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I have lowered the front and back and absolutely love the way this bike rides. Looking for some feedback from those are a bit short on the inseam. I have a 29" inseam and I'm looking for a seat that will bring as low to the ground as possible. At this point I was thinking the badlander? Thanks in advance for the help.

i need a pipe system that will fit a 1974 shovel - the bike has a baker six speed does any one make a pipe --old pipe had to be cut and welded -- i need a new pretty crowm pipe help - help-- contact hawk5248ee@aol.com ----phil

is their any reason I shouldn’t run a regular car filter? I know the MoCo one has a bypass valve and an anti drain back valve in it. If change the oil and filter every 2000 rather than the MoCo recommended 5000 do I really need the bypass? I have herd of people using a regular ol Fram for a Geo but since the filter is on its side is dry starting going to be an issue if I use a filter w/o an anti drain back valve? I read some studies and purealater pure-one rates high up there. They even make a pure-one for the TC88 w/all the valves part # ML16822 $11 at advanced auto. It is supposed to filter better and flow better than the MoCo one. I appreciate your advice and recommendations. Johnny O.

I recently put this bike back on the road after sitting for five years. I put about 200-250 miles on it and this morning while riding 20+ miles to work, the idle speed suddenly increased. This bike has a rigid wire throttle cable, desined with no return spring. I thought perhaps the clamping bolt at the carburator had slipped on the cable wire and was preventing full return to idle, but that does not seem to be the case. Does anybody have an idea why carburator settings would suddenly change. There are no sensors or electronics to screw up.

I had my bike dyno tuned recently and was very happy with my results. If I posted these in the correct order, they will be first a comparison of my base line (which didn't print out right...so I used a yellow highlighter to trace in the gaps) and finish runs with air cleaner on. Second is the finished dyno run showing the Air/Fuel trace line which is as close to perfect as I've ever seen WOT readings around 13.2 and steady cruising readings from 2000-3500 rpm with readings of 13.8-13.9 to 1. Third shows the finished settings with the air cleaner removed to see how much restriction the hypercharger was giving.