You know you ride a Yamaha Vision when....

[xswheels]

You check your battery voltage 5 times a week.

Go ahead and add to it.

[YellowJacket!]

LOL.. I check it every time I start my bike!

You know you own a Yamaha when you can change out a stator in under 5 minutes!

David

[Lucky]

When you have friends like this! :)

[funkamongus]

when you can change out a stator up against a tree, with out doing an oil change, you probably own a vision!!

[Kojo]

When you discover you're the first rider of the bike since 1985.

[YellowJacket!]

When you have friends like this! :)

:)  :)  :)

David

[YellowJacket!]

When you start your very first post off with "I found this bike that had been sitting outside for about 12 years...."

David

[The Prophet of Doom]

When the dealer bursts out laughing when you try to order a spare part

[Tiger]

  :-\ When you realise that there is NO SUCH THING as a free/cheap Vision, period!!!

                        8).......TIGER....... 8)

[Brian Moffet]

When you mention to a dealer that you rebuilt the carbs, and he asks if you want a job...

[YellowJacket!]

Good one Brian.

I might also add:

When you have enough extra parts to make another complete bike.

When you have a starter "rock"....or know what one is.  :-)

David

[kiawrench]

if boxes arrive at your house from multiple countries, and they all say "used motorcycle parts"  you might own a vision


if you posses more tech data on your bike than the dealer ever saw--- chances are , you own a vision

if you build a cement block bike garage on the side of the house in case of hurricaines-- you just may own a vision ( mine will hold three)

if you wife uses your laptop and gets confused by the rov home page- you own a vision

[YellowJacket!]

If the ROV Homepage IS your homepage.  :)

David

[kiawrench]

wait a sec,,,, you mean yours isnt ?

[dcsob]

...you  decide to take off, dip and check your carbs because it isnt running just so without a second thought. Then while your at it surf ebay for a second pair to dip,just in case.

[fiddlesticks]

When the dealer bursts out laughing when you try to order a spare part

haha or when he says "get rid of it. Sell it as quick as you can or you will regret it " lmao

[YellowJacket!]

or when you tell teh dealer you have a Vision and they respond with "running?".

Then you show them and they say, "Wow, I haven't seen one of those in over 15 years....looks pretty good too."

David

[lexx790]

you only type 2 letter in the ebay search .....XZ

[dcsob]

You start rewinding your own stators.
Now that, is a hard core Vision owner. Was that funk or kid jedi? Maybe its more of you than we think.
Think about that for a minute.
You decide to rewind it , how many people outside of an electric motor shop would even consider it?
I even asked a local shop how much, he just shook his head and said no thanks. Even after I said he'ld have plenty of work.
Then asked a buddy who's an E/E about it and he said it would be doable, even for me. Uhm, thanks, I think.

[Re-Vision]

When my stator went south in 1982, I was working for a transformer company and had access to most anything needed to rewind the stator.  Yamaha replaced the stator under warranty and I kept extra wiring at home for years.  Rewinding a stator by hand is too time consuming and fraught with enough potential problems that I wouldn't even consider doing it today.  Don't know if I'm getting lazier or smarter.  Who cares, do what you enjoy.  BDC