cowpuc

What XV said!! Hope everyone is safe down there!!!

After all the people I have picked on around here,, my #1 goal is to survive.. Thankfully there are lots of others far worse than I when it comes to so I am planning on being able to avoid the by watching for dust stirring and then going the other direction when I see it!!!

Does the rattle change if you go from side stand to standing upright? Does pulling the clutch in seem to quiet it? Does it sound like its coming from the waterpump?

Silver, silver, silver,,,,,,,,,,,... That awesome 99 would be soooooooooooooo cool as a Trike!! A firey horse and with a speed of light - Hi ohhhhh Silverrrr Hope ya get feeling better Dan!!

OUTSTANDING STEVE - GOOD REPORT!! :clap2: From past experience running these V-4's (well,, ok,, all bikes) I have found it best to name em real soon after taking ownership.. You always wanna stay on their best side!! If you need help you could start a poll like some :stirthepot:er did when Dan bought Freebirds bike.. That was really fun!!

This is true,, very true,, I really am not a gadget kinda guy BUT, seeing the faces of all my buddies when I win something and knowing that my buddies like Raggy are sitting there is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much fun:ignore:.. :crackup::rotf: Sometimes I think the enjoyment I find in (which I do very little of) is borderline diabolical:essen_018:

Yep, both ways for me too. Changing and going the other direction is a definite must if you have a couple hours to spare. I would recommend east to west for a morning ride so the sun is behind you. Then take a break, give the mountains a chance to do their weather thingy and head back east (now going west to east) after 4 pm so the sun is still on your back.. If I had to choose just one it would be west to east,, I like living on edge!! Besides, it seems like the wildlife is a little more abundant in the evening.. By the way, dont forget to check and make sure its open - for some reason that area doesnt seem care if its 90 degrees in other parts of Montana - its almost like that snow up there is sun/heat resistant or something!!

Oh man,, I feel your pain brother! Sorry to hear about the loss of your family member Jay. Please tell Jeannie that you folks have our condolences my friend. Puc and Tippy

I had read somewhere that Yamaha had discovered some very very talented Yamaha techs coming out from behind those bars,, now it all adds up and I understand where they got their training!!!

AWESOME DON!!! So, how much for the ticket that is guarenteed to be the first one drawn?

That Mr. Vodka and I used to be very close. Problem was, he and I got into some trouble and I almost lost having my precious Tippy in my life and I had to make a choice. Either he had to go or,, well, I dont even like to think about that part. Tip is still CTFWing with me so my relationship with das brew is obvious.. I gotta reread our agreement and see if it says anything about consumption by eating .. I am sure that wont fly so Mr. Rumball man, please dont feel bad when I pass on those Rumballs, just know that when I say no thank you that its not because of who made those delightful little treats, its more cause I screwed up and have to honor my promises!!!!

Been a good while since the Nigerian's discovered the pathway to the inbox in my personal email.. Oh well, the peace was fun while it lasted.. I was really intrigued by the obvious training and professional manner that this new breed of scammer displayed, matter of fact - I actually fell for this one!! I figured, what the heck, a guy is allowed to fall for the temptation of anticipated good times that this rascal promised at least once in my life.. If this one works out to be anything (never know) I will let everyone know and then, if one of you happen to get a letter like this (see below) you can join in on the fun if you choose to!! Dear cowpuc, Your access to the paid subscription "VentureRider Support" is about to expire. Recurring subscriptions are not used. You will not be automatically billed for the renewal, if you wish to renew this subscription you must visit http://www.venturerider.org/forum/payments.php If you do not extend your subscription, you will revert to "registered" user. At that time you will still be able to access and read the forum but will be unable to post messages, use the search feature, download attachments, etc. All the best, VentureRider.Org

Yea Jeff, this was a tough one,, telling Tweeks she had been replaced was emotionally exhausting, lots of tears shed by both of us!! And no, you are correct, getting closer to Tips is never a bad thing!!! Which ever one of you super charged hot rodder modders corrected my booo booo I thank ya greatly!! You guys are the bestest group of mods on the internet!!

OOOPPSSSSSS,, I accidently stuck this in the wrong section.. Could one of the mods please move it to the Water Hole for me.. I would do it but not sure if I even can.. THANKS!! You guys are the bestest!!

Maybe it was all the squished skeeters from North Western Montana,, whatever it caused it, the inside of our tent smelled really really good when I opened it up yesterday. Seems like the last time I had visited our home away from home was when I rolled it up out east last year following a jaunt that way after visiting friends at a place called Guntersville. CTFWing can get to be such blurrr.. The odor was almost intoxicating inside the tent!! I sure hope that the Pond Palace down in Oberlin has such sweet smelling little blood suckers to replace the corpses of the long beeked fellers from the Glacier foothill's and southern Alberta Canada. They looked like they really enjoyed the ride back to Michigan cause none of them gave up the their seating positions located on the vast (to little skeeters) blue nylon tent walls of our $25 Menards tent very easily.. Matter of fact, while in the process of shaking them loose, I thought I noticed that a few of them had actually secured themselves by pushing their blood sucking needles thru the wall of the tent in an effort to insure their seating position would never be lost.. Tweeks is getting a little on in the miles so I had to replace her.. Still trying to figure out a tent rack for the new scoot and possibly a buddie seat so Tip and I dont have to crowd together on the single seat that our new scoot came with.. Hammering out a feel for our new bike is going to be difficult as both Tip and I are pretty much molded to the worn out old saddle that laid on Tweeks back.. Oh well, it will come,, besides - starting from scratch on the sticker earning should really be fun!!! MD, here we come!!!

Hope your ok down there Sonshine!! Prayers Up and Blessings down for all those folks down there dealing with that mess!!

BEEEAAUUTIFUL Dingy!! Great job!! Would make some great shots for the cover of a bike magazine!!

EXACTLY!!!

Oh man,, hope ya get better fast bro.. Am I confused here or did Monty offer to come over and stick his finger in your throat to make you blow chunks?? If that works out, could you two take a short video of how that works? Kinda cause none of my friends here never offered to help me in that way when I had the flu bug.. Seriously though Dan, hope ya get feeling better real soon, that pukin business aint no fun! Prayers Up, Blessings Down!!

Why sure Wally, you remember me dont cha? And indeed, I will be the one with that pretty young chick again,,, funny how you can remember her but cha remember me Wally.. Oh well, it will be great to see you again anyway,, if you can find you when that pretty young chick and I get there.. See ya soon!! Steve

Probably sounds crazy but I have found that putting a little flux paste on the wires first, heating it with the iron till its hot enough to sizzle the flux then touching the flux core solder on seems to work best..

A few years ago I lost a very dear friend of mine to a freak - one vehicle (Glennys motorcycle) accident that occurred on some corners not to far from our home. Glen was a very talented painter (watch the video where his father shows you his GORGEOUS old Wing that Glenny painted for his Dad shortly before his death). Glen's brother has been putting on a memorial ride every year in honor of Glen and Tip and I always try to attend. This years ride ended up with over 200 motorcycles and a number of those bikes with two people on them. Even though it was a wet, cooler day here along the Lake Michigan shoreline of west Michigan, all those people came out in honor and memory of Glens life. I miss my friend Glen, his smiling face and laughing humor as we played with bikes, him and his RD350 at Muskegon's Bike Time and watching him enjoy life will never be forgotten..

Know what Bren, I TOTALLY get where your coming from brother. That "in love" feeling is a mysterious thing that many folks cant quite a handle on. I have literally owned hundreds of mopeds, minibikes and motorcycles thru the years and gotta say - most of them never made it to me being "in love" with them. Some have though.. I have noticed thru my career in motorcycle ownership that some bikes have scored that status thru sheer looks as eye candy (had a 39 Harley and a 41 Indian that rang that bell), then there was Olivia The War Bike whose history and charm scored it, of course my first 1973 Honda 250 Elsinore (Elsie was her name) and the trophies she magically won throughout my early growing years of racing MX and Harescrambling scored it, my KX500 named Katie later took over that status as her and I tossed dirt in the faces of many competitors.. I gotta say though, the 5 Ventures that I have worn out (including Tweeks) have actually surpassed the "in love" status and turned the corner of "in love" status into the fullfillment of TRUE LOVE.. A big part of all the above are found in bonding.. Bonding can only come from a development of trust, shared experiences, laughing and crying together, building life long memories and having fun.. All of those things take time. I have been not doing so well health wise these days. I keep Tweeks (my 83) parked outside in the garage and over the course of dealing with all this medical stuff I have found myself wondering outside into the garage and just staring at Tweeks.. Every sticker and signature on her represent a sharing of our in loveness. Her gorgeous old Blonde non matching side covers that came from my 1st 84 Royale have over 1 million miles on em - I can still hear my kids laughing voices in those side covers and see their smiling faces as Beeg (name of that first one) took us deep into the back country of regions like Montana, Wyoming, California, Nova Scotia and other obscure places and always got us safely home. Tweeks took Tippy and I far out onto the barren salts of Utah in an area known as the Bonneville, beat the drums of her worn out ol V-4 motor with me on her back and fully loaded with our cross country gear and made her way to 124 mph before I pulled on her reins.. Those memories are like medicine to me as I look at her Bonneville sticker that Kickshot sent me in the mail cause we could not find one for her in Wyndover.. I stare at her and I can feel the warmth of Death Valley at night as we trusted her with our very lifes in a region that has claimed countless crisis because other brands of bikes could not make it, I can smell the smells of the warm air coming up out of the Grand Canyon and feel the moistness of the Rio Grande River that flows thru the dry regions of South Texas and Big Bend and can still taste the salt air from Hwy 1 in Cali.. Her welded and rewelded collector screams to my senses of the many many rocks, logs and dirt holes that pounded the day lights out of her as we flogged our way deep into dirtbike regions to camp under the stars in remote areas pretty much assured that ol Tweeks was going to start when I touched the starter button on the next morning and she would bring us back safely to modern society.. I know,, I got a bad bad habit of being long winded and I appologize for the ramblings here.. Bottom line is, ok, these old Yam's aint the prettiest bikes in the world (to some folks they are), they indeed are NOT the fastest bikes in the world (wonder if I could fall in love with a New V-Max,, hmmmmm), certainly dont have the instant "in love" that I - like a LOT of people find with that "potato potato" sound of a well tuned Harly, still have hidden issues like making whiny noises (personally I like that sound - I am odd, I also like the sound of turbos spinning up or the noises of the gear whine of a good gear driven Super Charger) BUT,, if given the chance (time) to show what your bike is really are made of, thru bonding, REAL In Love can and probably will happen!! IMHO, the two of you just gotta give each other a chance to begin the bonding process and real in love will come!! Puc

FYI, I have heard that these modern day coppers will chase ya cross state lines for bank robbery..