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Since I was building a lite weight Vmax, the stock exhaust would never do, I needed that 30 pound weight loss. But I also wanted a quiet bike! (Call me old if you must, but i have always liked quiet machines) When I make a run I don't want anyone to know it was me. When discussing the...

Where I left off, the "shotgun" fixed my bad idle/ low power question. Today I decided to try to sync the carbs and to futz with the air-fuel screws. 1) Even if I tightened the screw for carbs 3&4 all the way, they still wouldn't go to the same vacuum. Thoughts? 2) Tightening the air-fuel...

I saw this on another site as an ebay item, supposedly the guy had a $60K(!!!) 'buy it now' price on it. You have to read the ad copy, this guy is probably under prosecution for 'lack of truth in advertising,' 'gross misuse of hyperbole,' or 'most *******ized Yamaha.' Anyway, it's pretty-funny...

Been riding around for close to two months now and have yet to see another VMax. A couple of places around here are HUGE biker hangouts but its all Harleys. I like Harleys but they always seemed a bit overpriced to me. But now I can see a value... You're buying into a huge community and that's a...

Well I have it back together. My speedo is really slow to accelerate. It never did that before, cable isn't pinched and seems to spin freely. It does get to mph, but takes longer than it should. I ll try and take a video of it. I have a clunk in the front end when I hold the brakes and...

Here's my story. Put max heads/cams etc. on Venture 1300. Rebuilt the carbs. Stayed with all the stock max carb setup, but used the coasting enrichener diaphragms from the venture. Motor fires and runs, but it doesn't want to stay at one idle speed and when I rev it from idle to about 3-5k...

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