BlueSky

Is that a port-a-john behind the cab?

Seems to me a 3/4 with a Cummins diesel would make a great tow truck!

8,322 miles in 11 days!!!! Wow!!!! You da man!

Nah! We're not getting old. We're just more experienced!

I thought I'd have plenty of time to do everything when I retired. But, both of my bikes need work and I keep ignoring them and working on my truck, car, boat, house, and doing my house husband stuff. My wife is working 50 hours a week so I do the cooking, cleaning, washing clothes etc. I need to look for another contract job so I can get out of all this work!!!!

I'm 72. I'll be an Indian too! Still get around pretty good. Exercise helps!

On the F150 forum, an oil company lab technician posted that "water wetter" would cause corrosion in the cooling system because of electrolysis. I don't know. Just passing on good or bad information. At least it's free information!

One of life's strange coincidences!

Puc, you're amazing! And this goes to show all of us that you can tour on any bike you happen to have. You don't have to wait until you can afford that expensive, mega-cruiser!

Member Skydoc sells an upgrade for the master cylinder. It's from another bike but will work on the Venture. Oops! I was mixed up. He sells an upgraded caliper. But, he might be able to help you with the master.

I'd be afraid to ride that bike. It might get a bug on the front.

I broke or pulled tobacco all day for $7 four days a week in the hot sun for a couple of months in the summer during high school. Hated tobacco! Never smoked! That's only one bad habit I don't have!!

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I like the looks of these Ventures without the bags and trunk!

http://wilmington.craigslist.org/mcy/5608252439.html

Well, I dusted the bedroom furniture today. Then I discovered and pumped up the leaky left rear tire on my ol f150. The tire is leaking. The AC is leaking. My truck is not boring. It keeps me busy in its old age.

My lower back problem does involve arthritis or so I'm convinced. When it was at its worst and I also had sciatic pain in my right hip, the best thing I seemed to be able to do to help it is go on a low calorie diet avoiding fats. This helps reduce the effects of arthritis. I know it sounds weird but for me situps also help my lower back. Another thing I've noticed is that when I was taking the bp med Triam/HCTZ for an extended time, it make my arthritis much worse. My back got so bad, I had trouble putting on my pants and shoes.

might could use a piece of hose with a screw in the end in a pinch.

I saw a link to ventureriders.org.

Good Luck! My daughter promptly wrecked her 85 Chevy Cavalier twice in the first 3 months, totaling it the second time. After 3 months passed I bought an $800 pos 85 Buick Skyhawk that she drove 2 yrs without incident. Then I bought a 92 Pontiac Sunbird that she wrecked and was repaired. My son didn't do too bad. He banged up his 89 Escort but still drove it. My stepson wrecked the 2007 Focus I bought for him. Later I traded it for a 2006 Miata that only had 12k miles on it. Six weeks later he stepped on the gas too hard in the wet and wrecked it hitting another car. The driver of the other car had a bad back so he got a shyster lawyer and sued saying he couldn't work and was living off money borrowed from his family. The Ins co secretly filmed him working on 3 occasions and lifting heavy items. He only wanted the policy limit of $100k and the ins co wouldn't pay. Then he got a back operation that he evidently needed anyhow and my ins co tried to pay him but they wanted $350k now. I hired one of the best lawyers in this field in the state of FL where it happened and eventually the ins co that had mishandled the case so badly paid $250k, $150k more than the policy limit and under the threat of a law suit from my attorney, they paid his fee for me! I was sweating for a year over this fiasco thinking I might lose everything I had. Hope I didn't depress you too bad, but this was my true story.

1989 Venture Royale, 6,500 miles

Synthetic oil used to be PAO, polyalphaolefin, or an ester. Now, it is a Group III dino oil, with possibly some real synthetics blended in. Nobody really knows what is in "synthetic" oil these days except the oil companies and anybody who wants run lab tests on it to determine what it really is cuz they won't tell you what's in it. The bottom line is that "synthetic" oil is nothing like it used to be, maybe better, maybe worse, who knows?

The highest point in Yellowstone Park is about 11k ft. above sea level which lowers the boiling point of any fluid. With riding in the hills and using the brakes more often adding heat, there could be a little more risk of DOT 3 boiling. My wife and I are discussing going to Yellowstone this summer (in a cage unfortunately) and I checked the average temps last night. In July, the average day time high is 72 and low is 40. So, it never gets very warm at that elevation.

Incredible story and lucky you missed the incident. Some of life's turns or coincidences really make you think and wonder. Stories like this is why I decided to carry. I hope the animals are caught and incarcerated.

I try not to ride or drive behind a vehicle carrying a load of anything. The rider was not seriously injured. He was lucky. It looked to me like he had time to avoid the accident and just didn't react quickly enough.