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THANKS LOY!! Very well done!!! I took liberty to find you on youtube and it appears your channel/screen name there is Voyventures (in case anyone else goes looking for you so they can subscribe too).. Subscribed and gave you a good ol there to match the one I give you here!!!! All the VERY best in your project Loy!!! Sooooooooo much fun and wayyyy good info!! Puc

Thanks for catching that Roller!! Now that I know what it actually is,, would you mind going out and counting your Chain Binders? If you are missing one and have crossed the desert in or near Joshua Tree N.P. and may have dropped one out there I would be glad to return your errant, runaway Binder ... If you have never been there though,,,, we REALLY should try to set up a ride in that area = WOWZY WOW WOW WOW,, talk about biking country!!!!

+3 on keepin the eyes open and head on the swivel brother!! MAJOR CONDOLENCES 40!!!!

:clap2::dancefool: HEAR HEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This vid should be titled - when will they ever learn Sky!!

I can personally verify with video proof that Whitetail Deer in Michigan have the same dare devil, two wheel rider hatred from birth Radar.. It's an old video but if you fast forward to 2:50 in this family video of ours you can see the proof!!!

Just like the numerous early model Yamaha Venture touring bikes Tip and I wore out treasure hunting all over America in days gone by,, Trooper shows off his ability to locate those hidden little treasures out there!

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Couple more in that series Ty..

That's probably cause those are fairly old vids and have gotten lost out there in YouTube's geezerland... :think:Did you try going to YouTube and searching the title (after changing the 3 to a 2...??)?? Also it might help if you include my YouTube screen name at the end of the title = put Puc Puc in the search line too.... Hold on,,, I will give that a quick try myself.... Yep, worked,,, here ya go Ty.... Sorry for the @coolwind57 = got my apologies my friend!!

It never ceases to amaze me what a person can learn about any given area at any given time just by stopping and exploring concrete monuments (I call em treasures of the road) and the like left standing on the roadways across this great land of ours!! This particular monument was nothing short of astounding when read with the endless harsh desert land sitting there in front of us!! It takes very little imagination when doing this to realize that we modern day travelers are still only one roadway away from a day and age when just staying alive here was a moment by moment struggle!!

I have always been a desert rat and like my kids who rode on the back of many of our Ventures thru the years, Tip caught the love for it's untouched vastness and endless beauty from my borderline madness for the deserts endless beauty and harsh songs of loneliness. Perhaps that is why we both totally enjoyed the time spent exploring this gorgeous area known as The Mojave National Preserve so much.. There were many many miles of roadway during this night that produced "unpassable due to flooding" signs as Trooper worked thru the midnight hours in search of late night exploration fun and crossing opportunities that only places like this can produce. Thankfully Trooper's fuel tank of 10 gallon's of gas easily produces over 600 miles of run time (our record for one tank so far is 673 miles)!!!! As a matter of fact,,,, even running his AC (it runs off his Hybrid Battery) all night when it was time for him to become "TROOPER THE MICRO MOTOR HOME" was done with no fear at all!! We left the AC on all night and I noticed his fuel gauge had not dropped even one needles worth by the time rise n shine as shown in the vid was upon us!! Remarkable,, JUST REMARKABLE!!!!!!

""""Rode PCH a many a mile back in the 70s on my Honda 350, and also in my 1971 Galaxie 500. Took the family out there in 2004 and 2005 and spent a couple more days driving it. Those times it was in a Ford Expedition one trip and a Lincoln Town Car the next, so not as much fun."""" OUTSTANDING BROTHER!!!!!! My first trip along that edge was in 78 aboard a Shovelhead Lowrider I won on a job site while tiggin tube for the Boilermakers! Been riding the west for a lot longer but that California trip in 78 was the beginning of a whole new horizon for those ol lop eared varmint!! Ya got me jealous Larry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! """"Have I ever told you that I love your videos? :)"""" Awe,,, THANK YOU!!!! The kindness found in a brotherly is always appreciated my friend!!! Whats that I smell burnin??????? Speakin of cookin up another vid here,,,, I think another one just popped up!!!!

I think Trooper has found his real calling in life as an explorer and treasure hunter. In this short video he leads Tippy and I around a treasure of a western gold rush town that his nose for adventure sniffed out!! Yes,, the towns boom days are long gone by and with less then 300 people keeping it alive, Ghost Townism is nipping at the cowboy towns heals BUT - WOWZY WOW WOW WOW - one gaze at the building architecture should give the viewers some understanding as to why a couple ol Cowpokes like Tip and I fell in love with this town even if it is stuck in days gone by!!

As you know Jack, you bring up a subject that is very dear to our hearts.. Long story made short,,, I refused to let the new car dealership here in Muskegon "detail" Trooper and brought him home just the way he came off the ship because I wanted his original stickers right from his birth place in Korea.. Little by little and one by one those original stickers are coming down and landing in his treasure chest.. As you probably know,, we are gathering his future displaying technique as he hauls my tired old worn out body around the country and, like Tweeks,,,, he earns them.. Because he is brand new with a paint job and clear coat that was applied early in '18, we have been forewarned that it would probably be in his best interest to give the clear coat on his "Electric Blue" (it is a really cool Pearl color that changes colors in the sunlight) factory paint job a chance to cure before applying his stickers... Time frame suggested is 1 year. I am not to concerned with rust gathering (his hood and hatch are aluminum and the entire car has an 8 year no rust warranty) but I do think it best to hold off on applying his earned stickers... Make sense??

Never mind,, I think I got the correct lop eared varmint = "Biker In A Hat" is your screen name there?????

Very very well done Joeke3el = THANK YOU for the great ride report video brother!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup: Now I am on a different type of a journey here to find this video on Youtube so I can give you a there too and subscribe so I dont miss any of your future ride reports!! DEFINITELY top quality IMHO!!!! By the way,,,, what is your Youtube screen name? THANK YOU again for sharing!!

Nic snay,,,,, thinkin it was Dirty Harry Callahan,,,, same guy who could never convince the low lifes to make his day

Yep,,, that's an oldy BUT still an unsolved mystery.. IMHO,,,,, If you look closely you can tell that #2 rider to go down was actually looking down in the gultch as though he was actually intending to ride down in there.. I still think that #1 was the true "accident" and when #2 noticed his buddy was down, noticing the perticument they were all in with the possibility of oncoming traffic and no place to get out of the way, he entered into instant decision making time and,, that being mixed with a fair amount of panic,, chose to ride off the edge to clear the roadway and keep from getting run over from oncoming traffic and/or injuring someone else. Once he was committed by getting his bike sideways in the switchback he was committed and in his mind - was left with no other choice but take his licks on the mountain side...

Thanks Larry ,,, :lightbulb:we could name the section "ride like a wannabe" .. Here is another one that may fit the discussion here..

When Tip, Trooper and I pulled into this tiny rest area just west of the town of Tonopah NV which is part of Area 51 I couldn't help but notice two gentlemen with some high end/exotic photography equipment set up at the rest area. As a normal course of event in life, thinking they were either looking for Aliens (a sport I LOVE) or watching for some other strange activity coming out of Nellis Air Base (another sport I love too), I thought I better inquire into their suspicious activity.. What I learned from these very professional bird watchers was nothing short of amazing!! Come to find out,, a certain percentage of migrating birds get lost in their migratory flights (amazing it happens to birds just like us people!!!!) and when this happens over the desert the need for WATER becomes an issue!! This tiny little rest area houses the only tree cover and WATER for many many many miles around so it ends up being the perfect place for professional bird watchers to collect data/gather picture as rare birds from all over the world end up in this tiny location!! Think of it - rare people from around the world end up coming here to photograph rare birds also from around the world = who'ld of ever thunk it!! A side note: Notice the shirt that the fellow that I am interviewing is wearing? If you are a Bee Keeper like one of my daughter's (or even just someone interested in the balance of life on our planet), that shirt may mean something special to you (the man does NICE work!!). The guy who is wearing that shirt actually designed it and is into bee's and their survival. I have his contact information. If you are interested in aquiring a shirt like his just drop me a note in the comment section below and I will get it to you..

Hi Jeromeb and WELCOME!!!! Love your scoot brother and LOVE the pic of the three of you getting ready to go out and CTFW (that was a dearly departed close friend of ours named Yammer Dan's way of saying Chase That Front Wheel)!! GORGEOUS PICTURE = THANK YOU FOR SHARING!! Just an FYI on the RSV slow speed handling techniques and that all that from an ol wanna be,,,, there has been a fair amount of tinkering/adjustin happened around this joint concerning both setting up the bike and ride methods by some of the best of the best IMHO... My wife Tip and I had the pleasure of riding one of those finally tuned machines (as shown in the video below) and were very well pleased with it's capabilities - the vid was done 2 up and still loaded down for touring.. This bike belonged to a lop eared varmint named @videoarizona who stopped in and spent a few days with us here in Michigan.. "VAz" (that's what I call David/VideoArizona) has spent a fair amount of time setting up his scoot and I am sure,, like many other lop eared varmints on the site, he would be more than happy to share his experience in setting his scoot up.. Glad to see you folks naming your bike brother!! THAT is something I have personally pushed for years around this joint as I still think our bikes have feelings too and no bike with feelings wants to be known as just "bike" ,,, that's just not right!!!! Puc

FEELING FOR YA BROTHER!!!! Gotta say though,,, All this about chain saws and how dangerous they are.. I am with you Ready,,, between the two dangerous devices (trees and chainsaws),, I have had much worse experiences with the trees themselves that has led me to believe that trees neither like to be cut on or climbed on... Thinking back on my short life of heating our home with wood for over 30 years that cut, hauled and hand split,,, one of my worst experiences involved dropping an old, dryed out Popular tree.. There it stood,, straight as any perfectly vertical arrow could be and deader than a dried out bull frog that didnt make it off a road in time... I cranked up my 16 inch Husky, blipped the throttle a couple times and proceeded to sink its hand sharpened chain into the tree like a I hot knife thru cold butter... So smooth was it all going that I was totally shocked when about 2/3rds of the way thru the tree I ran into a dead spot that allowed the fresh cut tree to slide side ways and drop vertically directly on top of my left foot... I had always been told that Poplar and other softwood trees are no where near as heavy as Oak or the like. Not sure that either my left foot or my internal OWY meter agree with that... Prayers Up and heal fast my friend!!

Yep,, we sure did VAz,,, and,,, IMHO,,, not a pretty picture.. Having experienced riding down a few of these puppies with flat has taught me a couple of things,, one of them being that givin the choice,, I prefer to never have to do that again so I like to make sure those rim beads are clean as a whistle when I spoon on a new tire,, just another IMHO of course.. Personally,, due to the low prices on some really awesome shoes,,, if the tire had been rolled enough to pop a bead once it was flat,, I wouldnt risk it,, I would replace it and this time I would stick a Shinko 230 Tourmaster on it - they have earned the spot in being my favorite bargin bin tire,,, just another of my opinions I reckon.. Due to what I am reading here,,, while swapping on the new tire and in the process of cleaning up the wheel,, as shown in one of the attached vids,, I would also replace the valve stem.. I know there will be tons of opinions on does and don'ts on this process too but what I show has worked for me over a few tire swaps...

Tip and I have always enjoyed Ghost Towning our way across the vast western U.S. and we were glad to find out that, while Benton Hot Springs is not actually a Ghost Town,,, Trooper really seemed to enjoy exploring old western towns and history as much as we. Benton Hot Springs in California is a treasure of a spot for folks like the 3 of us!!

I am sure that most people have a "bucket list" in life (a place/item or accomplishment they hope to access before life's journey below is over). My fight with cancer and a discussion with a surgeon pertaining to that fight was just cause to kick in my own thoughts about my personal bucket list. What resulted was my ownership of a Yamaha R1 motorcycle which I aptly named "Maggie" due to it's amazing ability to fill my beat up old body with adrenaline similar to the way the "Magnum" roller coaster at Ceder Point in Sandusky Ohio used to do. Tip, Trooper and I discovered some of those same feelings along 120 that runs from Mono Mills (located on Mono Lake on the east side of the Sierra Nevada's) over to Benson in southeastern California!! Whether by car or by bike = those feelings of weightlessness and reverse G-Force that one encounters on a roller coaster are all there waiting to be discovered!!! YEEEE HAWWWWW - Get out and ride and GET OUT AND RIDE 120!!