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Hello leathercollectionfr, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. Please introduce yourself so that our members can get to know you. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. This thread is primarily for introductions. If you have specific questions about your bike, you will get more responses if you post them in the correct forum. leathercollectionfr joined on the 01/15/2022. View Member

They are great bikes. Hope you are riding soon.

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Yea, that was me but I never got enough people interested to make it affordable.

Good luck. I looked for years and found nothing available. Even looked into having some made but the coast was about $10,000.00 several years ago.

Your old battery should have had a lead that inserted into one of the fill holes. It sensed the acid level I'm in the battery. The newer GSM batteries have to way to connect the lead. There is an article in the tech library about how to disable it.

One other thing that I meant to add. I think that Facebook plays a big role in the decline of these forums. It used to take literally hours, days, weeks to create a group hangout like this.. Now somebody can go on Facebook and in a matter of 5 minutes create a Facebook group. While some want nothing to do with Facebook, the fact is, that's the go to place for many people.

I got a message from a member asking why the site is so dead lately. I don't know for sure but I feel like it's just taking the same course as so many clubs do over the years. We have to be around 15 years old now and many of our core members have gotten older and quit riding. I don't even ride much any longer. I think I took my bike out one time last summer. I keep saying that I'm going to get back into it but just haven't had the desire. I think that all this Covid stuff played at least a small part. Our regional rallies and etc. were a glue that helped hold us all together,. Getting together in person and sharing our stories, working on the bikes, just enjoying one anothers company always seemed to rekindle things. I haven't even had my annual Maintenance Day now for 3 years and that was a highlight, at least for Eileen and I. Not sure we'll have it this year due to the surge of Covid happening again. I know that we need to but just don't know yet. I've not been nearly as active and that pays a big part also, I used to spend a lot of time looking for interesting things to post, tips for our bikes, all kinds of things but just haven't had the time. Starting a new business about 3 years ago has consumed a lot of my time. Now here is something that I haven't told any of you. Those of you who have been around for a long time will remember that I had a bout with cancer a few years ago, about 13 years ago to be more exact. I had Ocular Melanoma and due to the radiation and etc.,, ended up losing 100% of the site in my right eye. I still go back yearly for follow ups. Well my yearly exam was last week and I was dismayed to learn that I again have the cancer. It, luckily, is in the same eye so going blind is not an issue. The fact is though, I don't know yet if it has spread to the liver or anywhere else. I will be going into the hospital late next week for surgery and more radiation. I have appointments sometime over the next week or so for MRIs and etc. to determine if it has spread. I'm trying to not fret over it too much. Just going about my work and will see where things end up. I hate that the site has gotten slow but have no intentions of shutting it down anytime in the near future. I put my heart and sole into this site for a lot of years and I have to do better. In the meantime, I hope that most of you will stick with us, spread the word about the site, and hopefully we can get it moving again. Only time will tell.

Hello Finnell, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. Please introduce yourself so that our members can get to know you. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. This thread is primarily for introductions. If you have specific questions about your bike, you will get more responses if you post them in the correct forum. Finnell joined on the 01/09/2022. View Member

It's been many years since I've owned a first gen Venture but I seem to remember that the tube is just a press fit. Hopefully somebody else will offer some insight.

I've never seen any and don't think they were made. The only thing available was the black top rails for the lids.

Hello Salmo, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. Please introduce yourself so that our members can get to know you. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. This thread is primarily for introductions. If you have specific questions about your bike, you will get more responses if you post them in the correct forum. Salmo joined on the 01/03/2022. View Member

We are happy that you have officially joined us. Ask away, we get bored and want to answer questions.

Hello Michael Logozzo, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. Please introduce yourself so that our members can get to know you. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. This thread is primarily for introductions. If you have specific questions about your bike, you will get more responses if you post them in the correct forum. Michael Logozzo joined on the 01/01/2022. View Member

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Please do not start it back again. We all have strong opinions regarding this issue and we are obviously not going to change one another opinions.

Hello Mrbdmj, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. Please introduce yourself so that our members can get to know you. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. This thread is primarily for introductions. If you have specific questions about your bike, you will get more responses if you post them in the correct forum. Mrbdmj joined on the 12/30/2021. View Member

Hello Russ Kilpatrick, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. Please introduce yourself so that our members can get to know you. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. This thread is primarily for introductions. If you have specific questions about your bike, you will get more responses if you post them in the correct forum. Russ Kilpatrick joined on the 12/29/2021. View Member

So sorry to hear this. He has been a member for a long time. Thanks for letting us know.

I have a GoPro but haven’t used it.

Hello Sam, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. Please introduce yourself so that our members can get to know you. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. This thread is primarily for introductions. If you have specific questions about your bike, you will get more responses if you post them in the correct forum. Sam joined on the 12/25/2021. View Member

Hello Ashley Jamieson, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. Please introduce yourself so that our members can get to know you. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. This thread is primarily for introductions. If you have specific questions about your bike, you will get more responses if you post them in the correct forum. Ashley Jamieson joined on the 12/21/2021. View Member

Hello Jay man Freebird, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. Please introduce yourself so that our members can get to know you. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. This thread is primarily for introductions. If you have specific questions about your bike, you will get more responses if you post them in the correct forum. Jay man Freebird joined on the 12/20/2021. View Member