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    Takes one to know one
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    That Silvr,, he's kind of troublemaker aint he:Laugh:
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    OUTSTANDING BUCKSHOT!! Congrats on job well done Bucky!! Enjoy your retirement my friend!!
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    Count on it bro!! Best of the best on the repair and healing!!
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    PRAYERS UP AND BLESSINGS DOWN SADDLEBUM!! Thanks for letting us know! Puc
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    AND THATS JUST A 50 FOOT BY 50 FOOT AREA ON THE NORTH END OF CENTRAL PARK... YA GOTTA GET DOWN INTO CHINA TOWN TO SEE THE REAL ACTION!!!
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    My daughter went to Med School in Manhatten (Cornell - corner of 1st and 68th on the east side of MANhatten) and I LOVED visiting her and cruising the city!! THAT PLACE IS A MAD HOUSE traffic wise,, as much of a fun challenge as any back road America I have ever ridden!! BUT, because of the grid NYC uses in traffic control - it is amazingly easy to get where ya wanna go! Actually, I have ALWAYS wanted to take a moped back to NYC and buzz around - sooo much to see and do and it is SO ripe for the picken on a lil moped (big bike is all most as much fun - just not as easy to cut traffic on) that ya dont mind gettin stolen LOL!! I think it would also be fun to dress up like a bag lady and camp out under the Brooklyn Bridge for a night!! Sorry Red1 - didnt mean to go off on ya there... If you decide to ride the bike in, there are some road secrets that work really good.. NYC is laid out like a grid of one way roads.. I would suggest taking the Washington Bridge across to the East side of Manhatten, jump on the FDR on the east side, follow it down to the bottom of Manhatten, go up the center of Manhatten on any of the main roads, going north, if you get caught in unmerciful traffic (you will), jump on a one way cross road, say thru China town,, go to the next one way north,, go up and catch the next cross road going the other way... If you keep in mind that you are riding a grid loaded with cars and those cars are no more than obstacles on an obstacle course AND you have the time to play - it is a RIOT!! Dont miss Times Square at night and Central Park in the day light!! NOT riding the bike and using the subway was a much bigger hassle for me,, I always took my daughter when we traveled those puppies - much smarter than I.. If you end up parking outside of the city and taking a train in,, unless you have lots of xtra cash for Taxis - PLAN on walking A LOT!! The subways will get you in general areas but you WILL do a TON of walking if you wanna see anything.. Go to Rodney Dangerfields Club down by Times Square (no idea of address - found it by accident,, stumbled in and heard some of the most AWESOME Blues music stuff you ever did hear/see).. Be sure to eat lots of NYC Hot Dogs from the street vendors.. MY GOSH THAT PLACE IS AWESOME!! I LOVE China Town and how genuine city dirty it was,, stinky fish markets with stuff you can only get in NYC - dried fish flesh,, alive fish in tanks, dead ones in racks,, real chinese who cant speak english trying to sell ya watches, vendor after vendor with stuff to sell - NEVER pay asking price... WHAT A BLAST!!! Some of the sky scrapers you can sneak up in and make it to the roofs and view the city,, others - like the big gold one owned by Donny Trump you will get kicked out of as soon as ya walk in the door LOL... Can ya tell I am envious Red? May help if you study the sattelite map of NYC just to get a feel for the road layout (I did it cold turkey and it took me a few times to figure out how really nicely they have the "grid" laid out) being a first time in and all that.. I gotta tell ya,, I had WAYYYY more trouble navigating Jersey (terrible signage and road layout made NO sense) than I ever did in NYC!! Same as traveling around Elk Grove in Sacramento California (where the girls are now) - those roads out there make NO sense as far as layout goes.. Really weird angles and corners - a LOT harder to figure out than NYC!!! Completely different adventure!!! At any rate,, HAVE FUN EXPLORING!! Oh yea,, Jersey has WAY cheaper motels than you will find on the Island, GET GAS BEFORE GOING ON THE ISLAND, you can legally park between the cars perpendically, the signs that say "NO STANDING" mean "NO PARKING" (their parking tickets arent cheap and they WILL tow your bike), bathrooms are a rarity on the Island - when you see one use it!!! Puc
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    +1 and then theres the most famous Iconic quote of em all Bongo - given to us by my hero - Red Green = "I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to,, I guess" NOT!!!! Be it ever so humble,, sure nuff sounds like home!!! Only I married this wonderful wonderful wife who spent many many years perfecting the art of couponing - that women saved us more money on clothes/food in raising these 4 youngens it is AMAZING!! Now that they are grown, she has expanded her horizons into supporting my TES (isnt that funny how TES could be an abreviation for testosterone:178:) ... She is HOOKED on Menards and their "freebie" coupon stuff.. Drill bits (my favorite - they got good drill bits and I will NEVER have to sharpen another one as long as I live), wipers, screw driver bit kits, open end wrenches, deck wash, car wash and on and on all brand new,, like owning a hardware store I tell ya - wayyyyyyyyyy cool women that Tippy is!!
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    Well put Mr. Cudaaaaa!! There is a Cycles Only campground up in Northern Mich called "Cycle-Moore".. Really really neat place to hang out and AWESOME riding area!! Anyway,, every year they have a variety of Clubs come thru - NOT JUST A HARLEY PLACE!! Was up there a couple years ago and some kind of Beemer rally was happening.. I was shocked at the number of folks who I chatted with that didnt even wince while saying couple thou to fix my ABS, couple thou to straighten out some driveshaft issues... In all fairness, lots of em hanging around with over 200k miles on em, even a couple with 300k too,,, like you said,, sweet bike but not so sure about the riding on a budget side of things - price per mile can get out of hand real quickly!! And,, that having your bike sitting in a shop over the summer would NEVER fly!!!
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    ALRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND BEST WISHES ON YOUR PROJECT MR. BUG!!!!!! I have built a number of chops thru the years,, including some pretty good sized (100 inch stuff) big torque motored bikes (LOTS OF 750 Honda's too) and have been amazingly successful at doing away with the top mounts on em. It is actually a pretty common thing to do in the custom bike world.. That said though,, none of these motors had a bevel gear that transferred all that torque into a rotational axis within the frame,, lots to think about there!! Plus,, you probably will want to tow that gorgeous trailer again too,, adding more rotational torque.. I have never had a Venture apart (one of the main reasons I LOVE em is cause I havent had to - just ride em till they drop and buy the next one) so I gotta ask a couple things Mr Bug.. Is that frame mount boss on the head or on the valve cover?? Valve cover would be an easy fix.. Can ya tell by looking at it that it is a clean break (not cracked thru)... Is the 2nd Gen frame bolted together like a 1st Gen (so the "saddle" that the motor actually sets in can be unbolted)? I would trust the stability of a non-bolted complete frame before I would a bolt together,, probably for the same reason you dont see a lot of big inch bikes with integral engines (using the engine as part of the frame).. Come to think Shuttlebug,,,, knowing you folks and how you ride - towing the xtra weight - spending all the time doing a frame up - I would fix right!!
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    Yup,, I KNEW that was coming!! Hey you guys,, just thought of something,, didnt part 2 of "Back To The Future" take place in 2015?? Maybe ol Doc Brown was onto something when he said = "Roads,, where we're going we dont need roads!!!"
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    Kinda surprised at that one... I always thought those Texas law makers got their ideas for motorcycling legislation directly from riding a horse - playing off the stuff I heard about why ya cant license a Slingshot in Texas (cause you dont straddle the saddle).. I aint never did seen no Cowboy giving someone a ride on a horse complete with two up saddle with an xtra saddle horn and an two sets of steerups... Sounds like they got some fironeers running thangs down yonder!!! Actually,, I am with Ang on the pegs (if ya have ever had to ride any distance on the back of bike with no place to put your feet -- takes some special balancing I tell ya).. The hand holds I aint so sure about either!! Remember the days of the passenger strap across the seat on the early bikes? Like trying to stay on a bucking bronco having your hands that low in the balancing act.. Was riding on the back of a buddies Honda 90 back when I was a kid,, found out that riding backwards and holding onto the tail light was wayyyy more stable than holding onto that thing!!!
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    lets see.... Smokey Mountain NP Grand Teton/Yeller Stone NP Grand Canyon NP Was gonna guess the Sturgis Rally cause it is spectacle BUT I know its replaceable cause our rallys keep getting bigger!!!!!!
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    Thoughts and PRAYERS UP for Jane and the rest of Boo's family and friends! Thanks Eck for keeping us up to speed on this!! RIP Boo!!
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    Back in the summer of 2012 we decided to head down to Florida to goof around with the Gators in the Everglades.. Thought it best to give Tweeks a shoeing before we did,, went down and picked up a couple brand new Shinko's at a local shop and spooned em on just before we left... The old school GPS we use (tossing a coin at intersections) led us south by way of a place called Johnson City Tennessee.. Heading north of Johnson City on one of them VERY HOT ick-spressways (it was a balmy 105 degrees in the shade that day),, Tippy was pointing out the gorgeous mountain views , Tweeks was lappin up miles like a kid eatin a melting ice cream cone and me all stretched out in my longg distance riding mode when all of a sudden I heard a pop and felt "THE" wiggle.. Leaned back and told Tip to sit still cause we had a flat tire on the back and things were gonna get a little dicey.. Riding down a flat on a fully loaded, 2 up touring bike can be exciting!! Thankfully the hardest part always seems to happen at and below 20 mph which gives you plenty of time to let people around you know you might be using both lanes (this is where those ick-spressways are actually kinda nice)... We successfully landed Tweeks in an upright mode and didnt even have to use the highway weeds to do it - she lit perfectly on the shoulder!!! Just about the time I got the gear off her and her backside up in the air a gentleman in a pickup truck stopped to see if he could help.. He offered to run us back to a place called "Jims" in Johnson City to get a new tire.. Of course, being smart and not wanting to walk the 20 miles or so back I took him up on it.. As I was spinning the rear wheel getting ready to pull the axle, he stopped me and said "you got way more wrong than a flat - sounds like you got a drive shaft problem" - to which I replied - "I hear that clunk clunk too but I gotta tell ya - that is not a drive shaft noise - whatever made that 1/2 inch hole in the tire is rolling around inside of it".. He said - NO WAY!! I said,, I know - I been riding many many years, have had my share of flats and stopped to help lots of folks with flats and aint never seen nothing like this either!!! I told him I couldnt wait to see what was inside!! The folks at Jims treated us like royality,, moved us right to the front of the line (good bike shops do this when dealing with stranded bikers) gave me a super deal on a new tire and allowed me to stand there and watch as the tire guy opened her up!!! The piece of steel inside measured 3/8x1/2x1-1/4 and I still have no idea how it managed to go right thru a brand new tire!!
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    Man oh man brother,, I walked right by past the PERFECT Sport/Touring bike today Mike and even snapped a pic!!! 2 up, 1 up, twisty carving - Bonneville Speedyway smokin machine I tell ya!!! Never owned an FJR but they sure look worthy - THEY AREGORGEOUS!! I have also wondered about Kawi's Busa motored sport tourer,, looks down right fun!! On another hand,, I have DREAMS of tossing a set of saddle bags, small wind shield, set of longer bars (so I could lean back a little) on a new V-Max and head for the open desert country!!! Best wishes on what ever you end up with!!
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    This brings me to a very important question,,, how come when I click on the button that says "thank for this post" and than I see "Cowpuc Thanked for this post", it doesnt say "Cowpuc unthanked for this post" when I click on "unthank" after I have clicked on "thank for this post"... My puter is not working right,, heck of way to start off the new year!!!
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    PRAYERS UP = BLESSINGS DOWN!!! WOW Dan!! A HUGE part of me is jumping up and down screaming - YES,, THANK GOD THEY FIGURED YOURS OUT!! Other side of me is saying,, OH NO - THERE GOES THE FRIED CHICKEN AND ICE CREAM!!! Really really glad to hear they are onto something Bro!!! Believe me, I KNOW the frustrations all to well of getting a handle on this stuff - that old saying of "getting there is half the fun" does not apply to health matters!!
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    HAPPY NEW YEARS BACK AT CHA RAGGY!!! You elbows go rippen today PLEASE dont forget the Buzz over to Larrys and get some pics of him flying by ya's in his new Asphalt Slinger will ya!!!!!!
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    Right back at cha Bongo - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 4 minutes Fool,, just 4 more minutes,,,,,,,,, make it 3 Hopefully that Wisconsin White Wash Machine has "Planned Obsolesence" for 2015!!!!!!! Waiting here,, 10 - 9
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    Learn something new everyday!! Way cool Tom - THANKS for info!! Now we need a clever way for breaking the bead on a flat tire while on the road!!
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    :sign green with env:sign green with env:sign green with env:sign outstanding::sign Rock On: CONGRATS RBIG TO YOU AND ALL YOUR FAMILY - THAT IS SOOOO AWESOME!!!! NOTICE I DIDNT CLICK THE "THIS THREAD IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT PICS" THINGY CAUSE IT DOESNT FIT WELL WHEN IT COMES TO OUR GRANDKIDS - BUT,,,,,,, YA NOW OWE US SOME 'S OF THE LITTLE DOLL BIG TIME!!!!! BLESSINGS DOWN BRO!! PUC
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    Well,,, so much for the Mods being able to contain this place for a week so the Boss can get some rest:rotfl:!!!! What the heck,,,, may as well join da party.. How many of you remember listening to those Cheech n Chong records when we was youngens? Remember the one "able baker charlie to roger is a dog, do you read me over",,,, to which came the reply "someone's talkin pretty bad bout Roger man" ????? That said,,, like Prairie I click on the link to Don's step by step instructions for resizing,, read thru his posting until I came to "You will never find any easier way than this. Even a caveman could do it"... I about spit Pepsi all over my keyboard as the thought of "someones talkin pretty bad bout man" ripped thru my intellect!!! Dont sweat it Caveman,,, the Pucsters got chur back bro:Cartoon_397:
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    jam pile on freebird!!!!!!!!! its meetin n greetin time!!! glad you two are having a good one chief - sounds like da fool got the snopercharger fired up just in time!!! Rip up some trails for us up there, ya hear!!
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    Brother I dont know,,,, judging from the on the face of that pretty little lady in your avatar - it sure dont look like she is nun too unhappy... I gotta hunch we oughta take us a little VR poll right here,, right now, and lets us find out what the rest of our good friends think about this here question.... Might be surprised but givin this is spose to be a motorcycling family,,, I spect I know what the outcome will be... OK GANG,, WHAT'LL BE??? CARL THE AND HIS NEED FOR SOME PAY OR THE REST OF US BUMS WITH A DEEP NEED FOR PLAY
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