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Me n Spence,, we be on the same page = cant see a thing!!!! Sometimes life's not fair I tell ya!!

Seems like just yesterday while raising our kids on 20 acres of quiet Michigan land with 6000 acres of State Land to play on that our 2nd born country girl of a daughter announced she had gotten accepted at Cornell in Manhatten and would be moving to NYC = TIP AND I KNOW EXACTLY HOW YOU AND THAT PRECIOUS BRIDE OF YOURS FEEL THERE MY TEXAS HERO BROTHER,,, definitely hard watching em sprout wings and fly off in search of fulfilling their dreams!! Prayers Up for that youngen and for you folks as you all face these exciting, but somewhat frightening, times!! On the same token = wayyyy cool Dylan!!! Your ol Uncle Puc livin in Michigan aint gonna be much help if ya have a flat tire or you need immediate attention BUT,,,,,, I LOVE that city - it IS an amazing place and wish nothing but the best for you young man!! "The Big Apple" has it all,,, the fun part is finding the treasure you seek in all that endless opportunity = Godspeed in locating exactly the treasure you seek Dylan!! Lean on the Lord when times get dicey (stay away from the alternative coping methods) and all will be fine!! GO GET EM CHAMP!! Puc

Well,, at least I found out what happened!! By the way,,, if you hate working on bikes and are bored to death with this little mini series but have always wondered what riding in a side car is like,,,,, well,,,, lets just say that you may find Pt 6 here a little more insightful LOL

Don't EVER give up!!

Is this a hopeless endeavor?

The plot thickens!!

Hearing that my friend!!!!! I also LOVE pawing around in the Cowboy collectables... I have a couple HD riding neighbors here at our part time homej (least it seems that way,,, right now in the process of getting the KIA ready headin back west to rock-a-bye that new grandson when he FINALLY decides to join the fun - just stuck in new wheel bearings on the cars back side = 190k on the old ones so it was time ) on the Lake Shore that I ride with who I LOVE to shoot handguns with too - we carry our shooters on our bikes for those Shoot n Scoot shoot out events!!! Our "M.O." as geezer buddies is what ever we do we go all out in a competitive way..... Well,,, while walking thru the classic Cowboy section of that tourist trap on the prairie - some throwing knifes caught my eye!! Couldnt help be bring three sets of those Wall Drug flying blade souveniers home = the local competition between buddies continues:biker:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heyyyyyy,,,,, wassup Dogman!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the welcome home brother,,, same to you folks as I think I read you and the lovely better half did the NY Rally = wish I coulda joined you folks for yet another AWESOME time with friends!! Tweeks is gonna be ok I think.. She is still in pieces (got a U-Joint ordered - should be here Monday) but it looks like the only real damage from her hard landing was a cracked bearing boss on the U-Joint that caused some premature, very heavy and heated wearing on a bearing due to the odd angle the cracked and bent boss ended up at... Tell ya one thing brother,,, could have DEFINITELY been worse!!! there's not more damage internally on her motor cause this beat up old, twisted old lop eared CTFW varmint aint no way - no how gonna pull a motor = would be time to find yet another of Tweeks family members to tortur,,, I mean adopt ... Hope all is well with the Dogman family my brother!! to all!!!! Puc

Ahh ohh,,,, final drive and drive shaft look great!!! No easy fix here = RATSSSS!!

Gotta watch out for those spots where the pavement buckles under the intense heat of the western sky on the Ick-Spressway.. Hittin one of those puppies can toss a fully loaded touring bike with two riders higher than Larocco's Leap at Red Bud MX track can toss a KX500!!!!

Thanks for the welcome home Sly - that is greatly appreciated!! Kenda 777,, ,,, dont remember that one,,, you mean a Shinko 777 ,,,,, ,, dont matter,,, either Kenda or Shink = just glad to hear you got new shoes on er and they are workin great!!! Chasing those lop eared suthin varmints on those roads down yonder is DEFINITELY a good testin ground regardless of which brand your runnin

My touring bikes have carried a Wall Drug sticker on em for,,, well,, for what seems like FOR EVER.. Back when my son "P-Dog" (actually earned this biker name when he was 8 years old - had did his required 3 days in the saddle that showed he had earned the privilage of having a biker name and thats when the two of aboard my 1st Venture landed at the East Gate of the Badlands N.P. where he fell in love with Prairie Dogs). During that time frame, Wall Drug was still a yearly/favored quick stop for their free ice water (we snuck packets of lemon juice and sugar from the cafeteria to make cup after cup of free Lemon Aid = when life gives ya lemons and all that ) and the main attraction for my boy and I was shootin Aliens in the video game machine in the Back Yard and making the targets chime in the Back Yards "Shootin Gallery".. Wall Drug was also where my oldest daughter "Awahoo" (the one who is ready to pop out my next grandson ANYDAY) discovered a song by Micheal Murphy while goofing around pushing buttons with a head set on and searching thru music that is titled "Cowboy Logic".. She yelled at me across the store and, with tears in her eyes,, said "DAD!! This song should be titled "Cowpuc Logic" cause it says it all!!" Still makes me cry when I hear it and think of her saying that!! I often have people question my continued love for this, admittedly,,, trail side tourist trap found at the journeys end on the West Gate of the Badlands.. What those folks probably dont know is that Wall Drug of Wall S.D. offers a seemingly endless collection of displayed Cowboy and Native American photography = something to behold I tell ya!! Tweeks KNOWS that Tip and I WILL always stop to continue our endless search thru these volumes and volumes of precious history.. Having long ago lost the responsibilities associated with having to keep an eye on the kids,, we can now devote endless hours of pure pleasure in rediscovering the REAL western U.S. and relive what those early settlers of our amazing nation went thru in their pursuit to bring us a settled nation..

If you take the time to view this video I am sure you will agree with me that this place is nothing short of AMAZING!!! The quarry's at Pipestone are outright BREATH TAKING!!! The thought that for centuries, warring tribes of the Indian Nations would drop their grievances and come together as a people to come to this one place on the planet that offers the perfect "Pipe Stone" for making peace pipes!! What an amazing place!!!

TENT CAMPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom,, if you do,, PLEASE let him know that it can/will be done in complete anonymity so not even I know who he/she is. Just a simple gesture to continue to see even more AWESOME folks on the site!!! Also,, I/we REALLY had hopes of attending this years rally - I KNOW we really missed something special = would have LOVED to have been there but life always seems to get in the way....... Actually though,,,, it was AMAZING seeing my pregnant daughter out in Sac (its a Dad and his daugher kind of thing).. Brother,, this Grandfather stuff is CRAZY fun

:scared::scared::scared::scared:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You do that and I will DEFINITELY be camping in your front yard just BEGGIN for some flyin time!!!! Where the fun on the 190 mph R1 ends,,, the FUN in a REAL airplane only begins begins brother!!! "ROAD'S? Where we're going we dont need any roads":bikersmilie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flge_rw6RG0

:rotf::rotf::rotfl: Thats great!! You know how to post a Tube vid here dont cha??? Just copy the URL and paste it in,,, unless things have changed in the last month One of HD buddies stopped by today to watch me lift Tweeks using both my upstairs lifts.... I got a really great vid of him and I out having a blast on his Hacked 01 Twin Cam... Here are some primer pics for your viewing while I am waiting for the tube link Snype..

Not sure,,, I think it may have been closer to mid July... WOW does the time fly!! We stopped at the place in mid Minnesota called "Pipestone"... It where,, for centuries,, Native Americans would put down their fighting tools and stop killing each other to quarry a very special stone for making Peace Pipes.... Extremely peaceful and amazing place!!! I would have to look at my reciept from there but I think that was day 2 of our journey and I believe I made a post or two the day before we pulled out.... Definitely was home for 4th of July fire works.... Next trip might be longer cause I am gonna play with that new born grandson after Tip spends some time rock-a-bying him in his new chair and helping the daughter with her first couple weeks home... Might be Spring before you hear from me when that happens This Grand Fathering gig is something to behold brother:backinmyday:

ROCK AND ROLL!!!! :dancefool: PERFECT IMHO!!!!!!!! GREAT JOB SNYPE!!!!:clap2:

Oh,, by the way @Flyinfool = CONGRATS :guitarist 2:on selling the scoot,,,,,, you have my condolences:crying: brother .... What's next Jeff?? Give me an idea and I will keep my eyes peeled!! I KNOW you probably dont care about this but I gotta tell ya something,, my bucket list RF1 is SOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun - like owning F-4 Phantom ........ I came home to find out that two of our cross roads (2 miles in length) are fresh paved ................... Maggie,,,,, Maggie,,, calm down girl,,,,, calm down,,, I know,,, it's been a month,, calm down

Thanks Snype = good to be home for a spell too!! I use have used Chaparral Racing very successfully thru the years.. I usually do an Ebay search and 90% of the time they seem to come up cheapest as shown as an example in this link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/140-90-16-Kenda-K657-Challenger-Rear-Tire/323346786319?epid=171171961&hash=item4b48f8680f:g:I68AAOSwgLdaouV8 No idea what scoot (?) that tire is on or what size it is but WOWZY that dont look good - definitely snag a tire for the son there bro!!!! Your right,, the Lord DEFINITELY was lookin over em!! I did have a not so good time with Chaparall recently as they are the company that sent me the messed up E-4 that I ended up returning.. After YEARS of buying from them (never had to do a return) I did have that one recent issue.. Other than that,, they normally ship free AND the tire gets here very fast = couple days.. When I have them ship to my Daughters in California for my swap out there - usually within 24 hours I have the new tire!!!!!! Funny though,,, it took a couple weeks to get that E-4!!! I still think it was some kind of a game going on,, a left over return maybe because it had a "Drag Specialies" sticker on it under the UPS label... Just a forewarn.... That E-4 is DEFINITELY one tough tire!!! Wayyyyyyy tougher than anything I have ran = even a high dollar Michellin Commander 2 is NOT EVEN CLOSE!!! Only problem I see now is that if I have a flat on the road there is NO WAY on Gods green earth that tire is coming off with a set of spoons - it will DEFINITELY take a tire machine so there is that.... For folks who just call a tow truck,,,,, no problem!! For us "spooners" = it aint gonna happen... Other than that - WOW am I impressed!! Be interesting to see how far it goes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By the way,,, this link https://www.ebay.com/itm/Duro-Excursion-140-90-16-Front-Rear-Tire/332554761220?epid=171162887&hash=item4d6dcef404:g:iUsAAOSw9vlahGGn:sc:UPSGround!49445!US!-1 is the company where ended up getting the good E-4 from,,, same price and free shipping as Chap!!! REALLY ended up being a good place too IMHO and also had my tire in just a couple days and it was PERFECT!!!

Prayers Up Motiv!!! Hope you and your precious wife are healing up fully!!!

THANKS JEFF,, forgot all about this!! Got Tweeks output shaft out today and did a 100% thourough check on the frame.. I did a video of all of it but wont be posting it up till winter probably but included some pics below.. Amazingly, the frame looked great!! No sign of stress cracking thru paint at joints even... Nothing!! PHEW!! Better safe than sorry though!! Also,,, lash on output checked out PERFECT (about .003),, both middle gear bevel gears looked great,,, even though yoke(s) looked like they came out of the landing of Tweeks the Heavy just fine (will know more about this when I press in a new U-Joint - I have no way to Magna Flux but lookin good from what i can see).. It appears that the impact of the landing actually cracked the bottom of bearing cup on the u-joint enough to cause the seal to fall away and get stuck in the bearing... Things really got chewed up from there causing loss of some of the needles.. Thankfully the U-Joint is external of the middle gear so all the aborted parts and pieces got trapped in the housing molded into the swingarm... Someone () was sure watching over the three of us!! Thanks Roller,, love ya brother!! Just before we left I hurt some feelings by making some opinionated statements (I can be wayyyyy over bearing sometimes,,, my passion for scoots can get out of hand) about the new Yam,, things got a little personal and I ended up with some off colored comments being sent to my phone.. I was concerned about someone knowing of our coming and goings,, shared some of my thoughts with the local Police and they suggested I make some changes - not posting our whereabouts on the net being one of them... I did have contact with videoarizona via phone for a short while but lost service out in Wendover (Bonneville Salt Flats = went camping 10 miles out,,, got video = AWESOME fun!!! = also spent a day playing at a WW2 airbase out there - WOW was that AWESOME!!! Such a big land,, such a small amount of time ).. The Dunny worked AWESOME!!! TAKE A PEEK AT THE PIC!!! We didnt spend much time ziggin and zaggan North to South but it did see some fairly high temps!! Definitely well pleased!!! Back at cha Spence and THANKS!! Roger that on the Aero-Planes there tower.... Matter of fact,,,,,,, been flying the lightweight stuff like 250 Elsinores and KX500's = landing those 180 footers got to be a an every weekend experience BUT - I really dont recall landing a Gen 1 Yamaha Heavy,,, guess what Spence,,,,,,, ya ever see in the movies where those fat aero-plane tires on the heavy's go SQWAUK when they touch down? THAT really does happen!!!! Heyyyyyy,, Hi Sky!! My daughter said my new Grandson didnt have a rockerbye chair so,,,,,,,,,,,,,, now he's got one!!!!!! CAN NOT WAIT TO GET BACK OUT THERE AND TRY IT OUT WITH HIM AFTER HE DECIDED TO COME OUT AND PLAY!!!! By the way,, get this,, the old guy who we bought the chair from was a Navy Vet who retired after spending many years on "Intrepid" (ship that was docked in Manhattan when my 2nd born was going to Med School at Cornell there!!! After retirement, he went to work as a Cop and found this chair in a dumpster, restored it (its one of those chairs that has a hole covered with leather in the seat) but kept the original leather intact.. Raised their 3 kids rockin it,,, his son joined the Navy and spent his time on the famous Kitty Hawk and he and his wife also have 3 children who got the rockin chair rockin and now there Son is in the Navy!!!!!!:usa::usa::usa::usa: Got a hunch,,, that California Grandkid is gonna be one tough,, patriotic ombre!!

WOWZY WOW WOW WOW:scared:,,, now THAT is what I'm talking about my brothers and sisters!!!!! :clap2: Like that sweet brother of mine,, DragonRider, LOVES to say,,,, Just Do It For The Kids!!!!!!! Having been out of town for this GREAT Rally and,, because I am not a drinkin man (me and Mr. Vodka got in trouble years ago and I am now sworn to no more booze) so I could not of with the guest who was so generous anyway,,, I would LOVE to pay for a year of membership here on the site to say THANK YOU to this person.... If anyone knows who it was and could contact him and let him know of my offer I would appreciate it... Maybe even better yet,,,, if you know who it is and the person would like to join in on the awesome family fun we have here,,, just just have em sign up for a Trial period, then P.M. @Freebird that the person signed up for the free trial and,, if Don don't mind doing it,,, he can let me know that I owe the club another 12 bucks (I don't even need to know who the person is). ,,,, did that all come out like I meant it to come out ...

Looks like the new grandson out in Sac is gonna make life double interesting and do the full term thing.. His Mom, our oldest was born at home 2 months early and therefore "delivered" by yours truly (an interesting story in itself and NOT something I recommend if you have no medical training - which neither Tip nor I had) = all the others of our 4 came early too.. All that said,, we have been expecting this one to follow suit but,, at least at this point,,, not so!!!! Personally,,, I think he is playing games with his grampa to see just how many trips back n forth across the country I am up to LOL... Home now but no idea for how long.. The highway recently offered up one of those motocross jumps in the form of a heat heave that I didnt see (to busy yakkin with Tip about grandkids probably) which sent us airborne... We were able to land Tweeks the flying fortress but not without damage... She's got quite a "clunk" up in her middle gear area... Of course I was hoping for drive shaft damage so I wouldnt have to pull the swingarm this morning but the drive shaft and final drive all look great (that Red grease is doing a FINE job!!)... Now it's on to pulling the swingarm so I can remove the output shaft and check out the yoke/U-Joint assembly... I hope its repairable there cause this old numb fingered, twisted grip Dupyntren infested hands lop eared varmint is NOT gonna pull a motor!!! Getting ready to take Tip out for breakfast IN THE CAGE and then on to fixen Tweeks and preppin the car for the return trip to Sac!! Thought I best touch base here as I had gotten word (BEFORE we lost all phone connections) folks were wondering where we were (THANKS FOR THE CONCERN YA BUNCH OF LOP EARED VR VARMINTS!!! Ol Pucster and young Tip and hurtin Tweeksis feel the love!!).. Even if it ends up being short lived,,, be it ever sooooo humble... I will check my P.M.'s later today as I just got notified I have at least 1