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I've had a similar situation. My relatives have mostly lived in a small town all of their lives and since I live 160 miles away, they think that I am too far away to be interested in coming to the funeral or wedding of a relative. I usually find out about their demise after the funeral. I suppose it has saved me a fortune in flowers over the years but it has bugged me a little. I think that is modern day life though. We move away and live our own independent lives and rarely see relatives. It's good and bad I suppose. Perhaps Facebook is the answer to keeping in touch with relatives. Maybe I'll break down and get an acount. Maybe? My excuse in the past is that I didn't want my old girl friends looking me up since I was divorced for 15 yrs between marriages. There was a reason I stopped dating them. But enough time has passed that it shouldn't be a problem.

I'm afraid of EZ outs. I've broken off more than one in the drilled out bolt hole and then was stuck. I think I would drill it with a larger and larger bit until I had drilled out most of it and then use penetrating oil and then the EZ out. By then the threads should be loose.

I just measured my 89 and I measured 21" of windshield. Wind buffeting also has a lot to do with how far your head is from the windshield. If you look at a Goldwing, I think the windshield is sloped back at a grearter angle than the Venture with the riders head closer to the shield. I previously owned a 1983 Yamaha Virago 750 and I put a National Cycle Plexifairing 3 windshield on it. The wind buffeting around my helmet was awful. I currently own a 1985 Kawasaki ZN700 that has a shorter frame and I'm sitting more forward. I installed a National Cycle Plexifairing 3 on it and my head is close enough to the windshield that I don't get buffeting around my helmet.

I thought about this thread today when my wife and I drove out on Ft. Fisher beach and splashed around in the still warm ocean and surf fished. It was around 80 degrees ambient. There is a hurricane acoming though.

Wow! I'm impressed that a liberal state like NY is doing such a thing.

I like the "optimized performance curve".

I was in Sam's Club today and they have more of the Go Pro Hero 4 Black cameras in stock but now they are $379. The Monster brand I was asking about is $119.

Maybe a 2% back on everything card from citi bank. Get 1% back when you purchase and 1% back when you pay it off. I used to be a cash only type person but what the hay, we are paying extra to the merchants for the cc fee so why not get some of it back.

I think 2014 is the only year too since that is all I've seen advertised and there are lots of new ones available. The cheapest one on craigslist new is $9,995 in my area. It went over about the same as the Pacific Coast model way back when if you remember that one. The PC would probably sell well today but we weren't ready for that style back then.

My boat is used infrequently so I disconnect the battery when I park it in the back yard. I hook up a charger just before using it to make sure it's charged. I also disconnect my riding lawn mower battery. Previous mowers would discharge the battery quickly just sitting so I don't want to take the chance. I will hook up a charger on the motorcycles if they sit for a while but usually not.

I saw a Jay Leno's garage show recently. It may have been linked on this forum. I forget. Anyhow, they were saying that AGM batteries needed a special charger, not the normal one everyone sells. Had to do with the charging voltage or something. That's about all I remember about it.

It's a very interesting area, Williamsburg, Yorktown. And there are many other historical things of interest in the area. My wife wanted to go for a time share presentation maybe 10 years ago. We got a free night. I admit I was tempted to buy one. I forgot what price they started at maybe $11k but after saying no a few times they came down to about $2500 when I got tempted. But I still couldn't do it. I had been to a few time share presentations many years ago with wife #1 , but wife #2 , the Ruskie, wanted to go to see what they were about. We also went to one in Vegas on the strip. They started at $44k and came down to $11k. I wasn't tempted there. But we got some free Cirque de Soliel tickets out of the deal, the oldest one. It is still a great show.

Yeah, Honda turned the ST1300 sport tourer into a cruiser. I might be interested if it didn't look so weird. It isn't selling so you can get a great deal on one. I saw a new one advertised for $8,995 on craigslist. Most of them are higher though.

Not sure what the point of building it is, but it is different.

During the recession of 08, a coworker was joking about what if the USA collapsed. He was a bonafide gun nut/gun dealer and his solution was that since we have lots of guns and the Canadians don't, we could just got to Canada and pick out a house we like and take it! Ha! Joking of course! Nah, you need a 4x4 truck to skedaddle in which I have, sleep in the back under the camper shell. I also have my 85 air cooled shaft drive ZN700 Kawasaki, 498lbs dry, 74hp. that will easily top a hundred.

I worked as a temporary engineering contractor away from home most of the time for almost 2 decades. The idea of using a motorhome or TT on my jobs was always something that appealed to me especially since finding an apt. to rent was always a pita. However, every time I got tempted I would start looking at the reality of using a motorhome or TT and it just didn't compute. For one thing, I could rent an apt. at most job locations as cheaply as the cost of a campground lot. And another reason was that a lot of my jobs were in the frozen north and most campgrounds closed in the winter, not to mention the problems the cold weather could cause freezing pipes and challenging the heating system of the unit. I worked at the Crystal River Nuclear Plant in FL for a year or so in 2008. I rented a nice home with a pool for about $1100/month because my family went with me. A coworker was living in his $240,000 Motorhome. I computed that with depreciation and lot rent he was paying about $3,000/month for a place to stay. I know using a motorhome as a retirement home is different situation entirely but the costs can get out of hand quickly.

In Canada, the second home interest deduction may be different from the USA. Don't know about that.

Based on what I've read, the LT does have the longitudinal flat mounted motor and dry clutch. The K1200GT had the same until 2006 when they went to a transverse mounted four with a wet clutch. They stayed with that configuration with the K1300GT.

I've been reading a lot about the K1200 GT and K1300GT. I like most of the things I've read about them, ~29 degrees of rake would be good for the highway (same as the 1st Gen), upright riding position, comfort, lots of extras like heated seat and grips, cruise, good wind protection. What I don't like is reading about the frequent failures of the ABS and the extreme cost of replacing it. ($3k to $4k). I did see some youtube videos showing how to remove it completely and go back to regular brakes. But ABS could save your butt in the rain or other slippery surfaces. In these bikes from 2006 up BMW went to a transverse engine and a wet clutch like the Japanese bikes instead of the longitudinal laid flat engine with a dry clutch.

Two turns out is what is recommended in the Yamaha video as a starting point.

Soooo, what did you have to buy for the wife?

These need to be done concurrently, meaning that after you adjust the mixture, you need to recheck the sync.

You sure it isn't the clutch slave cylinder leaking brake fluid?

The torque is a consideration too. A cummins would go up the hills better and tow better. But the Ford V10 is as reliable as they get. Ford didn't put the variable valve timing on the V10. The VVT has caused some problems on the V8s.

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