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Hot diggity dog Nester,, looks like you got yourself a DANDY there my friend!! Gotta LOVE these ol Yams!!! HOKEY SPAMOKY,, dont think I have ever seen a windshield like that - gotta be an aftermarket of some sort.. You gonna paint it after collecting the body parts or you looking for that specific color? If your gonna paint it, exactly what pieces are you looking for?

THAT is AWESOME RIV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sure brings back some GREAT memories!!!!!!! Picking thru there was like,,,, hey,, I had one of those,, and two of those,,, and,, wait a minute,, I am still riding that one LOL!! THANK YOU for posting this up - YOU DA MAN RIV!!

Plus the weight and the lack of the ability to get the front end off the ground at the snap of the throttle, suckers will go down like kid suckin in spagetti noodles LOL.. GOOD STORY HOOCHY!! Glad you could chuckle about it and were willing to share - sure made me smile!! No idea how much clay that ground down there has in it but if it is clay infested it might not be a bad idea to get that stuff off before it has a chance to dry on the scoot..

Indeed Don, THANK YOU for all you do!! Speaking of all you do brother, maybe this is one of those times where some kind of mass email or PM message could be sent out asking for folks to reinstall pics if they could. Sounds like a LOT of work for one person. Kind of give us a chance to help carry the load, the old many hands make light work routine.

Been sand baggin here trying to get some computer issues resolved (its coming, gotta be patient) and am stuck back on this beater Desktop.. This just means I am going to have to violate our forum rules and not post pics,,, I KNOW - I KNOW - BAD FORM but,, this seems to be a pic free thread so I should be safe LOL LOL, a violator yes - but a good hearted one according to Tippy... Sticking with the non-fiction context of this thread, I first must admit that I am no Veteran like most of the folks who are contributing herein. I would however like to thank ALL of you Veterans for you service in the effort to keep the rest of us free - you folks are the GREATEST! THANK YOU!! I am totally enjoying reading your previous posts and, even though I have no clue about the Military lingo of which each of you Veteran's have earned the right to use, I still find great pleasure in your stories because I do understand the basics of a battery and its potential to cause interesting things to happen.. My battery story revolves around a much younger Puc where he finds himself in the era when CB Radios were all the rage, a moment in time when CB Radio Clubs were flurrishing and I was an avid participant. Our CB Radio Club was fairly well attended by members who, unlike myself, seemed to have no other interests besides chatting on CB radio's and attending Club events and they had some awesome CB Radio equipment. I, on the other hand, had many other intersts. My interest in chasing girls and riding motorcycles back in that era caused me to place CB Radioing somewhere lesser in my priorities and therefore, I CB'd on a fairly slim CBing Budget.. Most, if not all, of my CB Club friends had these things called "Base Unit" CB's with super powered devices called "Boots" to give their CB's a boost in output power. They also had things like "Power Mic's" (pronounced Mikes) that gave them even more of an advantage over the poor little CB Radio in my Jeep CJ that I did all my talking on. Then of course their were these massive stationary attenna's that the big guys used,, things called "Beams" and "Parallels".. One of the obnoxious members in our club even had a very expensive unit called a "Browning" that would give a strange "ping" sound everytime he keyed it up.. I was more envious of that dag nabbed "ping" sound than I was of his ability to talk to someone way beyond the reach of my measily little mobile unit and it was actually that ping that formed the basis for this story. One day I got an idea of how I too could have a base unit and a ping at a fraction of the costs of my CB Club fellow member.. I too could ping with the best of them and become one who all would envy. I would no longer find myself sitting in my parents front yard in my little Jeep during the winter time wrapped in two sleeping bags and still needing to scrape the ice off the Mic on my mobile unit.. A good friend of mine who was a truck driver had decided to upgrade the entire CB unit on his semi and he offered me his left over unit at a very reasonable price, it came with dual antennas which would become my beams. I went out behind my parents house and selected a fairly straight Poplar tree that would become the mast for my beams. I paid almost as much for 200 feet of coax and fittings as I had given my friend for his old radio outfit but was still well within my budget. One of the members of our club loaned this thing called an "SWR" meter and showed me how to use it,, basicially its a device that tunes the antenna to the radio which I did to great success.. I wired the whole mess into my little bedroom and stole the 12 volt battery out of my boat to power it up. After laying the battery on a garbage bad at the end of my bed and plugging in a battery charger to keep it charged, I ran a hunk of an old extention cord under my bed and over to the 2 milk crates that served as the foundation for the CB base unit that would now be located right next to my pillow supported head. I connected the extention cord to the battery with a couple of battery connectors that I had aquired at one of our local junk yards during a car parts scavaging exploit and secured them to the power leads coming out of the back of the radio. Then I went into the kitchen cupboards of my bachelor pad and found all the glass bottles and glasses I could find and toted them into my bedroom. I will never forget my first night on that little makeshift base unit. I listened carefully each time my rival would key up his Browning base unit as I sat there tinking the side of glass cups and stuff with a spoon trying to find the perfect tone match to his high end unit.. After a very short time I found the perfect match in a small wine glass.. I then duct taped the base of the wine glass to my lower milk crate in the perfect position where I could reach out with my Mic while laying in bed and hold it next to the wine glass and, with a little practice, I was able to produce the perfect "ping" every time I keyed up.. What a GREAT winter that was!! I would sit up for hours giving directions to truckers passing by on the highway and yapping with our local CB Club members on my new PINGING Browning CB. It worked AWESOME!! One of thing I was soon to discover was how flimsy milk crates when standing on their sides to be used as a CB Base shelf can be. I would also discover why electricians use fuses in electrical systems and just how much potential energy there is in a 12 volt battery. One night while I was laying in my bed pinging away my hand inadvertently hit the duct taped wine glass with a little to much force and the make shift cabinet decided to cave in. My Browning came crashing down next to my bed and the wiring on the back of it came undone and shorted out. This caused the several foot long piece of extention cord laying under my bed to begin the process of melting its rubber insulation coating all the while filling my bedroom with the most acrid smoke one could imagine. I instantly jumped out of bed, ran over and grabbed the wire I had connected at the battery and gave a yank to disconnect the wire from the battery. As I was yanking on the wire I felt a burning sensation between my thumb and index finger. I looked down and noticed the exposed wire I managed to burn itself into the skin on my thumb. The acrid odor of the electrical wire now included a smell that, as I recall, had the slight sniff of chicken cooking on a grill. While I danced around holding my right hand between my legs and trying to open the window in my bedroom with my left hand to let the smoke out of my bedroom the thought occurred to me that my pinging days had probably come to an end.

Back on the desktop here Eckster BUT can still view thumbnails, looking at your GORGEOUS restore with a magnifying glass LOL (seriously LOL).. WOW ZZZZZZZZZ WOW WOW WOW - talk about PURRRRRDY!!!!! Tip n I get down yonder sometime while out trying to find ourselves we will HAVE to stop and give that purdy little total restore a good ol fashioned welcome back hug and shake your talented hand brother!! Just BEEEAAUUUUTIIFULLL!!! YOU GOT TALENT MY FRIEND!!!

found in the rear view mirrors of the more powerful 1st Gens and trapped somewhere between transportational devices earthlings called "crotch rockets" and other devices they called "Hogs", which the little green fellers found were Hardley hogs. Having stripped the engine from a new 1700cc V-max, they duct taped and tie wrapped the engine onto thier saucers motor motor mounts, hit the start button and

OUTSTANDING TJ!!!:clap2::dancefool: Seat looks GREAT!! And the 53 degrees sounds just as awesome! Won't be long and it'll be opening day of Michigan's Hot Dog season!

Jeff,, have the entire RC Plane rules changed too? A pilots license was never needed for an RC that I ever heard of,, just buy a plane and go to crashin.. Wouldn't these fall under an RC law if there is such a thing... Maybe different cause of the push toward using drones for mail delivery and all that... Hang a small fairing on it with a set of saddlebags, license it as a 3rd Gen Venture and call er good to go!! More than one way to skin a cat!! I LOVE it Eckster!! Get the extra highlift blades for that puppy and we could use it to hoist lop eared Rum Ball mind altered varmints from the camping area over to the center of the pond and drop em in to feed the pond monster!! Could also use it to locate lost attenders in the area (Search and Rescue)!! Someone had one at the International down in Goonerville Alabama couple years ago,, thing was AWESOME!! Thinking there was a link floating around here somewhere with Video of some of its shots.. I still got puter problems or I would go track it down!! I like it Eck:thumbsup: GOOD IDEA!!!!

Talk about a puter with an overly sensitive nature.. Beginning to see why my neighbor gave it to me .. Gives me about 5 minutes online before it locks up.. Thinking it has something to do with it's tiny amount of Ram.. Wish the Ram sticks out of the one I burned up would fit it, wrong size.. Got more coming and what see what happens then.. Also gonna follow Beachys advice and try to swap hard drives with the other machine. That one was an Asus running Win 7, putting its 500 gig hard drive into this Toshiba and see what happens. Worth a try I reckon I reckon..

Got the pics @Daveand Barbie, BEAUTIFUL!!! Still got some major puter problems going on here - otherwise I would post them up so all can see. Looks like you folks are having a BLAST down there!!

One of the little green men had picked up a News Paper called The Venture Rider News while visiting Earth and had read an article in that paper about a 2nd Gen Venture rider named Roller who really did want this story to end. The little green men knew that this was only another attempt at the people on earth to keep the knowledge of the faster 1st Gens to themselves so they decided to

:clap2::clap2::dancefool::dancefool:GOOD STORY LAR!!!:thumbsup: Definitely got class,, LOTS of class!! Also I LOVE being called out,, nothing like a open challenge to steal the nerves and make my writing fingers twitch:big-grin-emoticon: Thinking we need to have us a good old fashion shootout,, mano to mano - pen to pen!! Gonna hammer out a story here to compete,, another real life story to a little.. Thinking we should have a Poll and let the lop eared var,, I mean these tenderhearted - fun loving VR folks decide who's the wiener (that is how they say "winner" down in Texas according to my friend Squidley).. What say ya big guy,, you ready for a nock down drag out contest to see who gets the first Hot Dog for the summer of 2016? By the way,, just so you know,, I already have a real life shorted out battery story in mind to challenge you with,, just want ya to know that my story will also include pictures cause I know that some of the folks who may be voting in the Poll cant read that well.. In the spirit of fairness,, that is something you may want to consider because some of these varmints actually take the :worthless:unwritten forum rule pretty seriously Let me know what cha think Puc (aka - Doc Holiday) (aka - The VR Chief of )

on a small planet known as Venus, which is an acronym for "Ventures from the U.S.", for storage so they had the time to see if the lop eared Yoda looking varmints could learn to handle the massive horsepower if the V-max. The little green fellers had not had much luck at mastering the lesser horsepower of even the stock 1st Gens and they wondered how

HEY GEORGE!!!!! :Happy Birthday::Happy Birthday::Happy Birthday::Happy Birthday::Happy Birthday::Happy Birthday::group cheers::group cheers:

:think::scratchchin::scratchchin:,, I just read on here somewhere that Raggy is down in the south somewhere looking for a bike to take for a ride... Now I am not trying to or nuttin like that but perhaps you should start a new thread asking for any of our members who own a 2nd Gen Midnight and live south of the Mason-Dixon line to check their garage :rotfl:

OUTSTANDING DAVE!!! Sounds like a RIOT but,,,, gotta say it and you know what I am gonna say,,, 's 's and more 's

No idea Raggy but I do know that if you would have stayed in Michigan, came over here to the west side instead of going to florida I could have set you up on my Honda Helix for free!!!! Of course, after all the stuff I have heard about having issues trying to cross into Canada I think I would want to do a background check on ya before I would let you ride it Hope you folks are having a BLAST down there Oh,, by the way,, better bring back an extra snow shovel with you,, Fool's at it again here,, :snow2::snow2:

AWESOME!! In the spirit of thankfulness and greatfulness to the mighty and all powerful Wizard of VR and ALL the others that participated here and to paraphrase the words of the late/great Colonel John Hannibal Smith,, I LOVE IT WHEN A HACK COMES TOGETHER!! I am now coming to you LIVE on the Toshiba!! Mr. Wizard - I tried to and was able to change that ipv6 thingy, doing so did change the message I was getting - no longer had a "unidentified network" but ended up with something called an non-matching ssdi number or something like that. I went back and switched everything back and got back to my unidentified message.. In the process of hackin away at your suggestion I noticed an icon that said something about upgrading my wireless adapter driver software - no idea if I could find that page ever again . I clicked on that, had the little hour glass thing going on so I knew something was happening, went in and took a shower, came back out and had a "upgrade successful note staring at me!! Noticed right away my wireless icon had changed, tried to connect under my network and BINGO RINGO - now thats what I'm talking about!!:dancefool::dancefool::dancefool::dancefool: Still got some hackin to do,, ordered a new battery off ebay and 2gig of ram - this battery is SHOT and this thing only has 500 meg of ram.. Deleated all the games, Google desktop and a bunch of other junk that was slowing her down but still pretty bad.. Probably not putting it in proper puter language but I gotta say,,, makes me wonder who in their right mind would put a package with all this stuff along with an operating system like Vista on a puter with only 500 meg of memory:Bunny2: This has been fun and once again, I REALLY appreciate ALL of your input gang - you are ALL the bestest lop eared varmint friends a feller could have!! Tip noticed I am on here typing,, she says "I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOU GOT THAT THING WORKING ,, how did you do that:scared:".. I was like,, :think:,, :scratchchin:,, how do I splain what happened to someone when I really dont know for sure myself:think:.. I asked her if she remembered looking inside the cockpit of the huge jet liner airplane that we had gotten to see inside of years ago, she said she did.. I asked her if she remembered all the little switches and buttons in there? She said yea.. I told her that making one of these puters fly is probably a lot like flying one of those big aircraft,, you gotta figure out which switch has to be on and which switch has to off and that if ya get it right it will work, if you get it wrong it wont.. She was laughing about that and bragging me to be some kind of a until I reminded her of the big difference in the result of getting those switches out of sequence and crashing a freebie computer and that of crashing a plane though...

Sorry about the lack of breaks in paragraphs in that last post,, I did put em in there.. Gonna take lots of tweekin after the hackin is over!!

WOW!! This is MUCH better!! Still on the old desk top but got enough going on with it now that the Flags on each of your post's try to wave momentarily,, a waving American flag has GOT to mean I am headed in the right direction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have tried several times to do the start from scratch routine on the Laptop to no avail.. Am wondering if it is possible that the wireless adaptor in the Toshiba is to old or something. I know the Toshiba is considerably older than the Asus I was running. Wondering if they are interchangeable,, can I hack open the case on the Asus, hack out its wireless adaptor and duct tape it into the Toshiba? The Toshiba has little doors on the back of it, I will try and see if I can to it's wireless card and see if I can get numbers off it that tell me what breed it is. Seems like I remember there being something said about that when I signed up for our provider,, like it needed to be a "G" card or something.. I also know that the battery is SHOT on the Toshiba and it has to be plugged in to do anything, wondering if that may have something to do with it. I JUST replaced the battery in the Asus about a month ago (RATS) and its to bad it wont fit the Toshiba (RATS). @Eck, thoughts appreciated.. That ASUS appears to be new enough that the manufactures used some form of light to do the same thing that canned smoke use to do. The little sucker released NO smoke but it did release some strange rays of light. Real bright white n reddish in color and a fairly audible "snap". I was disappointed in the lack of smoke BUT very impressed with the light show - almost like seeing a really really fast view of the Northern Lights - if I'd a known she was gonna go I would have video taped it!! @Flyinfool, my service provider had some similar thoughts to yours. He had me push the little button on my router to reset it to its default stuff thinking my Laptop didnt like the password I had chosen for access into the network. Then he gave me all kinds of new numbers to start from scratch with in the Lap Top. Apparently the WPA number on the back of the router is the original number that is normally what is used,, no go - same message. Definitley worth a try though. @Yama Mama , THANK YOU for the well wish sister!! Will keep on hackin till I run out of hacks!! LOL @rbig1 , you NAILED it on the hate to loose pictures brother!!! I have a massive external drive storage device that I use to back up my pictures on.. Bad enough to not be able to roam around on the site or check my email, if I lost all my pics too it would be a REAL disaster cause I am not sure I could find all the back roads and people to go back and retake them all!! @oldgoat , is your last name really Hack?? Guess what,, we may be related!! Any chance you know Dave Hack from Fruitport? Got a REALLY cool old Sporty - thinking its a 61 - BONE STOCK! Great guy and good friend besides being my cousin! @videoarizona , see my reply to Fool,, still wondering if it has something to do with the wireless adapters age.. Also, this was all after a complete recovery off from the factory recovery discs.. Reading what you wrote does make me think of something else though having to do with what I think your saying David.. Maybe somehow get some updated software and drivers for that system if they are available. Will go to the library tomorrow, jump on one of their highspeed machines, do a little searching and see if anything is available. At this point,, I think I can see why I have heard to stay away from Vista.. You guys wanna hear something way cool? The desktop I am working on right now has "Word" on it for word processing.. Haven't seen that in a longgg time.. Oh my gosh,, remember "Word Star" LOL.... Back to the hack (NO offence meant to you OldGoat!!) Thanks again for all the advice ya bunch of lop eared var,, I mean my loving friends!! Puc

I LOVED Yama Mama's recent response to another thread I posted about hackin with a hacksaw!! She mentioned other forms of "hackin", little did I know that life would find me doing one of those other forms of hackin so soon!! Our ASUS Laptop that I have been using for many moon went POOF (literally, something shorted out internally). It was running Windows 7, had a 500 gig hard drive and 1.5 gig of ram. Worked AWESOME for moving pics, streaming the news and all the fun stuff on here but it is shorted out DEAD.. Had a Toshiba that uses Vista given to me that reportedly was also dead BUT, I hacked into its systems setup and was able to do a systems restore using the recovery discs that came with it when it was new.. FINALLY got er fired up yesterday (YEEE HAWWW) only to discover that it refuses to hook up to our internet. It will hook up to our router but it keeps displaying a message that reads "unidentifiable network".. To me it seems like the network is talking one language and the computer is talking another one - make sense? I spent a couple hours on the phone with my service provider yesterday trying to figure out what that is all about. My router is new (provider provided), it worked fine with my other lap top until it shorted out internally, still works fine with our "Roku" that we use for our TV and is working fine with this beater desk top that I pieced together from other hack job parts out of my computer hacksawing department I have in my basement LOL. So,, fellow hackersmen and hackerswomen.. Do any of you have any idea what may cause an old Toshiba Sattellite A135 running Vista and having a wireless card that DOES turn on and does connect to the router but refuse to identify my network? I cant post pictures or nuttin YET on this Desk Top and it is slow like molassis - got my fingers crossed that this goes thru here.. THANK YOU for any suggestions you may have!! Puc PS,, you should see how wierd our site looks on this thing! Gonna go back downstairs and see if I can find some ram sticks I can hack into this thing - HACKING IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL!!!!

Would take a LOT more than chrome for me to give a second head check if Mom Yam decides she is gonna try and pass a belt drive V-Twin off as her next venture into Ventureland!! If thats gonna be the case and Tweeks decided it was time for retirement and I decided to venture back into the V-Twin world it would probably be back to Harley Davidson.. May as well pick up a good ol under powered FLH, points ignition, carbureted chain drive Shovelhead. Do a top to bottom restore, have the crank, rods and pistons balanced by Falicon, high output oil pump and stator, get rid of the ratchet top 4 speed and drop in a Baker 6 speed for a good gear selection when riding two up, toss on a set of Beach Bars, set of boards front and back, genuine dual "speak to me you little tater masher" pipes with fishtails, flip up hinged rear fender and center stand for quick change on the road rear tire swaps, set of Big Bertha bags to carry all our junk and a fender rack for the tent, buddy pogo with grab rail for around home and full saddle - mid height sissy - King/Queen for touring, heavy duty inner primary case and a manual adjust on the primary chain, paint her denim pink and have "My Lady" stenciled on her gorgeous twin capped fat bob tanks.. If I am gonna ride a V-Twin may as well be one I can fix when it breaks and that sounds as good as it looks!!!

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Think I gained 15 pounds,,,, WOW that Yama Mama can cook!!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup: