Great bike

[Glenlivet]

Finally had a chance to spend a few hours on the new (to me) phat girl. 98 Tourer, bought new in 2000, one previous owner. Awesome condition, not a mark to be found on it, stored with a dust cover on all the time.
The previous owner had put 6-6 Vance & Hines pipes on it, or rather had a shop do that and the shop never rejetted the carbs to compensate, so whenever the throttle was reduced it snapped and popped like crazy. Also it lost as he estimated @ 7 horsepower and to my sensibilities it made an awful racket. (Why on Earth would... nevermind)
But it came with the stock exhaust pipes that are in perfect shape, not so much as a yellowing at the flanges. I put those on yesterday, and what a difference!  Nice civilized sound and turbine-like smoothness, and when you get on it... preaching to the converted here, I know.
This is going to be good. 

[F-six]

That is one beautiful bike! Love the maroon creme color. Hope you will have a lot of miles and smiles on this great bike!
 

[MarkT]

Now all you need is a proper pipe job!   Nyuk nyuk.

[Serk]

Howdy and welcome! Love the handle too, although I've become more of a Laphroaig/Ardbeg type lately...

[Fazer]

Looks just like my '98.  Where are you located.  Put your location on your profile so we know where you are.

Here are a couple of photos.  I took the horns off.  Also had a set of truck (valk) nuts since removed.  I now have a Memphis Shades batwing.

Mine had 17,000 on when I bought it a year ago.  Now 23,000.  Loving every mile.

[mike72903]

Beautiful bike, right up there with the teal and black tourer of the same year.

[Glenlivet]

Beautiful bike, right up there with the teal and black tourer of the same year.

Thanks all, and that teal and black looks sharp!

How about this perk, for the man-cave. Came with the bike, along with helmet intercoms, a tank bib and a couple of seat sheep skins...:

[Bighead]

Give you a hunert for the light

[Glenlivet]

Rly?

[msb]

Beautiful bike, right up there with the teal and black tourer of the same year.

Thanks all, and that teal and black looks sharp!

How about this perk, for the man-cave. Came with the bike, along with helmet intercoms, a tank bib and a couple of seat sheep skins...:

Ahhh, the coveted neon sign. Sharp looking bike you have there as well. When I get back from holidays in the Kootenays in a couple weeks, I'll shoot you a PM next time I'm out through Hope.
Cheers,
Mike

[Bighead]

Rly?

Just Sayin 

[Willow]

Rly?

They normally go for $300 - $500 these days.   

[Bighead]

Rly?

They normally go for $300 - $500 these days.   

Yeah I think he gets that  

[Hook#3287]

Looks just like my '98.  Where are you located.  Put your location on your profile so we know where you are.

Here are a couple of photos.  I took the horns off.  Also had a set of truck (valk) nuts since removed.  I now have a Memphis Shades batwing.

Mine had 17,000 on when I bought it a year ago.  Now 23,000.  Loving every mile.

  took me a while too find the horns.  I was looking for AIR horns around the engine guards.

Those are kinda funky.

[old2soon]

Rly?

They normally go for $300 - $500 these days.   

                  IF you can find em! RIDE SAFE.

[Glenlivet]

About horns... I didn't want to start a topic on which there are existing threads, albeit pretty old ones for the most part, so here I go:
 
The start button on my ATV is on the left so it wasn't long before I instinctively pressed it to fire up the bike and heard instead a thin reedy <neep> issue from somewhere down by the motor. What silliness is this? I wasn't rolling yet so I hadn't run over a dog toy, therefor this must be the bike's horn.

I have to shake the head. It seems apparent that Honda puts the same neep horn on each horn equipped motorcycle they make, from the smallest moped to the big hair-chest Valkyrie!   Can't be any other reason.

The horn is a warning device.
Now in a real emergency involving imminent collision the horn, to my way of thinking, is pretty much a useless commodity. Things have gone well past the warning stage and alerting a cage driver to an evolving situation so that they can and should change their actions in order to avoid a bad happening, is no longer on the table. Besides you are very busy operating other controls in order to do what you can to mitigate the situation, and sparing the extra thumb and the neurons to make the neep sound while the tragedy unfolds is very low on the priority list.

Illustrating story: In 1974 I was in a 750 Ducati versus International panel truck incident at highway speed, where the oncoming driver of same turned without warning across my path and tramped on the brake when he belatedly saw me, causing his truck to stop crossways in my lane. I had about 2 seconds in which to lock the back end and throw the bike sideways and lay it over, before striking the truck and waking up 2 days later in hospital. (no gratuitous descriptions of injuries, there were plenty)
My point here is that later when I was making out the report for ICBC, the insurance monopoly here in BC, one of the questions to be answered and no doubt directed at establishing relative fault, was, "Did you sound the horn?"!
Some desk bound twerp actually had the gall to imply that failure to sound the horn in that event carried weight in establishing my contribution to the accident! They actually think like that.

I did do a search on this site and found some very nice options to replace the stock joke of a horn with something more authoritative that doesn't require me to sneak down to the rail yard and swipe the horns off a CLC Fairbanks Morse locomotive.
I think I'll mosey on down to the local wrecking yard and fine me a wrecked late 80's early 90' Cadillac four tone horn. That one ought to do nicely. For warning purposes.  

[desertrefugee]

Nice motorcycle, great narrative and terrific luck on the sign.  Perfect mancave addition.  Just as an FYI, there's currently one for sale here in Arizona (Prescott craigslist) for $450.

Couldn't agree more on the horn.  Neep, meep, I think we all agree it is sorely lacking.  I upgraded to a Wolo and am quite happy with it.

[hukmut]

+1 on the WOLO!

[BonS]

I gotta' plug BigBf's quad horns. They're easy to install and LOUD in all directions. I ran with the Wolo's for years but they failed me on the highway several times when the cagers didn't flinch. That won't happen with the quad horns. 

[Fazer]

+1 On what BonS said.  I heard the BF horns at Inzane, and they are LOUD.  I have a bolo horn, but I do not like where it sits (ugly)and interfers with bulb changes on my running light-- and BF's are louder.  I think I will make the change.  I already have relay wiring so it should be an easy swap.

[desertrefugee]

Well, if you mounted it where the factory horn was, I'm guessing that would be ugly.   But, if placed where a lot of folks put theirs (and I followed that lead), it looks like the factory put it there.