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Reading the ad and wondering if the engine Bongo sent out to be built by PCW (not 100% sure if that is the right company?) was ever received by Bob (he waited patiently for a long time for this) and if so, is that engine included in the sale of Blondie? I know Bob was wanting to have a "build party" in the near future and was very excited about finally gettin er done. If that engine is included,,, perspective purchasers of Blondie may want to consider it as a HUGE plus in the value of the package. If memory serves me correctly,, I believe Bob told me the task before PCW was farrr greater than a refresh.. It seems he mentioned a bunch of high end performance "build" stuff going on there = V-Max components.. Sure miss my friend,, still praying for you and your family Becky!! Thanks for helping Becky out with all this Carl! Puc

I KNOW this avenue has got to be difficult Carl. Just wanted to jump in and say THANK YOU for doing this for Becky,, YOU are greatly appreciated my brother!!

Bill,, similar to many other scoots I have seen, it looks to me like the rear brake line has a protective sleeve that it rides in. Is the suspicion of the line you are questioning a result of seeing that sleeve protruding where the bango connects to the rubber section of the line itself? I have never worked on a 96,, do they have linked brakes? If so, you might want to take a look at the neck of the bike and see if there is a bleeder up there. That high point in the system has caused more than one person issues as any air in the system tends to eventually gather there. Prior to a total bleed/fluid replacement/piston cleaning/rotor cleaning/pad swap you may want to try a quick bleed from that spot just to see if your brakes respond. IMHO of course... Best of luck! Puc P.S. - never did hear of a "dumb brake question".. Take that back,,, the only dumb brake question I ever heard of was the one that didnt get asked resulting in an accident that could of been avoided,, now THAT would be dumb!

Still on the list!! Prayers Up for my brother during his time of need!!

He should of,,, as far as any and all of the lop eared VR varmints who call the club home,, he has been around longer than anyone on the site:big-grin-emoticon::crackup:

22 minutes in,,, "they think its a HD, but actually its a Touring Bike with Mini-Van engine in it,,,,,,, IT RIP'SSSS" :dancefool::clap2::clap2::thumbsup:!! Touring all over the U.K. on a seemingly endless adVenture with your very best friend sharing the full experience aboard the worlds 2nd best Touring bike ever made (sorry Roadship,, this ol lop eared CTFW varmint is pretty much stuck on the 1st Gens being number one:missingtooth:) = WOWZY WOW WOW WOW:scared:!!! DEFINITELY a series I will be watching and subscribing too!! If you see "Puc Puc" as one of your UTube subscribers,,, please dont delete him = he is me:missingtooth:!! You two have a GREAT time out there in your CTFW adVenture.. May the road before you be one filled with endless joy and may that special bonding that can take place between two best friends out sharing the open road belong to the two of you to keep forever in your hearts!! GOOD STUFF!! Puc P.S. = THANK YOU for allowing us to be part of your lives on the open road!!

My cousin Steve posted the following picture on Facebook today (love ya Cuz!! ) and it REALLY spoke of days past to me.. More to the point was my response to his FB post which reads: ''''Steve Hackney,, Mike Homan and I did a speech one time in a high school class about how we survived in the outdoors with our Rifles to provide for us - had all our gear with us for show including the .22 shooters. Some of the girls in the class left the room as I removed the breast and legs from the Blue Jay we had taken out that morning. Mike borrowed some Crisco from his mom's cupboard and we used Streno Heat instead of a camp fire to heat the grease in the classroom. We finished cooking, passed the freshly cooked meat around, numerous classmates actually ate the BlueJay meat LOL.. Got an "A" on that speech (one of the few A's I got in High School not including my shop classes LOL.. Thinking you may have been in that classroom? GREAT TIMES those days when parents and communities actually supported our 2nd Amendment freedoms and taught responsible gun ownership!'''

Fred - rest in peace and Godspeed our friend and brother of the road! You are/will be sorely missed! Thank you for all you did for the betterment of the lifestyle so many of us have shared in. Your willingness to share in both friendship and knowledge will continue thru time in memorial to your kindness. Prayers Up for your family and friends as they work thru the grieving process of losing one so dear. Thanks Boss for sharing this disheartening but much needed to be shared news - you got a tough job Don but we in the club GREATLY appreciate your sincere love for each of us! Puc

May not have to brother!! I was chatting with a guy out at Sturgis who was riding a new "left over" SVTC that he swore he paid 17k out the door for.. IF what he was saying is true and with the "19" ride season coming to an end,, it would not be to unreasonable to think 15 to 16K cash and no trade-in would buy one IMHO..

I used (and still would) T4 15/40 for years around home in the cooler air and was good with it till I started on the much cheaper and even more important to me, way easier to find Walmart Super Tech oils that I could easily find while out CTFW = anywhere there was a Walmart = bingo = Super Tech + their tire/lube shop's drain pan + paper funnels + getting rid of the used oil while on the road = Tweeks/Tip and Puc the happy campers. Then Wally World stopped handling my favorite oil and I swapped out to Dollar General 20/50 diesel. GOOD STUFF (IMHO), especially for running in high desert region temps. I personally like to run the lower weight 15/40 in tempts below 80 degrees but once we get into summer tempts, I swear I can "feel" notchiness return in the shifting and the engine runs a little noisier. All my 1st Gens respond(ed) well to 20/50 above 80 degrees, got full high mileage out of them before retiring em, never had a top end apart (or bottom for that matter). I always do/did swap out my oils when they turned dirty in the window as apposed to a regular schedule though. This usually meant somewhere between 25 and 3500 miles unless we had been running a lot of dirt,,, I actually did do a change once after only 1000 miles but that was due to a LOT of playing in the mountains of Utah on the single and two tracks.. Trooper, our new car, is the first vehicle we have owned that "spected" full synthetic. Been getting Troops oil at Menards, Quaker State 0-20 Full Syn is what the "book" actually recommends and ironically = Menards has it on sale after rebate (Tip and I are avid Rebate daters LOL) for 3 bucks a quart (good deal,, I have seen it elsewhere for 9 bucks). The book is 7500 miles between changes,,, I started out with Trooper at new @ 3500 miles - increased to 5000 back at 20k and kept noticing the oil was almost still "as new" (especially in body/viscosity) so have since gone full book to 7500 mile intervals.. This last oil change that was swapped in when we left for the Texas/New Mexico/Mexico border and then to the West Coast and then to the Northern U.S. Border was just under 8k miles and miles at a fair amount of triple digit desert ripping... Amazing oil!! Was almost as clean as the 5k was and absolutely NO CHANGE in body/viscosity = SHOCKING and very impressive.. Trooper is Dual Clutch trannied BUT - his clutches are dry clutches so I would DEFINITLY still be leary of using full syn in my bike.

:sign yeah that: Prayers Up continually!!!

We been stuck here at home for a tad,,,, cutting weeds, resealing the deck, washing the back of the house and all that fun stuff.. Did get bored and me and Tip "rode" Trooper up to the Mackinaw Bridge for an overnight excursion a couple nights ago.. Got a week of watching the Grandson in Michigan coming up and then it's fly the coop time... Aint had much of chance to do much predatorizing,, matter of fact,, been far to long since I even shot a shooter.. Now ya got my trigger finger itchin,, may have to sneak away from that slave driv,, wonderful bride of mine and touch off a few rounds.. If it happens I will make a video of proof just for you brother!! How bout yourself... Still chasing ol' Wiley T Coyote down yonder or did cha get em all? Hope and pray all is well health, weather and ridin with you and yours brother!!! ,, we hi-jacked ol Fozzy Bears thread

Who's we? Got a mouse in your pocket SLYvester???

NICE,,, REALLY NICE Lewis!! What would be xtra nice and special would be if some lop eared freedom riding varmint who was part of that series of romping riding down the Cherahola would put names with the pics so I had a clue of who was who would share that info with us, the unknowing

I am not positive on that one Radar,, all 6 of the MK1 Ventures I took out to retirement were 83's except one of them which was an 84. That was a Royale and it did have the "updated" aluminum impellar in it already but not sure if it came OEM like that. It did only have 24k miles on it when I aquired it out of an estate sale (PO had passed away). It did NOT have the updated stator in it though but it did already have the aluminum impellar so it is possible that the plastic impellar only effected the 83's..

I've owned a few of the 83's and put a few miles on em and all mine have liked to hang out at about 1 needles worth of distance from the red zone when up to operating tempt.. I know it seems illogical for Mom Yam to have engineered such a close tolerance to overheat according to the gauge but that is where mine always ran their best and ran the coolest. That said, I will also tell ya that I also discovered plastic water pump impellars in those early scoots that were pretty much gone and were only operating at about 20% of intended water movement.. Upgrading to the later year models aluminum water pump impellar did an amazing job of bringing the water pump efficiency back up to par, providing for a much cooler/normal cool operating bike engine even in the hottest of desert tempts and stationary scenario's like road construction zones where ya gotta "creep" for miles and miles in tempts over 100 degrees... Checking the pump for the upgrade would be first on my list if I didnt know for sure which impellar it has in it and I was headed west for a month of summer fun out CTFW... Puc

100% totally awesome brother!!! Soooo much to see/do/smell/taste and experience out in that area,,, endless amazement and you lucky lop eared CTFW varmint are right in the heart of it all = GOOD ON YA!! If your CTFW finds you back in the Wall Drug/Badlands direction and you have time and happened to have missed em,,, take a second and pull off at exit 116 going east on 90 just past Wall S.D. (Wall Drug tourist trap),, hook a right at the bottom of the ramp and follow the gravel road (in GREAT shape = we recently camped on the praire there) back to the Minute Man Missle Silo. Includes a REAL Minute Man Ballistic Missle still in the silo.. Pipestone Minnisota is another life changer if ya have time,, not far North of 90 just inside the Minnisota line.. Native Americans have been coming to this spot to dig up pipe stone to make peace pipes - both FACINATING places if your into U.S. history stuff!! GREAT to hear all is well! ENJOY my friend!! Puc

OUTSTANDING RYDER!!!! Glad to hear you got er done and are out CTFW!! Where ya at and how's the weather, roads, people, sites and sounds? ,,, ,,easier to answer with a few pic's Ride safe brother and have fun!! Puc

While CTFW in the HOV along the top of the "99" out in California - Tip, Tweeks and I came upon a slow cager using the HOV,,, swung out to pass em and catch back up to the normal flow of life in the fast lane.. When passing the cage now on our left side, I looked over and noticed the driver of the cage in the HOV had his arm around one of those blow up dolls (yes,, she was clothed = the driver AND the blow up doll ya bunch of lop eared perverted varmints)... I bumped Tip and said = "HOV sign says 2 or more,,, guess the guy passes the test but I wonder if the two of them were speeding,, which one would get the ticket :happy65:".. Life on the road,, gotta LOVE IT!!

yeah,, I was having a rough day and needed to post a bike up to cheer up my itchy bike buying finger... Couldn't find a decent 1st Gen to really bring on a good case of the 's so I defaulted to a second best 2nd Gen Sorry for causing the burning of the eyes brother Here's a rainy day vid of fun chasing away the rain to get us back on track!!

The black plastic titted spacer is OEM,,, Mom Yam's bold attempt at making the metering rod depth of engagement non adjustable. To fine tune by fattening up or leaning em down at the main jet can be accomplished by adding/subtracting nylon washers for metering rod height.. I do mine with washers from Ace Hardware but I do know that we have a member that sells "kits" for doing exactly that.. Skydoc is his name and he is a guru when it comes to this stuff. BTW,, it only takes a pin hole or a faulty seal with a tiny leak to suck in enough fresh air and cause a lot of backfiring.. Those pin hole(s) can be small enough that they will go undetected as far as actual noise being emitted from them,,, dont take much of a leak to allow air in and BINGO = backfire!!

I can always tell if Tweeks has a pin hole or a bad seal on her pipes as she will start backfiring at the first sign of fresh air being sucked into the exhausts.. Not that aftermarket pipes arent completely capable of being a good system as far as controlling such non-sense but a lot of times their "fit" isnt quite up to par with OEM - I think I would be looking at those first..

My very favorite part is right at the end where one of my hero's on the Wing roost's the guy on the dirt bike who is trying to keep up with him to catch it all on video :guitarist 2:... Closely followed in second place IMHO is the dirt bike (looks like an old twin shock Yamaha YZ?) on the trailer over the whoops :crackup::crackup:behind the Wing :crackup:!!!!!!!! EXCELLENT FIND RADAR = THANKS FOR POSTING THIS = YOU MADE MY DAY!!!!! Side note = now if anyone from this day forward asked why I keep saying that I gotta have mid-ship controls and LOVE the control they offer I will just refer them to this video,, just tell them to watch this and imagine trying it on a scoot with no mid-ships!!!!!!:guitarist 2::guitarist 2::guitarist 2:

https://grandrapids.craigslist.org/mcy/d/greenville-2007-yamaha-venture-royal/6960615425.html

You are welcome brother,, anytime!