remove the head cover again.

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Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip
Reply #1107 - 07/06/10 at 10:44:36

Only a sticking or incompletely seating valve could do what you describe, especially the major spit back thru the carb that you get "only occasionally".

What else could vent major compression force back thru the carb?

BTW, check the solenoid adjustment to make sure the exhaust valves are being allowed to shut correctly when the starter disengages (assuming you still have it hooked up).

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Toymaker, when do you go back to school? Is Labor Day weekend about it for you and trips?

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip Reply #1108 - 07/06/10 at 11:15:06 some spitting out the carb is not unusual for a stock setup. but check compression several times and see how it is, consistent or not.
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