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I officially joined the Retired Old Fart club at 0700 this morning.

Sorry if you have seen some intermittent problems with the site. I was advised that to prepare for some future software updates that I needed to update the servers PHP to version 8.0. I've been trying for days to do that but every time I tried, I would get blank pages on the site. I finally found the problem and got the issue resolved.

Don't know if this post will make it.... I'm out in the woods work almost no cell signal. Understand about you not being able to lean bike over by yourself. Do not understand about leaning will hurt bike. About the only damage I can think of is to the plastics if it fell. Won't hurt the fluids at all. You aren't leaning it over 90 degrees, just enough to lay down beside it and use a carb cleaner and a brush to clean up the bottom.

Thank you again for all your work!!!!

Yes sir, we run 2 tanks of gas through the wing the other day, we were both sore but it proved we are ready.

congrats n welcome to the club!!!! look'n forward to meet'n up with ya next month to ride to the rally together! retirement is everything other old timers said it would be!!!! ENJOY!!!!🤗👍

Congratulations hope you find the time to enjoy it.

Congratulations. Wishing you good health and prosperity throughout this next chapter in your life.

Next time around holler at me and we’ll grab a cup of coffee.

Congratulations! Now you can ride longer and farther without work constraints! Enjoy your time! BTW, we were in your neck of the woods visiting my brother in mayfield!

Ken Johnson here, bought my non-current 2009 RSTD in 2011. Over the years we have owned another 20 bikes or so, the Royal is by far my favorite as far as modern bikes. A few years back I started restoring old motorcycles and some more modern ones as well. 1975 GL 1000, 1980 CB 900 Custom, 1981 CB 750 Custom etc. I also resurrected two other mid 2000 RSTD's for other people after years of neglect and sitting. I've enjoyed making all the changes to the RSTD over the years, cleaning up and removing brackets to make the bike cleaner, V-Max gears, Ivan jet kit, Dyna 3000 (7500 rpm), K&N filters, Bubs, shortened Cee Baileys windshield, Mustang Seat with driver's backrest etc. I do all the maint. on the bike on schedule, Yamaha synthetic oil, clutch fluid and brake fluid flushes every other year, several batteries and one starter relay, one fuel filter, first valve adjusts last year, several sets of tires, a couple rear end fluid changes and plugs a few times, also changed the coolant twice. Cleaned the carbs up good and rejetted then, also rerouted crankcase vent outside of intake last year, that should keep them clean. The AIT has been gone for years. Never had one issue with the bike period, it's always pleasure to ride and pulls like a freight train. The downside is the community of owners is pretty small, in ten years only ran across two other owners personally. And finally my wife also rides her own bike, a 2013 Vulcan 900 LT, so she's my primary riding partner.

Congratulations! Good luck on the retired old fart club... I actually do more physical labor now than when I worked. (retired senior computer systems analyst). Hopefully when I sell the park I can slow down (so I can really spoil the Grandkids).

Also the type of roads in your area. Chip Seal type roads are notorious for wearing out tires.