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BEAUTIFUL!!!! Tell her congrats for us! I can smell the sweet odor of new car interier all the way up here in Michigan!

Sorry if any typos, on the tablet with lillte keyboard. Check Stellas airbox and pjpes for mouse nest blockages.. also double check tire air pressures and check for brake drag..

:thumbsup::dancefool::clap2: :thumbdown::Im not listening to:moon::moon:

Ours are 110V and hard wired DJ, BUT VERY GOOD POINT!!!

Oh heck yea!! Looks GREAT Jack! I am with ya on the concrete pouring business - let them youngens do it! Sitting around installing carpeting in a trailer, sipping a Lemonade and dreaming about the next bike ride - THAT is more like it!! I need a chiropracter just from the pics of those guys working!!

Indeed Eck, THANKS for posting this up!

Awe,, that is really really nice Kev, and here is well wish for you too!!

Heyyyy Tip,, look what the cat drug in!! Good to hear all is well down there Squid! Godspeed as you continue in helping out with the Vets, they sure got the best of the best when they elected you Senior Vice Commander my friend! Give that precious wife a hug and howdy for us and PLEASE keep us updated as you continue in your service for the cause of freedom! Thanks to all those Vets (yourself included) for being there for all of us! :happy65: Puc

WOW - that kid is REALLY talented!!!

NICE Cimmer - REAL NICE:thumbsup:!! I heard a rumor that one of the ways to combat those March to May Minnesota white washings is to be sure if you do get to ride this early.. No idea if it works or not but you could take your 89 out again tomorrow, take some quick pics, post em up and see if it works

:sign green with envTell you one thing,, you cant go much farther south and you cant get much better than that!!! BEAUTIFUL JD just beautiful!!

A grand isnt a lot of cash and a week isnt a lot of time.. We would cross the bottom of the Badlands, up under Rapid City, rip thru Keystone onto 16A, drift across the top of Custer State park and up onto Needles High way, across the Black Hills to Spear Fish Canyon. Take the two tracks and single trail from the water falls at Spear Fish Canyon and spend an overnight in the Black Hills listening to Elk bugle. Ride the two tracks into Wyoming and pop out near Devils Tower. Stop and get a new Devils Tower sticker for Tweeks that got knocked off in the hail last summer. Ride south out of Wyoming across the National Grass Lands, National Forests, National Parks, Mountain valleys in a bold attempt to get to Santa Fe with enough money and time to beat foot it home..

After many years of abusing my spine with racing dirtbikes (using my body as a mono shock cause we didnt have good boingers back than), lifting heavy things with my back instead of my legs and just leading a "busy" life - my luck ran out in 03 and I fractured L-4 and L-5. Fortunately it only took about 9 months of living on Morph like you are and dealing with paralyses from the waste down before I landed in the hands of a very talented Neuro Surgeon. It was not until I got involved with this extremely talented individual that I even got to find out that my back was actually broken. I had been thru all types of Dr.'s before him who had done everything from hanging me upside down to stretching me on a table and injecting steroids into the disc areas.. When I finally ended up with the Neuro Surgeon he sent me in for an MRI. He didnt like the way the first run on the MRI came out so he sent me for another.. After that one, I went into his office and he was livid!! He showed me bone fragments very near my spinal cord that, in his words, had a piece of the fragmentation gotten against my spinal cord I could easily have been permanently in a wheel chair. During the long process of 5 surgeries and spending over a year in a body cast, I really got to know this doctor. We talked a LOT about different avenues of spinal repair and rehab. He insisted that I lose 50 pounds of weight before surgery - I did so in 6 months (lived on a small bowl of Wendys chili for lunch and a piece of toasted bread with chicken meat mixed with mustard for dinner). He was SHOCKED and asked how on earth I did that (had many many friends who could not believe it either) and I told him that not eating was hard BUT the thought of facing a lifetime in a wheel chair made it doable. At that time he told me that the number one thing that a person with back problems can do to assist in pain control and healing is to run their bodies as lean as possible weight wise and that since I followed his instructions he could almost guarentee I would walk again after surgery - I did and I am!! That said, if I had it to do all over again and I were in your shoes.. If I were overweight at all (not saying you are Oldgoat - just making suggestions here), I would go back on my very serious diet and starve myself till I was as thin as possible and than proceed.. Personally, as much as I enjoyed the pain relief of the Morphine and the Fentynal I would do the weight loss just to get off that stuff - that stuff (also Neurontin and the handfulls of opioids (Norco)) really messed me up big time and getting off it all was difficult (it is amazing how well it controls pain though). Oldgoat, I have no idea about Laser surgery. I do know from yakking with this same doctor about them, that Disectomy's need time to heal after having them and I also know (cause he told me so) that the vast majority of failures in disectomies that he had seen were the result of folks not giving the "void" that is created when the section of disc is removed, a chance to fill in. If you dont do that the disc can fill in the void by popping back out and your right back to square one.. I want you to know that I am very familiar with the real pain associated with back problems! I wish you all the best in figuring it all out and my thoughts and prayers are with you as you do Oldgoat! Puc

Seems like springing forward to daylight savings time gets more and more complicated every year. We have vaulted ceilings so I dragged in the ladder from the garage, cleaned off the feet on the ladder, set it up in living room, pulled the clock in the living room, handed it to Tip - she cleans it, I install new batteries, move it ahead an hour, rehang and move the operation into our bedroom.. Reset the ladder, climb up, pull down the clock, hand it to Tip, she cleans it, I do battery change, reclimb ladder, balance on one foot and get that stupid little open spot on back of clock lined up, finally lines up - center clock and climb down - perfect. While folding up ladder Tip looks at me - chuckles and asked why I didnt move the clock forward an hour.. As I ponder the many appointments I would have been late for as the summer of 2015 progress's had it not been for this lovely lady of mine, I once again realize how fully I have been blessed and I also have an even deeper understanding of why God said it is not good for man to be alone!!

Or Or (that was not a typo - I meant to say,, Or Orlin ), if we came in early they could the address for the Church camp out of you and go on a Church camp attack!! I know for a FACT that Church camps ALWAYS have the bestest coffee anywhere on the planet PLUS they usually have some pretty good dipping donuts, pie and even gobs of for those who are well behaved!! Venison eay,, hmmmmmmmmmm......... Sorry Or,, didnt mean to and cause you grief..

Abdul, Tip and I want to send our sincere condolences to you and your family on the loss of your precious wife, Shah. We are deeply saddened to hear the news and want you to know that each of you are in our thoughts and prayers. May your grief be softened and deep pain be lessened by the memories of the wonderful times you shared with her.. Rest In Peace Shah. Puc and Tip

I LOVE them great big beautiful 111 inch Indians too!!! THEY ARE GORGEOUS!!

So,, maybe am reading between the lines here a little BUT,,, toward your potential customers on Craigs you are deeply concerned and questioning the type of character they display - you wrote = "Am I all wet, or is the rest of the world nuts?" But than when coming here you remove all avenues of "questioning" by leading us down a dead end street Indeed Carl,, Craigslist can be excrutiating if you let it be, the key is not to let it be.. I have sold a LOT of stuff (and purchased) on Craigs.. I just take em in stride, respond to each inquiry as if they are standing right there beside me (if asked like you mentioned - "whats my bottom dollar" - I respond with my bottom dollar). I dont post my phone or email addy though, I always just run everything thru Craigs (or Ebay if dealing with them) so I have a chance to discern whether or not I am dealing with a real scammer.. Once I have a good gut feeling that I am not dealing with one of those low lifes, then, sure - make me an offer in email or over the phone.. I just let the childs play stuff bounce off like water off a ducks back.. I look at it like I am having folks walk into my old shop and walk up and down the rows of bikes and look at em like they used to do,, window shopping as it were.. If you have people stopping and looking,, sooner or later something is gonna sell,,, at least thats my perspective..

And a link to a thread here at VR about that center stand.. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/second-generation-venture-tech-talk/80655-rivco-center-stand.html

Hey @Buckstalker, here is something that might interest you.. Looks kind of pricey but it says it bolts right up.. Hope this helps.. RIVCO Products, Inc.*::*Yamaha*::*Click here to select ROYAL STAR products*::*Centerstand for Yamaha Royal Star® Venture

Well put Boss, I always stand amazed at the efforts put out by others on behalf of the members here! It is easy to over look the amount of work that goes into doing that stuff and I join you and saying THANK YOU to EVERYONE - past/present and future, who has anything to do with any of them (yourself included Don!!). :clap2: I also would personally like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to ALL Vendor's and people who donate stuff for our rallies in ANY form. Even the little items, like the ear plugs that got handed out last year at Venture West (TIPPY LOVED THEM), are always GREATLY appreciated!! :clap2: We have only attended a couple VR outings but really must say, because of all these amazing people and their willingness to give of themselves, the few we have been to have been nothing but OUTSTANDING!! :dancefool:

Oh yea,, I can feel it too Bren,, although we are still BURIED in the White Wash (I dont use the "s" word until well into August because,, well, frankly because I dont really trust my neighbor (guy by the name of @Flyinfool) and his desire to trick me into thinking he has put away his White Wash Machine.. Tweeks is still hibernating in the basement BUT, I did blow a path downstairs today so as this stuff melts and the grass gets exposed I can get the bikes out!! Anticipation is happening here BIG TIME!!!

We had a junk yard on the outskirt of my home town called Johnny Minks. Johnny was a foul mouth nasty old time junk yard fool who absolutely LOVED us kids. He knew what it was like to be dirt poor and supported us local dirt poor kids by paying 25 bucks a junk car for anything we could haul in. We also could buy ANY part for our cars from his yard for a dollar!! I rebuilt my 67, 289, 3 speed Cougar with parts from him - 2 doors = 2 dollars, a hood = a dollar, a rear axle = a dollar,, amazing days.. Its funny you mention the 283 Chev's Randy, for some reason our area was plagued with the 60's 283 Chevy's with bad cams in them. I went for a long time buying Chevy Wagons/Impala's (NEVER an SS) with em either popping back thru the carbs or having to drop in my handy/dandy electric fuel pump cause the cam lobe that drove the pump was worn round.. I would buy em for a few bucks, drop the electric pump in, run the last bit of life out of em RODDING THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF EM and than sell em to John and make money on em.. Crazy days..... Oh yea, John's junk yard was on an old sandy dirt road. My buddy Rob would hook onto a junk car with his big ol 1959 Pontiac Bonnie (great big fins on the rear end - always looked like a mean old dinosaur from the back) with two 30 foot tow chains and scrape tire hung between em to absorb shock. I would get in the junk car and we would head down Johns road. Rob would hold the ol Bonnie in the center of road doing about 50 while I went in and out of the ditches knocking down small trees and sliding the junk car sideways.. Next car would be Robs turn... By the time we got those old cars to the junk yard they almost didnt need to be crushed by Johnny's old loader:big-grin-emoticon:

NICE!!!!!