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WHAT A BLAST!!!!!:clap2::clap2::dancefool::dancefool::thumbsup: I managed to melt down (literally) the mother board on my ASUS computer and ended up switching to a Toshiba that runs Vista for its OS.. All was ok with it but I just could not get it to load "Flash Player" so I could watch embedded videos (no idea of thats even proper puter lingo).. I played with this thing, bounced it off a few walls, pushed all the hidden buttons in its security system, read all the stuff on google I could find that detailed what might be wrong and tried all the tricks I could muster in a valiant attempt to make er go and I just could not figure it out.. Just about the time I had surrendered to the fact that Snickers (I have now named this thing "Snickers" because I swear I heard it snickering at me every time I tried something and it didnt work) intelligence was superior to that of my own and had given up on being able to view my friends embedded vids I received a PM from one of our members named @Wizard765.. Wiz volunteered his time/talents and attention to see if he could figure why Snickers was being so ornery.. I humbly accepted Mr. Wizards offer of working some magic. I wasnt sure how much he would be able to do other than tell me what buttons to push because Wiz and I live many many miles apart - he lives in Canada and I in the U.S. Wiz had me sign up at a site called Team Viewer.. It wasnt long before - get this,, I SWEAR this REALLY happened (I have no pics so all I can do is swear to it), Mr. Wizard was literally working on MY computer FROM CANADA.. It was SOOOOOO cool!! Tip and I sat and watched the Wiz's cursor move around on the display of our laptop,, turning buttons back on that I had turned off, chasing down "service pacs" thru our internet connection,, downloading things like SP1's and SP2's - IE9 and all that kinda cool stuff.. Tip looks at me and says "now that is just plain weird" watching someone else operate my computer from miles away.. My response to her was "it may seem weird to you but I am learning sooooooo much watching this Master Computer Wizard at work!!".. One time while I was watching him work a little screen pops up, Wiz super sized it and then started typing me a message.. "Hi Friend,, do you see that....." began his message.. I looked at Tip and said ":scared:I think the Wiz is talking to me.." I was :think: and wondering what to do.. Timidly I tried typing and sure enough,,, my text appeared.. It was really really strange because now there were TWO buddies working on the same display screen :guitarist 2::guitarist 2::guitarist 2::guitarist 2: This went on for hours (Wiz was AMAZING in his patience with me, gracefully giving me as much time as I needed to understand what he was doing - FANTASTIC TEACHER:happy34:) as the two of us rode the highways of cyber space together - The Master and The Grasshopper.. In the end, as I am sure you are expecting to hear, Mr. Wizard was able to change Snickers attitude and get her back to being a submissive machine BUT, as in all Touring adventures - the REAL thrill for me was found in the journey.. It, the journey, taught me once again how helping others or, in this case, being helped by amazing people like the Wiz is really where blessings abound. We ended our time together with me wondering how I would pay Mr. Wizard for his talented service and his kindness.. I was pleased to hear him say that he was hoping that somehow he would be able to come visit us and be a participant in one of our Michigan "Pucs Meet - Greet and Eat Meat" Hot Dog eating events... I WAS THRILLED TO HEAR HIM SAY THIS and am sooooo looking forward to seeing and shaking the hand of my new friend, WIZARD765, who has such magical powers about him that he can even take over a computer hundreds of miles away!!! THANK YOU WAYNE FOR ALLLL THE ASSISTANCE and also for your friendship!! Your ol buddy Puc

OUCHY OUCH OUCH OUCH:95:!!! So sorry to read this Tuffy!! I know they make Motorcycle sized fix it stickers for us bikers,, I wonder if they make Motorhome sized stickers for Motorhomes.. Tip and I have talked about getting another motorhome for our upcoming retirement years - after reading and seeing this I am thinking I better check out sticker availabilty before going that route cause I could just see me doing something like that Tuffy....

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Why it's my long lost Sister = AUSSIE ANNIE = YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWWWWWW!!! :clap2::dancefool: HI ANNIE:15_8_211[1]: Been missing and wondering about you and Quickstep!! Soooo good to hear from you!! While I am not a Facebooker I do stop by over there once in a while just to refresh my pea brain and make sure my VR friends like you and Quickstep (and LOTS of others) are still around. I cant keep up with keeping up with both sites so I had NO idea about your family!! My goodness Annie,, THANK YOU for checking back in here and letting us non-Facebooker VR folks know about all that Sis - your family has my thoughts and PRAYERS UP for sure!! Life can sure throw some curves cant it? Tip and I been tasting a little of it too.. Bunch of doctoring stuff, lost 2 aunts and a Nephew (brain cancer) in the last 7 days - just been NUTS around here too!! You two rode across Australia? You ride thru the "Outback"? You ride your Trike and Quickstep on his F6B? Annie I would LOVE to hear story's, maybe see some pics if ya got em and ALL that stuff if you ever have time to elaborate!! Would LOVE to hop with Kanga's, camp in the outback and sleep under the stars of Aussie Land some day... Hearing you tell a couple stories would be almost as good though Sister!!! Wow its good to see your name in the Water Hole again Annie!! THANK YOU for checking in!! Tip, Tweeks and Puc - your Michigan family!!

Thinking you should be able to remove those forks without removing the fairing Cha.. Never did a MK2 but I have played with the MK1 a little.. Gotta yank the bars, little plastic grills,, basically open up the top of the fork area. On the MK1's you can turn the wheel enough to gain wrench clearance for loosening the tree clamps that hold the tubes. Can recall if ya gotta pull the caps on the tubes to slide em down out of the top tree,, thinking ya might.. Remove the front wheel and brake calipers,, fender, maybe able to leave fork brace and slide both sides out together by reinstalling ax and using it to pull down or rap on with rubber mallet.. The air lines for the forks are connected to clamps that are o-ringed - can be tempermental.. As I recall they are snap ringed UNDER the clamps and have to be removed from the top of the upper tubes. You slide the upper tubes down out of the top tree, nock the clamps off the top of the tubes upwardly, release the snap rings and remove em and finish removing the tubes out of the bottom triple tree.. Any of that make ANY sense at all?

Hi Barn.. Thinking I never got to "cyber" shake your paw and welcome you to VR so - put er there and to VR!! About your bike.. May sound crazy (you will probably have no problem finding folks on here to say that so I just beat em to it) but I have personally never any decent luck with cleaning the peanut plugs in these scoots. Just has never worked for me. Would advise to shoot down to Auto Zone, buy new - check the gaps and stick em in. In the future, cold start with choke if needed but work it off choke as quickly as possible cause, once again, these little "D" peanut plugs do NOT take to kindly to blackening. If it runs good and has good throttle response after warming up it is very possible you are just experiencing cold bloodedness.. Personally I would do a good tune up, starting with pulling the slides, checking the diaphrams for pin holes, checking the slides for ease of movement in the carb bodies, make sure I have a clean air filter and the cover is intact. Drop in some new plugs, maybe even spend the big bucks on new plug caps or at least ohm out the old caps to make sure they are not failing.. Stick er back together, with the choke off I would hit the starter and see what happens.. If it starts and idles with no choke I would proceed, if not I would give her some choke and start it and let it warm up to not needing choke while I spit check each header to see if its hittin on all four (these things run deceptively well on three). After being satisfied she's hitting on all four and she come up to temp of not needing choke I would shut er down and hook up the gauges to check carb sync.. Start it, sync it and see how she idles and how she responds to throttle. Should set your idle at a grand and have good sync there BUT I always like to also spot check my gauges at around 3k cause I spend a fair amount of time in the range. Put if back together, ride it, make sure temp is fully up, check crispness of response on throttle.. If it's wandering in RPM range, slow to return to idle after all that. Check throttle cables for proper slack (should have small amount of looseness at throttle twist when idling) and for stickiness.. Lube cables. Lean conditions from vacuum leaks can cause strange idling conditions too. Some folks spray carb cleaner of even starting fluids around vac hose connections and intakes. I like using my propane torch (unlit) to locate and starting fluid to pin point leaks. Hope this helps somehow Puc

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I LOVE Gary n Mary,, hope they are well and having a blast out there!! :clap2::dancefool: You sneaky lop eared double dippin varmint Eckster,,, first ya get the honor of swapping trail tales with DragonRider and now ya double dip with this news about Gary n Mary..... Dog gone good thing you forgot to take pictures again cause if you had proof that both meetings really did take place I would be :worthless:

Really good news JF - glad to hear your scoot is also a Canuck with the adjustable metering rods and,,, YOUR IDEA WORKED:guitarist 2:!! IMHO, Your idle blubber could very simply be a case of carbs being out of sync, no big deal for completing your adventure but, once again, if you happen to run into a Bandito with a set of gauges strapped to his steed you might beg a quick borrow of the guages and do sync. YOU DID GOOD PONCHO - REAL GOOD!! Enjoying the story and eagerly waiting more of your AWESOME pics my friend!! You are making us proud here,, ride on, ride safe, keep er running, dont take no wooden paso's and most of all - keep having fun and sharing it with your North American lop eared varmint buddies!!! Mierda (thats spanish for "Puc")

BEEEEAUUUTEEEFUL Harb - JUST BEAUTIFUL!!! :clap2::dancefool::thumbsup: I saw no less that 17 places to hide Tweeks and drop my tent in amongst those pretty little purple Texas wild flowers! I could easily see Tip, Tweeks and I spending a few nights just sucking up the scents of those flowers while searching the sky's of Texas for that lone star which your state is known for.. GREAT Vid, THANK YOU!! Been a longggg winter.. Puc

Is Our Hot Dog (in lieu of "Oyster")

I hear that brother,,, ya either spin a wrench or pay the piper when it comes to owning any of these puppies..

Hmmm,, didnt really answer your ? clearly,, sorry bout that, NO - you do NOT have to pull carbs to remove slide covers Something else to check Jf,, pull the air box cover and make sure your air filter is clean..

Dont forget to double check those diaphrams,, they will exactly what we are talking about too.. No idea if there is a Yamaha shop down there? If so and you can find a tube of Yama Bond #5 you are in business!! Using carb cleaner or brake cleaner (I like brake cleaner - less residue) - clean diaphram real well, let dry, smear of Yama Bond over tear/pin holes - not to heavy.. Let dry over night.. I have ran on Yama Bond fixed diaphrams for years.. HAS TO BE YAMA BOND #5 though!! Have tried TONS of other stuff and nothing works like Yama Bond 5!! Also, put the smear on the diaphram inside the cavity where the spring is - not facing the engine.. Check those diaphrams!! All the best JF!!

Yep,, all four will pop right off slicker than a whistle.. I dont run those lower fairings so I can easily get to stuff - if the lowers are still on you will have to pop em off to pop the covers.. Also, unless they have been worked on and a sane person put normal philips screws back in, there will be one little security screw in each cover.. If it were mine, I wouldnt even bother trying to find a security screw bit (Harbor Freight maybe),, instead I would take a punch and nock the little nipple off inside of the center of the screw and use an allen wrench to pull the screw.. Pop the covers, pull the spring, pull the slides, check for rips/pin holes, look inside slide, unscrew cover over Metering Rod, push the meter rods out and you will know instantly whether or not it has clips.. If it does and it looks like the notches are 1 mm apart I would drop em down 1 click to start with (1mm = .040).. If it looks like the are 1/2 mm apart I would go 2 clicks.. I ended up dropping mine 60 thou but I still think my orvices were oblonged... Make sense?

INDEED,, NOW THATS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT:178::178::178::guitarist 2::guitarist 2:!!!!! WAYYYYYYYY COOL!!:checkeredflag::checkeredflag::cool10: There is museum I bumped into while riding out east a number of years ago... It was all about Glen Curtis - the airplane guy.. Anyway,,, that place was AWESOME!! I was with my brother and a couple other drifters at the time,,, we passed the joint at about 9 a.m. on our way across to Lake Placid.. I turned around and went back and they followed.. Went inside and :scared:,,, come to find ol Glen O' was not just into creating the Air Plane (was :stickpoke: with the Wright brothers) but was also into BIKES!! Those guys couldnt DRAG me out of that place - we ended up being the last ones to leave that night:rotfl: If ANY of you guys REALLY liked what Dix has posted here (AND I GO CRAZY OVER THIS STUFF DIX - THANK YOU!!) and you are EVER in New York somewhere up near the Finger Lakes, you REALLY must stop at that museum - IT IS HANDS ON OLD BIKES AND OLD AIRPLANES!! A lot like the Museum of Science and Industry is only this is ALL about us gearheads - YOU WILL BE SHOCKED!!! :thumbsup: Sorry to this awesome thread Dix,,, you done did just get me allllll fired up!!

Something just dawned me,,,:lightbulb:I have heard rumors that Canadian Ventures did have E-Clips on the Meter Rods.. No idea if its true or even where I heard that from BUT maybe,,, possibly being a Canuck on a Canuck scoot you will be PLEASANTLY surprised when you pop the slides out of that puppy!!

Good to hear from you JF - sounds like your having a ball!! No "E" clips and notches on the metering rods in our Ventures,,, wish their was.. Instead the Rods are held to "Factory spec" buy one plastic platform.. Its still fairly easy to adjust the Rod height though by using Nylon shims.. I did Tweeks a couple years ago, took the verniers down to Ace Hardware and bought a couple bucks of nylon washers. Found dropping 60 thou was PERFECT (figured that was 2 notches worth in the "normal" way using notches like your talking about).. Here is a short write up about it all that you may find interesting.. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?86325-Carb-metering-rod-question&highlight=tweeks+metering+rods As I recall, Skydoc here on the site sells a "kit" to do what we are talking about - have heard LOTS of good info about his stuff and KNOW he is a great guy.. Only prob may be getting parts down there? By the way,, if you notice your diaphrams are pin holed or torn when you pull the slides you may as well not waste your time trying to set the meter rods - peeing in the wind if ya do - IMHO.. Also,, best to do carb sync after setting the meter rods too if you can borrow a set of gauges for a couple minutes down there.. If not and if the diaphrams have no holes I would just lean er down 60 thou and have at it!! and congrats on the no more water leak buddy!!! Ride er till the wheels fall off and have fun doing it!! LOVING THE PICS AND THE STORY - YEEEEHAWWWW!! PUC

That Beemer is :178:.. Is that injected Godlover? I rode a buddies out to Lake Placid one year and he rode my 1st Gen,, may have been a different year than yours.. His Beemer would outrun my Venture PLUS it got over 50mpg - seems like it was a 6 speeder with over drive.. Amazing scoot!! He had some issues with his though,, seems like I recall some pretty pricey Brakes issues or drive shaft or something... What ever it was, it was covered under warranty but the $$ amount on the repair invoice scared him and he traded it in..... NICE SCOOT THOUGH!!!

Yep,, nice bikes.. I did one a number of years ago and sold it quick for 5.. Bike FLEW - had a high speed wobble that would scare the daylights out of you - ended up rebuilding the forks then it was straight.. Good sellers back in the day!! Things have changed majorly in the vintage Metric market though.. Right now a person can barely get 6 out of a good clean CBX.. Back when I did the CBF I also did a couple CBX's and those were 12k bikes all day,,, like I said - today I can buy the same CBX for 6ish - clean,running and ready to rumble.. Would be careful in the swap if I were you Godlover UNLESS you are just wanting and LOVING on a CBF.. Times are different... By the way,, here is something you lop eared V-4 loving varmints may find interesting.. If memory serves me correctly, that CB1100F was a one year model because Honda came out with the V-4 Interceptor in 84.. The 1100f was an inline and,, I am thinking Honda found something magic about the V-4 platform

Yep,, Haynes always seemed to be missing 1/2 the info and that 1/2 of the info always seemed to be the 1/2 I needed.. Go factory or dont go... Here is novel idea that my kids ALWAYS seem to remind me of,,,, """Daaadddd - you should try your puter,,, google - youtube and all that stuff,, you'ld be amazed at the stuff that's on the Pop's"" - they always say that.... Sooo - a quick googlely turned this up Cha,,,, worth a shot.. http://www.instantdownloadables.info/category/oldsmobile

Yeaa huh,,, my Mom told me once that she remembered when I was normal - it was during a time before she went around a corner in our car and I opened the door and rolled out onto the road and EVERYONE know's that Mom's NEVER lie!! Besides,, it takes one to know one and you know em all! Besides,,, I heard once that 99% of all adult abnormalities come from drinking poisoned water and guess who has been drinking out of the same pond as your's truly.. NAHHHHH NAHHHH DEEEEE BOO BOO:stickpoke::stickpoke::stickpoke:

ME AND BIG MOUTH ,, WE JUST JUMPED TO 2.09!! SOMETIMES I TALK TO MUCH:Im not listening to