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Hope you heal quickly and I'm sure you will. When I was recently going through all my eye exams, I was told that I have very early stages of cataracts. She said it was expected and they are consistent with my age. She said that EVERYBODY would get them if they live long enough.
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LOL....I didn't even catch that. I guess we should point it out NOW so that we don't confuse anybody. OK Skid...it is $12.00 per YEAR...NOT per MONTH.
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Per family as long as you tell me so that I know.
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Folks, lets not get up in the air over this. The fact is, the 7500 members is a nice number but if you look at all the posts, you will see that the vast majority of the members that have been active have indeed stepped up to the plate and it is much appreciated. The 7000+ members have registered over a period of years. Some registered and never posted at all and some never even came back. Some sold their bikes and moved to other brands and sites that better support those brands. There are a LOT of reasons. The fact is, most sites are lucky if 10% of the registered members are active at any level. I feel pretty good about our numbers and am not disappointed at all. I will also say this. I think that $12.00 per year is VERY cheap. That is a single dollar per month. Most folks could pick up and cash in enough coke bottles or cans to pay that amount. I do understand and am sensitive to the fact though that some people are going through some REALLY hard times right now and though they could probably come up with the $12.00, they can also find plenty of more necessary things to spend that $12.00 on. A few members have sent extra dues and asked that it be used for anybody who is truly going through hard times but would like to remain a member. I have honored those requests and have awarded memberships to a handful of folks that I truly felt were sincere in wanting to stay. I would hate to lose a single member that TRULY can't come up with $12.00 at this time.
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Not sure but you can contact him from the info in this thread. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=20987
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They will be blocked by their email address and also the log of their IP address. There may be ways to get around it but it will require some effort. If somebody wants to go to that much trouble to save $1.00 a month then they need it worse than I do.
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OK folks...I THINK it is done. Within a few minutes or so....the task manager should run and automatically move anybody who joined more than 15 days ago and has NOT purchased a subscription to the new Expired Trial Group. At that time, those folks will no longer be able to post to the forums. At this time, they will still be able to read but just not post. I'm going to do this in stages so as not to shut people off immediately. So...I will leave it this way for a few days and then will likely change it so that non-supporting members will not be able to read either. I may try to set it up so that they can read the first few threads in a forum but no more. Don't know if I can figure that out or not but we'll see how it works out over the next few days. I repeat, if you are NOT marked as a supporting member but have paid, PLEASE send me a PM and let me know. Even if you have mailed a check and I have not had time to receive it yet, I will still mark you paid.
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At this time, the trial does include the ability to post but I can change that at any time. Right now, the 15 day trial gives full access. I will likely make changes as we move ahead and fine tune it to better fit our needs.
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No, he lived in another state so would have registered it there.
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At this time, I'm showing 1269.
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Moped is exactly right...I just looked at the receipt and there is a $5.00 late fee on it. Oh well....that doesn't seem excessive since it was about 6 years late.
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Works OK but too expensive I think. Black shirt with logo on back and small text on pocket area came to $28.95.
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LOL...heck...if I didn't mark me paid, I would lose access.
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You are good. Look at the post that you made. It says "Supporting Member" right beside your name.
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Eck, I was really surprised but there was no penalty. I expected to get slammed but apparently there is no penalty in Ohio. I DID have to pay the sales tax on what I paid for it back when though. There was no fudging either because the previous owner had filled out the selling price on the back of the title. I tried to tell the lady that the bike was no longer worth that but she just laughed at me...imagine that.
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OK folks, I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on the changes to the forum. I have held off because some folks do not use PayPal and had mailed checks and money orders. I think that I have received most of them. Everybody who has paid should be marked now as a supporting member. You should see "supporting member" beside your username in any post that you have made. You can also see it in your UserCP at the upper right, across from your username. If you have paid and are not marked so, you need to let me know today. If you mailed a check but I haven't yet received it, let me know and I'll go ahead and mark you paid and trust that it will get to me. When I make the final changes, probably tonight, registered but non-supporting members will no longer be able to post messages. Even as I type this, I'm not sure exactly what areas will be open for read only but some will certainly be for members only. After the change, any new people who register will get a 15 day free trial. At the end of that trial, they will be automatically moved to the non-supporting group. So, if you have paid and are not marked as such, please let me know today. If you want to pay and haven't done so, go to your UserCP and scroll down until you see "Paid Subsriptions" in the left menu. Click on that and follow the instructions. You will be able to pay via PayPal. You do not have to be registered at PayPal to do so. It will allow you to pay via PayPal, credit card or ECheck. Thanks, Don
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OK folks, it's been a while since we have had any new T-Shirts made up for our members. Crash used to take care of this but he is no longer in the business. Do we have any members here who are in the silk screening business? I am looking for somebody who is willing to help me with the design of a new shirt, willing to have them made up and do the inventory, shipping, etc. If you are interested, send me a PM or an email and we'll see what we can work out. We already have a member who does embroidery on caps and shirts but not screenprinting, dye sublimation, etc. If nobody here is in the business, I'll start looking for a vendor elsewhere.
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Thanks to A1Bummer for providing this info and the pictures. If you need a new thermostat, there is a Napa #156 and on the Napa box was a #33708 that I was able to cross reference to a Stant #13758 at my local auto parts dealer. A stat at the MC stealer was ~$30 and at the auto parts dealer it was ~$7. All are 180* stats. Thanks, Bill
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In May of 1999, I bought my brand new Royal Star Venture. I put about 35,000 miles on it pretty quickly but then about 6 or 7 years ago, ran across another '99 model down in Southern Ohio that only had 5,000 miles on it. The price was about the same as I knew I could sell mine for so I bought it, moved all my accessories and etc. over to the new one and then sold my original on Ebay. The new one was the same color and etc. so it was like I hadn't even changed bikes except for the mileage. So this weekend I was looking through some papers and came upon the title for my bike. You can imagine how surprised I was to notice that I had never transferred it into my name. It was one of those things where I thought my wife and done it and she assumed that I had done it and it just didn't get done. I still received my registration notice every year from the previous '99 so I always just renewed the plates and kept on going. The problem was, the plates were actually assigned to the VIN number of the old bike. I guess I've been lucky because I've never been stopped so there has been no reason for them to run the VIN number against the plates. I DID change the insurance when I traded so my insurance was on the correct bike. So, yesterday morning I stopped by the BMV and finally transferred the title to my name. So, I guess I FINALLY own the bike that I've been riding for 6 or 7 years.
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Mike, Annie has a RSV, they are different than your '84. They do work just fine with the braided lines though, I have them on mine as do many here. They are a bit of a pain to get bled but you just have to stay with it. Seems I had to use quick/short pumps to get them to finally build up some pressure and then bleed them as you normally would.
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06 Venture with a BANG! and a shriek...
Freebird replied to Seaking's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
You can add me to the list of Corvair owners. I don't remember for sure but I THINK it was a '62 model. Plain Jane....4 door. Used it for a work car because I didn't like parking my new Chevelle SS at the construction site where I was working at the time. -
Moving this to the Darksiders forum. You will get much better response there.
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Folks, let's please keep it nice. I too had my own issues with Alan Cease and that is the main reason that I am not a member now but there are many great folks involved with the local chapters. Chances are, you'll never have to deal with Alan. The best advice given here is to check out your local chapter if you want to and you may find them to be a great group of folks. In fact, that's probably exactly what you'll find. Let's please keep this thread respectful though. No reason for any name calling at all.
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I've had my problems with Verizon customer service also. I just hate it when I have to deal with them for any reason. I travel a LOT though and know from experience that they have the absolute best cellular coverage in the USA. I've tried a couple of others over the years, including AT&T, but there were just way too many times when I didn't have a signal when I traveled. Even here at the house, AT&T signal is hit and miss. So...I just stay with Verizon for now and hope I don't have a problem that requires talking to them. We had our land lines taken out about 2 years ago except for the DSL. We use cellular phones exclusively for voice. You do not have to have a voice land line in order to have DSL.
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I can tell you for a fact that the RSV will do it. I don't make a habit of it but have done it once or twice over the past 10 years. Now that I have the VMAX rear, it would be even easier.
