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While most will see this as work…as it is FNG work on a job site I assume I also see Freedom! The fact that I have a paid day off to “work” on making our house what we want it to be; is to me today the essence of Independence. Happy fourth Y’all. IMG_0833.MOV

HI VENTURE RIDERS ! MY NAME IS BILL KING, I HAVE AN 83 VENTURE THAT I AM TRYING TO RESURECT...I'M MAKING PROGRESS SLOWLY. I'M GETTING READY TO PULL THE REAR SHOCK AND HAVE IT REBUILT.... BEEN THINKING ABOUT NOT USING THE CLASS SYSTEM AND JUST HAVE A SHRAEDER VALVE TO AIR UP THE SHOCK....IF ANYONE HAS ANY OPINIONS ON THIS I WOULD BE GLAD TO HEAR THEM... I'M 69 YRS OLD AN BEEN RIDING MY WHOLE LIFE...ALSO HAVE A 72 TRIUMPH T 120R.. BACK IN THE DAY I WAS A PRO BULL RIDER AND I HAD A HORSE SHOING BUSINESS....THATS IT IN A NUTSHELL, I WANT TO THANK THE OWNERS OF THIS WEBSITE...THX AGAIN....B.K.

I paid the bills as trim carpenter for quite a while. Custom kitchens, coffered ceilings, full room built ins, the whole shebang. After 25 years in the refrigeration world, I dove back into carpentry to start on our "new" house's( built in 1890) library. I went to Harbor Freight and got their Hercules 12" compound sliding miter saw with portable stand, the Hercules 10" portable table saw and ordered the Powertec rolling, folding table saw stand on Amazon and got to work. I have to say, the Harbor Freight tools I just got are so much better than the "professional" equipment I was using 25 years ago. At 1/4 the price we paid for the "pro" tools back then. It's actually ridiculous. They are really not even comparably in quality and performance. So, here is the start of our built in library.

Here is a quick overview of mine on Youtube of checking the stator to be sure that is what is wrong. If you find your stator is shot and its time for a new one you will need the new stator, a stator cover gasket, a forward bevel gear cover gasket and the little copper squish washer that goes under the screw that drains the forward bevel gear area at oil change (those gaskets/washer are part numbers 2, 14 and 21 here: https://www.partzilla.com/catalog/yamaha/motorcycle/2006/royal-star-midnight-venture-xvz13tfmv/crankcase-cover-1 ) . I am not sure on your Model/Year of the Venture but on the MK1's you really want to know where each screw came from on removal because if you get the wrong length of screw into the wrong hole when you replace them its very easy to push the longer screw into the case and break through the inside of the case and cause oil to leak from around the screw. It looks like you are working on a Gen 2? If so it might be note worthy to replace the regulator at the same time as the stator as I have heard that the Regulators on the Gen 2's are actually the weaker of the two. I replace my regulators with the Stator's on the MK1's when I have a stator fail anyway just cause its always proven a good, cheap way to increase the probabilities of no charging issues while ripping across the deserts. Here is that vid I was talking about. Hope it helps even though its not with the Gen 2. It still should be applicable,, at least I hope so.. Puc

I run a BF Goodrich T\A Radial 155\80 on the rear of my 02 RSV and a 130 commander 2 up front. After much trial and error I settled on 41 psi up front and 45 psi on the rear. Low speed handling and mountain twisty switchbacks are no problem. I have slid the forks up 3/4", replaced the fork springs with sonic straight rate springs with 15W fork oil. Increased head bearing torque by 10 pounds. All this combined , my bike now handles way better than the stock configuration.

I think that this has been covered about as well as it can be. I'm personally not a fan of running a car tire on a motorcycle but that's just me and I don't want this to turn into an argument. I just wanted to mention one thing. I've seen it mentioned several times that you should not mix a radial on the back with a bias ply tire on the front. That may be true for the most part and maybe this has something to do with how the bike is designed but I know that there have been at least a couple of bikes that came from the Yamaha factory with a radial in one place and a bias tire in the other. I would have to do some research because I don't remember which bikes but I remember it being discussed and referenced here before.

I have never used one but I heard that is the way they inspect the air filter on a goldwing.

We're hopin'. He got surgery this morning....2 plates and 5 screws....with a 6 pound dog those pieces must be tiny. Anyhoo, they called and said he did very well and we can pick him up tomorrow. Big money for this stuff though...got almost as much tied up in his busted wing as I paid for my 06 Venture. They now say 5 weeks in a pen and inactive and he should be good as new.

I grew up to about 5 foot 6 inches and for some reason I am back to 5 foot 5 inches ...They tell me that it is a aging process , which it may well be ...But sometimes that different sizes and strokes makes life interesting ... Maybe that is why manufactures cannot always get it right

A person on an E-Bike forum was complaining about his E-Bike being totally unsafe (again) because the factory forgot to put lock-tight on a frame safety latch. There seems to be a fair amount of this type of individual on that site, and in the world we live in these days, that lack in life's lessons so I wrote this in response to his post: When I was a kid back in the mid 60's, before I started chopping motorcycles in the late 60's, I chopped bicycles by hacksawing the hollow forks off Huffy bicycles and slipping the hollow forks over the forks of a schwinn solid fork set, they fit pretty good too. All was well until I tried my first wheelie on my chopped banana seat schwinn bicycle with the racing slick on its back side. I learned a lot from that 1st faceplant after those huffy forks slid down and my bikes front wheel with cut off Huffy forks attached to them went rolling on without me. Probably one of the most important life lessons I learned was that it would always be something, life happens if you engage with it. As I lay there twisted up in a pretzel this question came to my mind, "do I REALLY want to try that again, ever?". About the time the blood had stopped running down my chin and off my knees and elbows those questions were answered as I slid the hollow Huffy forks with my front wheel attached back onto my Schwinn front end and tossed my leg back over the banana seat on my chopped bicycle. I also learned there are two kinds of people in the world, those that experience living life large while they brush off the blood and broken bones of doing so and those that sit on the sidelines and let life overwhelm them with its "its always something".

Love the anti gravity mode! Very useful for rush hour in the Holland Tunnel.

Not today but yesterday Tip and I climbed on Tweeksis and away the 3 of us went!! We went all the way up to Baldwin Michigan (about a 1 1/2 hour ride, took us 3 hours to get there though cause we played on the back roads) and had an ice cream cone at Joneses HOMEMADE ice cream. Waffle cones no less! Tip had "Mango Dole" and I had "Banana Pudding" and Tweeksis ate her fill at a BP Gas Station/a full tank of 87 octane at $4.99 a gallon. Tweeksis's treat cost way more than ours, hows that for "what I did for my Venture today? LOL" I figured this still fits this thread because, in me and Tweeks line of thinking, the kindest, most compationate, best way to show your bike you are doing something special for her is to ride her, Tip even agrees so the Puc home is a happy home. THE END, for now

Took the fairing off, took pictures for the insurance company. Both fairing halves have minor damage, but I’m afraid they’ll want to total it since the inner isn’t available anymore. Add on the windshield, chrome trim, and labor it won’t be cheap. I’ll repair it all myself if it works out right.