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I REALLY REALLY REALLY hope they do Scoot but, here are some pictures from my Indian book I picked up at Sturgis during the unveiling at the 2013 Rally.. Don't let discourage you though - you never ever can tell about Polaris - I AM ROOTING FOR EM AND LOVE THOSE NEW INDIANS TOO!!:thumbsup:

You made me cry Roller,,,, it's an amazing thing in a man's life when someone comes along and show's they really understand.. I LOVED it brother - THANK YOU!! You nailed Roller,,,,,, Heee's an ollldd Hippie just trying to adjust.. This reminds me of time not very long ago that @Stealthblade sent me the following song and said he instantly thought of Tip/Tweeks and I,, same deal,, brought tears to my eyes too... And then there was the time my oldest daughter (Awahoo) and I were out at the Sturgis Rally - touring on my first 1st Gen that the kids named B.G. (Big Girl). We were playing around at Wall Drug and then I saw her standing at one of the song racks with a pair of those Head Phones on sampling music. She had tears running down her face, pulled the headphones off and handed em to me and said "Daddy,, they wrote a song about you".. By the time I got thru the first listen to I had tears running down my cheeks too.. It truly is an amazing thing when I man KNOWS that people really do get you... THANKS ROLLER!! Puc

And on another note, if it would have been the actual brake line you would have wanted to read this: http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?12536-Stranded-with-brakes-sticking-and-heating-up-Read-this

OHHHH,, BY THE WAY,, To Know A Puc Is To Love A Puc

And I WISH I could get a dag nabbed Flash Player download to work on this con founded Vista running laptop so I could get some of these off the wall videos to play on this thing!! ARGGGG... :bang head::smash2: I do see where it says something about 300+ videos though KIC so I think I know where you are headed with this :big-grin-emoticon: Yep,, gotta be related:missingtooth:

The State of South Dakota is known for many great things. For us bike fanatics, touring "The Hills" and riding to the annual Harley Davidson Sturgis Rally in South Dakota has been a way of life for many years and, perhaps for that reason, motorcycling has been one of the great things that South Dakota is known for. During the 40's, 50's and 60's and long before the invasion of the Japanese motorcycles onto the shores of North America, big air cooled, 4 stroke, chain driven motorcycles ruled the Territories. It was a day and age when American and European bike manufactures like Harley Davidson, Indian, BSA and Triumph dueled it out on race tracks, back roads and open Highways in direct competition to keep a foot hold in the ever increasing demand for motorcycles. It was also a day and age before modern electronics had taken over. Magneto/points ignition, REAL analog volt and amp meters, relay switches that were fired by a coil and chrome covered mechanical voltage regulators were all a common factor in those days. Primary and secondary drive chains had to be maintained, drive chains were commonly hand oiled by a maintenance minded owner of such a machine with oil seepage taking over for chain lubrication if the owner was not maintenance minded. . 50 weight oils and above were the norm as 1/2 thou tolerances were unheard of and the inner workings found inside the pot aluminum cases covering those air cooled engines would rattle like crazy on thinner lubricants when they got hot - the modern day precision Water Cooled shaft driven motorcycles were yet to come. It is getting uncommon to rub shoulders with a person who actually owned and rode those early motorcycles and almost impossible to find a person like that who still owns the actual bike that he rode back in the day.. Last summer (2015) Tip, Tweeks and I were heading out for another adventure to the Sturgis Rally and before we left, I checked The VR Watering Hole for any messages from other folks who were also headed that way. I noticed a note from one of our VR members, a fellow named @Hoss, who had written an invitation for anyone passing by his home town of Brookings South Dakota to stop by and say howdy. I wrote down the phone number Hoss had provided in his invitation - just in case - and we headed west. A couple days later found us waking up in one of our favorite free camping spots along the western trail in a town called Blue Earth which is in the State of Minnesota. As we were strapping our tent on Tweeks back I announced to Tip that I thought we should take the long way around to the Pie Butt 26.2 that @bj66 had planned during the Sturgis Rally just to stop and take Hoss up on his offer - Tip liked the idea. After chasing the front wheel in a Northwestern direction on the back roads across Minnesota and mid eastern South Dakota we landed in Brookings and were blessed with making the acquaintance of and rubbing shoulders with one such man. Grab a Hot Dog and some Pop Corn and join us while Hoss (aka Dan Blocker) and his gorgeous 1967 BSA Thunderbolt share their story with us!!

I am right there with you Eck!! Nothing funner than having the doorbell ring and finding a VR member I have or have not met yet standing on the other side of the door - wayyyyy cool!! I know there are other members here too that feel the same way. Last year one of our members ( @Hoss ) posted up a "STOP AND SAY HI" note in the Watering Hole to all of us members who were headed for @bj66 's Pie Butt 26.2 out at the Sturgis Rally. Tip and I took the long route to Sturgis to take him up on his invite, what a BLAST we had (I am right in the middle of doing a little story about it - should be posted up pretty soon). Much to our delight - later in the year Hoss and his wife returned the gesture and stopped by our home here in Muskegon on their way out to the east coast for their Wedding Anniversary - FANTASTIC COUPLE!! Another great couple, @bluestar99 and his wife, have done the same - they have even made it out to our Hot Dog shin digs too.. Pretty cool really cause ya just never know around this place who your gonna get to go exploring the country with!! I know I have posted this up before but thought I better mention it here too.. Lots of folks dont know this about us but Tip and I are - ride till we drop and camp where we stop - kinda folk. We know what its like to be in a strange land, middle of the night and be looking for some bushes to hide our sleeping bags behind - sort of old school but so are we.. Because we know what that is all about our yard/driveway/backyard what ever is ALWAYS open to VR biker tent floppers - whether we are home or not, middle of the night, no phone call necessary and all that.. Just pull in and drop your tent!! Our house is easy to find on the members map - my "balloon" on that map also points at a fire pit in our back yard and camp fires are good to go there... Still think it would be AWESOME if we had some kind of "Free Yard Camp" section on the site in case there are others with the same old school ideas...

BEAUTIFUL ECKSTER!!!! Was gonna encourage you to do some extra dry time and make sure ya get the fuel resistant clear coat on before you put fuel in it but then it occurred to me that... SHARP MY FRIEND!!:clap2::clap2:

Yep,, THERE IT IS,, just waiting for some innocent victim to come passing by so it can nip em... LOOKY LOOKY WHAT ELSE I SEE :scared:I KNEW that sooner or later Frosty would show up around here!!!! @Flyinfool,, LOOK WHAT JOE'S GOT - a of that long lost Snowman,,,,,, nah nah dee boo boo - told cha I wasnt seeing things THANKS JOE - PERFECT OF GREAT MEMORIES!!

:doh::doh::doh::doh::doh::doh: WE BEEN HAD!!!!! :doh::doh::doh::doh::doh::doh: GOOD ONE YA LOP EARED CRAZY CANUCK VARMINT!!

Ohhh man,, I LOVE when that happens Riv - WASSSUPP PAYSAW!!!!! I can not WAIT till its summer again so stuff like that right there gets to happenin around here again!! GREAT story,, GREAT ,,, judged at 9.9 Riv - woulda been a perfect 10.0 had you applied a little powder on the beaner

Well I have this crazy idea that ya oughta cuff that Cuda on a scooda up side the noggin and tell him Puc said to climb on that purdy Wingy Thingy of his and ride up here with ya for a Hot Dog Deej!! Tell him to drag that frisky feline brother of his along too!! We got plenty of sleepin place for a jamma party,, we can even slide furniture around and turn our living room into a camp ground if we need to.. Guarantee ya you fellers would go home with a tummy full of excellent Hot Dogs AND some story's that will make ya shake your head in disbelief all the way back to civilization.. :rotf::rotf::rotf::rotf::rotf::rotf::rotf:

Hmmmmmmmm,,, ,,,,,,, I still think its gonna go like stink Maybe one of the reason's Yamaha stayed away from using the V-Boost on the Ventures has to do with the increased lower R torque needs in a full blown touring scoot.. The V-Boost needs higher R's to be effective which (IMHO) does increase Horsepower but torque is another matter.. IMHO, another issue may have been fuel consumption,, I know when I run my ol V-Max up in the R's where he is really, happy fuel consumption gets pretty dicey - nothing like the 40+ MPG we expect out of our Venny's.. While I TOTALLY admire and appreciate the V-Boost concept and what it does to the performance on these V-4's, I still wish Yamaha would have hammered out a really good true turbo system, IMHO - had they of done that they could have had maintained the low R torque, good MPG AND easily seen the higher R HP numbers (probably even better) than the 1st Gen Max's have.. Concerning the scavenging effect and pipe thoughts.. I fooled around a little bit with Harley cam's and different varieties of cam grinds,, even hung a gear driven blower on an 01 Twin Cam that required some cam profile altering to pull right.. One of the things that I ran across while playing with Harley's thru the years is how little scavenging seemed to be going on unless I was dealing with a cam grind that had Valve overlap ground into it. Toss in a set of high compression pistons, flow the heads and increase the valve diameters, run an open air box or - better yet - velocity stacks and ya got one scavenging, lumpy running engine I tell ya.. Compression ratio's will fool ya (always did me) on a tester but when ya spin em up to the point that scavenging is taking place,, those ratio's REALLY begin to take affect..

Heyyyyyy,, we REALLY are brothers @Carbon_One Larry = matching Super Hawks!!! Remember the forward kick starter,, some people thought they were goofy but I really liked mine!!! Still a little ticked cause Dad let you have a Beezer Spitfire and I never got to own one,,, that puppy is gorgeous!! :thumbsup:

Hopefully we are able to put together at least one weekender this year Randy,, I know it would increase our attendance by 100% of outings like last years Prudenville Rally (I sent out invitations to over 1000 people and only Billmack and Drews showed up - doing the math here, I know I could count on both you and Raggy if we did a weekender = 2 at Prudenville + you 2 weekend onlys = 4 which is a 100% increase :lightbulb::lightbulb::lightbulb: What town do you work in Rand???? Maybe I could set you up, I mean set up a Greet - Meet and Eat Meat there so you could join us on your lunch break:big-grin-emoticon::big-grin-emoticon:

No dates have been discovered yet Deej, this whole thread was basically just another screwballish underhanded attempt at a little.. I am currently waiting for my staff to email me back to see if they are all still in for another season of Hot Doggin it for me. Usually I know by May what the official available dates are when they are available and we work from there - lots going on behind the scenes here that only the folks who have attended a "Pucs Greet - Meet and Eat Meat" would fully understand - a HUGE reward just for showing up.. Now,,, DONT MISREAD THAT IN THE SLIGHTEST,, these Eat Meats are OPEN to all and we would LOVE for you to be able to make one and find out first hand what in the wild wild world of grilled ground and stuffed meat is going on up here:178: :lightbulb::lightbulb: Give me an idea of what month you may be off and I will do what I can to schedule something JUST FOR YOU DEEJ!!! Hopefully that month falls between June and September as we do live right in the same flight zone as FlyinFool and his White Wash Machine those Hot Dogs seem to loose their edge when trying to gobble em with frozen fingers:big-grin-emoticon:

Specially if all had Beans and Hot Dogs for dinner bro Sorry about breaking your record for ending the most posts DanL but I just couldnt let this one slide!!

Thanks Mech! I had not heard anything about the push by Yamaha to drop the Star line,, gonna do some quick research here and see if I am missed another great conversation.. Cant help but wonder if reuniting the names back under one roof (back to Yamaha) has something to do with what is taking em so long to give us another Venture.. Maybe some kind of restructuring of something...

:sign Rock On: Sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbsup: Here's hoping it works PERFECT for you Nance!!! THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE!

NICE!!!! :clap2::dancefool:

Thanks Gary for being there for him .. Our thoughts and prayers are with your buddy - hopefully he heals quickly, fully and indeed - that they are able to catch the scum ball who ran into him!! Prayers Up and Blessings Down! Puc

Ok,, here's the deal as far as requirements for attending,,,,, ,,,,,,, there aren't any ,, take that back,, an empty tummy and a craving for good Hot Dogs would probably help! As far as a Tent and all that Cha, last year we had a couple of Krazy Kanuck's come and spend a night with us to attend one of our Hot Dog Rallies - worked out GREAT too (as far as I know we are still friends).. They chose to leave their camping gear at home and give our spare bedrooms a shot.. We do have plenty of camping room in the yard though in case we run across folks who are skitterish about sleeping within the same time zone as I.. We also have an "over spill" area a couple minutes from our home (Muskegon State Park) which is also located on the beginning of Michigans BEST touring roads headed North along the Lake Michigan shoreline. From here to "The Bridge" (Mackinaw) is simply the best Michigan Motorcycle Touring possible.. ALL OF THIS IS AVAILABLE TO YOU - BRING YOUR DAD TOO IF YOU WANT - OR A BUDDY - WE GOT LOTS OF ROOM!! Now,, "that all said" - and the reason why I "said all that" is, if a person like yourself wanted to come to Michigan for one of our "Greet, Meet and Eat Meats" (which are officially only a one day lunch outing) that same person could watch for a U.P. of Michigan Rally, spend a night here in Muskegon us - then tour North to the U.P. for the Rally with the bikes all loaded up, spend a night swatting Michigan skeeters with the rest of us and get a Michigan tour in while your here.. If I were coming from Braska and seriously thinking of making the trip, I would do just that and then continue around the U.P. of Michigan, into the top of Wisconsin on my way back to work - LOTS OF GREAT TOURING RIGHT THERE IN THAT SUGGESTION..

Wayyyy cool - guy did an excellent job on that sweetheart, THAT is for sure!! :clap2::clap2: Hey Mech,, you by any chance happen to read the entirety of that thread over there on Delphi? VERY INTERESTING READ all about "Star" motorcycles being no more.. Sounds like its all going back to Yamaha.. Definitely a subject worthy of a discussion here on VR (IMHO).. Being your thread and a link you provided (THANK YOU MY FRIEND), would you mind starting another thread about that subject or are you good with us this one? All in all Mechster,,, EXCELLENT post - THANK YOU!!

Oh,, by the way,, how do you like those pipes? Bet she sings a REAL pretty tune!!

:dancefool::dancefool::sign Rock On::sign Rock On: She's a beauty my brother,,, ROCK N ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbsup: I LOVE the Blonde MK1 Venture Royales,, just gorgeous... Strange ain't it,,, after all these years and after all the major manufactures have done everything they can do to improve - add bling - reconfigure and on and on,, I still get all :178: and every time I am blessed enough to get to see one of early Blondes in all their glory.. Thanks for the pics Zzz,, made my day!!