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Screw it lets party! Watch this!

I heard Honda is working on this problem as we speak. It is 5 gallons of oil that is applied to the road by pushing yet another ego-plastic contoured button. These oil tanks will be tastefully disguised under more Tupperware at the rear of the saddlebags. Option price just another $1000.00 US. That ought to do it to any no good for nothing tailgaters!:rotfl:

Yeah, panhead,shovelhead,evolution,revolution can't control the sight or sound.

WOW! PMP:rotfl:

I guess this is where the saying "God as my Co-Pilot" comes from.:rotfl:

The world is full of IDIOTS. Prayers sent.

Hope all goes well. Prayers sent for your speedy recovery Don.

On a air cooled v-twin the oil gets too hot to touch! Temporarily. To hot to run is when your sneakers melt on the pavement! Hope this helps.

:rotfl::rotfl: That is funny! 67 Chevelle convertible 396 and 17 years old. A friend and I were sent to the store for a beer run. Coming back I turn onto the road {fresh oil and stone} back to the party and lace into it hard. Two complete 360s ending up crossing the right hand ditch facing the road. Didn't do any damage to the car until I put it back in gear and jumped the ditch which pushed the radiator into the fan. DUH! Same car had a quirk that would turn on the windshield wipers when it would be just about at top end. I always thought that it probably was my guardian angel telling me to slow down.

We got to ride this week, but it wasn't for the fun of it. We helped my son move all his belongings back home from Fort Drum. The ride was on I-90 and 86. Talk about boring! The fence along the thruway is like a impenetrable wall, grown over with vegetation so seeing anything but pavement is not going to happen. He is leaving for the other sandbox, rock pit later this month for a year. He finally gets to a base after 14 yrs that we thought that we would be able to visit him at regularly and now this. Can't complain to much, he has grown into a very level headed man. Just wish he'd hurry up and marry so there would be more grand kids to spoil! Oh yeah, the 86 purred like a kitten 45 mpg at 72 mph, God I love this bike!

Fairings For those of you who are interested in history, here's where the word "Fairing" comes from. Early in the development of aviation, it was realized that the important thing for an airplane was to have a lot of lift and very little drag. An enormous amount of drag happens if you lose laminar flow - that is, if instead of smoothly following the surfaces on the airplane, when the air breaks away from the surface it will form spinning vortices which tumble around and wreck the airflow all over the place. This is called turbulence. The exact same problem was known from laying out the keels of ships, for water flow around a ship hull is a lot like air flow around the skin of an airplane. This problem was analyzed by mathematicians. They learned something: they could predict the points at which the air flow (or water flow) would break away from the surface and start to become turbulent. A curve which has no breaks in it is called "Continuous" by mathematicians. A curve which has no sharp corners in it is called "smooth" by mathematicians. Smooth means the first derivative of the curve is continuous. At any given point, a curve has a radius of curvature. If there are no sudden jumps in the radius of curvature, the curve is called "Fair." A Fair curve has a continuous second derivative. It was learned that turbulent flow always starts at a point on the skin where the curve has an abrupt change in the radius of curvature, that is a point where the curve is not fair, or a point where the second derivative is discontinuous. So, you can't just stick a wing onto an airplane fuselage - the sharp corner where they meet is not even smooth, much less fair. The designers found they had to locate places like this on the aircraft skin and cover them with some smoothly curved sheet metal. These pieces of sheet metal are called "Fairings." http://www.calsci.com/motorcycleinfo/Images/dc3.jpg Notice the fairings on the wing-fuselage joint of this DC-3. I jumped out of one of these once, and it was working just fine at the time. In the '70's, when gas mileage became important, automotive companies quickly hired some aircraft designers to help them make their cars have less drag. Shortly after that, the automotive companies started putting pressure on the computer programmers to make certain that all the curves on an automotive body were fair. Some companies became quite obsessed with this: honda at one point announced that they had determined that surfaces which had a continuous fifth derivative were most pleasing to the eye, so they wanted their cad/cam systems to only design curves which were smooth, fair, and also had three more levels of derivative continuity. I don't think they got very far, as very few programmers can handle the mathematics of c5 continuous surfaces. Of course, until about 1970, there basically was no such thing as computer aided design. To lay out the curves for the hulls of ships and large bombers, boeing many years ago built a building with an unbroken wooden floor which was bigger than a football field. They would clear this building, and draw a coordinate graph on the floor. Then, the designers would tell them exact points where they wanted the hull skin or aircraft skin to be. The engineers would hammer nails into the floor at these points. They would then take very long, very thin strips of oak, soak them in water, and tie the oak strips to the nails. The oak will naturally form a shape of least energy, which happily enough is a shape which is both smooth and fair. The engineers would wait for the oak to dry, then trace the lines on the floor of the building. This then became the master drawing for the bulkheads. The thin strips of wet oak were called "splines," which is why today curves in mcdraw and autocad are called splines, although essentially none of the programmers know this either. Most of our bombers and battleships in WW II were laid out in this building, because this was what we had. In General Relativity, Einstein assumed that the universe itself was curved, but in a smooth and fair fashion. His reasoning: anything else would have been mathematically ugly, and he didn't believe God did ugly things. Since then, several people have made alternative theories of gravity where the universe does not have to be smooth and fair. None of them have worked worth beans, however. It seems God does in fact have a sense of aesthetics. Later, it was pointed out to Einstein that his theory included the possibility of points where the universe was neither smooth nor fair. These points are called singularities, or more popularly black holes. Not all scientists believe in black holes, and Einstein was skeptical.

First time I've seen a jinks on the net! As Jed says "Well I'll Be!

Nice read. If all works out right we're headed to Utah in a week or so. Can't wait after reading your wifes trip log.

I believe you can go to a hardware store and buy stainless steel caps that plug holes in sinks. The outside diameter of them measures 1 1/8". They will work just put gasket sealer on the back side to help hold them in place. Thats what I have on my 86 and buffed up nice they look chromed.

I've ordered struts for my car from them. They beat everyone elses price by miles. Fast shipping too:thumbsup2:

All the pluses are nothing compared to the size of the trunk!!!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

Nothing. Town used to have 8 gas stations , 6 bars, 5 restaurants, 1 grocery store, 2 mom and pop stores, 2 barbershops, 1 variety store, 1 hardware store and 4 trucking businesses, 2 factories. Now 0 gas stations, 2 bars, 1 restaurant, 0 grocery store, 0 mom and pop stores, 0 barber shops, 0 variety store, 1 hardware store and 2 trucking businesses, 0 factories. Oh yea, almost forgot, now we have a Porn store. This is in my lifetime of living here at the first town in New York on I-90 Thruway headed east. WELCOME TO NEW YORK! I LOVE NY!!!! Life sucks here. But, theres no place like home.:rotfl: Excuse me, think I'll go hit my head on the doorway corner now. Riverrun does look cool though!

Nice looking bike Gary. The Ventures are a handful once in a while. Just keep the wind in your hair and the bugs on the shield.

Give ya a hint. Something about member count. But really it had alot to do with a chanting mob.:rotfl:

Found this while looking at biker sunglasses. The ride on our 83 took us on 66 occasionally back in 02. Good read and music along with some unknown facts about how the movie was made.http://www.mrzip66.com/2009/04/20/route-from-the-movie-easy-rider-map/

Maybe this will help. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1057 Do not pull the drive shaft out of the pumpkin. The 86 and on ventures lubed it with the pumpkin fluid.

You guys need to start a "He-Man woman Haters Club".:rotfl: You have to figure out that you don't LIVE with them you exist with them thats all. Whats that honey,get off your computer? Yes dear. Can I use that broom when you get done flying it?

Hey, I'm tired of the same old picture of this leaking hole in the ground. It's time to do some 007 sleuthing and get a different picture of it. I'd bet the news would gobble them up at a healthy price!:mo money:Can anyone hold their breath long enough?

:banana::banana:YEEEEEE_HAAAAAA!!!!!!! Now your leg won't interfere with the TV reception.:rotfl:That free feeling has to only get better every day. Good news.

60 minutes had a employee that lived through this ordeal and is talking. Lead investigator has publicly "as through the show 60 minutes" said that BP is to blame. At this point we are all praying that something can be done to contain this. I have relation in Pensacola, Fla. and have fond memories of deep sea fishing off the coast with them. The sooner this is stopped the better. We can wage war with unlimited money but we can't stop a major man made environmental problem? Come on?!!