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TOTALLY 189.3514% ROCK N ROLL GOOSEMAN - THAT IS AWESOME!!!! Couple things I gotta say,, first of all - that Sadie is one precious pooch,, what a special BEST FRIEND!!! 2nd of all,, am I seeing things or does Sadie have her own pair of googles/glasses on? 3rd of all, THANK YOU for sharing such an AWESOME and story Goose - YOU AND SADIE ARE THE BEST BROTHER!!!

Getting some awesome advice here (IMHO) Gez.. Right in line with what has been mentioned thus far, here is what I think may be happening.. (IMHO) If your scoot has a fully charged battery and a fault in the charging system somewhere it will start and run fine until the battery runs down.. As the battery is discharged and goes below needed system voltage/amperage - strange things will start happening.. Anything electronic can be affected - I had a situation like your talking about and I turned on my blinker and every time the blinker would wink the bike would try to die - really weird eay.. So you come to a stop, bike is dead.. Let it set for a while and the battery will recharge itself somewhat just from sitting, enough to restart the bike and ride a little ways UNLESS the fault in the charging system has to do with battery drain from something gone to ground.. What you have described sounds to me like a non charging situation without an abnormal battery drain situation - you following me? Making any form of sense? If this does make sense and you are still able to follow me YOU are probably in a very small group of folks who are able to do so Now,, all that said,, what I think you might want to do is charge the battery in your bike, take a volt meter (I see Harbor Freight has em on coupon sale for 6 bucks this month - same type I carry in the maintenance department on my scoot) - put it on DC Volts = 20 and turn it on, touch the + lead of the meter to the + post on the battery and the - lead to the - on the battery.. Look at the read out on the meter, should show 12ish volts. Now start the bike up while watching the meter, a small increase in rpm should show 14 volts ish as you spin er up a little.. If you see no definite increase in your meter you can be assured somethings up with the charging system and I just about bet that is what you will find.. Thinking we are working on a 2nd Gen here right? Never owned one but have owned a few 1st Genners.. I know early 1st Gens are known for stator problems - from experience.. Seems to me that I have read more about bad regulators on the 2nd Gens though so that is the first place I would check if the bike were mine and the charging system checked bad as mentioned above.. Thinking there is lots of info on the site about checking/fixing reg problems if what I am talking about is correct.. Does any of this make sense? By the way,, another way to easily check your bikes charging system is to start it up and watch the headlight as you bring it up off idle - it should brighten up just a tad as you rev it - probably sounds corny but I have monitored my charge systems like that for years.. I know,, sounds kind of like old school nonsene but it does work.. I am also the type who will occasionally drift to the side of the road onto rumble strips or purposely look for cracks in the roadway and hit them to listen to my tires to see if they are probably inflated - may be a good thing to consider all that BEFORE you take my advice :big-grin-emoticon:

Homemade!! (Hi Chaplain )

Dont know how I missed this one,, 4 speed Ventures are my specialty I am currently finishing off 1st Gen Mk1 number 5 (Tweeks is her name, she is a little spoiled but we love her anyway) with no 2nd gear. I have chased em all out to over 200k, 3 of the others with no second gear either. Tweeks is currently a ways over 300k miles with 260k of those miles with no second gear. 2 of the others I bought REAL cheap cause they were already second gearless and the owners didnt want to spend the big money and have them fix. I basically bought them as "parts bikes" and kept them from going for scrap, tossed in a battery and such and rode em out till they were done. Had one that lost its crank bearings at just under 250k, that one I was extra hard on, ran it all over the country with homemade straight pipes on it and I had a bad habit of taching it out just to hear it sing.. Others just got wore out and got real tired - Tweeks is almost there too - they get really "loose" all over the place when they get alot of miles on em BUT - their 4 speed trannies are solid:guitarist 2:. Its really strange cause NONE of my 1st Gens have ever had a catastrophic failure caused by running them with no second gear. I also gotta say that having 2nd gear missing has really not been that much of a problem.. I know lots of folks talk about needing to keep these V-4's revved up but I have always been amazed at how torquey they can be.. Only place I have ever really missed 2nd has been off roading in the mountains BUT, even then - it has also kept me slowed down crawling along in 1st gear which, when I think about it,, was probably not such a bad thing out there on those snake trails:missingtooth: I have had a really wonderful life of riding low dollar no 2nd Gear Ventures all over the country and would do it all over again - it has been a match made in heaven in my case. I actually am glad that it was 2nd gear failure and not a different gear that was/is the issue, I dont think any other gear would be as easy to live without. I LOVE the freedom of riding a 500 dollar bike to far off places and having that feeling of freedom that comes with knowing if it breaks and I cant fix it I can give it to some poor Indian kid as a yard ornemant - hitch hike home and buy another one (crazy thing,, never have had to do that,, close a couple times though knock on wood).. One other thing,, I do HIGHLY admire folks around here who have spent the time to actually correct the second gear ailment. I have split my share of cases thru the years in bike repair and KNOW first hand how much effort it takes - it is time consuming. Doing so has just not been what owning these old Ventures has been about for me - in my case it has been more about giving an old scoot with problems a chance to have a completely full life and having fun in the process.. Here is a short real life video of Tweeks showing off here 4 gear capabilities - notice how happy she sounds knowing that she is in the hands of two people who love her inspite of her disabilities..

Grandma's House

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I belong to a Yamaha Venture site.. I would be more than happy to list it there too Cowboy. Seriously you guys,, congrats on selling your unit Eck and all the best in selling yours Cowboy!

That would probably be the mechanical seal JF - seal #8 above. The next seal on the impellar shaft going in toward the engine is the oil seal that keeps water out of the engine if the mechanical fails. That weep hole is there to let you know the mechanical seal has failed.. Making GREAT progress ,, looks like you are having all kinds of fun:thumbsup:,,, you missing the snow yet:big-grin-emoticon:

Absolutely GORGEOUS KB = :ice_congrats-vi6886:ice_congrats-vi6886 I LOVE those white walls - AWESOME!!!!!!! At 77k she is just getting started, GOOD FIND BROTHER!!

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I would eat that stuff till BURSTED Huggy!! That combo just sounds DOWN RIGHT SCRUMPTOUS!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAYSAW!!!! HOPE YOU DAY IS FULL OF GOOD FOOD AND GOOD TIMES WITH GREAT FRIENDS!!! :Happy Birthday::Happy Birthday::Happy Birthday::Happy Birthday::Happy Birthday:

Go Pro may not be the answer Goat.. Squirrels around here are extremely intelligent - like they have been taking lessons from the neighborhood Crow family or something.. Ever notice how Crows KNOW the difference between a Broom handle and a Shotgun? Seriously,,,, if you walk outside to knock a Crow out of tree and they see a shot gun in your hand they are GONE right now!! If your carrying a broom stick in your hand they will sit in the tree and laugh at ya.. Around here our Squirrels have developed the same kind of intelligence about camera's,,, cruise along with no camera and those little suckers will pull all kinds of crazy tricks - run between your wheels, stand in the middle of road on their scrawny little hind legs just daring you to take a swipe at em - gotta admit, most are not as brazen as you describe Goat but still - we got some crazy squirrels around here.. Thing is, as soon as you try to video em ya never see em... Thinking maybe what ya REALLY need is 50 caliber machine gun mounted on your scoot......

As BJ's self appointed campaign manager I gotta add something.. That Word Association Game (now known as WAG) is perfect for varmints of all ages. It is an excellent spot for folks who normally dont participate in posting and is also great for even the most fervent posters. The thread has a HUGE advantage in the fact that there is no right or wrong word match, the theme is exciting cause it changes direction at the post of a simple word PLUS - it is a picture police free zone, you can fully participate and never have to worry about getting pulled over for not posting pics!! As a closing note I would like to add that I personally know Bernie and many other Waggers and have found them to be some of the happiest people on 2 wheels, why not come WAG with us and see if it dont make you too!! Here is a link if you feel the need to WAG: http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?94389-Word-Association-Game/page179 PS: If you think this is one off the wall thread wait till BJ starts inviting everyone to his 2nd Annual "Pie Butt 26.2 Ride" held during the Sturgis Rally in a little Cow Town known as Newel... It would REALLY be interesting if a bunch of us showed up for the ol 26.2, sat around enjoying pie and started wagging right there in the Blue Line wouldn't it Bern?

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Hokey Hardening Of The Arteries In One Meal Bat Man - WOULD I LOVE TO GIVE THAT SLAB OF BEEF SANDWICH A SHOT :178: Thinkin that putt around the pond might not be possible right now though Fool so it looks like YOU are gonna have to do the unthinkable and see if you can eat TWO of those puppies!!!! Hope you all have fun over there brother - say HI to all our friends for me!!

OPEN DA GATE N GET OUT THE WAY,,, FLYINFOOL COMING OUTA CHUTE NINE!!!!:clap2::dancefool::dancefool::dancefool: CONGRATS BROTHER!!:thumbsup:

And ol Puc would LOVE to try and wrap himself around one of those 747's even though he only has one paw - thinking it may be messy but it could be done Jeff:fatsmiley:!! You folks have fun over there and I hope you have an EXCELLENT turnout my friend!!

Any chance that the side car seat folds down into a sleeping position? I have always told Tip that I thought a side car with a folding seat that would allow for sleeping inside the car would be wayyyy cool.. Have yet to ever see one. Either way MJ - THAT is AWESOME!! Concerning the loading the pics problem, IMHO - most of those problems have something to do with picture size. I have personally found that if I set my cheapy camera on 480x680 ("economy size") they load here with no problem.. I will have to go looking for "Witches and Brooms" now,, see if I can find that some more pics of that PURDY scoot of yours!! Oh yea, I remember MD real well,, what a BLAST! It wasn't me though that was doing all the story telling,,, it was a bunch of other people picking on me - trying to get me into trouble.. If I was :Im not listening toI was just defending myself... Thanks for the compliment on past posts - you are welcome!! You ever get up this way try to make it for one of our Greet - Meet and Eat Meats, Tip - Tweeks and I would LOVE to buy you a Hot Dog for being so nice!!

Looks like a pre-formed splat position to me Good one Flied Lice!!

Funny you mention that Sky,, he is thinking of trading it in and said I could have first dibs on a cash deal for it if I was interested at all.. It is a GORGEOUS bike but it is definitely out of my price range.. Besides, it would be a real shame to cover that beautiful paint with stickers, Tip and I would be lost if we didnt have a place for stickers..

Beautiful picture of your Dad - he looks like a man who truly enjoyed life! I am sure he is proud of you for doing what you are doing in his remembrance LittlemansDad - I know I sure would be. That "donor" bike looks like it has lots going for it - should be a good project.. I will be following along in your progress and wish you nothing but the best in your endeavor! Once again, sorry you and your families great loss, Prayers Up for each of you but am also glad you found us here and am thankful for your willingness to share such a riveting story. Puc

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