Flyinfool
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Congrats Joe But this does not qualify you as old, YET. Not till you become a great grampa, then you are old. I remember each of the grand children and each of the great grand children with each one being a special day.
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Usually it only means that someone is still buying license plates for it.
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Wheew! Hadn't heard anything in a couple of days. Thought maybe you 2 were talking to another warden.........
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Unfortunately, most parts places (auto, bike, electronis, etc) really do not have the ability to look up a part by just a description. The only way the computer can tell them where to find it is by vehicle or part number. Are you sur that your pipe that measures 2 inches is not called 1-3/4? Kind of like plumbing pipe sizes where there is no 2 inch dimension on a 2 inch pipe.
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:rotf: :rotfl:
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That second pic looks more like she has a death grip on you.
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Just how "raty" does it have to be. My daily driver is almost looking rough enough to be called a rat truck.
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You just have to fill it with hard water, don't use the water from the water softener......... or if you want it somewhere in the middle then you can mix hard and soft water together...... Well I got the new mattress last night and worked on getting everything torn down cleaned up, bed moved, put back together, filled and the temperature stabilized. It took till 11:30. After all that work it sure did sleep good. I will have to see if Erika notices any difference when/if she comes back home on the 15th.
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Soooooo......... Your saying it would be a good idea to suggest a one day wife swap with one of my riding buddies and make the ice cream stand loop........ Purely in the interest of safety of course........ OK....Maybe I'll have to word it differently than that.
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Erika is considering trying out the role of passenger with me. We will wear proper gear. I do understand the adjustments to the suspension of the bike for the extra weight. I have not had a passenger on the back of a bike in about 25 years, and she has never been a successful passenger. Back in her high school days her boy friend took her for her first ride and was showing off and they crashed, it was a bad crash with extended hospital time. So she is understandably concerned. Neither of us are small people and it will be a load for the bike. I am wondering about the best way for us to safely learn to ride together. My thoughts were to find someone that is an experienced passenger to ride with me a few times to let me get used to the extra weight, and higher center of gravity. Someone that already knows the dos and don't of being a passenger. I am sure the handling will come back to me quickly. and/or Have her ride with a friend that has done a huge amount of 2 up riding. Or just load her up and head for some deserted roads and/or my favorite practice parking lot. Any other suggestions?
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Well since this ain't hillbilly country the wife should not be to worried about riding with a cousin....................................Did I just say that??????
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Need Ride height measurements.
Flyinfool replied to Flyinfool's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
After doing some more checking I am thinking that there is something wrong in the front end. This morning I adjusted the front air to 17 lbs. On the way in to work today, I had to hit the brakes fairly hard, not panic stop hard, but a little harder than a normal stop, and the front end bottomed out going over a small bump (slightly raised tar line) with a loud clank. My windshield used to just rub the top of the door frame to the shed where the bike sleeps at night, there is now 1.5 inch clearance with me NOT sitting on the bike. I have also noticed that I used to look thru the windshield and I am now looking over it or right at the edge of it. I think it looks like new front springs are in my very near future. I just hope that with the new progressive springs that the bike will still fit thru the door. -
Impressive. Maybe should take a 1st gen there to show them how its done.........
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Looks like a great idea, to bad it wont fit the real Venture.......
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Well I am buying another water bed after sleeping on one for 34 years and not liking anything else that I have tried. That should kind of clarify my thoughts on the best mattress. It is also great to be able to set the temperature of the bed. I run it a little cooler in the summer and a little warm in the winter. Since it is a heated mattress I can keep the house at 50° and be comfy on the coldest winter night or turn the bed down a few degrees and be nice and cool on a hot summer night.
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So if it leaks it just blows at you............
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I've been calling around. I found a local place that has a new mattress in stock along with a new heater for just under $200. If this new mattress lasts another 30 years, it will out live me. I slept on one of those foam mattresses once, it did not agree with my back. I have never yet found any mattress other than a waterbed that feels good to my back. Besides, there is a reason they do not advertize the price of those foam mattresses.
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Last night I had a hard time falling asleep. No idea why. And I was up a few times during the night which is also not normal for me. This morning I got woke up early feeling really cold and clammy. While lying in that half awake state trying to figure out just what was going on, is when I noticed that everything around me was soaked. The sheets, blanket, pillow, everything. So now I am trying to figure out if I just had night sweats or heaven forbid, did I wet the bed..... Well that thought got me out of the half awake state and into a get the heck out of the bed quick state and head for the shower. But wait no that would be a bad idea since I still need to strip all up the bedding and get it down in the wash. I should do that BEFORE I take a shower. In case you haven't figured it out yet, I am not a morning person, just because my body is up and moving does not mean that my brain is up and/or functioning. So I run all of the bedding down to the basement and toss the first load into the wash machine (with no phones included,,,,,sorry:stickpoke:) well now the wash machine is filling so I certainly do not want to get in the shower with the hot water turning on and off. So I grab some cleaning stuff to clean up the mattress. First I dried if off as best I could with some towels and took those down to the basement. when I got back up stairs and was about to start scrubbing the mattress, its like WTF it is all wet again. so I grab some more towels and dry it off again. and this time just start to clean it right away. WTF again there is a little squirt of liquid that shoots up out of the mattress toward the headboard. That is when it finally dawns on me,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, tonight I get to go shopping for a new king size waterbed mattress to replace this 34 year old one....... It sure is a good thing that Erika is still not home with her bum foot yet. We would have been accusing each other of wetting the bed, and that old water on her bum foot would have been really bad news.
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Need Ride height measurements.
Flyinfool replied to Flyinfool's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
That brings up the next point, How much lean is to much lean. What is the "ideal" lean angle. My big concern about raising the bike is twofold. First I can just barely reach the ground at a red light as it is. Second if the front gets any higher, it won't fit thru the door to its shed unless I cut down my brand new windshield. I sat on an 85 last weekend and I could get both feet flat on the ground with sneakers on. I am tip toes with my 88. This 85 had a huge lean angle compared to my 88. -
Way back 40+ years ago I lost a thumb to a circular saw blade mounted on a Dremel tool when the power went out during a cut causing to tool to catch and jump. They were able to put the thumb back on but it will never be the same. I have watched the vids from this a bunch of times. http://www.sawstop.com/ Yes the saw will need a new motor but motors can be repaired a lot faster and for a lot less money than new fingers can be grown or repaired. The inventor will demonstrate by running his own hand into a saw. Never more than just a slight nick. had to scarey as all get out the first time he tried it on his own hand.
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Need Ride height measurements.
Flyinfool replied to Flyinfool's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
Maybe I'll have to stop and visit you one of these days on my way home from work, or just buzz on down when you are available. I work (put in time) on the south side of Racine so I must get near you somewhere along the way. -
Need Ride height measurements.
Flyinfool replied to Flyinfool's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
I have no CLASS. (Or so I am often told) This is a Standard, not a Royal so there is no CLASS system. The front and rear do hold air I can add or remove air and 6 months later the front and rear will still have the same pressure that I put in them. I have not tried the Max pressures from the service manual of 17 front and 71 rear, just to see how far it will lift the bike. -
I have been trying to figure this one out for a while now. I have an '88 standard. When on the side stand there is almost no lean to my bike, it is especially noticeable when parked near other 1st gens. I am always worried about the bike falling over on the right side while it is on the side stand. When I am sitting on the bike and want to put the side stand down, I have to lean the bike well past center and to the right to get enough clearance to lower the side stand. Once the bike is on the side stand, I have to hold it up while getting off so that it does not fall over on the right side. It is not possible to sit on the bike while it is on the side stand, it will fall to the right if you are not ready for it. Once I get off of the bike I have to pull it hard over to the left to raise the suspension as much as possible. While on the side stand I could easily push the bike over on the right side with one finger, it is that close to straight up. I am always worried about a good breeze blowing it over, or even someone just touching it in a parking lot. It is not possible to use the side stand on the side of a roadway, I have to use the center stand if parked on a road. For the air suspension I run 10 lbs in the front and 40 lbs in the rear, both tires are at 42 lbs. both tires are the recommended sizes. Can someone give me some reference dimensions from the ground to somewhere on the frame front and rear so that I can tell if I have a suspension issue or a side stand issue. Shortening the side stand should be a simple job compared to all new springs. I am considering putting in Progressive front springs, maybe next winter. But if the rear spring is also weak then I'll replace that to. I just hate throwing money/parts at a problem in hopes that something will work.
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I'm headed back to the fallout shelter..........
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Did you write him a check? Put a stop payment on it. Since you can not call him, send him a registered letter. Use a different phone to call him so that he will not ignore your phone number and / or use the *69 (I think) option to block your number. If he has no phone number, how did you contact him originally? Maybe you can go through that same route to contact him again. If he was referred to you, make sure the source that referred him knows what is going on. As you mentioned earlier, today might be hangover day, after a long weekend of partying the workers may need more money so will have to come and do some work till they get paid next. Since he is already paid in full, the longer this drags out the harder it will be to collect anything because more of your money will be spent and gone.