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I say definitely they are more then welcome, loved and WANTED around here,, as long as their not of the 2013 Road Glide personality, that particular breed is just to much of show off to be tolerated

Happy Thanksgiving right back at cha @rowdy7 and WOW ZZZZZZZZZZ WOW WOW WOW - GORGEOUS SCOOT ROWDY:thumbsup:!! Hope ya get many many miles of fun out of it AND that you stick around to give us some awesome reports about all that fun!! THANK YOU for the pics brother!!

Her words were smooth as glass but the language she spoke was Hardley understood by the group of scoots she was addressing.. The other bikes thought she was asking if she had seen any

:lightbulb:wonder if he has it in for us 1st Gen riders Dan O',,, maybe we flew past and blew the doors off his Sleigh one to many times

Good thread Beej,, crazy but I got buddies that will about their Beer brands and almost :buttkick:over the brand of fuel they use in the trucks.. Another one, I was down at our local bike time showing off riding a wheelie on my 185 Suzuki.. Guy with a little boy (maybe 4 years old) comes up to me and asked if I would ride another one for his son - heck yea.. The same guy comes up after words, says his son has a question for me,, thinking the kid wanted to ask about how I aquired my wheelie riding skills, my head started to swell as I prepared my thesis.. Kid says,, cool shoes - where did you get em? I looked at the tennis shoes on my feet and told him I bought em at Good Will for a dollar.. Later I told my son about that and my boy looked at my shoes and said "DAD,, THOSE ARE "SAUCONY'S" AND VERY COOL :confused24:"!! Definitely some shoe brand loyalty in there. Gotta be some Ice Cream brand loyalist out there somewhere too!!

Way I figure it Sailor, I have been saving up my Christmas Credits for a few years - being a very nice person all the way across the board - very very little or and even helped a guy with a broken scoot out in Sturgis last year (I could just feel Santa's "nice" meter going spastic on that one). Figured with all the credits I have built up that the ol Master of the flying Reindeer and manager of Elves R Us could figure out a way to strap on little ol Harley Springer.. I knew it,, I KNEW IT!!! The ease with which you knew exactly where all the lop eared varmints were and EXACTLY how to get to them was a dead giveaway there Nick!! So,, reading between the lines here,,, gonna do the ol steam fired routine again:think:? With you supplying the coal

Might be onto something BIG there Silv!! If she could come up with something and it took off she could screen print it on T-Shirts = :mo money::mo money:

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WOW,, thats just plain crazy Eckster,,,,, all the best in getting your Av repaired and VERY VERY glad the guy was not able to get out on the roadway and hurt someone!! That is just CRAZY!!!! Had something similar happen a few years ago, I was inside our car - lady pulls in beside with teenagers in her backseat - kid was mad at his mom for something and swung his door open HARD - it bashed into my car - woke me up (was waiting for my daughter to come out of Orthodontist) - got out and had a HUGE dent in rear quarter panel. Called 911 to get an accident report, was told Police dont respond to parking lot incidents - she gave me her insurance info - 2 days later I find out the info was not correct, she was driving with no insurance according to her insurance company - her insurance company said it would have to be filed under my insurance but that would make my insurance go up.. Of course this is Michigan and we are under "No Fault" insurance anyway so not the same brother but I DO know how ya feel!!

Feeling a little like the Cat In The Hat here,,, guess the first thing I oughta do is try to erase this thread before one of those NICE moderator friends of mine may see the mess and I could end up in BIG trouble or something:big-grin-emoticon:

:Laugh: Maybe I should be asking for some puter classes instead of another scoot:Laugh: Trying to figure out what wrong button I pushed this time

WOW,, thats bizarre,, kinda like my computer got caught in the twilight zone or something Guess maybe I better not mess with Santa again this year:yikes:

I need to get a message to him. The above bike is the one I was referring to a few months ago when I mentioned which Harley I wanted for Christmas. Please make a copy of this if you would and give it to him. Back then we all had discussed what our favorite scoots were and that someone (I think it was Freebird) mentioned he liked the Springers too after I mentioned this bike. The problem is, Harley made more than one style of Springer. THIS is the style I was referring to. PS, if you do this for me and it works out - I will personally meet you at one of my 2016 Greet-Meet and Eat Meats on it and will get you all the best of the best Hot Dogs and Chips you can eat!! Ya got my word!! Thanks!! Puc

Take a reread in your "Married Man's Rules Of Engagement Code Book" Goose, look under section 36A, amendment 26B, article 9. There you should read "it's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission", its the code. I had a buddy who had missed that section years ago in dealing with buying new guns. He tried to explain to his wife how lonely guns in the gun safe get if new ones are not added in frequently. He made a deal with his wife that whenever she noticed a new gun in the safe she could get a new sewing machine. Poor guy about went broke making unnecessary purchases of sewing machines. I know guns and motorcycles are different in some ways BUT, the neat thing about "the code" is that it has many many applications

Just make sure you dont get the two glasses mixed up Bum, I have heard that Brandy can be hard your bikes valves and plugs plus there is something about the smell of it in the exhausts that may cause it to attract those breath analyzer thingys next time ya ride er!!

:clap2::thumbsup: Tip of the hat to your Daughters future Mother-in-law Silv - the lady certainly has talent and is a very gifted individual! Beautiful gallery

Right back at cha @NewbeeMC9 and welcome to VR too!!

Sounds to me like a classic example of cooler abuse!

That there is the kinda stuff that beat Tweeks out of last years 1st place trophy at our local bike show - still bugs me:think: Years ago I got yapping with another builder out in Sturgis about the "spokeless" rear wheel on his showbike - the rim was basically a huge bearing and attached so I was able to crawl thru the center of the wheel - pretty amazing really. I asked about rideability of such a set up (the rear pulley had to be attached directly to the rim/bearings outer race - not giving much room between the pulley and the ground - I could not see how you could corner without making pavement contact with the outer edge of the pulley. His reply was "its strickly a show bike, not a rider". Now looking at the front wheel of this scoot Eck, it almost looks like the wheel has bearing surfaces at both the axle and at the rim O.D... Pretty cool really BUT, if that is so,, I wonder what kind of effect that would have on the gyro dynamics when steering:think: (noticing he didnt get the bike up to speed enough where the gyro dynamics begin to have effect ).. I know most auto wheels that give that "floating" appearance are done with hub caps on bearings - not the rim itself.. Good find brother!!

:dancefool::dancefool: :ice_congrats-vi6886:ice_congrats-vi6886:ice_congrats-vi6886:ice_congrats-vi6886:ice_congrats-vi6886:ice_congrats-vi6886:ice_congrats-vi6886:ice_congrats-vi6886:sign Rock On: Now THAT is AWESOME Mr. and Mrs. Saddlebum!!! Congratulations to the two of you!! :clap2::clap2: Wishing you folks nothing but the greatest as you celebrate such a tremendous occasion! Puc

Right back you at Don! We have much to be thankful for and right at the top of that list is our family here on VentureRider. As we get bombarded from the modern day media with the troubles our world faces it can seem that peace and genuine brotherly love can be hard to find. We are fortunate to have a home here where we can check in on a regular basis and still find those golden nuggets that keep life balanced. I too would like to join you in wishing all of our lop eared varmint friends a blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving celebration and to thank each one of them for being who they are, goes for you too Bossman! Puc

Cone he had ordered disappeared in one little nibble. As Dan laid down in the parking lot next to his Blue Rocket ship

I hear that @uechi kid, IMHO it has a lot to do with population and how things gotta change when people start getting more crowded. I have toured your fine State many times over and am always amazed at how crowded it is and how things are really different there because of it. Another something that really interest me (probably because I have always been a biker at heart) has been the lack of motorcyclist there. Back in 78 I toured Cali on my Harley Low Rider thinking it would be biker haven - pulled into Ventura California singing that old "Then Came Bronson" song,, going down that long lonesome highway and all that.. WOW, was I surprized and in for an eye opener!! Still today I am shocked by the relatively few bikes I see on the road there (cars compared to bikes). One would think the place would be over run by motorcyclist and that biking would be a way of life out there - not so much. It seems like things like legal lane splitting, being able to ride the "Diamond" road, NO RAIN, price of fuel and the GORGEOUS views you guys have would make it so cars would kind of be the rarity - just not so.. Got into a discussion about all that with a Motorcycle Police one time years back and he was telling me that he thinks the lack of bikes has/had to do with the inherent dangers involved with having sooo many people on the roads all the time and, quite frankly, most people really dont like the odds of something bad happening and the guarantee that if you get nailed on a scoot you are the one that loses. Fact is, I think the whole hunting idea has some of the same underlying reasoning as to why folks out there play it down. I know this is all only part of the equation but after seeing it play out first hand, I do have agree with the Officer. I KNOW for fact that many many folks look at what I am talking about from the "political" side (not meaning to start anything here, my blood bleeds Constitutional Rights Red/White/Blue so please dont misunderstand my point of view) of hunting and the right to bear arms and all that BUT, until a person has spent a fair amount of time exploring California and, with an open mind, getting to know exactly what huge population numbers look like it can be hard to understand, IMHO. I also think that one of the things that make our country so great is that we can freely bounce around from one State to another, enjoy the culture differences and effect that things like population has had (both ways, I actually LOVE California and one of the things I LOVE about it are the people and their way of life and how they have adapted BUT I also LOVE places like Utah, Montana and Wyoming where folks still open carry side arms - BEAUTIFUL!!). As far as hunting goes, things have changed greatly here in Michigan too. Back when I was a kid it was normal for local schools to shut down during opening day of deer season,, most classes had empty seats during pheasant and duck openers too - kids got BB Guns for their 3rd Birthdays and Shotguns for 8th. Out of the way "Northern" towns that had populations of under a couple hundred people had population BOOMS when hundreds (or thousands) of folks piled in during the two week Gun Deer season. Back then a dirtbiker could also jump on two tracks, powerlines and pretty much cover all of Michigan (except for the East side - some spots over there have always been more "California" like in population). A lot of that has also changed now due to more population. Just a different way of life than when I was growing up.. Thank you for joining me in well wishing our Deer Hunters. While I don't hunt anymore I use to take it VERY seriously. For your enjoyment I am gonna attach a couple pics just for you. The first one is of my deer rifle my father bought me for my 12th Birthday. It's an old bolt action 30/30 Savage. Next is a shot of my first Deer. My method of hunting was always called "Brush Hunting" and my Dad always called me a "Brush Hunter" because I LOVED the thick stuff (something I learned from both hunting partridge and rabbits with dogs - I always followed the dogs and learned a LOT from them:178:). This "Buck" walked within 15 feet of me while hunting near Iron's Michigan (Deer Hunters MECCA up there and the dirtbike/snowmobile trails are AWESOME too) and it was so thick all I could get was just glimpses of his body. He (the deer) caught wind of me, jumped and ran - I had crawled (following deer paths) into a large area of Thorn Apple bushes (the term "thorn" here is an understatement, these bushes are equipped covered with 2 inch stickers - rough/hard hunting at its best. I jumped up, pulled up old trusty, every time the buck jumped his head would appear above the bushes - nailed em on his forth bound!! I later had an Indian lady who wanted some work done on her husbands Motorcycle but didnt have quite enough cash for the repairs (back when I had my shop). I LOVED her totem pole work and other things, offered her a "deal" on trading a carving on my deer rifle gun stock in swap. She didnt do half bad for a first time - she worked from a pic of my first deer that you see mounted. I was 14 when I got em, I was hooked and hunted A LOT with lots of success (Handgun, BLack Powder and Bow too!) until my Dad fell ill. Anyway, hope that tides you over till one of other hunters provides us with some more pics and stories

how tricky of a varmint that feller could be. Skid down shifted his Midnight RSV and instantly he was free of the smoke. He yelled at the top of his lungs that he thought he could catch Yammer if

@OrlinEngh bringing Moe home from the pet shop when he (Moe - not Or) was just a baby