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So let's dig a little deeper here as long as I got you varmints on the wire.. I have heard that Mom Yam decided to put a bunch of electrics down yonder in the "leggins" or "lowers" (no idea if that is what they are called know adays - talking about the shrouds that sit in front of your legs).. If this is so, would it be possible to move those devices under the fairing and be able to remove the lowers for more air flow? You guys ever bump into a need for that? I always remove the lower fairings on my first gens cause I like to be able to sprawl out and I have found the air flow to be rather nice when riding in high heat area's...

I still cant get Flash Player to load on my Vista running puter so I dont get to see nuttin...... Any chance the vid is on Youtube and if so,, any chance of getting a link?

Indeed,, that Lone Star State plays by their own set of rules!! Sounds like your making AWESOME progress JF!! :guitarist 2:

Just dont try any fancy manuvers cause that particular model had a tendency to point the underside of the pontoons skyward with very little effort

A couple of you lop eared varmints may remember a post I did a while back about me being told by my doctor not to ride Tweeks for a while and how I was wholeheartedly complying with his wishes.. You may recall that my dear friend and neighbor Dave had brought down his 2012 Ultra for me so I would not miss some spring weather riding and still abide by my doctors wishes.. That scenario all worked out so well that this same friend/neighbor and his wife stopped by yesterday with a whole new plan. One that involved Tip and I driving our Kia down to their home, having dinner and then, once again, Tip and I climbing on Big Red (his Ultra) and going on a Lake Shore Spring Run.. This time would be different as he and his wife would join us on their other bikes making the journey even more interesting.. I post this series of video's void of the spirit of looking for sorrow in the response of thoughts like "ohhhh that poor poor Puc" but totally in the spirit of "if these crazy people can get out in the freezing temps of the West Michigan Lake Shore surely I (that would be YOU - the reader) can do the same,,,, that's right - YOU can and should GET OUT AND RIDE cause it wont be long and we will all be sitting around complaining about Fool and his over active Wisconsin White Washer again!!! PS - remember if you do go riding PLEASE dont forget your because the are out in force this time of the year!!

Tip, Tweeks and I get back down to Bama we are definitely gonna have to go in search of "You Take It" and "This Aint It" roads!! ,,, and not nessarilly in that order cause without 's of "This Aint It" road I have no way of knowing whether or not there are any barns, hay bales, bushes of Cow's to hide a tent behind for overnight lodging and I see lots of Stop, Drop, Sleep and Go places on good ol "You Take It" ...

Not to speak for Dan but I think he is referring to a method that can only apply to tires with inner tubes in em. Basically slipping the tube out and patching it and slipping it back in with the wheel/axle still intact on the scoot.. Kind of an old school biker thing that went out with spoked wheels.. Gotta say,, it worked GREAT back in the day as long as your scoot didnt have rim locks....

You are welcome Fuzzy and thanks for the well wish on the hand - things doing pretty good.. You locate those Avon's yet or you thinking of going another route? You check Ebay and Amazon for Avon's? Thanks Fool,, I will use em sparingly so I dont use em up - never really did care much for periods anyway,, they just never seemed very friendly and upbeat,,, more of a "HEY,, ITS OVER - IT'S DONE AND THERE AINT NO MORE" kind of varmint , they also always seem to have "goodbye" feeling about em and I really don't care much for goodbyes either,,,,

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about - NICE JOB Z!!! Right there with ya on the ol "got er all apart,, may as well add..." routine! So Z,, just out of curiousity, about how big of job is it to split the fairing on a second gen - time wise.. Something that could be done at road side? Seeing a fair amount of devices under the outer fairing in your pics makes me wonder if replacing errant relays and stuff might be easier on the 2nd gen than on the 1st.. Oh, by the way,,, this takin business keeps up like this and the VR department is gonna have to start laying off employees Gonna have to find a REAL job like chasing the wheel all across North America on a beat up old Venture

So whats the current status with shipping guns these days Jack? May sound crazy but I got booted off Ebay for selling Antique BB Guns on their site - my kids teased the living day lights out of me and started calling me "Gun Runner".. Ebay suspended my account for a year and, after the fact, I found out that part of the reason why they dont allow BB Gun sales has to do with modern day shipping laws.. Can you still ship long guns (I know an FFL has been required for handguns for a long time) from seller to purchaser with out to much problem? Was yakking with my neighbor last night about a new "Ruger American" 9 mill he just picked up.. had it shipped to a local Pawn Shop who has all the legal ducks in a row - charges 20 bucks to receive a hand gun.. That about what its like out there too?

Back when the kids were little Tippy used to do a weekly "Moms Night Out" with a group of other ladies (all mothers need this when the kids are little, especially if married to a Cowpuc - they (mothers) need to be around adults at least once a week). That left me home to play with the kids. I would lean some card board up against the kitchen cabinets, take balloons and pin them to the cardboard, me and the kids would shoot bb guns and pop balloons for hours.. Had several Crosman 760's (pheumatic pump up) that 2 pumps were perfect for "ballooning it".. Pop a balloon - get a piece of penny candy. Went thru a lot of BB's and a lot of Candy. Tippy was happy, I had a blast AND all my kids learned to shoot very well before they were 7 years old..

GREAT ride report and AWESOME pics on ADV PF!! :clap2::dancefool::dancefool: THANK YOU!! Also, CONGRATS on fixing that water leak - GLAD YOU GOT IT BROTHER!! Looking forward to more Trail Tales and and awesome pics! Watching this thread hourly!! Ride safe and have fun!! Puc

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Wayyy cool Jack!! Right there with you on having been into it a few years back.. I did the Air Gun thing, LOVED the little rascals - was a GREAT way to collect guns on a budget.. Amazing how addictive it is.. Not to hi-jack yet another thread but,, being a professional hi-jacker I just cant refuse..

Good to hear brother,,, it wont be long and them dogs will be in BIG trouble!! Gonna chase those puppys allllll over Michigan!!

Beautiful pics Eckster!! Amazing what a person can find by just taking a a couple seconds for exploring aint it? JUST BEAUTIFUL!!

Havent forgot brother,, still working on em - looks like it might be another month or so cause I am still waiting for my staff to respond with some material.. You will LOVE it!! Will tell you this,, its the award/gift that keeps on giving!!:thumbsup: Here is a link to the thread Dave is talking about in case anyone missed it..http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?116549-2016-Hot-Dogs-Tater-Chips-Cokes-Party-Beads-and-more&highlight=Puc%27s+Meat THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER ARE ALMOST HERE FOLKS!!

FANTASTIC JACK,,, and :ice_congrats-vi6886 on the find brother!! Amazing how those guns multiply aint it:sign Rock On: I LOVE the stock on the 338, beautiful!! Looks like its jeweled on the bolt and has a ported barrel.. Whats the scope? Looks like a 50 mill optical from here.. Real pretty! Hows the rifling in the barrel? Been shot much (probably not at 4 bucks a rounds).. Would LOVE to touch that baby off! Also fun to just look at and play with Also on the 1890 Win Pump - WAYYYYYYYYYYY COOL!! That a 22? Sort of has the look of a neat old carnival 22,, but thinking it might be longer barreled that those? No doubt about it Condor,, ya done did good!!!

Tell ya what Stan the man,, you make the ride and give me another shot at producing a REAL "Puc's Greet - Meat and Eat Meat" (folks who weren't there won't understand that one) and we will have a Hot Dog eating contest - winner gets the crazy award!! :big-grin-emoticon: Besides,, I just gotta have another peek at that GORGEOUS Blonde 1st Gen of yours

YOU NAILED IT DEEJ!!:thumbsup: Good on ya brother for keeping up on the monthly addendum's to "The Code" Braaaaaaaaaaaapppppppppp

Yea BUT,, ol DaddyO' Pucster has 's of those bugs of which he has spoken so now we KNOW who speaketh the truth between father and son here (C 's below).. Now,, the previous is in NO WAY meant to be a discredit toward those Champion Canuck riders - Divey and his side kick "7" (Dale1+2+4) - whom I am sure know wayyyy more than I ever will about the "Icefield Parkway" of which I have never ridden BUT - when it comes the Alberta bugs - I know my stuff:rasberry: Cowboy,, again - have NO idea on the Parkway (would LOVE to ride it sometime and go up and BUG those two lop eared Canuck varmints) but do know that the last time we did Glacier NP it was the 1st week of July and they had JUST opened up the "Going To The Sun" road the day before we got there.. If you are thinking of riding that road thru the park (it is GORGEOUS) I wouldnt plan on doing it to much earlier in the season - foot hills and high plains were good riding temps though.. Same goes with the Yellowstone area - its a toss up on the weather when it comes to those mountains - July/August are my suggestions if your gonna be doing those area's.. By the way Cowboy, take a map and look at Red Lodge - look south and find Cody - find "14A" going from Cody to Ranchester - if at all possible you will want to ride this amazing roadway, that roadway (once again - "14A") going up into the Big Horn Mountains took over 30 years to accomplish and it is spectacular. Custers Last Stand NP is real close to the end of that route - wayyy cool too for a Cowboy!! Another often missed ride is to a place called "Jordan Montana". If possible, find your way to Jordan Montana, very very small western cow town,, when you get to Jordan stop and ask where the "Senior Center" is. At the Senior Center they have the COOLEST Museum you have EVER seen!! I wont spoil it for you but you will see AWESOME real deal Cowboy stuff and get to play with ACTUAL Dinosaur bones - PLACE IS UNREAL!! Gonna pick up Devils Tower/The Black Hills of South Dakota on the way to Fort Collins? Dont forget that the Sturgis Rally is the 2nd full week of August each year.. The week before that has also become VERY busy with bikes - almost a Rally in itself.. Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, Rapid City, Custer, The Black Hills, Devils Tower and all that region can get overrun with motorcycles during those dates. Its fun but can be trying if your trying to tour and like the quiet.. I have places that I have camped for years in the Black Hills area and would be glad to share them with you. The Dakota's, most of Wyoming, Montana, Utah, parts of Colorado are "open camp" like Michigan is. State/Federal Lands are always open. Same as most BLM lands. Stop, pop a tent, sleep and get up and start over.. Now,, about those Alberta bugs.........

Pucs Greet - Meet and Eat Meat Rally's (coming to you once again in 2016 - everyone welcome - come join the fun and find out what it's all about!!) this message brought to you by and approved by The Hot Dog Lovers of Michigan Association!

OUTSTANDING ECKSTER!!:clap2::dancefool: Brother that Wing is one GORGEOUS motorcycle!! Certainly to purdy to leave sitting in front of a road sign like that to long!! :cop::bikersmilie::bikersmilie:

Wassup Fuzz - glad your back!! Carls shop burned and he got his Spyder to quit bouncing, Bongo n Becky went and visited Squid n Lonna, Raggy went down south and left us Michigan people to freeze, Flyinfool had foot surgery so his Wisconsin White Washer got used less, YammerDan isn't gonna need a Trike after all, B2Mom and Dad are traveling the country visiting friends, Barrycuda loves his new Wing, Eck loves his too but bought an Electric Minibike and restored it to ride when not riding his Wing, Eagleeye - Dogman - Marcarl - Squid and Chaplain Dusty all came and stayed overnight with us last summer, Chaplain Dusty bought a gorgeous MK2 in Michigan and rode it back to New Mexico, CarbonOne is riding a new Slingshot, Drews - Billmac - MiRider and lots of others LOVE our Hot Dogs and are fanatical about them (come to Michigan and see why), Billmac and Pam are hibernating but they will show up when our hot dogs showup, Freebird still has AWESOME Maintenance Days, Hoss has an AWESOME 67 Beezer, BJ66 created "The Pie Butt 26.2 Ride" at the Sturgis Rally and you should attend, TJ bought an awesome Honda ST, Eagleeye bough an awesome Suki SV, Flyday88 is working on his Venture and still flying around up there some where, VideoArizona has a 2nd Gen and a 1st Gen and dont know which to ride, Venturous is no longer Randy but is now VenturousRandy and Gary down in Tennessee is now Venturous, Condor still loves ice cream and so does Big Tom, Bubber and that group are still doing the Pig in the Pine Tree thing but we still havent made it for that, Orlin and is wife are great people and their goat named Moe is really fun, Nanci luvtheleather has a sore thumb but may have found a way to ride anyway, VentureFar is out there in California training a new puppy, Zzxyz just posted pictures of a bunch of rain and snow they got in California, @CMCOFFEY is serving in Afganistan and we all miss and love him but we have HUGE plans for his return, Skid is winning the battle over cancer BIG TIME, "Puc's Greet - Meet and Eat Meat" Rally's are a HUGE hit with people coming from all over the Northern Hemisphere to enjoy them (come to Michigan and see what thats about), our bike "Tweeks" has well over 300k on her now, Slowroller is doing the International this year and it looks like its gonna be a DANDY, just talked to Venturous Randy today and it sounds like "Ashville" is gonna be a blast this year, Starfan has a GORGEOUS Venture and is really good at push starting motorcycles, BikerJohn has been kinda quiet down in Texas but I think he might do Sturgis this year, Pegasus just gave away a couple of Gremlin Bells and Kiwi bought the story I told him about Gremlin Bells hook line and sinker, My wife "Tippy" had a COPD scare and come to find out it was a bad Gaul Bladder, StanG has a BEAUTIFUL Blonde 1st Gen, we still tease Freebird about riding a Harley but he loves us anyway, Lone Eagle rides a Harley too but he spends more time riding then reading so we dont get to tease him as much, Brake Pad and that bunch have been riding in Florida while we have been freezing in the Midwest, Chaharley is gonna come to Michigan for a Hot Dog and I will try to help him in his pot stirring skills, Prairehammer keeps amazing everyone with his bike knowledge as does GeorgeS and all those people who hang out in the tech sections... I have to change my bandages on my hand and I am typing one fingered so I have to stop.. I hope this all helps in bringing you up to speed in some small way!! Puc

Never did ride it but gotta say - GOOOOO COWBOY GOOOO - BROTHER!!!:dancefool::dancefool::clap2: