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Add eating and you just described the daily activity's. Just let us know what day to expect you so we don't go riding without you.

Let me guess, you got stuck on a road that had a u/turn at each end and couldn’t find the exit.

Now Puc, you have gone and done it. I laughed so hard at this post that it interfered with my nap time!!! I will never look at lane splitting the same again!

Asheville is real laid back we get up and eat breakfast when the cooks get ready, discuss a ride and go for it.

Well, would like to ride with you guys and then sit around camp visiting for a while before heading back in the evening.

There probably is no best day they are all good! Are you talking for a ride or just sitting and enjoying the stories and maybe drinking some ice cold water.

Would like to ride out and join you guys for the day if that’s ok? What would be the best day to come out? Asheville is only about 2hrs from me.

I ALWAYS enjoyed lane spitting back when I chewed tobacco. Get er up to 100 mph, stick my naked head out into the wind, turn my head so my ears didnt fill up with spit and let er rip. It was a whole lot better than swallowing the stuff which always gave me heartburn. One time, back in the 1970's when I was Tigging tube (thought ya had me didnt ya @flyday58, thought I was gonna say tigging pipe didnt you?) for the Boilermakers I was up at 290 feet in the Power House tigging a wall of Super Heaters and had a mouth full of Days O' Work chew and had to spit. There are no lanes when your up there, just you, your "Pimp" (helper who does all the leg work like fitting walls for you), a Tig torch and a gorgeous view of the boiler activity below. I saw no one below so I let er go.. That great big wad of spit headed down and instantly filled with air and took on the shape of a tobacco chew spit umbrella. The umbrella moved from side to side in "the hole" below as I and my pimp watched it in amazement.. It suddenly caught an updraft and headed toward the boiler walls below us and disappeared into the east wall at about 140 feet down. I looked at my pimp and we both starting laughing and laughed until we heard a crew of Iron Workers down there scream "Stop spitting!!!". Back to work.. The end.

I agree, I've had this one for 13 years now

Dang.....I'm getting itchy for this event. Will be leaving home Thursday afternoon to ride to my cousin's in Westfield, NY. Leave there Friday morning....take 2 or 3 days to get to Atlanta to see family, and then head to Ashville Wednesday. Haven't done a long ride like this since my new hips and knee. Can't wait!!!!!

Listing my 2009 RSTD for sale. Owned since new, 25,000 miles. All maint. overdone, valves set at 24,000 miles, carbs cleaned and Ivan kit jetted, sync'd etc. Have the original seat, pipes ect. Bubs on it now (4-2-4's) Dyna 3000, K&N's, Michelin on the rear (1000 miles), 404 on the front (3,000 miles) only because Michelin doesn't make a 150/16 front. Yamaha fillers at the rear but have all the hardware to put it stock. V-Max gear set. Mustang seat and rider's backrest, (stock seat also) Not likely you can find a cleaner better running example, not a scratch on this bike, sleeps in the shop, mainly a fair-weather toy. LED bulbs headlight and tail-light. Short (4") Cee Bailey windshield. All fluids flushed every 2-3 years. Synthetic oil yearly. Reasonable offers considered. This may be the best example of the last year (2009) RSTD you can find, absolutely no tip over blemishes or gas tank defects. Everything works as it should. $7400

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

Remember to let her wind. If you ride it like a twin it’ll be a dawg as you said. Cruising rpms up around 4,000. Put her in second or third and bounce it off the limiter, you’ll quickly find the power. Stay out of 5th below 65 mph.

Dang.....tried Cowpuc's suggestion with the lead.....didnt work....and yes, I am pushing the key in when trying to lock it.......no joy.

LOL ya lop eared Preacher varmint @PastorCurt.. Here is some inside info that may help ya get back to snoozing after saying a short prayer for Tippy (my wife of 42 years next month) cause its kind of sad.. The story you read above is, as all my stories are,, TRUE, real things that actually happened. Can you imagine what my precious GOD LOVING wife has put up with thru the years? Now say a quick prayer for my bride and go back to tender slumber brother.. LOL

Has a lot to do with the fact that man can forecast, but not control the weather. That belongs to a much higher power.

Congratulations! Wishing you fun and frolic(and getting too all those " honey do" chores) in the coming years! Be well, stay safe and relax!!! D

Yeah, Puc has enough worn out MK I's that he could supply most anything I bet..

Got them from Puc already.

GORGEOUS!!!

If you are concerned about it, stick a tygon tube down the fill hole and syphon a little out. Or use one of those hand held mity vacs if you have one. I used a long tygon tube to syphon trans fluid out of my car when the dealer overfilled it. It was easy to do. My car has as dipstick tube, no dipstick came with it but it still had the tube. Of course the after market came through for me with a dipstick.

Just so that you can feel better informed, Dutch Navigator is not German,and by the looks of what he (they) built and refurbished they are not butchers either. Now I give them credit, they do have music and good choice,, after all it seems to be DUTCH!

Don’t know what’s there after the accident but I don’t have a parts bike. Having Yammer parts Is history. 😄😄😄

So does that mean you have new tires? are tired again? or asking to start a thread on tires for another round of discussion. Maybe you should get some sleep, you can get tired if you don't sleep enough,, but you'll find that out soon enough. If you mean you don't have to go to your place of employment anymore then don't be thinking that you won't have work to do. Have a great time trying to get in some R&R in-between all the new projects. Please update us in 6 months. Congrats.

Your turn now.

No problem Saddlebum....we can sit around a fire with a few beverages and talk it over.

Expecting some accurate feed back on the knees. I knee'd to know.

Best bet is to go onto a Harley forum. They are the experts when it comes to trailering bikes.

Well, it does seem a bit extreme to be down to 9.7 volts after only a couple of days. I know that they will go down due to things like the clock and etc. but I didn't think it would happen that quickly. I can't say for sure because I always leave mine on a battery tender, regardless of the battery type, all the time.

Yep, after Trina's third back surgery I had to have something with independent suspension or she wasn't going to be able to ride. Now she is more comfortable than I am 🤪

It was a great year working on the Yamaha! Thank you for all the comments, tips, tricks and.....humor! https://youtu.be/xRiDV7FBavw

Good information is what is often needed

@Pasta Burner,, Point to point, how much of 50 are you planning on riding and are you going to be riding it both directions to and from? The more concise you are the more help I may be able to be. There is a LOT of wonderful things to see out there and I hope this trip is nothing short of SPECTACTULOR for you! Puc

They wanted 1700 bucks for the ceramic coating. I said no thank you. Then he asked what I would pay. I wasn’t interested.

May the angels guide him in his new journey to the Lords side.

I’ve always heard this is an eating club with a motorcycle disorder, how many biker groups discuss smoking ………….meat? That being said I bought a 13lb brisket this week, throwing it in the smoker soon.

First one is spatchcocked and then Seasoned (however you want) place on a bed of potatoes, carrots, green beans or other vegetables. I do this in a 12" cast Iron and cook the vegetables for about 45 - 60 minutes before adding the chicken on top. Keep the grill or smoker at about 225 - 250 and it takes about another 2.5 hours. All that great chicken fat and the seasonings cover the vegetables. I also like to add a lot of smashed garlic. Also, I have seasoned the vegetables first which works well too. The second, Split along the rib cage and back then butterfly close to the neck. Season to taste and cook over medium coals turning as needed. I then I like to use several layers of Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce.

Well, since we're share BBQ techniques, Whole chicken 2 ways.

I have I always said that the smartest guy is not the guy who thinks he knows everything but it is the guy who is aware that there is still much to learn.

I assume you are talking about re jetting the carbs and modifying the intake and exhaust for "better" performance? The problem with doing that kind of thing with these bikes is getting things to run smooth across the throttle range is darn near impossible. The CV carbs are vey particular when it comes to air flow and the air box on the XVZ and XJ Yamahas, and probably a whole lot of other Japanese bikes, is designed to supply the air evenly at the needed volume and cfm. Start monkeying around with it and you will get dead spots and uneven intake due to turbulence at different speeds. There were volumes of threads on the xjbikes forum about this. people adding velocity stacks with pods, up jetting and running open drags. Some went so far as to add adjustable intake butterfly valves and manually adjusting them. All had the same story to tell. It just doesn't work well. You might get marginally "better", I.e., faster off the line or slightly higher top end by up jetting and running a high flow air cleaner at the expense of fuel economy, but these bikes already have pretty darn good performance for as big and heavy as they are. Just one guy's opinion, YMMV. ETA: You might want to talk to the guys at Ignitech about a performance programmed CDI. They are very knowledgeable about their products and our bikes. When I went with their module on my '83, they were very helpful via email.

Skydoc sold a Stainless steel screw and ball to help to hold in the stock valve but he wasnt selling the valve. Here is one on Ebay right now, it is for a 87 but will work on your 84 also. It has the same part number for both years. https://www.ebay.com/itm/195043475770?hash=item2d697f413a:g:V~sAAOSwQTxgSU3F&vxp=mtr https://www.ebay.com/itm/185411577951?hash=item2b2b64285f:g:nFoAAOSwc8BicSDo&vxp=mtr Hope that helps you out.. Rick F.

1984 Venture. Dad’s bike. He stopped riding it when he had a hard time at stop lights. Unsure of mileage. One owner. Always garaged. Hasn’t run in several years. Make an offer.