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  1. Venturous Randy
    Years ago while trekking across the corner of South Carolina by myself, I decided to go a little ways without my helmet. I really did not enjoy it. Almost all my street riding as a kid on my 125 Ducati Bronco, I did not wear a helmet, so I wondered what what it would be like. I will occasionally wear a half helmet, but when riding with my lady Linda, I enjoy all the talking we can do with the intercom. RandyA
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    I would try to run the same wire through the stuck jet. You may be able to do that and be ok. I may have a block I can send you. RandyA
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    Annie, Linda and I are really looking forward to meeting you two as we are coming up from east Tennessee. RandyA
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    When I first met my lady Linda, which was from her asking me about a picture of me in front of the eight foot tall bike at the motorcycle museum in Maggie Valley, she had never been on a motorcycle. As we got to know each other, she told me several times she would ride with me as she had learned how important motorcycle riding was to me. Well, one day I stopped by her house and when she came out, her eyes were big as saucers. I finally talked her into sitting on the back and she said it was actually comfortable, but she was scared it was going to fall over. After she settled down a little, I put the helmet on her and mine on me and turned on the intercom and she liked that. Then she asked me if I would take her around the block. So, very carefully and smooth, we went for a ride. When we got back to her house, she wanted to go for a another ride and asked me how she did. I told her she done great and the only problem I had was she had had a death grip on my nipples with her fingernails. Ok, so we got past that. In the previous 14 years I have had this bike, the most miles in any year was about 8,000 miles. This past year I put about 12,000 miles on it and most of it was with her on the back. I really do feel very fortunate to have had someone come into my life after my divorce that not only loves to ride, but she is a great passenger and the miles seem to go by so fast with all the chatter we have. We are supposed to leave out Thursday morning to go to my first Maintenance Day and I am so happy she will be accompanying me. This long weekend will be a bit over a thousand miles and I know she will do great. I want everyone to give her a big welcome as she is a very special lady and I feel very fortunate to have her with me. RandyA
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    Ya done good, thankfully, and it's time for the loud airhorns if you don't already have them RandyA
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    I would let him know that I would be filing a complaint with the Better Businass Bureau. RandyA
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    Ok, I have Friday thru Sunday night reserved at the Econolodge for MD. I have not seen any other posts on the Econolodge and was wondering if we have any others there. RandyA
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    I did not wash it with my clothes, I ran over it with my lawn mower. I was trying to get my front yard done before it got too dark and some how my cell phone came out of my pocket and I ran over it with the riding mower. Not too good as it went everywhere. So, I guess I will look for another Verizon phone and I just like a basic flip phone with a camera. Don't need all that other stuff. RandyA
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    I moved my TCI to the wall on the left side. My bike is a standard and has an aftermarket radio/cd so I am not real sure how much room a Royale has in that area. I just made an aluminum strap and a couple of screws holds it in place. I tried the top of the airbox and even with ears removed, it was still hitting the cover just a little too much for me. It is a good idea to take a real good look at the connector as I had the red wire having a poor connection in the terminal. RandyA
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    Where and when will be coming thru TN? I am in the north east corner. I think I sent you a rearend many years ago. RandA
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    I am planning on about a 1,000 plus mile ride to Freebird's MD on my 83 pulling a 450 lb camper with about 143,000 miles on the bike. I need to change the oil and just check it over, but I am not worried about the bike. A lot of 1st genners don't think much of anything about a several thousand mile trip. RandyA
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    If you come thru east Tennessee on your way to SC, maybe we can get together and you would have a place to stay. RamdyA
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    Another thing I suggest if you are taking your dash out is to remove the speedometer from the back and put some good grease in the very bottom where the cable comes thru. RandyA
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    If you have fried the clutch that bad, maybe you also may need to do a quick oil and filter change. RandyA
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    Very good information Dingy. We maybe should put this infomation in our technical archives. RandyA
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    Hey Lew, I wanted to bump this back up for you to see if you can get some responses. As for me coming to Vogal, at this time I really don't know if I can make it. I am still trying to do what I can with going to my first Oberlin MD. I gave up on trying to put together any kind of extended weekend meet & eat at Asheville next month due to the lack of responses. I even posted a thread saying " Let's talk about Asheville" and got about 90 hits and not one single comment. Even in the earlier threads there was very little response. Actually, after I noted that I cancelled it and advised the KOA campground not to set aside an area for us, I started getting some interest. Lew, you put together a great event at a very nice campground and the times I have been there have been very enjoyable. I would love to be able to give a good commitment as I want this to be a very special year for me after going through last year and my divorce. I also am fortunate to have a very special person now in my life that I would like to share Vogal with that loves to ride and camp with me. So, anyone reading this, give Lew some good feedback and encouragement as he and Charlene put a tremendous amount of effort into this. RandyA
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    Thanks Dave, we may be talking to you. We are trying to not make the 85 a parts bike. RandyA
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    Actually Steve, we had a discussion Wednesday about getting the 85 on the road for my 19 year old grandson who now rides a CBR600. I think he could ride this one. He can reach the ground better than I can. RandyA
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    I came into work Monday and one of our Harley guys told me about a Venture a guy had where he had just bought a small trail bike for his kid. The guy had posted on Craigs List and it looked pretty good. It turned out to be an 86 with 39.000 miles on it with some extra stuff. The guy that had it was a contractor and had done some work for a guy that couldn't come up with all money owed, so he threw in the bike. The guy that we bought it from said he had only put about 100 miles on it and he did more damage to the bike than the previous 24 years. He dropped it and broke a corner out of the right fairing and under the trunk. The bike has been sitting for a long time and will definately need a carb cleanning and sync. It has a new battery and does run, but only with the choke on, which is typical of clogged jets. Otherwise, the bike appears to be in really nice shape and should be roadworthy without too much work and money. We are going to need one of the rubber straps that hold the side panels on. The carbs still have the torque screws and appear to have not been touched, so it will probably need diaphragms. It has a nice Ventureline Back rest and it even has the lighted rear reflector that Big bike parts sold. It is the brown color and a little lighter that the brown 85 I bought a while back. As soon as we get the side panels back on it, I will try to post a couple of pictures of it. I think that will be a nice bike for Brian(Lil Venturous) as his wife wants to ride and the only thing she has ridden on with him was a souped up FZ1 and I don't think that went too well. RandyA
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    Wow, looking good!!! I sure hope that everything works out good for you two and I hope it works out for Linda and me so we can meet you at Freebird's MD. RandyA
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    Used 3 gears to 60? I do believe I have been real close to 60 shifting out of 1st on my 83. That's a tad over 8500 rpm's and I am pretty sure I been close to that on ocassion. RandyA
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    On the end of each shaft there is a score mark that goes where the slot is where the bolt goes. With that in mind, you should be able to figure out whether the linkage goes up or down behind the stator cover because I can not remember off the top of my head. RandyA
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    I think there may be some kind of warning if the reserve light unit is malfunctioning. Try switching to another reserve light unit and see if that helps. They sometimes show up on ebay for very little or maybe someone has one they can loan you. I will check if I have a spare. RandyA
  24. Venturous Randy
    You may have a new fuel filter and not be getting much fuel to the fuel filter. I suspect if it is fuel and not a collapsed or kinked fuel line, you may have a problem in your tank. Do you run your bike on reserve? I would be tempted to run the bike low on gas and maybe pump out what is left and then open the gas lid and blow air into the hose going to the tank. This may clear any debris you have at the petcock. If it does help your problem, you will need to do a good clean out of the tank. Just make sure any fumes or spray coming from the tank can not be ignited. I notice you said new wires. Did that include new caps also? These caps have resistors built into them and do get corroded. Even if you do have a fuel starvation problem, if you fill the carb bowls and immediately go to a hard pull, there should be good power for a short period of time. RandyA
  25. Venturous Randy
    I was getting ready to suggest you lube your speedometer. RandyA
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