steamer

Hey Tom, ole buddy.....:moon:

A waddle..."hic" of yentalman yack...I mean Jack..."hic"...and I ain't opened it yet!

It's Christmas morning. I'm sitting here looking out the window at the snow on the ground, Robin is stuffing the stockings that we will take with us to my son's house later this afternoon And all I can think is how nice it would be if instead of snow, I was looking at Palm trees swaying in the warm breeze with the trike sitting in the driveway waiting for us to climb on and ride off into the warm and sunny day....How I hate WINTER! But I do like Christmas, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.

Happy Holidays became popular in 1942 when Bing Crosby performed the song written by Irving Berlin in the Holiday movie "White Christmas". It then became popular to say "Happy Holidays" For no other reason then to wise others well for the holidays. Had nothing to do with the BS going on today. So... MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT. Stop sweating the small sh.... stuff and enjoy the Holidays, whatever your beliefs.

Sorry almost forgot. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Won't work for me... I only get 2 holidays off a year....retail.

I did 21 years in the Navy. I spent a total of 7 and a half years with my family, and no, not all at the same time. I did six, 6 month deployments. six, 3 month deployments. 3, 0ne year yard overhauls. two away from home. I can't begin to count all the 1 week, 2 week, 3 week and 30 day underway periods. Must be several dozen. One 2 year shore duty that was 250 miles from home. Just loved driving back and forth every weekend just so I could spend 24 hours with my family. One 2 year period stationed 500 miles from home. I got home every other weekend for the first year so I could spend 12 hours at home before I had to drive 10 hours back to my ship. That was lots of fun! Did I mention that on one of my 6 month deployments I spend 4 months of it sitting in the Indian ocean in 100 deg heat with out ever setting foot on land. That was 100 plus degrees out side on deck. I work in the engine rooms, It was 120 degrees down there. six hours on, 6 hours off. That's when ships were steam powered, and no, no air conditioning. Your right, I should have to wait until I'm 62 to collect my pension. Just hope I live that long. Because many of use don't! So do I think I deserve My little monthly stipends, you better believe I do! And bye the way, It amounts to about 1/3 for my total active pay at the time I retired. That was in 97. Unlike most union workers that get 80 to 100%. Yep we retired military got it made in the shade. Well back to my hammock under the palm tree with my tropical drink.

Now you did it.... I'm all misty eyed. All those great memories.

Your all to late! I already got the car and the million bucks. Me and rockinrobin are driving the BMW to Hawaii to pick out our new beach house.

OMG! we've been wiped off the map!

If it was running ok prior to the leaf blower and fill up, then I would suspect you blew some water into a ignition wire causing a miss fire or dead cylinder. or you got a bad tank of gas. The gas is easy to check as someone here said. Just pull the gas line off the tank and turn the petcock to reserve, pour some gas into the clear jar and see if there is water at the bottom . I've had water in the gas more then a few times. Now if it's water in the ignition system, then you need to start pulling plug wires and electrical connections apart and blow them out using very low pressure air. Put a little dielectric grease on the connectors and reinstall. Oh, if it was popping prior to this, you need to sync your carbs also.

Can you believe CBS already aired Rudolph the red nose raindeer! Merry Xmas CBS!

Happy Thanksgiving to all from rockinRobin and Steamer. We both have the day off, but will be at work tomorrow morning at 4am for me and 5am for Robin. The joys of working retail.... Happy black Friday:mo money::mo money:

I installed the fire sticks without changing the cables. The am/fm works great, the cb not so good. need to work on that some day.

Keep it simple. Make a list of all the place's you and your wife have always wanted to visit, and do it! If you can't do it all in the time frame you set aside then pick the top 10 or 15 places for this trip, then plan a second trip later down the road. who says you only get one shot at this rodeo?

Now that there is some funny stuff:rotfl:

Robin owns a 2012 Sol, never had any problems with it. except the gas mileage was misstated by Kia on this model and several others. Says we should get 35 mpg highway. we maybe get 30-31 mpg. No problem though, Kia fix the problem by reimbursing us for the difference. So every year we own the car we receive between $500.00 to $600.00. It is based on miles driven.

get rid of the roof and open it up like a motorcycle and that thing would be cool.

Surgery is over. they removed two small tumors. Now we go back to 3 month check ups and hope and pray they don't come back. now it's time to get away for a little bit. can't wait to hit the beach with one of those tropical drinks with the little umbrella's.

Every so often life will throw you a curve. This last month has been tense to say the least. Today RockinRobin will have a couple of small tumors removed. Just an in and out surgery. We have been through this more then a few times, But it still sucks! with that being said, we are taking a break next week in Fort Myers Beach. Flying down on the 4th, back on the 9th. Wish we could take the trike but it won't fit in the planes carry on over head. Just hanging around the beach and seeing what SW Florida has to offer should be a nice break from reality.

Have you met that BIG TOM guy?....What a jerk!

What the Heck were you thinking???!!!! Get out while you still can!

Take 2 shots of SEA FOAM And call me in the morning. Will fix anything. Oh, and for everything else:essen_018:

So the only issues the 99's have, is the cracked trunk mounts and the antenna's. everything else applies to the 99 through the 2013. Except some 07's had a head bolt torque problem. All in all it is one of the best bikes on the road. Some of our members have well over 100000 trouble free miles on there bikes.

All bike have minor issues. I'm sure some folks here will start listing all the know problems of both the 1st and 2nd gen. Just remember, Every 1st gen and RSV does not have every one of these issues. Most of us have had very few if any problems with our bikes. And then there are a few of us that have had more then our share of problems, but would not trade our bike for anything.