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  1. Venturous Randy
    I just pulled up the original post on Asheville and saw I posted it on December 7th of last year. I also noted I was just trying to get thru the PMS and the temp was 25º below normal. Well, it is finally here and we will be leaving out in the morning. I hope everyone that is coming will have a safe trip and have a great time. Now if I could just get to sleep. RandyA
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    Dave, you may have already said, but where are you staying? RandyA
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    \ We plan on leaving in the morning, so I guess the riff-raff will be arriving before noon. I just hope I can sleep tonight. RandyA
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    We will probably have at least 6 to 8 chairs, some fold out canvas chairs and some plastic chairs. RandyA
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    Hey Gerald, we know some great places both on and near the parkway. Our favorite is Carolina Hemlocks State Park in the valley below Mt Mitchell. It is on Highway 80 going toward Burnsville, NC. It is a great place for kids if they like to swim and is a great place to snorkle. They have hot showers, but no electricity at the camp sites. There is another place just up the mountain from Cherokee, NC. It is part of a Parkway extension road. The road is just like the parkway and goes about 8 miles across the crest of the mountains north east and dead ends. It has running water and bathrooms, but no electricity, It is very nice, but very remote. If I get a chance, I will do the coordinates on Google Earth. There is also some camping at Mt Pisgah that only has water with bathrooms, but no electricity. As you get closer to your trip, let us know and we may have more info. Great pictures Tom. The pavillion you showed is also on highway 80, on the other side of the parkway going to Marion, NC Randy
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    I am on my third day of a ten day vacation and since I had a few days with Laura in Birningham at a family reunion, I decided to do a bit of maintenance before our Asheville rally. It has been a year since my bike was knocked over sustaining damage to the right side fairing. I took the fairing off month's ago and did the repairs, but did not get it painted. I decided this would be a good time and my painter said he could work it in, so I tore in to her. Friday I took the fairings to my painter after I had 400 sanded them and was hopeing for a quick turn around. He did a great job adding the base coat on the repaired area without getting in to my ghost flames, but when he started the clearcoat, he had a problem with it spitting, so that will have to be buffed and re done. While I had the fairings off, I decided to replace the fork seals, since one had a very small leak. Got that done and decided to replace all brake pads. Two of the calipers had a sticky piston, so I disassembeled and cleaned them. I also needed to replace the clutch slave hose and got that done. Now, I need to do some work on a cracked panel where the radio goes. If I can get that done tomorrow and get my fairings back, I hope I will be good to go. I hate doing a bunch of maintenance before a trip, but that is how it ended up being. Year before last when getting ready for the trip to Vogal, pulling a 450 lb camper, I decided to replace my transmission from and 86 motor. I had all of 12 miles on it after the repair when we hooked up the camper up and took off and it done great. Well, wish me luck. RandyA
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    Right now it is calling for Tuesday thru Sunday sunny with low to mid 80's day and close to 60 at night. In other words...perfect. RandyA http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/USNC0022?from=36hr_topnav_undeclared
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    Is anyone bringing a laptop with a wifi connection? Last year Thom had one and it was nice to check weather and other trivial stuff. (I'm gonna miss Thom this year). RandyA
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    Todd, I think mini is site 23 and I believe we are 21. If you have not reserved a site yet, you may be able to share with us or someone else. I don't remember if there was a charge to add another tent, but last year we had several more tents than we had sites. The area where we are camping has a lot of room so I don't think you need to reserve a site. Mini, since you suggested the German restaurant, when do you think we need to make the reservations? And, you may have mentioned it, but when are you getting there? We should be there before noon Wednesday. RandyA
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    Do you have a Lowe's? They have them. RandyA
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    I would love to meet you guys, but I will be getting things around here ready for Asheville. Are you going to be able to come up to Asheville for our extended meet and eat next week? RandyA
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    Yes it is and now that Brandy is not going to be coming, we need some more entertainment. Are you busy for that time? RandyA
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    Wow, Brandy, I am disappointed all over. You and Wayne were one of the major attractions!!! RandyA
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    About anything can be done. It is just up to how much work you want to put in it. Kinda like putting a Cadillac North Star in your Fiero GT. That makes a real sweet combination. Like me putting a 350 Chevy in a 240Z Datsun and putting 156,000 miles on it after the mod. RandyA
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    1st of all, the battery display is only an indicator of water level if the battery has a level indicator. If you are dropping from 12.3 to about 3 volts, either the battery is not ok or there is a huge drain that should get some wires hot real quick. Another thing you will want to do is check the fusebox, especially if it is the old type and make sure the fuse holders are tight. RandyA
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    My 1st question is have you cleaned the carbtune restrictors. If you have vacuum and the restrictors are stopped up, they won't read correctly(that's why I like my Mercury sticks). Also, it sounds like you have a big vacuum leak somewhere. You need to get the other stuff fixed before trying to sync, because it may make it worse. RandyA
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    Dave, if you do not want to carry your griddle, we will have a large one available for the breakfast meal. I had thought about making Grandfather Mountain one of the suggested rides as last year we went to Chimney Rock, Mt Mitchell, Cherokee and Biltmore House. There is just so many great rides in the Asheville area. RandyA
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    What I have learned from all this discussion and discussions with others not on this site is; there does not seem to be one consistant way that this works. I do believe that the banks are not the ones initating the holds, but if the holds cause money to not be available, then they may do the NSF (Non Suffient Funds) charge. I know this because I checked my checking account balance one evening to see if I needed to transfer any money as I knew my direct deposit paycheck was going to be put in after midnight. I was fine and knew what I had spent and what was pending. I got tagged with two $35 charges and when I went to the bank the next day, with a printout in hand, the only thing they could tell me was I had some purchases that had "holds" attached to them and they would not refund my NFS charges. In my case, I had made a fuel purchase, but I had also made a restaurant purchase and I believe they may have done the same thing. So, if you don't keep a lot of money in your checking account to allow for this stuff, and you don't like going inside, usually twice, to make a gas purchase, you may end up paying a lot more for the purchase than you thought you were. RandyA
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    There is a difference between a modulating headlight and a strobe and I have strobes. RandyA
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    Guys buy a Strat because it reminds them of an HD, and they have that same mentality that it looks real good parked in the driveway. RandyA
  21. Venturous Randy
    As I was coming to work at about 7am, I came upon a city cop in front of me that quickly moved into the right lane on a 40mph 4 lane city street. After I passed, he moved back in behind me and paced me for close to a mile. He then blue lighted me and I stopped, blocking the right lane. I knew I was not speeding, so I was curious as to why he stopped me. When he came up beside me, he advised me that running a strobe in my headlight was against the law. I told him that it was interesting that I have had a strobe in my bike for 13 years and was within about 30 miles of putting 100,000 miles on it and he was the first that had ever taken issue with it. I also told him that I had the flash frequency set slower so that it would not be confused as an emergency vehicle. When he told me that for sure I had better not be caught by a Tennessee State Trooper. I told him I had been pulled over by a TST for a strobe, but it was in my taillight lens, activated by the brake. The TST told me that he pulled me over because I had it behind a red lens and a colored strobe was not legal. I also told the city cop that I showed the TST my headlight strobe and he did not take issue with it. I told him I did it to be seen for safety"s sake and he admitted there had been 5 cyclist's death in our area so far this year. He then told me that he also rode a motorcycle. When I asked him what he rode, he would only say that he had two "sport bikes". He told me that he was not going to give me a ticket, but he sure did have an arrogent attitude. I wonder if I can go another 13 years and 100,000 miles without getting pulled over for a strobe? RandyA
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    Sitting here at work, just trying to get thru the day, hdhtr, you put a smile on my face and I thank you for that. RandyA
  23. Venturous Randy
    As I was getting ready to pull out the little camper and get it ready, I noticed we still have our big tent. It is one with a big center room that is screened with a room on each end that will zip up. We also have a spare big air mattress. Since Laura will be driving her car down towing the trailer with the little camper on it, we will have plenty of room to bring the tent. This would be for anyone that would like to have a place to stay and have not made arrangements yet for one night or four. So keep in mind that there will be sleeping space available and it might only cost you a cold drink. And, if it is like last year, we never ran out of something to eat and drink(well, we did run out of Biltmore wine, but that is a different story). RandyA
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    Don, I am curious, with over 7,000 registered members on file, how many do we have that are now "supporting members"? RandyA
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    The two fillups I have done since the mod is about 5 mpg better than before. Running the twisties and up and down mountains yesterday in NC, I filled up and got 43 mpg in what would have usually been at best 38mpg. This was mostly from 20 to 60 mph and a lot of pulling. I really can tell a difference as I still have two bars left at about 140 miles and in the past I would have been in on the last bar for a long time, getting ready for the light to start blinking. I also feel the bike is smoother than before. The only negative I have seen is when I replaced the diaphragms, I felt an increase in power at WOT(wide open throttle). I do feel I have lost a bit of that and am wondering if the needles being a little deeper in the jets is what is making the difference. RandyA
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