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Then get you someone you would like to introduce to a long ride and take them with you. The object of this one is to get out with a loved one, your sweetie or just a good friend and do some riding to someplace you, or they, may not be familiar with and share the adVenture. Ride Happy, Ride Safe
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Okay here it is Tiki Tan Harrisburg NC and the bike and oh yeah me. Next target your bike your passenger and a Welcome to ??? State sign at least two states away from you. Now entering state sign doesn't qualify must be a Welcome To sign and don't forget it's your passenger not you. Enjoy the ride. [ATTACH]70622[/ATTACH] Ride Happy, Ride Safe
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Hey BoomerCPO we are sorry to hear of the loss of your dear and special friend and companion. Your right my friend, they will be waiting for us with tails all awaggin and tongues likkin the tar out of us when we show up. Until that day I hope your heart remains filled with that special love only a dog can give and your memories of her soothe your pain. Ride Happy, Ride Safe
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I have the Chatter Box system with the open helmet mike. I got tired of having to replace the foam covers because they either got lost or got chewed up for opening and closing my modular helmet. I ordered the mike cover for a full face but it didn't fit the open helmet mike. I finally got fed up and made my own mike cover. I made the talk into side red so I know which side to turn towards my mouth and I made they other side black so it would kind of blend it the helmet. The black side is elastic material and the red side is a shear polyester material. Here is what it looks like.[ATTACH]70440[/ATTACH][ATTACH]70441[/ATTACH][ATTACH]70442[/ATTACH] Ride Happy, Ride Safe
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Gone? No they are never totally "gone". They will be back and the best you can hope for is that they aren't dragging others with them when the do come back. But "gone" hahahahaha, you a funny guy. Ride Happy, Ride Safe
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While I have learned a ton of great information about my bike in this website it is the friendships that have come to mean the most to me. I have been needing to get out and spend a whole day of just riding and TDunc who I meet here and have become good friends with needed to do the same. It was great to get together and just spend the day riding. He shared with me some great roads he knew and I shared with him some great roads I knew. We left at about 10am and got back about 11pm. Both of our mental health situations have received a great dose of fixin. How truly special it is to be able to develop so many great friendships and share such joyful experiences doing something we all dearly enjoy doing so much. Thanks VentureRider.Org family. Ride Happy, Ride Safe
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SkyDoc_17 has the complete package you will need and excellent instructions on how to do this. The longest part is scaling the old gasket off the cover. The rest is very easy to do. I would suggest that you at least change the spring to the one SkyDoc_17 has. Also use the Yamaha gasket because it is impregnated with the sealer so you will not have to add any sealer hence getting a cleaner job done. Believe me it's so easy a caveman could do it :-) hell I was even able to do it. Ride Happy, Ride Safe
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Was the person that delivered it wearing a black suit a black hat and sun glasses? Did the person that delivered it also bring a pizza you are not telling us about? Are you sure that you did not receive instructions to not open the box? Is this possibly a change in tactics by "them"? Have you checked on Brown Sugar lately? Not trying to get you on edge, just kinda wondering!!! Ride Happy, Ride Safe
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Well I can promise you this No matter how hard you partied when you were younger No matter how bad you felt afterwards No matter how much you wished it would end You never got to know Mr. Commode as well as you will today!!! Don't stray far!!!
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Doing the "triangle" is the absolute best way to get a flavor of Alaska. You will not regret your choice. A few words of advise The Richardson Highway has a lot of frost heaves. This will slow you down a lot because the other traffic will have to slow down to handle them. When you do go to pass watch for little red flags alongside the road. These are used to tell you a particularly aggressive frost heave is there. That being said they are not able to mark all of them so keep an extra vigilant eye on the road ahead. Make sure you check the weather very closely going to Valdez as I have been trapped in Thompson Pass in July due to snow. Always give yourself plenty of time and remind yourself not to get frustrated with the motor homes, which you will encounter way more than you want to. They are there for the same reason you are. Enjoy the trip and soak up every minute of the great state of Alaska. This will be an adventure you will never forget. Ride Happy, Ride Safe
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Wooohoo, we have the grand daughters for two weeks but there is one problem. I have been informed I can not "spoil" them. That being said I was able to get our daughter to "allow" me to get them something if they "need" it. So far I have figured out that they both "needed" new shoes because the shoes they had on when we picked them up didn't match their outfits they had on. I then determined that they "needed" sun dresses because it is hotter here than in CT. Oh, they also "needed" new sandals because they didn't have ones that matched the new sun dresses they "needed". Of course since it was so hot out and they had the new sun dresses they "needed" chairs that fit them so they could sit out side in their new sun dresses so I got them a canvas hippo chair and a canvas frog chair, but only because they "needed" them. Well as I thought about it some more I could clearly see that they "needed" a pool to put their chairs next to so I got them a 103 inch blow up pool. Now my brain was in a high awareness state and it was very apparent to me that their bathing suits did not match the color of the pool so I HAD to go get them the new bathing suits they "needed". Now as I was sitting there contemplating their needs there was no doubt in my mind that there was still one more thing they "needed". Now we all know that after a good day in the pool one needs to get their energy back up and what does that best? Why ice cream of course. Not being one to deprive Pappy's Girls of the things THEY need I of course had to stock up on ice cream bars in the freezer. So you all are now my witnesses that I have not been "spoiling" them I have only been getting them things they need. Right? Right? Ride Happy, Ride Safe
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDm6iKH38C0]NEW E*TRADE Baby First Class - YouTube[/ame]
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Well thanks a lot. When next I looked up an hour had gone by. All I can say is phenomenal
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Seen this in a parking lot the other day. That is a Honda Rebel with a bicycle rack installed and a bike on it. I didn't get to talk to the rider but it sure looks to me like he/she really means to save the gas. http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm220/AKRefugee/Yamaha%20Forum/de4e6015.jpg
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During Maintenance Day I changed my Clutch Spring, Friction Rings and the Steel Rings. Because of unexpected tire wear I also had to change my tire for a used one to get me back home so I never got to "really see" what the new clutch set up would do. Well I finally got a new tire installed last week and got to see just what the new clutch set up would do. All I can say is WOW. I was advised that the clutch throw would be a bit harder and to be honest that took all of about 5 or 6 times starting out to get used to that, and even then it was not as huge a difference as I expected. Where the real difference came was when I really dropped the hammer and then fast shifted in to second. I immediately found out two things. One, that yes you can get the front wheel of a second gen off the ground. Two, when you do that the passenger will say "what the was that? It whipped my head back", and find several "endearing things" to call you. Now here is the fun part. If, after explaining to the passenger that you just lifted the front wheel off the ground, and, you are lucky enough to have the right passenger, you WILL be told (not asked) to do it again If your clutch is slipping and you want to get performance out of your second gen then I would highly recommend SkyDoc_17's clutch package. You won't just get a grin put on your face. You will get one plastered on it and you will think your face will break from grinning so damn hard.
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Whats the best undergarment in Hot weather.
AKRefugee replied to GolfVenture's topic in Watering Hole
Open mesh underwear and chaps. Keep everything quite cool -
I watched a show the other day about that guy flying thru that gap. A few months earlier he had hit some rocks in flight. Even he said he was damn lucky. Was in hospital for I believe 3 months.
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I lived in Alaska and for holidays we would go down to Deep Creek just to watch this very thing happen over and over again. The tide changes can be as much as 33 feet there so when the tide comes in it really comes in. Watched a guy lose a brand new boat, trailer and truck because of it. Stickers were still on everything and temp tags so you knew it was new. Popped the tilt trailer with the stern to the incoming tide. By the time he got back in the truck and tried to drive out from under the boat the water was coming over the stern. This weighted the boat down so much he couldn't drive the trailer out from under it. He finally figured he just needed to dump the trailer and get the truck out but by the time he decided that the water was coming into the bed of the truck and now the truck couldn't get out even without the trailer. Ok so off to get the tractors to come help. By the time they got there the truck was all but submerged. They wouldn't even try to get close much less try to pull it out. All he could do was watch the tide take everything. When the tide went out there was nothing to be seen. It was all gone. Oh, did I mention that alcohol was involved. When he pulled up and got out empty beer cans poured (and I do mean poured) out of his truck. We started to try to warn him but decided this was a show we didn't want to miss hehehe. Always wondered how he explained that one to the insurance companies.
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This thread is what I got from Avon when trying to figure out what tire pressure to run http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=44385
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Actually had a guy do something like that one day. Dufus was yakking on his cell phone, did a uturn in the middle of the intersection with no indication he was going to do so, and almost nailed me. I laid into my big horns and he jumped, dropped his phone out the open window and ran over it with his rear tire. He looked like a bobble head doll snapping his head all around to find the truck. Don't think he ever figured out it was me. My son was on the back and I thought he was going to fall off he was laughing so hard.
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Like the wife reminds me when every I mention that old guy that has snuck into my mirror or when I am complaining about the aches and pains I have from doing something I know I can still do because I did it when I was in my early 20's Old your not . . . but young you ain't either!
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Hmmm, so now you are stalking them even when you are on foot???
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I will be riding two up from Charlotte to Maintenance Day. We plan on leaving just south of Charlotte NC at about 6am. We will be going straight up I77 most of the way. If anyone would like to ride with us all or part of the way drop me a PM and we will see if we can set it up.
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We spent a bit of time desert riding and went thru Vegas when it was 117F on the pavement. We use a mesh jacket with a wet vest underneath it. It's like riding in front of an air conditioner when you are going down the road.We also keep an extra wet vest in water in the trunk and swap them out about every hour. Also make darn sure you keep hydrated. Every stop to swap the vest should include drinking at least a liter of water. If you aren't urinating every stop then you are not drinking enough water. We also freeze up a gallon of water to throw in the side back in the event we should get stranded out in the middle of no where. Ran across someone out in the middle of nowhere one time and they were really happy to see us break out that gallon of water for them. They had been there over an 1 1/2 waiting for a tow. That could have been us with as simple a thing as a flat.
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Ok, got more info on this whole think. Max is not the actual manufacturer, he is a vendor that sells the kits. My friend actually got two emails. The first one from Max saying we are not xxx company quit bugging me with your questions, which my friend has done (along with taking his business else were. The second was from the actual manufacturer (Barrett) and was quite informative. I am including it here. My friend will be ordering directly from Barrett. EMAIL: I'll try to give you a little background on the materials we've used in our 64+ years of making motorcycle clutch plates. "Back in the day', as they say, and I'm talking British, European, early American bikes, cork was the material of choice. The trouble with pure cork material was that as soon as it got oil on it, it started to slip. Even if a clutch was designed to run dry, a seal would fail and oil would get on the plates...slip city. In the fifties, Charlie Barnett came up with a material that he named - Corperene. It was a mixture of cork, neoprene, resins, and other additives that not only was more durable than pure cork but was also oil tolerant. He first made replacement inserts and later started making finished plates by bonding this Corprene to metal cores. Leaky seals and gaskets were a problem no more. Corprene was the industry standard for years, but as good as it was, it wasn't perfect. What is? As motorcycles design and technology improved, clutch design and materials evolved and improved, also. Early bikes had 3,4,5,6 friction plates. While cork and Corprene had a high coefficient of friction, both were fairly unstable when they got hot. They would expand, swell up and then contract when they cooled down. Could cause clutch drag, rough shifting, hard neutral. Tolerable in the older bikes with few friction plates, but modern clutches now use as many as 12 friction plates and we had to develop materials that are much more stable in hot and cold environments.Kevlar,carbon, ceramic, graphitics, metallics are now used and are much more efficient and stable and durable than the old cork based materials. All friction materials are made with a combination of resins and polymers and other base components that formulate to create frictional qualities. Even cork-based materials, too. Sludge was more common in the 'old' days when motor oils were formulated differently than today. Modern oils, synthetics, blended and petroleum based, are much higher quality and less likely to break down than the oils of yesteryear. Of course, if you burn up an clutch, any material and oil combination is going to be messy. We have never found that any non-metallic friction material to be more abrasive than any other. Clutch plates used in automobile automatic transmissions are made of a type of non-cork friction material. The design and technology involved in the manufacture of these plates, closely parallel that of motorcycles plates. Our clutch plate design and technology has and will continue to evolve as it has for the last six decades. When the next great,new friction material comes along, we'll be the first to give it a try, and get to the market. Hope that helps you and I didn't ramble on too much.... Best regards, Mike Taylor Barnett Tool & Eng PS....we still make plates for old BSA's, Royal Enfields, Nortns, Triumphs,etc, with Corprene...it just works the best in those old bikes!