Flyinfool

Congratulations on picking up a nice bike. We have rules on this site, we all love to see pictures. If there are no pics it didn't happen. Between the bikes suspension and the trailers suspension I am not sure how you could have damaged the forks. How did you have it strapped down on the trailer? If you had it secured in some weird way I suppose it might be possible to have bent a fork tube, but that would take an awful lot of force.

I will be getting mine next Tuesday.

Yup If you are going to clear over the sharpie, you have to do 4-5 coats that are super lite so that it dries almost instantly or it will mess up the sig. If you use a paint pen, it will not need clear. Or you can clear over it just like any other paint.

If you are going to drill as Marcarl suggested, get some left hand drill bits. The left hand bits if they catch while drilling will spin the screw out. A standard right hand drill bit, if it catches will ram the needle hard into the seat.

Find a screwdriver that has the exact right size blade and make sure that it has nice sharp edges on the tip. Regrind it if necessary to be sure it is sharp. Use a lot of pressure to prevent it from slipping and further damaging the slot. Make sure that you are perfectly square and lined up. If this does not work then it will get uglier fast.

That is always my biggest fear with a passenger, especially a young family member. I am very glad you both are OK. Maybe you need to get everything repainted blaze orange .......

Send a PM to SkyDoc. It may take him a couple of days to get back to you but he will. He works some insane hours.

Thats OK, I'm sure one of your buddies will make the supreme sacrifice and help you get rid of that ice cream that you had to buy.

Just in case you need it I just got this $200 off coupon for the HF 12,000lb winch in my email today.

Coolant leaks on these old bikes are quite common. They usually only leak while cold and do not leak while hot. It is due to the rubber o-rings getting hard and shrinking with age. this allows a few drops of coolant to leak out when cold. As soon as it heats up the heat softens the o-ring and it reseals till it is again cold. normally only leaks a couple of drops at a time. You just have to figure out which one is leaking so that you can replace it. Any time you are messing with anything on the cooling system, plan to replace all o-rings that you run into. Even if it is not leaking now, it will soon. AND o-rings are cheap to do "While you are in there"

That "update" that you can not cancel is the malware. If it keeps popping up you may have it on your machine and it keeps trying to get you to install it. Use all of the above suggestions to try to get rid of what ever is causing it.

The meet and greets are not so bad for symptom 2, it is the meet and EATS that will get you. There is also a small quirk in these Ventures that you will probably soon discover. The engine always seem to shut off in front of every Dairy Queen, and many other ice cream stands. But this is a good thing since it give any 2nd gens or Harleys that you are riding with a chance to catch up. This also seem to help alleviate the pain of symptom #2.

I knew that Puc was a bad influence. My only saving grace is that I might already be too corrupt to be able to be corrupted. I just like to frustrate ole Puc with the little weather machine that I brought with me from the planet Zoore when I moved to this little blue planet. Although last winter I think I might have gone to far and it might have been ole Puc that was lobbing shi....stuff over the lake in my direction..... For a more permanent signature that will not wear off like a sharpie have you ever looked at paint pens, it actually writes with paint. The only issue is it does not dry instantly like an ink marker. http://www.sharpie.com/enus/pages/oil-based-paint-marker.aspx http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-markers/=t5bli4

If you are looking to replace a broken one I think I still might have the one that I took of of my 88. it is a bit worn in the bushing area which is why I replaced it. But it is better than nothing. IF it didn't get "cleaned up" the last time thru the shed.

IF that engine has had all of the proper maintenance and care and you continue with the proper maintainance and care, that engine will go 200,000 miles.

Only the :snow2: slows down the B-52 skeeters. Last deer season in the UP I was swattin skeeters with 6 inches of snow on the ground.

All I kin say is "Dats our Puc"

International Falls is in Minnesota. That would be in the USA. They get a LOT of snow up there.

Another thing to pay attention to. Many 2" receiver hitches are only rated to 9,000 lbs pull for winching. I have also been looking at getting a winch for similar applications. All of the reports that I have read on the warn vs the hf are that the warn pulls line a little faster than the hf. the various off road mags rate the hf as a good value. If you are going to be using the winch very often the warn MAY last longer. Because the receivers on my truck are rated 9,000 max for winching, I have been torn as to whether to get the HF 9,000 or the HF 12,000. For the once every couple of years that I will actually need it it, the HF should last me forever. I was planning to mount the winch to a receiver mount and then add a battery tray to that receiver mount so that I can move the winch to the front or rear of the truck and not have to install monster battery cables that will always be getting mud in the connectors. I will have a big deep cycle battery to run the winch. You can destroy a stock alternator running the winch off of the truck battery. I would not use the winch for felling the tree, they are not fast enough. I do have one tree that needs to come down before winter, It is very dead. It is leaning in the wrong direction for where it needs to be dropped. the tree is about 70 feet tall, I will use 150 feet of cable to attach it to the truck to make sure it goes in the right direction. It will not land on the truck. But I really do not want it to land on the house, if it falls north, or the well head if it falls east, or the electrical box if it heads south, it has to go west, it is leaning east. All of the notching in the world will not overcome gravity, a big 4x4 can. A big enough cherry picker or hiring a pro is not in the budget.

If the CB is working correctly you should get readings on all channels. My guess is that there is a problem in the CB on those lower channels. When you connect up your SWR meter. Do not use a separate coax from the meter to the antenna base. Use the same coax that will be used to connect the CB to the antenna, just remove the connection from the CB and put it right onto the SWR meter, then you will need a short coax to go from the CB to the SWR.

Hmmmmm....... I never even thought about temperature, but it makes sense. Has anyone ever checked warm and then again cold to see just how much of a difference there is?

It sure sounds like you two need to go for a short fast ride together.......:bikersmilie:

That does sound like an interesting option. The only drawback is that everyone will have to break camp and setup camp every day and do all of the riding with a fully loaded bike and/or trailer. Some rigs when loaded get lousy gas mileage and will need to stop a lot more often than others. Some of us are not comfortable riding for 8 hours every day after having traveled for several days to get to the start point, and needing several days to get home, others would consider a ride of less than 8 hours to hardly be worth the effort. But it is an interesting idea for a smaller group, with similar riders.

Snow, Now theres something I have not thought about for a while. And all those tildes look like snow drifts.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The "squiggles" are to the left of the number 1 on the main keyboard. It is called a tilde. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oh no ~ old Puc might have learned sumpin today~~~~~~~~~~