DragonRider

Bob if you happen to pass through Atlanta on your return, please call, would love to see you guys, it has been a while. Numbers are on the VR assistance list.

Never done one, but be interesting to watch and learn, Ill keep an eye on this and try to make it, I can pass tools and eat, that's for sure.

Count me in........haven't made one yet, but I plan on being there............Can I Bring my 1 st gen basket case, with all the people there we ought to get it done............just kidding. Maybe it will be ready...........I hope. If it is wont need to do anything except maybe a carb tune.

Not highjacking this thread but was wondering if you found a replacement for your oil filter cover, I have one for an 86 from the donor motor I was given, I am only using the tranny from it if you need any parts, let me know. I have the entire engine. Whatever you need that I dont use, which is hopefully the tranny is yours for shipping.

Thank you for bidding!!!!!

The first round of auctions for Cruisin' for St. Jude are completed and here is a list of the winners and the amounts. If you are one of the winners that won more than one auction, you do not need to send the shipping fee for each auction, I will combine them all in one package for a single shipping fee. For the pins that would be $1.00 and for the others it would be $5.00. I am using USPS Priority Mail Flat rate shipping for everything except the pins, those will go regular mail. My pay pal addy is.................partin_guy@yahoo.com Here are the winners; Total Shipping Solodadof2.............Hat..........$5.25 .......$5.00 Painterman67...Hat & 2 Pins.......$13.00.......$5.00 515Rod.............Shirt............$17.00.......$5.00 Cecdoo..........3 Shirts/Hat/Pin...$78.50.......$5.00 Yammerdan......Shirt/Hat/Pin......$25.00.......$5.00 Pickinfred.......Shirt/Hat/Pin......$22.00.......$5.00 Thanks to everyone who bid, there will be more auctions posted in a few days.............keep up the good work. I thank you and so do the Kids at St. Jude.:thumbsup:

They have been shortened, I did it right after pic was taken, those aren't the permanent ones, I still want to get a plate of alum for the inside of the box, what they provided doesn't lend much support, very light weight metal. Thanks for all the compliments............and Bill, the bike is as dirty as it has ever been, hasn't been washed in a while, let alone ridden lately.

This is as close as I will come to owning a 2nd Gen. But, I am willing to bet that the 3rd Gen if it ever comes out will be a twin and not a 4 banger...........who knows!!

Well I think I am finished with the V Star.........got the luggage rack and the small tour pack installed. Maybe now I can devote more time to my Venture. [ATTACH]63659[/ATTACH][ATTACH]63660[/ATTACH][ATTACH]63661[/ATTACH]

Dan, I was diagnosed with Low T, was put on Androgel, it comes in a pump bottle and I have to apply 4 pumps of it daily, not to bad really, it has a heavy smell of alcohol but that goes away as it evaporates. I have to apply it to my chest and abdomen. One bad thing about it, its very toxic to children and the ladies, I have to make sure to wash my hands really good after applying it, the smallest amount could cause havoc with them. Its kinda expensive, but my insurance covers it. I have noticed an increase in my energy level. All you can do is give it a try, I will have to go back to the Dr. and see it the levels are up where they should be, if not she will have to adjust the dose I put on every day.

dHow old is the battery and were the water levels up to the mark on the battery? Batteries can sometimes just go out slowly or all at once, its happened to me several times.

Welcome to Granparenthood...... ........your gonna love it.................!!!!!

OK, is it a Kawasaki Voyager, or a Yamaha Venture?

Don it never amazes me at how much attention you pay to your baby, with work keeping you on the road, having quality time with your lovely family, I don't know how you find time to do what you do. You not only protect us from each other........u protect us from scum spammer scams!! Thanks ever so much for everything you do for us. I have said it before and I will say it again..............UDAMAN!!!!!

Very nice bike, looks like a little elbow grease, some Sea Foam, and some TLC you will have you a fine ride, plastic looks to be in great shape, but I thought when a winning bidder didn't pay, they had a policy called second chance for the next highest bidder and he got that item at his high bid, not the higher bid? I know thats how it worked for me when I got offered a second chance after the winning bidder failed to pay........maybe that is one of the things that changed on ebay. Ok, here it is, I copied the policy direct from Ebay....... How it works When you send a Second Chance Offer, the bidders you've sent the offer to will receive a message asking if they'd like to buy the item at a Buy It Now price equal to their last bid amount. It's up to the buyer to decide whether to accept the offer. But you still got a great deal on a low mileage gem. Congratulations!!!

I am thinking about buying this rack made by Wompus Racks, I saw one similar to it here but I believe that person fabed their own. Its going on my V Star 1300 and I will be mounting a box on it. [ATTACH]63414[/ATTACH]

Unfortunately that didn't last too long................

Looking good Tom, look forward to seeing you back in the saddle again.........

I picked up a new rear box yesterday to add to the V Star, now I have to find a luggage rack to install it on..............that to do and still need to get the tranny swapped in the 1st Gen, Too much work not enuff time..........what can I say.

Dont think that would work on my V Star.............but thanks for the heads up. I looked on E Bay, nothing like what I wanted or needed. I Know soneone on here made one for their Yamaha cruiser and it looked pretty nice, cant remember who it was though.

I needed a new battery so I priced them everywhere, the only place that could beat them was a Scooter Shop here in Newnan. He does sell motorcycles, but thats another story. I went in to pick up my new battery and starting looking around his shop and saw a rear box on an upper shelf. It looked exactly like what I wanted for my V Star, it sorta matches the lines of my bags and the bike, so I looked at it, it is of fair size made, of abs as are most body parts these days, has a radio antenna built into it, not that I will use it, locking lid. He saw I was interested so he said make him an offer on it, he had two in stock and they had been there for a couple of years, they were rather dusty. He then said they normally retailed for $80.00, If he would have told me that before I looked at it, I wouldnt have looked because at that price it had to be junk, so I offered him $35.00, he countered $40.00. So I now have a new rear box to mount, but nothing to mount it too, I need to get a luggage rack to mount it too, or have one made up. Wish me luck.

Life can be cruel, I dont sleep very well at night and when I do, I sometimes have very plesant dreams..........WELL no more, they will forever be nightmares :shock3:after that!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Monty!!!!!

Word of warning, before reading this, if your drinking anything, put it down before starting, if you don't you will be wearing it instead. I cant take responsibility for this, it was sent to me by Ken Deret aka 1 Up, he sends me the funniest stuff. If you have ever used an electric fence or know someone who has one you should read this. The language used is a bit salty, but 'he tells it like it is' without cursing. If you don't laugh hysterically at this, CHECK YOUR PULSE... This is funny... And true. This was sent by a retired dentist. We have the standard 6 ft. Fence in the backyard, and a few months ago, I heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city. To make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a single wire along the top of the fence. Actually, I got the biggest cattle charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence. I then used an 8 ft. Long ground rod, and drove it 7.5 ft. Into the ground. The ground rod is the key, with the more you have in the ground, the better the fence works. One day I'm mowing the back yard with my cheapo Wal-Mart 6 hp big wheel push mower. I notice that the hot wire is broken and laying out in the yard. I knew for a fact that I unplugged the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way. Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawnmower in my right hand and the 1.7 giga-volt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover. Time stood still. It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all. The first thing I notice is my pecker trying to climb up the front side of my body. My eyes crossed and I could feel the lawnmower ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that Briggs & Stratton rolled over, I could feel the spark in my head. I was literally at one with the engine. It seems as though the fence charger and the lawnmower, were fighting over who would control my electrical impulses. Science says you cannot crap, pee, and vomit at the same time. I beg to differ. Not only did I do all three at once, but my bowels emptied in less than half of a second. It was a Matrix kind of bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you're all leaned back and BAM you just crap your pants. At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I can't let go. I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences. But Dad always had chargers made by Sears or whoever that were maybe 9 volts and just kinda tickled. This one I could not let go of. The 8 ft. Long ground rod is now accepting signals from me through the permadamp Ark-La-Tex river bottom soil. At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to just man up and take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas. 'Holy ****!,' I think, as I remember I just filled the tank! Now the lawnmower is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping run pattern as if it had some kind of big lawnmower race cam in it. Covered in poop, pee, and with my vomit on my chest, I think 'Oh God please die... Pleeaze die'. But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy cam idle nicely and remains there, like a big bore roller cam engine waiting for the go command from its owner's right foot. So here I am in the middle of July, 104 degrees, 90% humidity, standing in my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day. He left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own stupidity had created. I honestly don't know how I got loose from the wire. I woke up laying on the ground hours later. The lawnmower was beside me, out of gas. It was later on in the day and I was awfully sunburned. There were two large dead grass spots where I had been standing, and then another long skinny dead spot where the wire had laid while I was on the ground still holding on to it. I assume I finally had a seizure and in the resulting thrashing around had somehow let go of the wire. Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I realized a few things: 1 - Three of the fillings in my teeth have melted. 2 - I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and my right butt cheek (not the left, just the right). 3 - Poop, pee, and vomit when all mixed together, do smell as bad as you might think. 4 - My left eye will not open. 5 - My right eye will not close. 6 - The lawnmower runs like a sum***** now. Seriously! I think our little session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it was better than new after that. 7 - My nuts and pecker have drawn up into my body as if they were hiding, out of fear. 8 - I can turn on the TV in the game room by farting while thinking of the number 4 (still don't understand this???). That day changed my life. I now have a newfound respect for things. I appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make sure the fence is unplugged before I mow. The good news, is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I can clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and THAT gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to triple check before I mow.

Hilarious! Growing up without a cell phone If you are 35, or older, you might think this is hilarious! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it! 1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! 2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents! 3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe! 4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! 5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig? 6) We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it! 7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are. 8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! 9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen.. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! 10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?! 11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards! 12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that! 13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores! And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place! See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before! Regards, The Over 40 Crowd (Send this to someone you'd like to make smile

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