Gas

[Popeye the Sailor]

2.  How does the Handling on the S4R change when you go 2up? - I don't like to change gearing unless it's on a track bike and even then I can do without it.

I think he meant him in a passenger, not changing the gearing....

[redxblack]

Citgo gas is from South America , from a Dictator who hates Americans.

Except Hugo Chavez isn't a dictator, he's a popularly elected president who has faced recall elections that the international community has certified as free and fair. He also faced a short-lived CIA backed coup in 2002, but overcame that without a civil war as the PEOPLE backed him and the MILITARY backed their constitution.
Chavez "hates" America so much that he's tried to send subsidized heating oil to places like Boston for America's poor. He's got an axe to grind against the Bush administration, no question, but to say he "hates America" is sadly misinformed and more than a little xenophobic. I sincerely hate the Bush administration, but I don't hate America at all. A lot of my friends are Americans.

[ducpainter]

If you all want to discuss world petroleum politics we have a section for it...

this isn't it.

Thanks.

[silentbob]

My gas makes the cat leave the room.

[Clickjack]

So... I got this idea that I was going to take off the Bikini fairing on my 07 S4R....

I look at it and it looks like it is attached at four places.  Two screws through the fairing, and then it looks like it is held on by a couple bolts at the back of the blinkers... if that makes since. 

Anyone done this?  Wanna give me some pointers on how to take it off?  Or even get at the bolts on the back of the blinkers?

I really appreciate all the help.  I realize I have basically turned this thread into my personal Monster support line...

[invinc3ib3]

Well i would assume all the bikini fairings are the same and when i put mine on there were only 2 bolts and then it had hooks sort of that just slid on.  But it was pain to get wrenches in there to tighten the 2 bolts and i took off the windscreen to do it.  So you might want to try taking off the windscreen first to try to get to the 2 bolts.

[Popeye the Sailor]

So... I got this idea that I was going to take off the Bikini fairing on my 07 S4R....

I look at it and it looks like it is attached at four places.  Two screws through the fairing, and then it looks like it is held on by a couple bolts at the back of the blinkers... if that makes since. 

Anyone done this?  Wanna give me some pointers on how to take it off?  Or even get at the bolts on the back of the blinkers?

I really appreciate all the help.  I realize I have basically turned this thread into my personal Monster support line...

Where ya located?

[jdubbs32584]

Well i would assume all the bikini fairings are the same and when i put mine on there were only 2 bolts and then it had hooks sort of that just slid on.  But it was pain to get wrenches in there to tighten the 2 bolts and i took off the windscreen to do it.  So you might want to try taking off the windscreen first to try to get to the 2 bolts.

+1

I busted up my knuckles tryin to get mine off. But IIRC, its two bolts and then the hooks.

[Clickjack]

Where ya located?

Lubbock, TX.

[zedsaid]

1.  How do you carry your key? 

- I carry my keys on a locking carribeaner (D-ring) hooked to my belt loop which has three benefits; keeps they keys from stabbing me in my leg through my pocket, keeps them securely attached to me, and it's easy to remove the keyring i want to use at any given moment (Home, car, bike, work)

[VeryMetal]

I think he meant him in a passenger, not changing the gearing....

Thanks Someguy - there's just so much talk of that I was just on the wrong wavelength. That made me laugh.

[djomlas]

as per this thread, i filled up some 87 instead of my routine 93 like on every other bike and monster.
didnt notice any difference in power or anything, still got most of the gas in there so im not sure about better gas mileage as of yet.

[Greg]

Since we're in the middle of the largest hand over of wealth in human history, that is giving it all up for the Arabs,

Might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies
import Middle Eastern oil.

These companies import Middle Eastern oil:

Shell..................... ... 205,742,000 barrels

Chevron/Texaco.... ..... 144,332,000 barrels

Exxon/Mobil...... ......... 130,082,000 barrels

Marathon/Speedway... 117,740,000 barrels

Amoco............................62,231,000 barrels

Citgo gas is from South America , from a Dictator who hates Americans.

Here are some large companies that do NOT import Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco..................0 barrels

Conoco..................0 barrels

Sinclair..................0 barrels

BP/Phillips.............0 barrels

Hess.................... ..0 barrels

ARC0.....................0 barrels

All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much
they are importing.

Otherwise you can help them continue building this Dubai

That list is not accurate - or uses out dated information.

It should be noted that gasoline is a fungible commodity and companies "swap" gasoline on a routine basis. When the nearest Shell refinery is 1,000 miles away do you really think the local Shell station got their gasoline from that refinery? Nope, they bought it from the closest whole saler and it could have been made in an Exxon or BP refinery.