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Yessirrreeee Bongo,,,, yessirrrreee it sure did.... Gotta add though,,,,,, be it ever soooooo hi-jackable there's nooooo place like home... Sooo,, doing a double hi-jack and reversing polarity on that epic condenser adventure so we get a positive reading on our EMF outages,,,,,,,,, I wonder if Sea Puppy was able to piggy back another TCI without ripping his bike all to smitherings:178:.. Hope so:fingers-crossed-emo!! Aint nothing worse than sitting in a classroom trying to decipher what's wrong with your scoot when you could be out smelling the roses while chasing the front wheel!

These Graduate Level courses in Electronic Studies can be kind of intense... Probably because they assume that a person like myself actually passed the Pre-Requisite classes - personally I am still back in Electronics 101...

Lite the fires and kick the tires - thanks for the invite Or!!!! Hope you cheese heads have a BALL!!

Sorry to bug ya Fuzzy but just wanted to add = """"This YUASA model YTX20L-BS was in my RSTD since new"""" = so thats what was!!!

Tweeks has got the original battery out of a friends 08 Sportster in her,,, I will let you guys know how that works out ... Maybe carry your old battery tie wrapped to the back of your bike just in case you run across someone like me sitting on the side of the road Fuzzy .. Sounds to me like your on the right the track swapping it out - no sense taking any chances if you dont relish the excitement of being broke down in obscure places:happy34: Sooo,,,,, anyone trying Lithium:icon_smile_question

You can run Sticky but you can't hide Wishing you folks all the best in your move and in your new home!!

Hi GnV! Just talking off the cuff here,,, you talking about the complete motor, carbs, TCI all in one package or you talking just the motor? Sorry to hear about the crash brother but glad your OK!!

Well,,,,, ,,, I have I ridden some of that area KIC and gotta tell ya brother - those Canyon edges associated with that area are the last places you would have wanted to try and ride out a flat tire on one of these bikes... :biker:GORGEOUS pictures though... The group that you were going to go with sure seem familiar to me - my riding buddies would do the same thing for me had I of been in your shoes... Made sure that I got pictures of the ride I missed and all that

,,,,,,,, and POOF,, JUST LIKE THAT - RIV GOT A BRAND NEW 1986 YAMAHA MK2 1ST GEN XVZ13 VENTURE!!!!!:cool10::guitarist 2: Absolutely LOVE the story, the 's and OH THAT VIDEO = BEAUTIFUL BROTHER!!! All the best to you and that gorgeous new scoot named Walt.. Her name sake is looking down with a on his face and a in his heart!!!

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You should be fine switching over Bushwacker.. Just make sure you dont over fill and you swap out the filter in the process so you get as little mixing of synthetics as possible,, IMHO. One of the pretty neat things that I like about using old school dino oil like YammerDan mentioned is, again - IMHO, you can find 20/50 dino about anywhere and mixing em up doesnt really seem to hurt anything.. I usually come home from a month of travel on Tweeks with a mix of 20/50 from Family Dollar, Walmart, Auto Zone or even that gas station at the entrance of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon (you dont want to buy your oil there - I paid 9 dollars for a quart of dino oil - and the old girl always seemed to appreciate what ever I stuck in her.. By the way,, I am not sure what all the hub bub is about you bringing up the oil subject ,,, after all,, its still winter here:sign67:

PARTY POOPER!!!

Hey Drag,,,, your pic upload problem has probably got something to do with picture size,,, its not uncommon to need to resize to a smaller pic (I have found 1000x750 works good).. Dont give up,, you sure got a line of folks waiting to see more!!!

GOOD ON YA RIV!!! I clicked the "thanks" icon to send ya a message of thankfulness for taking such good care of your Dad brother!! I clicked the "like" icon cause I also like it when fellow gear heads come to the same conclusion about stuff that I do... First time I swapped out a set of OEM boingers for progressives I had EXACTLY the same thought as you put in print = "what in the wild wild world of torturing motorcycles is going on here,, somebody put ink pen springs in my forks!!"":big-grin-emoticon:... Just never made no sense to me why Mom Yam would produce an amazing scoot like the Venture that could easily point the front wheel toward the sky in 2nd gear only to land on those OEM springs and the fish oil they used back in the day for dampening:big-grin-emoticon:!! Your dad is in for a REALLY special treat with his bump eating, super cornering trike my friend!!!! By the way,,, its said that a picture is worth a thousand words,,,, that of those springs pretty much prove that saying to be correct brother!!

on a 1st Gen jet plane

In one CRAZY motorcycle club!!!!

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I have spent a night or two camping in an old grave yard in Waterloo when passing thru Iowa a couple times in years passed Ben but thats a ways from Iowa City.. Maybe summons some Iowa natives like @rbig1 and see if they got any ideas... If nothing else brother,, there's gotta be a Walmart parking lot available.

You did brother you did:Bunny:!!! Unfortunately I cheated Tweeks out of it and it ended up on my forehead:hurts: (see avatar) BUT = THANK YOU for reminding me - I will now go back and edit my bling count to adjust for such a fine example of bling in our Bling Contest.. PS - how do you spect to win the contest by helping out your competition?

Ok,,, here's the beginning of my entrance into the bling contest... It took some doings cause my memory is failing me and I actually had to walk out and stand on the porch in the garage in my stocking feet (got me in trouble with Tippy over that one ya bunch of lop eared Bling Contest varmints) and look at my purdy scoot.. This is a list of what I could see on the right side of Tweeks, our precious 1983 Yamaha XVZ12 Standard Venture.. Custom "back-off whip" hand made by my friend and fellow VR Member @VentureFar (California Trouble) American Flag donated by and placed on Tweeks by my friend and fellow VR member @ragtop69gs (Raggy) Custom water storage container (mile jug) hanging from custom mount (piece of metal I drilled a hole in) Custom chrome tent rack donated from a 1970 Honda CB750 that I turned into a chopper Ride To Eat/Eat To Ride patch donated by my friend and fellow VR member @EasyRider (fellow banana nut ice cream lover from California) Austrailia sticker that Aussie Annie and Quickstep brought all the way from Austrailia for Tweeks Moab sticker Montana State sticker Nevada State sticker Vogel patch 2 - tire label stickers from replacement tires I spooned on when we wore out tires while chasing the front wheel (long story). Michigan Cycle Conservation membership sticker Junior Fire Fighter sticker (took grandson to an outing on the bike) Grand Canyon NP sticker Bonneville Salt Flat sticker Old Faithful Calistoga California sticker Canadian Flag sticker Alberta Canada sticker Zion NP sticker Sasqauch in Weed California sticker Timberline Lodger Oregon sticker North Dakota emblem Mt. Hood Oregon sticker Red River Gorge KY sticker Mackinaw Bridge Mi sticker Yosimite NP sticker Canyon Lands NP sticker Sunrise Oregon sticker Lassen NP sticker Redwood NP sticker Walldrug SD sticker Lewis and Clark pin Idaho pin Grand Tentons NP sticker Rancho Motorcycle Dismantling (Rancho Cordova California - needed parts) sticker Manioua Island Mi sticker New Berry Volcanic Monument sticker Silver Lake Sand Dunes Mi sticker Capital Reefs NP sticker Iron Mountain Road patch M-22 Mi sticker Craters of the Moon sticker Bad Lands NP sticker OKIE sticker Road Trip Alabama sticker Bliss Mi sticker Devils Tower NP sticker California State sticker Cousins resturant The Dalles Oregon sticker (given to Tweeks by the AWESOME staff at Cousins Resturant during the Venture West Rally) Unruly Brewery sticker Death Valley NP sticker (night ride Death Valley with your lights off - AMAZING!!!) Roswell Alien sticker Deadwood SD sticker Tail of the Dragon sticker Kings Canyon sticker Thats about all I can see from the porch,,,, lots more bling on the windshield and left side of the bike but I dont dare walk out on the dirty garage floor and see what I am forgetting... ,,, forgot about the VentureRider.org dome sticker stuck to my forehead (thanks for reminding @Freebird)!!

WOWZY that is gorgeous Boss!!! VERY CLASSY!! ,,, every time I look at your new scoot more 's pop into my mind... Is that one of those specialty plates from the DMV? It says AMP37,,, was it just luck of the draw or is there a hidden message in there like - "this puppy is so enriched with extra lighting it draws 37 amps of juice" or "at 37 years old I got a new amp for my guitar" or "I was A Military Police when I was 37" or "Almost Made Perfect after 37 tries"....

,,,,, I hope you know your on the verge of losing your 3 Mouthketeers membership

Sorry to read all this KIC,,, aint no fun when a planned ride is messed up like that ,, I know EXACTLY how ya were feeling brother!! Crazy how one little tiny nail can mess things up!!! Same token though,,, sooooo glad you found out that it was nothing really major and that the good Lord was watching out for you and your wife and nothing really bad happened as a result of having a flat tire while out chasing the wind!

:beer:A BLING CONTEST:cool10:!!!!! LOOKS LIKE WE GOT US A GOOD OL FASHION BLING CONTEST IN THE MAKINS:guitarist 2:!!!!! :think:I GOTTA GET IN ON THIS:scratchchin:..... :lightbulb:BE RIGHT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep,,, good ol Uncle Hildo!!:clap2::dancefool: GIVE IT TO EM UNC - SHOW EM HOW ITS DONE!! Biggest difference tween Uncle Hildo and his nephew Puc,,, ven he varm's the rear tyre on his chop with the brakeless spooley front wheel he does it with enough finness that his front end stays on the ground,,, mine woulda climbed the fence pole and went over backwards:Laugh: