BlueSky

I checked with a couple of auto parts stores and they no longer carry spark plug wire. They only have complete sets.

Never click on any links in emails similar to that. I used to get emails about updating my paypal and credit card info. I just transfer them to junk and then block them.

It's probably a good thing. When I was in Sturgis this year, the smell of unburned gasoline was very strong in the air throughout the town. If you ride a Harley, you don't care about having the fastest bike in town anyway!

You just can't stand it if someone doesn't see things like you do. You must be a democrat.

Like I already said, it's not my dream. I respect the fact that it is yours. Neither is riding a motorcycle on the dirt my dream. I have a 4x4 F150 for that. And if it is your dream, you might be able to afford it. There aren't many buyers for a place like that.

I bet you could buy that house a lot cheaper than you think. Nope, it's not my dream. My wife and I have been looking around for several years. Our home has been paid for quite a while. We never could agree on any particular house so we stay in the house I bought new in 93. It's plenty nice and more than we need. We looked for good deals after the recession. We found a 3700 sq ft almost mansion on 5 acres in the country that I wanted. It was only about 20 minutes from Wilmington but she didn't want to live that far out. So, it's all good. We saved some money. I also wanted a home in a subdivision that had it's own marina on the inland waterway and every owner had a wet 30' boat slip. She didn't like the house. The houses she liked had terrible or expensive HOAs, typically didn't have an attic or had small garages. Never could come to terms. Frankly, I'd rather have the cash in the bank anyway.

I'm sure most of us will keep it for you. Just leave the keys!

I worked with an enterprising young engineer back in the 80's in the Raleigh area who had several rental properties. When a renter owed him money he would go to court and get a judgement against them and put a lien on anything they had such as a CAR! He had gone through the process enough that he didn't use an attorney any more. He knew all the paperwork and how the legal system worked himself. Another engineer I worked with in FL from 2010 to 2013 was from a town just south of Detroit. He had a dozen or so rental houses and he bought several more at auctions for cheap after the recession. I remember him saying he had to accept renters who had credit scores of 500 because so many people had suffered in the recession and hadn't been able to pay all their debts. His daughter was managing the properties for him while he continued to work as an engineering contractor.

Not many women would live way out there and it would be sort of lonely without a grocery store one quarter mile away, not to mention an auto parts store. I assume you would have to maintain your own generator and water supply. I worked with an engineer while in Wisconsin who was set on buying a big place in the country on lots of acreage and he showed me several places in Missouri that were very reasonably priced. Eventually, he ended up buying a huge house that was more of a lodge than a house with 80 acres of land in Missouri for pennies on the dollar. Some executive had it built and tried for a long time to sell it. And he talked another engineer we worked with to buy a place in that area. Trouble is it would have to be a retirement home because getting a job there would be tough if not impossible. My wife who is Russian has a Russian friend who married a bank president in Kentucky. He retired or was retired by the co. and the recession hit. So he sold his 6,000 sq ft home on 7 acres of land with horse stables and lots of stuff for about $275k just to get rid of it. The recession took most of his 401k too and he couldn't afford to live there any more. They moved to Jacksonville FL and picked up a nice 3 br home for about $135k and that is where they still live. You could buy a home really cheap in FL after the recession hit. When I was working in Homestead, FL, a house came on the market that was similar to that guys home, over 6k sq ft on 7 acres for $300k.

Parallel twin would be buzzy, I presume. My first bike was a CB350 Honda. Great little bike to start with but it turned up something like 6500 rpm at 60 and my hands would feel like they were asleep after an hour or so.

Looks really nice!

Kawasaki GPZ750 for sale http://raleigh.craigslist.org/mcy/5744387288.html

You many notice that the Kawasaki has a disc brake on the rear instead of the drum brake on the Yamaha. It also has an oil cooler. My 85 ZN700 has a rear disc brake. The Honda Nighthawk of that year had a drum brake. Kawasaki went the extra distance to make a better bike.

Slavery existed in Russia too. It was called serfdom. The serfs were essentially owned by their masters and had to get permission to do anything such as get married. The Tsar eliminated serfdom in 1861 thereby freeing 23 million serfs from their masters.

Seems you have to do a back ground check and credit check. References from their last landlord would be a great thing to require. If the can't provide one, they don't qualify. I'd be thinking all kinds of ways to seek revenge if that had happened to me. Probably wouldn't follow through but.

You prefer the cruiser style I suppose. I decided back when I had a 1983 750 Yamaha Virago that I didn't want any more vibrating, underpowered V twin bikes. Give me a smooth powerful four cylinder bike please.

Or you could buy the 2010 updated model sold by Honda, the Honda NT700V. http://www.topspeed.com/motorcycles/motorcycle-reviews/honda/2010-honda-nt700v-ar79405/picture321716.html

Seems to be the "Redskins" football team got their name because they wanted to honor a Native American coach or somebody. It was intended as an honor not an insult. As I remember?

If you went skinny dipping and someone stole your clothes, what would you do?

They must have changed the words that go with NAACP.

Very sorry to hear about your issues. I had an irregular heart beat when I was working my job in FL that included 14 months of 6 - 12s. I ate too much and gained to my all time peak weight. When the job ended, I retired and lost 25 lbs, got back to walking 50 minutes 3 times a week and on alternate days I did a set of pullovers and arm curls on the Total Gym, pushups from the knee, situps, and squats. My heartbeat got back to normal. I was 70 at the time. So, my advice would be to lose weight and exercise, gently at first, the best two things you could ever do for your body.

Fuel pump? They seem to fail on the 2nd gens. Surely did sound like a venting problem though.

Water cooling is a must on a big bike in my opinion because the oil gets very hot in an air cooled engine. The review I read of the LA Sheriff's dept tests of potential police bikes showed the facts. The police Harley had a factory spec of the oil temp not to exceed 410 degrees F!!!! The air/oil cooled BMW R1250RT has a spec of not exceeding about 300 plus degrees. All the water cooled bikes had specs for their oil temps in the 200s. I'm sure that IF Yamaha does offer another touring bike it will be a clone of the Kawasaki Voyager, V twin, water cooled, and maybe belt drive. From what I have read about the Voyager, Kawa has modified it to duct the heat away from the rider in the front and also the passenger in the rear. So, it may be a decent choice for those who don't mind a v twin.

Just found a photo of the new Venture!

No doubt it will be a V twin and that will keep me from being interested. These V4s are the best feature of the current Ventures.