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  1. RandyR
    I think you can get one of the Russian made copies, a Ural and sidecar with fake machinegun mount ready to go.
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    you have checked your valve shim clearance with that many miles haven't you? What kind of oil did you have in it ? just curious.
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    Georgia has started putting up media dividers which are steel posts with steel cable strung between them. Locally refered to as bike shredders.
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    Thanks. I'll save it for an extended camping/ride on my Suzuki DR200
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    Its a MotoGuzzi
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    I'm not afraid of Forest Service roads but some of them are a bit rutted and not too hospitable to large touring motorcycles. Would you travel That route on your Venture?
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    even busted up and bruised meat makes good dog food. cut it up and put it in a big pot with some water and boil it good and let the bones settle to the bottom, or pick out the bones when it cools. Then mix it with their dry food. Dogs love it.
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    Looks like I learned something here on Venturerider again besides how to grease my splines..... I'll make a trip to VA next week and apply for eligibility, and see what they say. btw. I don't view anything VA may give me as free. The military got a big piece of my hide hanging on the wall.
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    Its time to take my dogs for a walk... :178:
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    I had to look around to find that. Is that paved all the way, or is it gravel/dirt? It comes into the Dragon as Parson Branch Rd. hmm. I wonder why you went that way?
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    get a ham radio license
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    I don't think I'm eligible for VA health benefits with 3 years active duty and 8 years reserve and guard. But never served in a combat zone and no medical discharge. VA has an automated eligibility checker at: http://www.va.gov/healtheligibility/eligibility/DetermineEligibility.asp based on what was said above I found it and it says 'probably no, but apply to be be sure. There appears to also be a low income criteria if the other stuff doesn't apply. VA has a hospital on the north side of Atlanta, so might have been a good choice. One thing I learned is that if you don't get medicare at age 65, and then want it later, you will pay a stiff monthly penalty in cost -- unless you can show other creditible coverage, perhaps written VA eligability constitutes that creditable coverage? In any case you may want to see if the VA covers prescriptions/drugs? If not then you may want a medicare part D drug plan in addtion to VA coverage. ------ Medicare part A = hospital (free to all who apply, but big gaps in what it covers and large co-pays) Medicare part B = outpatient and outside Dr visits ($115/mo and again big gaps and high copays) Medicare part D = prescription drug insurance (varied) You can get insurance plans for parts A & B or both to fill some or most of the gaps. Usually a D plan is separate. also medicare part C insurance plan = medicare Advantage Plan is either a Prefered Provider plan or HMO. varies in coverage and usually includes part D in addition to A&B. There are standardized medicare supplement plans that cover varying portions of the gaps in parts A & B that are lettered A-B-etc. At first I confused parts and plans.
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    I turn 65 next month, and my current medical insurance policy terminates when I become medicare eligible on the first day of December (the month of my birthday). What a complicated lawyer and accountant sucking system this is. With the govt paying a significant part of my hospitalization and subsidizing out patient type care, my personal insurance costs are more than tripling from November to December. And there are plans, and parts, and copays, and deductibles and exceptions out the wazoo. I've spent a couple weeks trying to make sense of it all and have decided a lot of it will never make sense. Prices from one insurance company to the next vary a lot of $$$ I've had medical with the same HMO for 35 years, but my zipcode isn't in the table they gave to social security as being in their coverage area, never mind that they have a doctors office and major hospital only 20 minutes from my house. So after going round and round with them, the HMO will file an exception (of some kind) on my behalf so I can stay with them. I have to move into their Medicare Advantage HMO Plan at age 65 I did come real close to jumping ship and getting a medicare plan F supplement policy from an insurance company, it would be slightly more costly, but a bit more flexible than my HMO. But after 35 years with the same plan, I'd prefer to stay pat. And my HMO has their own pharmacy, so I wouldn't need a Medicare Plan D for pharmacy insurance. Dental insurance at age 65 goes up 50% even staying with the same company (nothing to do with medicare). My advice to those age 64, is start to read everything you can about the system instead of waiting until the last month like I did. and. try not to take this thread too political.
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    glad that parts over Randy. We'll all be waiting with you for sight to be restored. Should be good to go when spring gets here..
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    thats a good price. show off your new ride at Freebird's maintenance day next spring.
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    It looks like Audry has her hands over her eyes? You must have driven the Fontana Dam road. a very scenic route.
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    http://epagepub.com/publication/?i=83557 enjoy...
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    prayers sent for Hal's sister.
  20. RandyR
    buy a cheap bicycle inner tube and cut out your own. Double if necessary.
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    The nagging thing that bothers me about the noisy clutch basket is that noise is caused by vibration. Vibration causes metal fatigue and possibly wear if friction is involved --- somewhere to something.
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    Annie had a shifter that worked from a handlebar control on her RSV. Not sure what was on the Harley Trike, but presume something similar.
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    With the salesman picking up the tab for the golf from his commission, which you were being asked to contribute to.
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    prayers sent. Let them both know we care.
  25. RandyR
    My town has decreed that halloween is just for children 12 and under. That may explain why the local groceries have had a run on cartons of eggs ...
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