2 Ventures and a Harley..............

[dr.nemo]

Well we went for our ride today.. Al, Thomas, and myself(Brian)...Now in this first picture you will see 2 Venture riders coming to aid a Harley rider(my friend Al)...[ATTACH]17550[/ATTACH]..

 

With what tools we had on hand we managed to repair the Harley..Look at the linkage for the back brake... It was actually quite a serious problem but luckily Al was able to lift the brake peddle before it caught on something in the road to catapault him..[ATTACH]17551[/ATTACH]

 

Yes as we got closer to the lake Erie shore it got colder and colder(as Carl had said) but we did make it to our destination...[ATTACH]17552[/ATTACH]

 

As you ride along this Lakeshore road these giant wind turbines are scattered all about the farmers fields, looking very much out of place with the surroundings.. They go on for miles, I have no idea how many there are, I have seen at least 30-40(or more) on a previous longer ride..[ATTACH]17553[/ATTACH]

 

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=42.615265,-80.662308&spn=0.215264,0.464172&z=11

 

Lakeshore road between Port Rowan and Port Burwell.....Can give GPS too if needed..

[KiteSquid]

It looks like you used a key ring as a temporary fix.

 

good job!!!

 

I hope he got a bolt ASAP!!!!

[Guest tx2sturgis]

Its funny how something like that can affect you in bigger ways.

 

During the 2006 Sturgis rally, I was riding my 2000 Ultra with a couple of camping buddies, and we were all headed for Devils Tower, Wyoming. We were on that little 2 lane highway, passing a few little towns and communities, and then suddenly, when I reached up with the toe of my left boot to downshift, NOTHING WAS THERE!

 

Crap. I looked down, and saw that my heel-toe shifter had somehow gotten loose, and the toe side of the shifter was just hanging. I could not downshift, so I pulled in the clutch, applied the brakes, and coasted to a stop on the shoulder of the road, the bike still in 5th gear.

 

My riding buddies pulled up and we looked it over, and found that the little bolt that held the toe shifter on the shift shaft had fallen out, and the toe shifter was just resting on the floorboard, useless. Luckily I had an allen wrench set and took the bolt out of the heel shifter, and put it in the toe shifter, and in about 10 minutes, we were on our way. I dropped the heel shifter in my saddlebag, knowing I would find a proper allen head bolt 'somewhere' during the rally.

 

Well, we rode the rest of the afternoon, enjoying Devils Tower and the other sights in the area...not having a heel shifter felt weird, since I was used to it being there, but the Ultra Classic was still entirely rideable.

 

Late in the afternoon, we were on the way back to Sturgis, and made a gas stop in Sundance, Wyoming. After fueling up, we made a slow pass thru town, and what did I see? A shop that had a sign...'Harley repairs while you wait' Wow!! They might have that bolt I need!

 

So I stopped, went in, and my buddies waited on the sidewalk, watching the bikes, the babes, and cooling off under some shade trees. The tech said he had one, and dug around in a parts bin, and sure enough, he did. I paid him a couple of bucks for his trouble, and I went outside to rejoin my buddies. Now, we would not have been on that particular street corner, at that particular time, if that bolt had not fallen out of my shifter much earlier that day.

 

Just about then, we heard the unmistakable sound of burnouts!! (now we knew why the repair shop was there!) We walked the half block, and found a scene with hundreds of bikers and an elevated burnout platform, where they were just loading a BossHoss up and onto the platform. I had my camera at the ready. You dont see a BossHoss doing burnouts very often...its just rare that a guy will ruin an expensive tire on a heavy and expensive bike.

 

So...I captured the scene on my cameras memory card. After it was over, we finished our ride back to Sturgis, and enjoyed the rest of the rally, especially since I put my shifter back together. It worked great.

 

When I got home a week later, I added titles to the clip, and uploaded it to YouTube. It has been my most popular video, and for a short time after I uploaded it , it had a 'most popular' rating in the 'travel and events' category. No big deal I guess, but it kinda made me proud.

 

You can view it here:

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RiLbEjsagk]YouTube - BossHoss Burnout[/ame]

 

Its been there nearly 2 years now, and since then, others have uploaded many more, but mine was the first BossHoss burnout video that YouTube had.

 

And I owe it all to that little 50 cent bolt that fell out of my shifter, somewhere on the back roads of Wyoming.