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Stay out of NJ on the weekends. Everyone is heading south from the cities to the beaches on Friday and Saturday, and heading back north on Sunday. All north south roads will be jammed. If you are heading north on a weekday then you might try the Cape May ferry then the NJ Parkway to the 87 in NY state, then cross over the Tappan zee bridge. Lots of roads east and north into Mass, VT and NH. If you run north in NH you really need to check out MT. Washington. It is a ride you will never forget. From there run east across Maine to Bar Harbor. From there ride the 1 north along the coast to CN.

Not gonna get any sleep tonight with that thought in my head!

Couple years back another member had a rod bearing go out while on a trip. don't remember who. That was the only other major failure I know of. as others have mentioned, Pinwall is a good place to look for a motor.

WE LET YOU STAY AND YOU OWN AN HD! SO NO PROBLEM FOR THE NEW VENTURE OWNER.

We were there last year and did not find a bad road. Keep an eye on the weather, if they have heavy rains some roads may be washed out.

The way I see it is if they come out with a new Venture or what ever, The price of a used second gen. will drop significantly. I should be able to keep my trike on the road for another 20 year with all those used bikes and parts out there. only problem is what to do with all those cassette players:confused24:

Hope he's right, getting tired of playing this game every year.

Did you loan it out and forget to who?

All I gotta say is..... you better be house broken

Robin says, if Jonas is a dog she would be more then happy to adopt him:178:

Only real pizza in this country is in NY and NJ. Where it all started.

Sorry, not going to make MD this year. Looking forward to seeing you at WNY. As for Kristjan....I'm staying out of it. Robins problem.

No, the video's came out a week or two prior to the 1st.

No, but I took her out for a first of the season ride today......On the bike.

to my one and only.

So it looks like the sneak peak pic's in the other post just might be the new venture, stratotour or what ever they call it. I said a couple years ago that the replacement for the venture would be a big V-twin. Reason for saying this.... all the other guys are v-twins, except Honda. They build what makes them $$$. Don't matter what a hand full of people like us would like to see them do.

There is another thread about this, started about a week ago. I don't believe what we see in the picture is what the bike is going to actually look like when it is finally available to the public. It looks like a fake fairing cover and several other fake covers bolted on hide what it really looks like.

Two words.....Strato tour. I believe the Venture is dead. I said several years ago that the next Yamaha touring bike would use a Big water cooled V twin. I believe we are getting a preview of that bike. It will probably look a lot better with out all the flat black paint and probably some fake plastic parts to hide some details.

Hate to burst your bubble Bongo, but the twist was written and performed by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters in 59 Chubby covered it in 60 and made it famous with the dance.

Never had a problem with shipping from Pinwall.

Every year after the rally is over many folks will post saying how they wished they had been there and saying how they would like to have joined in all the fun. This year don't wish....DO! join us for a weekend of fun and family.

66 deg. Here in fla. I like it!

Left home in NY 5 hours ago, now in Hagerstown MD. heading to Fla. for the week. One more day of snow and I would have killed someone. We are going to look around for our future retirement home. We have had enough! Looking forward to sun and sand:sun:

Right now I'll take the 30's. Just finished digging the truck out of a 4' snow bank in my driveway. Single digit temps. This stuff sucks. Looking forward to heading to Fla. in three days. going down in the cage, so I don't care if the temps are in the 50's/60's. That's a heat wave compared to this....stuff.