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LOP EARED BROTHER BY A DIFFERENT MOTHER VARMINT IF THERE EVER SO EVER WAS ONE!!

As always,, absolutely nothing fishy,, all fact based and told the way it happened!! Have pictures :rasberry:.. Not my fault my life is filled with Murphy malfunctions

I just wrote this over on Mama's Party thread.. It applies directly to my answer to your question too Randy so instead of retyping everything,, I will just copy/paste it been crazy here.. On top of this virus thing we have a domestic dispute going on down the street that has resulted in one of the disputers going crazy and dumping nails and screws out on our street corners.. Its been going on for a couple weeks now and its getting old. The police have been involved all along but are having a hard time nailing (pun intended) the perp.. Found out from the LEO that is working the case today that the varmint has expanded his horizons of terror by including 5 more intersections and about 8 mores miles of roadway in what appears to keep his girlfriend boxed in with nails/screws.. Couple that together this crisis that everybody else is dealing with and local/state officials here changing the rules they want us to live by like my 3 year old grandson turning my lights on and off (he is sooo cute when he plays the lights on/off game but not so much when those in power do so) and yeah,, life can get frustrating.. Matter of fact,, I got so frustrated with all the rule changing and the punctured tires today that I looked at Tip curled up on the couch and said - LETS GO FISHIN!! With no idea really whether or not doing so was legal at this point, I tossed our flat bottom boat in the back of Clyde (our historic vehicled ex-Airport plow truck) with the fishing gear stuffed haphazardly underneath the boat,, fired em up and away we went.. Headed for a small inland lake up in Michigans State land that knew of.. It took some doings to get down to the lake once Clyde's granny gear in low range had crawled and knawed Clydes way out thru the sticks and down the extremely steep hill to the lakeside.. Dumped the boat into the water,, pulled the spare batter out of Clyde for the trolling motor,, admired how pretty Tippy was walking in the black muck on the lack shore in her knee boots,,, jump in, pushed off and away we went,, FISHING!! I knew the old battery that was Clydes plow batter couldnt be in to good of shape so I was not surprised when I pressed the battery check button on the motor and it proudly displayed "RECHARGE".. By now though,, being used to what life has become in Michigan,, I just laughed in Murphys face,, grabbed the oars and told Tip we would save the motor for trolling as the sun set and the big ones starting getting hungry and just row around the edges and see if we could snag a pan fish or two. Of course, the pan fish in this particular little lake had no internet access (the lake is wayyyyyy back in the sticks,, only reason I even knew about it was due to my many many years of riding my dirt bikes on those thousands of acres of lands that are owned by us tax payers of Michigan) so had not read the same claim that they were suppose to not be able to tell the difference between the little rubber worms I had purchased online and the worms I used to dig as a kid in the wilds.. I pointed the fish beds out to Tippy and told her it was obvious the place was loaded and that it was to bad they didn't know they were suppose to bite on the little plastic worms.. I then told her to pull in her bobbered line as I was gonna bust thru the brush and go find us some REAL worms.. After untangling our lines hundreds of times from the lakeshore brush growth and standing up in the boat and using an oar like one of Mike Finks river boat men operating a push stick,, we arrived back at shore.. Yes it was mucky,, yep Tip got a big chuckly at me sinking in the muck just to get some worms,, yes Tip - having many years of motherly experience, happen to have a sandwich baggie for me to gather worms in so I wouldnt have to use my Harley hat.. As I tipped the first log over and saw nothing but ants,, I began to tell Tippy that many many many many years ago, at a time wayyy before the evil Syth Emperer who was playing the on/off rules games with our lifes was even thought of,, people used to actually go dig worms to go fishing with just to have food.. As I picked up a great big fat worm and stuffed it into the sandwich bag I told Tip that what I was doing, back in those times,, was serious business... After we got back thru the brush with several very nice big fat leaf worms staring at us thru the clear plastic of the sandwich bag I randomly grabbed one of those worms, stuck him on the hook on Tippies pole (chivalry is not dead in our 40 marriage,, I dont care what PC says),, watched her give that wiggly little worm a toss into the lake water and WHAMMO - instant NINE INCH SUNFISH!!!! BINGO,, JUST LIKE THAT ALL OUR DULDRUMS OF THE DAY BEGAN TO MELT AWAY!! The melting away actually continued to melt and came to full fledged outpouring of an amazing feeling of a return to sanity as Tip later hooked into and LANDED a great big Northern Pike while we were trolling!!

I am with Tufftom,, been crazy here.. On top of this virus thing we have a domestic dispute going on down the street that has resulted in one of the disputers going crazy and dumping nails and screws out on our street corners.. Its been going on for a couple weeks now and its getting old. The police have been involved all along but are having a hard time nailing (pun intended) the perp.. Found out from the LEO that is working the case today that the varmint has expanded his horizons of terror by including 5 more intersections and about 8 mores miles of roadway in what appears to keep his girlfriend boxed in with nails/screws.. Couple that together this crisis that everybody else is dealing with and local/state officials here changing the rules they want us to live by like my 3 year old grandson turning my lights on and off (he is sooo cute when he plays the lights on/off game but not so much when those in power do so) and yeah,, life can get frustrating.. Matter of fact,, I got so frustrated with all the rule changing and the punctured tires today that I looked at Tip curled up on the couch and said - LETS GO FISHIN!! With no idea really whether or not doing so was legal at this point, I tossed our flat bottom boat in the back of Clyde (our historic vehicled ex-Airport plow truck) with the fishing gear stuffed haphazardly underneath the boat,, fired em up and away we went.. Headed for a small inland lake up in Michigans State land that knew of.. It took some doings to get down to the lake once Clyde's granny gear in low range had crawled and knawed Clydes way out thru the sticks and down the extremely steep hill to the lakeside.. Dumped the boat into the water,, pulled the spare batter out of Clyde for the trolling motor,, admired how pretty Tippy was walking in the black muck on the lack shore in her knee boots,,, jump in, pushed off and away we went,, FISHING!! I knew the old battery that was Clydes plow batter couldnt be in to good of shape so I was not surprised when I pressed the battery check button on the motor and it proudly displayed "RECHARGE".. By now though,, being used to what life has become in Michigan,, I just laughed in Murphys face,, grabbed the oars and told Tip we would save the motor for trolling as the sun set and the big ones starting getting hungry and just row around the edges and see if we could snag a pan fish or two. Of course, the pan fish in this particular little lake had no internet access (the lake is wayyyyyy back in the sticks,, only reason I even knew about it was due to my many many years of riding my dirt bikes on those thousands of acres of lands that are owned by us tax payers of Michigan) so had not read the same claim that they were suppose to not be able to tell the difference between the little rubber worms I had purchased online and the worms I used to dig as a kid in the wilds.. I pointed the fish beds out to Tippy and told her it was obvious the place was loaded and that it was to bad they didn't know they were suppose to bite on the little plastic worms.. I then told her to pull in her bobbered line as I was gonna bust thru the brush and go find us some REAL worms.. After untangling our lines hundreds of times from the lakeshore brush growth and standing up in the boat and using an oar like one of Mike Finks river boat men operating a push stick,, we arrived back at shore.. Yes it was mucky,, yep Tip got a big chuckly at me sinking in the muck just to get some worms,, yes Tip - having many years of motherly experience, happen to have a sandwich baggie for me to gather worms in so I wouldnt have to use my Harley hat.. As I tipped the first log over and saw nothing but ants,, I began to tell Tippy that many many many many years ago, at a time wayyy before the evil Syth Emperer who was playing the on/off rules games with our lifes was even thought of,, people used to actually go dig worms to go fishing with just to have food.. As I picked up a great big fat worm and stuffed it into the sandwich bag I told Tip that what I was doing, back in those times,, was serious business... After we got back thru the brush with several very nice big fat leaf worms staring at us thru the clear plastic of the sandwich bag I randomly grabbed one of those worms, stuck him on the hook on Tippies pole (chivalry is not dead in our 40 marriage,, I dont care what PC says),, watched her give that wiggly little worm a toss into the lake water and WHAMMO - instant NINE INCH SUNFISH!!!! BINGO,, JUST LIKE THAT ALL OUR DULDRUMS OF THE DAY BEGAN TO MELT AWAY!! The melting away actually continued to melt and came to full fledged outpouring of an amazing feeling of a return to sanity as Tip later hooked into and LANDED a great big Northern Pike while we were trolling!! Right about now I bet you are asking yourself,, what on earth does all this have to with Mama's party coming up on Tuesday.. Well,, the fact is,, I have never ever cleaned a Northern Pike and figured,, for future reference (yes,, we intend to go back to that little lake on a regular basis - getting away from everything and everybody seemed to do the job restoring some sanity for us) maybe one or two or even three of you lop eared varmints will have suggestions for doing exactly that... The End!

WOWZY WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!! Few feet earlier into the rail and he would have done the ol Wiley Coyote routine right into that sign and SPLAT,, woulda/coulda been a whole different outcome ... Thank the Lord he cleared it and sounds like he is gonna be ok.. From what I can tell from the video, and IMHO, he had plenty of good, open pavement to judge his corner,, nothing there keeping him from tossing that sport bike down onto the chicken strips (maybe the pavement was wet,, putting fear of sliding out on him) and riding it out.. Bottom line,, it looks like possibly another fixated looking/watching at going where he didn't wanna go ending up at not even an attempt at riding out the corner.. Crazy,, right after the bike bounced off the rail and he went over the edge,, its almost like the bike just took over on its own to prove it was completely capable of making it .. GLAD THE RIDER IS GOING TO LIVE TO RIDE AGAIN!!

binI did send you a PM last night answering this my Texas Hero but apparently, due to oversight on my part my message box was tapped out and bouncing against the rev limiter and the message did not go thru.. I just resent my reply brother.. Asking for some pics of your triple tree or where ever you are planning to drill and questions about your planned method for the process,, you thinking drill thru,put a bolt in and nut on the bottom or drilling and tapping?? The reason for pics,, maybe there are already spots of factory drilled and tapped locations you could tie into with some brackets to mount the horns onto.. If it were mine I would look carefully for "clamps" where the forks slide into the triple trees = most scoots have got them of some sort.. Fabbing up a set of brackets that I could bend/tweek into mounts for the horns and then mounting the brackets under the fork clamp bolts would not be unreasonable IMHO.. It is not uncommon for OEM engineers to use those clamp bolts in double duty for everything from quick detach windshield mounts and blinker mounts and lots of other stuff.. I have personally used them to do crazy stuff like your son is talking about doing too,, on more than one occasion (you know how I am) and have never had issue with such.. I am sure you will get LOTS of suggestions on here from the guru's. I strongly suggest that you give much thought to listening to them before you drill baby drill... Best of luck with your project!! CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THE END RESULT!! Puc

Tell you what,, I still think the Midnight was/is one of the prettiest motorcycles ever made!! Because one of my favorite singers of all time (only topped by Willie), Waylon Jennings, always wore black,, if I had a great big beautiful hard pulling,, come out swinging rebel of a scoot like that all decked out in black I would name him "Waylon" and Waylon and I would head out CTFW to prove once again that Hank really did do it that way!!! GREAT FIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes sir reee Bob,, thats the puppy!!! Evil little sucker has cause many many people TONS of problems.. I have tried replacing with new,, didnt work best.. Putting ring terminals on the wires and lugging them up that way,,, better than the spade terminal idea but not the best.. And found my best luck for best long term, long distance touring protection against Murph to be clipping the spade blades off the wires, cleaning up the insulation, trimming back the black outer plastic housing some,, slipping some shrink tube over the indiviual wires AND a larger piece over all three of the wires,, solder em up, pull up the individual shrink tube and heat it to shrink. pull up the large three wire shrink tube to cover original plastic outer and the three wires in one piece and shrink it, tie wrap to frame and done.. I know,, it will now be a hassle to test the stator circuitry if the need arises BUT, IMHO,, its worth the hassle.. Yes,, IMHO,, it is a common fail point.. All of my 6 MK1 Ventures totalling +1 million miles that I personally ran em out to had those stator wires hard wired due to issues at that joint.. Oh,,by the way,, there is not polarity = just white to white.. Maybe take an ohm meter and check resistance across those white wires a pair at a time (disconnected at the terminal you have in your hand, testing leads going back to the stator so you are ohming out the stator windings) to make sure they are all the same and in spec.. also check each to ground. this will give you somewhat of an idea of the condition of your stator.. What years your scoot? 83/84's had stator issues and without the update (oil splash and orvice in crank bolt to allow oil bath) - they all failed = edit = ((OOPPPSSSS, my bad,, just noticed we are talking 93 VR,, I would still ohm out the stator before soldering the wires together anyway)).. Thats why I ask..

what cha riding Flash?? By the way,, :group cheers:

Wish you were closer Silv,, I got an original Tombstone Taillight in my stock of left over parts from my Chopper build days... Would DEFINITELY top off your build in total chopperdom coolness

It's to bad BJ from South Dakota aint still around,, he LOVED spinning the vinyl's Patch and would have GREATLY appreciated your thread here!!! :guitarist 2:

OUTSTANDING SILV!!!:thumbsup: Ya know,, thinking about it,, the headlight on your scoot looks about as close to being an original ""Bates"" as one could get!! WAYYYYYYYYYYY COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbsup:

What ya did, ya did good cause I can see clearly now :happy34:!! VERY WELL DONE EARL!!!! She's a beauty!! I always enjoyed making the coffin's,, straight cuts, tig em up... A ton less work than dinking around with the english wheel BUT,, I did actually enjoy the wheel - lots of fun if you wanna spend hours tinkering.. Concerning the brakes,, even though you did drums,, at least you did SOMETHING for stopping power!!! My bent always leaned more toward a love for the simplisity "spoolie" look.. 21 inch spoolie with no brake to clutter it up and a set of "Z" bars aimed at my chest to put me out of my mysery should my rear drum brake fail me in an emergency.. I LOVE YOU BUILD BROTHER!! Thanks for the pic! Puc

Awe,, THANKS YOU LOP EARED VARMINTS FOR THE B-DAY WISHES!!!

Before heading out CTFW with all the electrical updates being completed,, it might not be a bad idea to hard wire the 3 phase stator output terminal that sets on the frame about half way down under the left side cover... It would be a real shame to get stranded out in the desert with a failed stator cause that terminal melted down due to resistance buildup allowing two of the three white stator output wires to make contact thereby taking out the stator... Staying one step ahead of ol Murphy can be a career opportunity!!

,,, you and I Earl,, we got more in common than a lot of actual blood brothers have my friend!! I was the odd duck of our family of 7 kids.. Even before Kindergarten, my parents knew something was off.. My lack of any form of interest in sports (my dad was an athletic crazy) and interest in motorcycles during a day and time when motorcyclist were severely looked down upon was an issue.. When I was in Kindergarten I still remember to this day being punished (both at school and at home) because of my lack of interest in collecting baseball cards and such as most normal boys did as I preferred to sit and draw pictures of Chopped motorcycles. I would also rather rip apart a beat up old lawn mower engine to see what was inside than watch the super bowl - and this was as a little kid .. When I got a little older and started riding peddle bikes, I had aquired quite a local reputation for ruining friends bikes by cutting the hollow tubed forks off them (Huffies?) and using those forks on other friends bikes to create extended forks by sliding the hollowed ones over the flat forks of other friends bikes (rich kids with Schwinns). Yep,, even at 8 years old, I was a rebel.. I have since built many choppers over the years and actually thoroughly enjoyed cruising and touring on them pre-Venture days. I also got into for resale.. Allll that said, and in the spirit of a shared brotherly love for the fine art of Chopperdom,, could you PLEASE take another shot at posting the picture of your bike?? I am not able to see it and would LOVE to!! I would also be interested in knowing whether or not I am the only one on VR who is unable to view your precious Chopper picture? Your brother in Chopperdom!! Puc

I love motorcycle trivia guessing games so I am in... NO GOOGLING = its a code violation!!! My guess is either MG or Triumph:12101:

Dont have to log in or have an account to watch it,, just click on the pic and off you go,, into the wild blue yonder

I have used the oil level indicator on my tired old MK1's for years to check oil content while rolling down the road, no need to get off and check the window.. Just wick er up and run thru a couple years and gaze at the dash.. Watch for the oil level icon flicker,, if she flickers,, next stop is a dollar store for a quart of oil.. It may not be right,, it may not be pretty, but it is what it was

Nope,, not today ,, I am birthday +2 Vaz but THANK YOU for the awesome birthday wishes brother!! Spent the best part of my B-day visiting my mom thru a window at the nursing home.. It was a good one in spite of this virus thing!!! Tips sitting here next to me reading this, sends her love ,, as do I !! Put +200 miles on Tweeks yesterday = in the 60's and sunny... Just stepped outside to plug the drone in that my Son got me for Christmas (getting pretty beat up,, crashed it 3 times yesterday, one was from +70 feet - down thru a tree and onto the middle of our street) and noticed a snowflake whizzing by,,, @Flyinfool is still hard at work on the other side of the pond!! Pretty much it, hi/love to Pat!! REALLY enjoyed your recent post w/ pics!! Tried to find the story you mentioned in the PM but was unable to!! Love you!!! Puc, Tip and of course - Tweeks

We know you have just the right amount of chrome when we can see the reflection of you taking a picture for us lop eared loving varmints in your VERY purdy chrome air breather !!!! And,, by the way JR,, you are correct,, Red is faster,, I know cause ecbaatz told me so last night in VR chat GORGEOUS SCOOT JR!! CONGRATS!!

:sign yeah that: CP but if you decide to go ahead with swapping back to OEM,, here is probably what you will need - if memory serves me correctly: The adaptor for your spin on is probably threaded into the hole that the mounting bolt for the oem canister screws into. You will need to unscrew the adaptor (lefty loosey) from the case/engine block. Once you do this you should hopefully be left with the engine block/case as OEM with sealing surface for the OEM canister's large o-ring and original OEM threaded oil port/mounting hole for canister bolt. In your possession you should have: Finned canister cover, OEM filter that goes into canister with grommets that seal around mounting bolt, large o-ring that sets in groove in canister, canister mounting bolt with o-ring that seals on face of canister cover where it goes thru, spring that goes behind the oil filter - this goes between filter and canister - NOT between filter and case/engine block. Think thats it,, now lets see if one of the clubs guru's can figure out what I missed

Try convincing Maggie, my R1, that as she bounces the rev limiter in 5th gear and is completely capable of doing the same in 6th if you or Fool have got the guts to experience life in HP heaven above 5252 R's:scared::rasberry: