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  1. Venturous Randy
    Linda and I were making a trek back to my house on a 65 mph divided four lane with uncontrolled entries and topped a hill and saw three police cars in the road. The light from them was so bright, it was hard to see much of anything. With it being about 10 pm and traffic, I was afraid to slow down too much, but as we passed, I did see a black and silver cruiser type bike laying in the road at an intersection. I am now watching the local news and nothing has been reported yet. It sure did give us both a sickening feeling. RandyA
  2. Venturous Randy
    I have put over 123,000 miles on this bike and I am learning more and more about how I end up going where I am looking more than I ever thought I would. RandyA
  3. Venturous Randy
    He does not want to do it as an attachment. There was a post recently about doing the full picture that is not an attachment, but is part of the post. RandyA
  4. Venturous Randy
    http://1saleaday.com/ has the Tom Tom XL 350 4.3 GPS on sale for $39.95 today. It is probably a refurbished unit. RandyA
  5. Venturous Randy
    Wow, great pictures. Thanks for posting them. RandyA
  6. Venturous Randy
    Years ago I went with the bikini side covers and I really have not noticed heat being as big of a concern as before. This is also with me routinely riding with shorts on. RandyA
  7. Venturous Randy
    There's a transmit button? RandyA
  8. Venturous Randy
    ? He is asking about a 2nd gen. RandyA
  9. Venturous Randy
    Yep, that's what we are here for, to make you look like a foo......, I mean to help you keep your bike running great. Actually, about any question you could ask like this has been encountered by someone else and that's why the question was asked back to you. RandyA
  10. Venturous Randy
    Not your name, the name Ventura. I have heard rumors there was a Ventura before the Venture. RandyA
  11. Venturous Randy
    I have had the Oddesy 680 and now a DEKA and both worked very good. I put the Oddesy in my son's 86 and am running the DEKA. I have been in some hot places with the bike recently and had to start it hot and the DEKA did fine. With a good battery and upgraded cables, these bikes do ok. Where are you getting the Ventura name from? RandyA
  12. Venturous Randy
    Is this not covered under warranty since it is a wear item? RandyA
  13. Venturous Randy
    Thanks for sharing your interesting story. I am also lucky that I am about an hour from the BRP and yes, it has been my heat escape many times. I just checked the thermometer out on my carport and it says 80 degrees. I need to run some erands, so I think I will take the bike rather than the cage and the A/C. RandyA
  14. Venturous Randy
    Mine was intermitten years ago and I just ran a jumper from my high beam wire over to the high beam indicator light wire and it has worked great since. RandyA
  15. Venturous Randy
    I had an ice cream cone today. I'm doing my part. RandyA
  16. Venturous Randy
    I again want to remind everyone to check the play in their side stand. When changing the oil on Rocket's 86, out of habit, I checked the side stand and there was at least an inch play at the end of the side stand tip. When I removed the side stand, the forks were splayed open and the bolt was bent. I was able to use my hydraulic press to bend the fork tips back parallel and also straighten the bolt. With the side stand now fitting the frame mount just snug enough to not bind, I pulled the side stand off and checked the seating of the bolt. The shoulder of the bolt seated with a gap under the head of the bolt so I used a thin washer so the bolt seated at the shoulder and the nut at the same time. I cleaned everything and reassembled and tightened the bolt to the point it was almost binding and then tightened the nut. I was able to get it to the point there may have been an eighth inch play at the tip of the side stand without any binding. When we did his 83, there was about the same amount of play, but the bolt was not bent, but there was a slight step worn on the side of the bolt and the forks on the side stand were splayed about the same. Again did the washer trick and got about an eighth inch play when tightened back in place. I am really glad I was able to fix this as his bike has a lot of lean on the side stand and with the trailer hooked up, it would have been a disaster to encounter a broken side stand/bolt. Rocket should pick up another side stand bolt, but for now I believe he is good to go as long at he monitors the looseness. Again, for those of you that have never had you side stand fail, and it will if you let it get loose enough, you can hardly imagine how big of a problem it can be. RandyA
  17. Venturous Randy
    Got in a good visit, some good eating and a little maintenance. Was hoping to show them around the area some, but I believe they were a little tired of riding. We ate Mexican the first night with Steve (SGN) and took them to Golden Corral with Steve's lady Ann and my lady Linda. I don't think Golden Corral made much profit on us with their buffet. As you can see, we also had a full moon. RandyA
  18. Venturous Randy
    My 83 has been on reserve the 15 years and 123,000 miles I have put on it. I see no reason to mess with it. RandyA
  19. Venturous Randy
    Sounds more like a ground problem to me. But, if you still have the glass fuses, you need to convert them over to the blade fuses. It is not a big deal and there are kits available on here. RandyA
  20. Venturous Randy
    Are you sure he wants visitors? RandyA
  21. Venturous Randy
    They are now here in Johnson City. We went out and ate mexican and got the oil changed in the 86. Not sure yet what we are going to do tomorrow. I would love to show them some good mountain road riding. RandyA
  22. Venturous Randy
    Neat car Lowell. I bet it has about as much space for storage as an early MKI. Good to see you back. RandyA
  23. Venturous Randy
    Right now, the spot shows Rocket in Columbia, SC and he should be heading over the mountain to east Tennessee tomorrow. We are looking forward to seeing them tomorrow late afternoon and they will be staying with me. This will be the second set of foreigners we will have had here with Aussie Annie and Alan here earlier. We are planning on eating out somewhere Thursday evening if anyone wants to join us. I will have more details as we get closer. RandyA
  24. Venturous Randy
    How are you doing? RandyA
  25. Venturous Randy
    Could it be a dirty fuel filter that will only supply a limited amount of fuel? It could be some rust in the fuel tank with it having so few miles on it in 26 years that could be causing problems. It would be good if you could plug up a good TCI and see how it runs with it. RandyA
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