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Almost missed it myself Beej.. Thankfully Mama had LOTS of Pizza and Bacon left over so no one starved. Missed ya brother!! Did get to see a picture of Brenda's pretty RSTD during a discussion of White Wall tires.. Another of our club members announced he is leaving the cold of Wisconsin for warmer climates in the south.. Oooppsss,, all that slipped,,, what happens in Chat is suppose to stay there, hope I didnt just lose my chat license.. Anyway, just a touch of info to entice others to join the action may not hurt..

Dag nab er Bongo,, I cant stand the taste of crow but gotta admit,, looks like crow dinner tonight - right back to almost 50/50 again...

Yep,, probably some of mine DanL,, you know what they say - birds of a feather flock together,, no idea how that applies to our marbles but it sounded good

Now thats what I call WOW ZZZZZZZZZ WOW WOW WOW AWESOME!!!!:clap2::clap2::clap2::dancefool::dancefool: GREAT JOB BLACK WING!!! :thumbsup: May your hard work and attention to detail pay off with THOUSANDS of great miles out chasing the front wheel my friend!! BEAUTIFUL!! By the way,, I LOVE your concept of a bike lift - AMAZING piece of work there brother!!

I LOVE that outfit:guitarist 2:!! ,, put fold down seats in the boat - make em so they fold into a bed, little canvas top - be ready to camp on land or on water = the PERFECT machine!!

Showed these pics to Tip. Tippy and I wish we were there to give Z and that lady in the picture a big hug, cry with them and help them sort through that aweful disaster.. What a heartbreaking situation Z...

Pull the breather cover, slip a screw driver into the carb throats and slide the slides in and out and make sure they move freely (careful not to damage them if they are stuck - the material they are made of scratches and breaks fairly easily). If one is sticky, pull that one and clean the slide with carb cleaner. Also soak a rag with some carb cleaner and reach into the throat where the slide slides and clean it real well - will probably be covered with black gook. Slip it back in and test it, should slide real easily. If all looks good when you check the slides thru the breather, put some gas in a spray bottle and spray fuel into the carb throat that is not firing and see if it will fire when you spray fuel into it.. If it does hit right off you probably have plugged jetting somewhere. Go to an Ag store and get a 50cc syringe. Fill the syringe with carb cleaner. Pull slide, open drain on carb, attach syringe with carb cleaner to drain hose on carb, inject cleaner until it comes out of main jet orfice (where metering rod attached to slide enters into main jet opening). Pump syringe to agitate carb cleaner in float bowl. Best way to check for pin holes in diaphrams (IMHO) is to pull diaphram into full extention and pour gas into cup shape of diaphram and carefully roll diaphram and watch for leaks. If there is a pin hole or crack the diaphram will get wet on dry side..

OUTSTANDING Mr. Bossman!!!:clap2::dancefool: Prayers Up and Blessings Down as you travel the road of bringing home yet another AWESOME new scoot!! I got Fool all hog tied and his White Wash Machine unplugged so at least you shouldnt need snow tires:hurts:. I was up at 5:30am and thought there were a few snowflakes mixed in with the rain drops falling here. Headed south like you are and running a day later when you chase down that pretty black 2nd Gen with the white walls you should be in good shape as far as anything else being white. I share in your excitement Boss, thank you for including us in all the excitement brother!! WHAT A BLAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ride safe my friend! Puc

With FRIENDS!!

People often comment to me about my being stuck in the "old school" days. This doesnt only effect my love for certain types of bikes, it also effects everyday life around the Puc and Tippy home. An example of this is the fact that Tip and I dont do the modern day Android phone thingy like most civilized people do.. We do however have a little Trac phone that we use on occasion. This morning we wake up to a strange noise in the kitchen. It was a warning coming from our Trac phone that we were OUT of "days" and it needed to be fed - it had plenty of "minutes" but the "days" had run out.. In response to this extreme emergency we fly out the door, jump in the car, go to the local gas station and buy an airtime card = 200 minutes and 90 days worth of feed. Our sweet little Trac Phone came with a "double minute" feature so we get double minutes, giving us a total of 400 minutes and 90 days to be added. When we got home I remembered getting a Christmas present from Trac Phone that was a little book full of "promo codes" to get extra minutes. Having no idea where that little Christmas present booklet ended up, I asked my lovely Bride and keeper of my brain if she had any idea where it may have landed after I had read it months ago (Tip is the BEST of the BEST at taking care of all that type of stuff). She reached in a drawer in the kitchen and handed me the Trac Phone booklet.. I sat on the couch, airtime info in hand, and started the process of feeding that cute little phone of ours.. Hit menu, hit "add airtime", enter PIN, have a promo - clicked yes,, the little rascal ate the PIN but gave me no chance to enter the Promo number - ahhhh ohhhh I said to Tip who was doing dishes.. Sure enough, all's well but no promo minutes added.. I want my Christmas present really bad so I called the 1-800 number in the booklet.. After dialing the number and entering 1 for the language I speak (english) and a bunch of other 1's and 2's and a couple of 3's I finally got to chat with a foreign sounding women somewhere in a little mud hut in Zimbobway.. After explaining to her that I wanted my Christmas present promo minutes she had me go thru a 5 minute process of entering some wierd codes into my little Trac phone. After doing so she had me turn my Trac phone off (good thing I was calling on my home phone) and then back on again. After the Trac Phone rebooted she asked me if my Christmas present minutes now appeared on the screen.. I looked, a little and then told her I had no idea cause I couldnt remember how many minutes the poor little thing had on it in the 1st place:confused24:.. After a brief moment of silence on her end she said she thought they were successfully added cause her computer screen said the Promo minutes were successfully added.. I then noticed that she had added an extra "Day" of time on my phone giving me 91 days until the Phone would need to be fed again and this whole crisis would be played out again.. I told her thank you and that I looked forward to speaking to her again in 91 days. She didnt ,, more of a response..

WOW, that is sad:95:,,, my heart, thoughts and PRAYERS UP go out to Z and his family!!! I am soooo glad that they are all ok and deeply sorry about the loss of their pets.. Looking at those scoots though I gotta say, I have seen a LOT worse in actual damage to them. Have seen bikes that burned to the point of aluminum melted down.. I really wonder if, with a lot of elbow grease and replacing some unsalvagable parts those both could be runners again. Looking at the fairings and windshields it doesnt look like a lot of melting took place, good indicator that the wiring and such is still ok, possibly. We had a house fire years ago and found out after the fact that our Home Owners Insurance did not cover vehicle loss. I had no Comprehensive Insurance on the vehicles we had back then and ended up taking a loss on them. It might not be a bad idea to find out all about that BEFORE letting the bike(s) go to a bone yard.. If Z ends up keeping them and making them go again, I would be happy to donate any spare parts I have to help get his scoot back on the road.. What a horrible thing to have had happen.. Praying for you all of you Z!!

:scared:WOW ZZZZZZ WOW WOW WOW is that PURDY Orlin !!!! I love "baggers" and LOVE what you got going there my friend!! BEAUTIFUL job brother!!:clap2::dancefool: Cant wait to see it IRL!! Wanna hear something crazy about baggers? Couple years ago I was in our local Harley shop and noticed a new "Street Glide" (bagger) setting next to an Electra Glide Classic (Dresser). Same bike minus the tour pac for the exact same price. Went to the parts counter and had the parts guy look up cost for the tour pac - 2600 bucks for complete set up. I then asked the salesman how they could get the same dollar out of a bike by taking parts OFF it. Guy looked at me and said the Street Glide (bagger, the one with OUT the extra parts) outsold the Dresser ten to 1:confused24:!!! I looked at the salesman and said, but dont people know those parts come off:confused24: and who wouldnt want 2600 dollars in free parts that could be added on if needed? The salesman did the old and said,, most people dont think like that ...

Thing would be full of slimy pond monsters if he did Gary and then the inside would have to be swabbed too The PERFECT opportunity!!!! :lightbulb:Time for a Puc's Meet - Greet and Eat Meat plug here!!! We serve the BEST all beef (it's Steak ground up - easier to chew so even older people with issues can enjoy their Steak) Hot Dog's and fixin's KNOWN TO MAN and guess what,, NO WAXING NO BOATS!! That's right,,, ,, BIG PLUS,,,, you can spend all your time riding your bike trying to find us instead of the old wax on, wax off routine!!! ,,,, I gotta be careful here,,,,,, next thing I know our Club Prez will be handing me some wax and a rag and pointing to his canoe and telling me to either wax or its back on probation,,,,,, sometimes my shy little 's lead directly to PS,,, no PMgandEM next 2 weeks,, I will be in Oberlin Ohio waxing a boat,, I only have one good hand so this job is gonna take 2 weeks.. Dont :95:for me though cause it sounds like the job pays really really really good!!

Watched a number of them come and go in the last year for $2000,, $2500ish on the high end Lug.. FYI, I believe those scoots were the detuned model of the V-4 - smaller carbs and all that.. Yamaha didnt spark em back up in horsepower till the later model years of that style (think a quick check in our history section would reveal exactly when that happened). Also not sure about the motor still having a balance shaft - seems like I heard that Mom Yam dropped the balance shafting for those early models, if thats so I wouldnt be surprised that red line has also been reduced..

SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbsup::dancefool::dancefool:

Obviously,, the kids all came when there Mother called them :cool10::crackup:

Wish I was younger and had the spunk I used to have,, doing that last Poll gave me an idea of something I would LOVE to do.. Back a few centuries ago and in another life I LOVED building Chops,, it was soooo much fun.. A new pastime I am discovering is the fun of polling our club members,, I LOVE you lop eared bunch of gearheaded varmints - viewing your perspectives of what works and doesn't work for flipping your trigger just makes me .. I was just sitting here thinking (yep,, even a Puc does have that happen once in a while ) how much fun it would be to build a bottoms up ground pounding full bore custom with each main part of the build being voted on by all our club members before it is chosen for placement on the scoot... Cant help but imagine what such a critter on two wheels would look like by the time we got finished with it........ You ever wonder how Tip has put up with me allllll these years Sometimes?

Puc's MGandEM attenders!

Sooooooo right there with ya Mabe!!! ,,,,,, thinking it may have something to do with the style of scoot.. The 2nd Gens have that old school cool look and the 1st Gen's,, well,, they have that LEAD - FOLLOW - OR GET OUT OF MY WAY hot rod look and feeling about em = definitely high end, high strung stallion freedom seekin thing happening..

:scared: WOW ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ WOW WOW WOW - SHE'S GORGEOUS BLACK WING!!:thumbsup::sign outstanding: And looky looky @yammerdan , she's a BLUE ONE!!:bikersmilie: By the powers vested in me as the herein solely appointed (by myself - no vanity here) Chief of the VR ,, the ticket formally issued to our friend and lop eared VR club varmint Black Wing is hereby null and void... CONGRAT WING - SHE'S A DANDY!!

ah, ah,, ah, NOW it's 70/30 in favor of those purdy white walls :stirthepot::guitarist 2::guitarist 2:

The Bossman just picked up a GORGEOUS "new" scoot - WOW ZZZZ WOW WOW WOW is it PURDY!! (see this link if you haven't seen Don's new bike yet - http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?118738-Well-I-guess-I-m-no-longer-bike-less ).. Some of us think the really cool White Wall tires on that purdy Black 2nd Gen are,, well,, REALLY COOL.. Others,,, not so much.. In an effort to genuinely welcome Freebird's bike to her new home I thought it would be befitting to have a club poll and see who likes those pretty White Walls and who does not.. I can tell you upfront that I LOVE THEM!!

I LOVE THE WHITE WALLS TOO!! TIME FOR ANOTHER OFFICIAL VENTURERIDER.ORG CLUB MEMBER POLL!!!!

WELCOME BACK WING AND CONGRATS ON THE NEW SCOOT!! Cant wait to hear more about it and at the same time,,,, heyyy,, wait a minute,, something just dawned on me (read response below) :whistling::whistling:(those are my best imitation of making a police siren sound) - = = can I see your official VR license and proof of sanity insurance .... Gotta inform you = :sign16::sign16:

WOW is THAT heart wrenching to look at.. :95::95::95::95: I feel so bad for Z and his family,, wish there was something I could do.. Jack,, I know it's early in the rebuild game and all that but has there been any mention concerning Insurance coverage? Are those folks ok as far as a place to stay in the interum? If there is any mention about a Go Fund Me account to help out would you,, or someone, PLEASE let us know.. Z,, you have my thoughts and prayers my friend.. Just soooooo glad you are all ok... Wow that is horrible....