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Oh yea,, by the way,, you know this thread is worthless without pics dont you??
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Congrats Bro - those Ultras are a gorgeous piece of motorcycling history for sure!! If I could afford one I would be right beside you,, welllllll,, maybe not,,, I think I would opt for an old Duo GLide myself but hey, doesnt make any difference cause ol 'Puc aint got the xtra 28k around anyway... Now after the daughter gets done with Med School,, hmmmmm,, maybe... BE CAREFUL OUT THERE - you are at the most dangerous time of any new bike owner!!! As hard as it is DONT give in to riding it in the snow - these great big heavy two wheelers dont even flinch before your on your face!!!
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Tex,, them aint chops bro,, here is a shot of an old schooler that sold/hauled to fargo and another of my Santee Honda.. Now THOSE are choppers!! Regardless though,, I too would LOVE to add those three scoots in the article to my addiction.... 'Puc
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I just buy the cheapest two man tent I can find, the one I have now is about 4 years old and I have never set it up.. I usually just crawl inside of it in its collapesed state and go to sleep.. If its real rainy I will roll it around my sleeping back so the bottom of the tent keeps the rain off.. Also,, I have had several tents wrecked from camp fires, lost two from being blown off the rim of the grand canyon, had one stolen off the back of my bike so I dont buy expensive ones anymore... Besides,, your not suppose to make a home out of your tent,, thats what the highway if for.. Mine is the house you see first,, my cousin in the background with his is a perfect example of an unseasoned rider.. This is only his second 6 week cross country trip with me so he hasnt quite got it figured out yet.. Anyway,, you get the point.. 'Puc
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Wellllllll,,,, probably not exactly what you had in mind but here ya go anyway.. My wife hasnt been snowmobiling with me for years.. I purchase a "new" 2 up sled, rear handwarmers, back rest, feet rests, e-start, reverse, the works... We go out and have a blast.. Next evening I am out playing on it without her.. There is a small section of dirt road near our home that has about a 10 foot rise in it that,, back when I owned my race sled, I used to acutually get air off of.. About 11:30 at night, on this little 500 two up classic and I think to myself "wonder if this little sucker will go airborn".. About a 1/8th mile run is all you can get at it,, I nail it and go off the top - no air but a small wheelie - not bad I think - bout the time I have the words "not bad" in my mine I catch this movement coming down from the sky,, this Deer lands right on top of the front of my sled while I am doing a good 70 miles an hour off the back of this hill!!! I had NO TIME to react at all - all I had time for was a quick tilt sideways of my head - I felt it hit my helmet as it went over the sled.. The sled instantly died and started sliding all over the roadway - I kept it in the road and up right.. When I got it stopped, standing there in the dark I pulled it a few times to try and start it - the deer hit with such force that it literally bent the plugs over!!! I fumbled around and found one xtra plug in my pocket - put it in and rode the sled home on one plug with no lights.. When I got to the garage I discovered that the Hood had EXPLODED on impact, plugs bent over, windshield - mirrors GONE and then I noticed the rear backrest where my darling wife had been sitting the night before!! OH MY GOSH - that frickin thing had DESTROYED that backrest - bent it up like a pretzle - if my wife would have been back there she would have caught the full force of the deer in her lap and upper torso!!!! Guess you know old 'Puc was thanking God that Cheryl had stayed home!!!! Anyway,, here are the pics...
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Hey Blues,, THAT is way cool.. Honestly I like it.. Only thing I dont understand is the price.. Are the houses putting the squeeze on the little guy 50,000,000.00 dollar homes and up? Is there something besides location that is giving the market agency some idea that the little guy is worth that - like,, ummmmm,, at one time Queen Elizebeth lived there...
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Popeye: I do a ton of business on Ebay - mostly selling bikes I have built.. I have run into your exact situation many times.. I have a "pay one price - talk all you want" telephone service and incorporate the telephone with all my sales for 99% of the commucations - just hearing the voice of an honest seller tempers a lot of problems.. Also,, you can take pictures of your bike with closeups of ID numbers or any other ID items and send them to him. Then have a child (I used to use my kids all the time) get on the phone with him and let him direct the child to any place on the bike and have them read/describe what they are looking at.. Another way is to have a local bike shop who's name is in the yellow pages of the local phone directory do the same thing.. This really works well if you happen to know the bike shop owner so they can also vouch for you - I have also done this several times. Yes there are a LOT of scammers on Ebay, and the internet in general, BUT there are also a LOT of really great folks out there - I have done business with and met some of the greatest folks on the planet thru my business dealings with Ebay.. Personally,, I have had wayyyyyyy less issue with the people buying/selling on Ebay then I have with Ebay itself.. Their lazy idiotiotic way of handling scammers and mishandling of people who are just trying to use their auction services as a business tool is atrocious,, the owners are filthy rich and they could care less about their customers -- but that is a different subject...... 'Puc
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Man I hear ya bro,, I am soooooooooooooooooooooo glad I got my snowmobile ready when I did cause IT IS TIME to ride!!!!! Bikes are all put away for the winter and I already have over 300 miles on my sled.. LET ER RIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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83 Venture overheating Help
cowpuc replied to a topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
I have yet to get to this point on one of my Ventures but here is a whole new thought.. On lots of other watercooled stuff I have worked on there are air bleeder locations - located in areas that cant purge themselves.. If these areas are not purged they will create hot spots and do exactly what you are describing.. I do not know if our bikes have an air bleed to get fluid into areas like this BUT it would be something I would look into if I were in your shoes.. Also,, if your carbs were not torn down and the jets physcially cleaned with a jet wire - not just sprayed off with carb cleaner - there is a good chance you are running lean - this WILL make an engine run REAL hot!! Also,, any air/vacumm leaks can also do this.. -
Indeed,, this place is a true haven of rest.. Being a motor head at heart and self employed at it, I frequent MANY sites,, everything from bikes/quads/sleds and buggies.. It always amazes me how ungrateful and down right mean folks can be toward one another - hiding behind a 'puter screen seems to breed it... Then when you find a home like the one that Don has worked so hard to develop you really appreciate it.. Got something going here that is worth maintaining and I support you 100 percent in your endeavor to do so Don!! Just so you know,, I have personally been very selective about who I tell about this site.. Just not the kind of site that everyone needs to even know about - kind of a secret little hide away of my own.. You folks are the greatest and THAT needs to stay that way!! Scott
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Personally I like to toss on the bag and tent, a change of clothes, hang a milk jug full of water and a bag of apples on the antenna, crank up Willie on the cassette, sleep on the side of the road in ditches,, behind barns, on the prairie and see the country during daylight hours - sun up till sun down.. 16 hour days with 700 miles plus in the saddle is about right... 'Puc
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My nephew bought a new Stratoliner "S" this spring.. What a GORGEOUS piece of work that baby is.. Personalizing it with additional chrome add ons he spent over 18 grand on it... He didnt even have 1000 miles on it and some low life stomped down on his rear fender and did a bunch of damage to it... Personally,, I chalked his bad experience up to pure jealously - sure makes you wonder though... Yesterday I have my ol 83 out playing in the cold.. Tossed on the leather sled suit and took a refreshing ride at 20 degrees... Only stop I made was at a local store for a few minutes,, I parked up next to the building in the motorcycle area.. I get home and discover that someone had kicked the left side bag guard hard enough that it had broken the mount for my backrest off the guard and bent the guard back and down against the bag.. Our local area has been experiencing a lot of this kind of stuff.. All the powers that be blame it on our Michigan economic situation, home forclosures, bored kids/adults,,, whateverr... As I worked in my garage earlier straightening out the mess the thought went through my mind of just how far we have fallen - I mean, come on folks,,,,,, jealousy over a 24 year old bike that was one of the most unwanted,, overlooked,, unpurchased scoots of its time???? Wont be long and the jerks around here will be willing to risk 15 years for Grand Theft for a stupid Chinese Moped.... On the same note,,,,,, I WOULD LOVE TO CATCH EM JUST ONE TIME!!!! Sorry,, had to fume... 'Puc
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Wellllll,, I remember last year at Sturgis,, I came into the backside of town on opening weekend surrounded by about 20000 harleys.. We were only doing about 1/2 MPH and one by one all the bikes in front of me were moving toward the center line or the side of the road like there was a skunk in the road.. As usual when riding at a crawl,, instead of dragging my feet I was standing on my pegs riding my fully loaded 1st gen like a trials bike.. Because of this, I got a good view of what was ahead early enough to plan for it.. It was a spot of oil about 2 feet in diameter.. I motioned to the riders behind me to move over and then I rode thru it and stopped with my back tire in the middle of it.. I got down off my pegs, tapped the front brake a little and LIT HER UP.. Sat there for what seemed like 20 minutes with this HUGE ball of smoke rolling around me.. Bystanders were cheering and Harley riders were glapping like crazy.. I am sure it was a sight to behold to see a completely loaded down 1983 Yammie lighting it up and smoking it down... Anyway,, sorry gang but its a flaw in my charector since childhood,, I will be keeping her lit as long as I am able....... Now if your talking tobbacco,,, nawwwwwww,, got to much to live for.. 'Puc
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Pretty neat,,, only it wont work anywhere that gets accumulated snow - that steerwheel located on the snow/ice between the tracks of a normal car WILL be one squirrely son of puppy....
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Man if you aint speaking the truth!!!! I just responded to a thread from randya about this exact nonsense.. I bought some spyware software from Best Buy a few months ago and that stuff is AWESOME - 10 bucks, I run it every few days and there have only been a few times that it hasnt found something.. A system restore is easy to do BUT it doesnt always take out the bug - usually it will but not always. On my email I just start at the bottum of list and hit delete until I get to mail from someone I know.. I bother even opening mail if it aint from someone I want to hear from... I agree about the rotten suckers who write this crap.. Like to shove one of their worms.................... 'Puc
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randy those things drive me bonkers too!! I went to Best Buy not to long ago and purchased some software called Spy Sweeper - best 10 bucks I have ever spent!! How long since you backed up your pictures/data you dont want to loose? Get that stuff stored on disks,,, aint nothing worse then tieing into bugs that eventually cost you your important info... That said,, have you done a "system restore" yet? Just choose a date in the past when your machine wasnt having the problem and it may help.. To find system restore - click on the start button, all programs, accessories, system tools and system restore. choose to restore to earlier date - choose the date from the calendar.. Some of this crap will follow you but some dont.. Also,, how long since you have done a disk defrag?? Aint this fun,,, and they told us computers were going to simplify our lives,, at least we are all in it together... 'Puc
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I gave away two of those upright kerosene heaters a few years ago and bought a 170000 BTU Ready heater.. I kept getting headaches from the fumes/loss of oxygen from the uprights and they just couldnt keep up with having a door or window open in the garage during the winter time. The torpedo heater I now us is one of the multifuel models - I burn Kerosene thru it - open a garage door and place the bottom of the door just over the top of the blower body on the heater sothe heater is pulling in fresh air to burn.. I use a thermostat on the plug for the unit to control it - it takes under 10 minutes of run time for the Heater to warm my 24x30 uninsulated garage from 0 degrees to 60 degrees and then it shuts off.. It will kick on about every 45 minutes or less if I close the garage door... I have used this heater like this for years now and I work all winter everday in my garage building bikes.. NEVER a burning eyes or headaches anymore... Having the unit on a thermostat also save LOTS of cash on fuel and its VERY easy to do! Whatever you get, I STRONGLY encourage you to maintain fresh air in as long as your using a non vented unit.. we just had a death up here about 200 yards from my propery from a deer hunter getting put to sleep by a ventless.. It just aint worth getting killed over... 'Puc
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I have rode thousands of miles with V-twins beside me.. sometimes I really like that rumble so I will ride on the right side of the twin and lean down so I can get an ear full.. Sometimes I like to be by myself so I just twist the happy grip on my venture and leave the pack behind me until I want more,, then I might pull over and take a break eating a granola bar while I wait for the other bikes to catch up...... Thats what makes riding this big ol yammie soooooooooo much fun,, I get to decide where I ride hahaha 'Puc
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Good Grief I Miss Summer
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Good post Rick... Got tell you guys something.. My 78 shovel absoulutly LOVED the desert heat.. I spent several months (over 4 summers) out in the Arizona - Utah - Montana deserts ghost towning during the years that I owned it and it NEVER failed me.. It was actually kinda funny cause the motor would get real loose and kinda sound like my grammas old wringer wash machine -- just running free as could be... Gosh those were fun days.. Of course hittin it on the Venture is just as much fun BUT that dont discount the ball I had riding HD during those years.. The ONLY issue I ever had with HD was the cost of repair parts,, even cables were 4 times the price back then.. Now adays it seems like our Jap parts have caught up with that issue though (unless you use e-bay used parts - GREAT DEALS).. That issue is something I will never understand BUT apparently lots of other bikers didnt care - HD has a HUGE yuppy following nowadays that spend zillions of dollars on thier bikes... Personally, I havent met a scoot I didnt like.... 'Puc
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E,, I owned a 1978 1/2 (Harley switched to CDI half way thru 78 is why its called that) Lowrider that I put THOUSANDS of miles on.. I rode that puppy from Michigan all over the west coast and up into Idaho.. It was one of the funnest bikes I ever owned.. Sold it in 84 to build a house to raise my kids in,, I actually made money on the bike in resale... Her name (the bikes) was Hoglia and she was my best friend back then.... I only say the above because the bike you are showing reminds me a LOT of my Lowrider,, cept mine was silver.. That pic brings back some REAL fabulous memories of some serious road time.. Is that model an "FX"?? Nice scoot!!! 'Puc
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I have bought several new bikes from East Side thru the years.. Always a good dealership to deal with.. I say that strickly from a purchasing standpoint though.. 'Puc
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that an easy one,, huntsvillebill or in license plate lingo - hnsvilbil
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Older,, I dont know what your using for a browser but you might try downloading Firefox.. I have dial up only out here in the sticks and have Netscape (a lot like AOL) for a browser. MANY times I have to switch over to Firefox browser (its a free download) to get things to work.. I do a lot of business on E-Bay and cannot even operate in thier environment with Netscape.. Just a thought... If you want to try it let me know and I will get a link for you - or you can google em.. 'Puc
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EXCELLENT JOB JESSIE and congratulations!! Secret to hunting,,, when the weather gets nasty the hunting gets better.. and now a word of caution to any would be bad guys out there that even remotely think that our fellow country women are easy targets,,,,, THAT AINT SHOOTING - THATS KILLIN.. 'Puc