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Hey Spoon, went riding with the neighbor yesterday (he just bought a 97 R1100R in Taos for 1500 bucks!) Dixon to Holman Hill above Mora and we about froze. Little popcorn balls of snow hitting us outside of Sipapu, man, I was chilled when I got home. C'mon Summer! H

Man, gotta love a successful 3 dollar repair!

Rider36, FWIW, there seem to be a lot of Rocksters on the market in the US and cash is, of course, King. I picked min up on E-Pay for $5200, 10k miles, pretty darned pristine condition, 2nd owner, never down. Sargent seats and 2 extra factory seats, bags, fork mounted running lights, carbon fiber fr...

Well, I'm a FNG here too, out in the Southwest. In October I bought an orange 2004 Rockster that has similar gear to yours but has a Sargent seat as well. It was on Ebay, 10,700 miles, and I had to get it shipped from Cleveland. That was no small feat. It arrived in perfect shape, had the shop that ...

riceburner wrote:Not without taking the tank off.

That's what I figured. Thanks for the response. Seems there'd be a market for a batt switch like the ones commonly seen in marine applications.... H

I'll interpret the deafening silence as a "No". H

Is there an easy way to disconnect the ground lead off of the battery without removing it? Been in the single digit temps every morning here and I'm thinking about batt longevity..... THANKS. H

I have Piaa 1100X on the forks as at my age, 61, and eyesight the Rockster lights aren't nowhere near enough, piss poor really. The PIAA lights are wonderful, you may want to consider that also. RocksterCliff, won't those little halide or whatever thingie lights shown here on the lower forks help a...

Spoon, when I was 18 (1976!) I and 2 of my buddies rode around Seneca, Maryland on '72 T140V Triumph Bonnevilles, 3 different paint schemes but pretty much stock and identical. We TOTALLY though we were badass. I guess, kinda, for the time, we were. We got into all kinds of "hijinx" on tho...

Thanks for the info and bulb tip. I can't WAIT till I get home from working in Brazil to see this thing, like some time before Christmas..... H

No, big one is dip, small one is main. Shards, thanks for the reply. Now.... would you translate that into 'Merican "English"? "Dip"? Low beam? BTW, did a season in Antarctica in '02-'03 and LOVED NZ (except driving on the wrong freakin' side of the ROAD)... REAL sad about Chris...

Just what IS the deal with the Rockster headlight arrangement? Do both lights come on in high beam mode? I won't get to see my new Rockster until probably mid December due to work travel. Just curious..... H

Hello from Northern New Mexico. Sold my old '88 R100RS and joined the 21st century - with some regret. Well, I don't actually HAVE my '04 orange Rockster yet. I bought it off of ebay yesterday and its in Ohio. Yes, it IS about to kill me, but I'm just gonna have to wait 2 weeks. This bike is loaded ...