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Well I think THAT is the PURDIEST:178::178:.. mostest GORGEOUS 2ND GEN :178::178: I ever did see:173:.. If that were my SCOOT I would change his name to :think::scratchchin: George and I would BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF WORK THEIR MY BROTHER!!! OL PUCSTER IS PROUD TO KNOW YOU JONAS!! YOU DA MAN!!:clap2::dancefool::dancefool::dancefool:

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those Meat and Greet things that Earthlings have where we seen

So we can do this at MD this year as long as we can find a willing Cat that knows how to fly and operate a video camera?

Been goofing around syncing carbs for a fair amount of time, used a mercury mano till it got wrecked by an errant employee.. Played with Vacuum gauges, then picked up an electronic Twin Max - I LOVED the Twin Max - probably the most accurate setup possible. Have played with the Motion Pro and others that style, worked ok (IMHO, gauges are a more versatile and durable) as long as it was new and the slides didnt get sticky.. Latest set I bought and have been using are like shown in the following link. A HUGE part of the reason I bought this particular setup is because of the adapters that came with them and the fact that they have adjustable restricter valves. I have done A LOT of other bikes beside our Yams with these and most of those other bikes (old Honda Wings, Honda SOHC 750's ect.) do not have "nipples" on the intakes to attach to, you have to pull screws from the intakes and screw an adapter in to attach the vac hose to. Some of those manifolds are well hidden - notice the variety of adapter lengths in the gauge set in the link.. IMHO, this little set is the best bang for the buck, especially if your planning to tinker with a variety of other scoots.. Would LOVE to hear others opinions.. http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Vacuum-Carburetor-Synchronizer-carb-sync-Gauge-Yamaha-XS-XJ-1100-1200-/391377479287?hash=item5b1fea6677:g:5O4AAOSwxH1UGRHV&item=391377479287&vxp=mtr

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Oh yea,, almost forgot CONGRATS MY FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OUTSTANDING OR!!!! Cant wait to see it this summer sometime brother!! Probably gonna have to cause I dont see no.....LOL

They did Flied Lice BUT,, some of us just cant let go of the past LOL

YEEEE OUCH TEEJ!! Hope you looked at your insurance Agent and told em its a good thing your retired cause you will have to spend a lot more time racking up miles on your scoots to justify those prices LOL!! Got an idea brother,, make a BUNCH of our Greet-Meet and Eat Meats this summer,, all those free Hot Dogs should off-set your insurance costs significantly!!

because every time they twisted up the R's on that V-Max motor it created a gravitational pull that kept dragging the moon toward their little Space Ship.. This made those little Yoda looking creature's eyes go as wide as their saucers. As they headed home, the head Yoda looked at his Martian Mates and said "Them Yamaha folks sure know how to make a motor, to bad they

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