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Hello Freebird and fellow Venture Riders, thanks for the welcome message and maintaining a great forum I joined a couple weeks ago and a I'm little late in introducing myself. I've been riding for 20+ years. My playbook has primarily been refurbishing barn bikes with good bones. I've owned a series of 70's and 80's vintage inline four cylinder Suzikis. First and foremost I enjoy riding, but I also enjoy the accomplishment of turning back the clock by getting a somewhat neglected but not too far gone bike running and looking like it should. In the mid 2000s I saw the 2nd gen Venture for the first time, really liked the styling, and put it on the top of the "someday" list. "Someday" came in September 2021 when I strayed from the playbook and bought my silver 30,000 mile 1999 RSV. It's everything I hoped it would be. What a nice bike, worth the wait.

Plastex also sold under the name of plastifix Sand all the pieces and bevel all the edges of all the loose pieces on a 45. If you don't want to repaint bevel one side only stopping at the edge of the paint. Use a tear drop carbide cutter on a dremel to gouge out the remaining cracks stop when you just start to see the inside edge of the primer or paint. Use aluminum duct tape on the out side to hold all the pieces together and seal the cracks. Clear packing tape works well to but the aluminum tape wont stretch. Aluminum tape comes in a variety of thickness's try for 3.5 to 4 thou if you can. Now start filling the v-grooves with the plastex/plastifix . Start by wetting the groove first with the liquid and then use one of the methods desribed to fill the groove (that is you can use the stitch method using the dropper needle or alternately wetting then sprinkling the powder into the groove. Don't worry about proportions just don't go too dry or too wet to were you are washing away the powder. Once the groove is filled higher than flush sand the entire surrounding area. Cut a piece of fiberglass cloth, fiberglass drywall tape or aluminum house screen to cover the repair area. wet down the area with the solvent and build up a thin bed Lay in the patch material and embed it into the still soft bed of filler. Immediately start building up another bed on top of the reinforcing material. If you wish to repaint the area: After the inside has cured lightly groove out the cracks from the out side and sand away some of the paint along side the cracks fill the cracks and when cured enough, sand to a smooth finish. continue filling and sanding until you have a flawless surface (this stuff will sand baby butt smooth so no need to use spot putty just add and sand until perfect) Spray with and adhesion promoter for plastic than prime and paint.

Yes that is the one I was talking about and yes to the best of my recollection that is powered through the ignition and if you need more than 5 AMPs use it to turn on a relay and run fused battery power through the relay contacts. PM me with your mailing address if you need or want the proper pins and seals for that connector.

Just installed new slides and shim kit from @skydoc_17 I’m sure it was well worth the investment.

Me thinks the garage floor is on hold for now. Substantial investment in a fence and decent shed.