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I've seen the trailer hitch one, but it would block the taillight.

Something like this? http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/271405/images/golf-rack.jpg I want to build on that doesn't cover the brakelight/license plate. Possibly off to the side of the saddle bag.

My bike is at 42k. I plan to do a valve inspection soon. What is it about the venture engine that causes the valves to tighten with wear? Seems bass ackwards to me.

Yeah, unfortunately I won't be able to come out. All the babysitters are off doing camping type activities, and the kids dont fit in the saddlebags anymore:whistling: Maybe next time.

I will talk to my wife and see if we can come Sat. My wife says I owe her a night out anyways. If I do come I can help with clutch upgrades. I have some recent experience... Does anyone have a valve shim kit? I may also try to get a Vmax spring to replace the two OEM springs I have now.

Sorry I missed you Rick. BG, send me a PM with your email. I am coaching MSF this weekend but we can find a time.

#4 was about 2" hg off. Idles much better now:) Anyone in the Dubuque IA area needs a mercury manometer, look me up:12101:

So I made it home. The ride was blissfully boring. WI does have some beautiful countryside though... Thanks to Redrider, Boo, and Squidley for helping me out! I knew the only way i was getting home from WI with my motorcycle was with the generous help from Venturerider.org, and you guys really saved me a lot of work. So here is the whole story: I am an MSF ridercoach for Southwest Tech in Fennimore WI and I signed up for this class to recertify as a rider coach. (WI DOT and MSF requires recertification every two years) So my venture has done quite a few BRC demonstrations. I rode from Dubuque Saturday to Richland center to stop at Vetesnik's and get a new helmet, then cruised the back roads across WI to Waukesha. Sunday morning I started the Ultmate Bike Bonding Rider course. It's a pretty sweet class, can't wait to go back. Exercise one is a slowest bike contest across the range. There was a guy there on a Wing and I had to represent the Ventures, no way I was letting a wing beat me. About the third run through I noticed my clutch was really soft and slipping. Within a few seconds it go to the point I could stop in first gear without pulling in the clutch. I did the next two exercises hoping the clutch was just hot and would cool down. I finally waived the instructor over. He stood next to me and I told him I think my clutch is shot, he asked me "what makes you think that? I replied "I am in first gear right now" while waiving my left hand at him, with the bike still and the engine running. I pulled the venture into the garage and started tearing it apart to figure out what happened, in the mean time I posted the Hail Mary asking someone from Venturerider to sell me a clutch. I spent each break working on my bike, and rode the exercises on a BRC Nighthawk 250. Boo responded first, and was actually on his way with a used clutch set when Redrider called indicating he had new set available. I called Boo and thanked him, but I was glad Redrider offered to bring the upgrade kit. Redrider was awesome, he brought clutch disk, friction plates, oil, and an oil filter. He even asked whether I wanted synthetic or dyno oil. At that point he could have brought a tub of crisco and i would've been happy. We got the bike back together just in time for me to take the final eval. The clutch was sticky, and the rear skidded when i downshifted without using the brakes. The friction zone was really short and moved each time I tried to clutch. Somehow I still survived and they handed me a completion card, so i guess I did alright. Ride home was uneventful, I plan to change the oil+ filter tomorrow. And I will probably change the oil+filter again next week. Should be good to go after that. By the time I got home, the clutch friction zone was back to its normal spot, it's stiffer with two springs, but grabs nicely. I didn't work it too hard, but after a few miles I plan to giver $#@! and see what I have been missing with the OEM clutch. Thanks so much. I have to go on Bikebandit and order the replacement parts. Redrider should have them by the end of the week. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/Venture%20Clutch%2015May2011/DSC02141.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/Venture%20Clutch%2015May2011/DSC02142.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/Venture%20Clutch%2015May2011/DSC02143.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/Venture%20Clutch%2015May2011/DSC02144.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/Venture%20Clutch%2015May2011/DSC02145.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/Venture%20Clutch%2015May2011/DSC02146.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/Venture%20Clutch%2015May2011/DSC02147.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/Venture%20Clutch%2015May2011/DSC02148.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/Venture%20Clutch%2015May2011/DSC02149.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/Venture%20Clutch%2015May2011/DSC02150.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/Venture%20Clutch%2015May2011/DSC02151.jpg

I was stopped for fuel at the time

Feels good to be back in IA. Almost home.

I wili post a proper thank you when i get home. Bike running and i am riding home.

Red Rider is on his way with new clutch, oil, & filter. Got tools, should be all set.

Friction material is completely fried. Someone is coming up with the whole set.

Leave a message if I dont answer. Not sure if i can make it back to IA on this clutch.

Semi-emergency: clutch springs needed for 2001 venture near Milwaukee. My name is Greg Gill and I am at Waukesha County Tech taking a MSF ultimatebike rider course. During exercise 1 I fried my clutch. I can sit still in 1st gear. MC shops are closed. Cash paid for a VMax clutch spring kit. Call my cell .

I have been chatting with some computer science major friends and you are right, Kitesquid. Let's see if I can paraphrase what they told me.... The hall effect sensor doesn't detect the tooth, rather it detects the edge of the tooth on the sprocket. The ECU has the crank position sensor wired into a special kind of interupt port. When ever a tooth passes by the sensor, the voltage spikes high or low depending on the computer program and wether they want to detect the leading or trailing edge of the tooth. For the sake of discussion, let's assume that the program detects the voltage high. The special port has an interupt capability. Every time the port reads a voltage spike, the interupt tells the computer to pause what it is curently doing. Then the computer goes to the internal clock to read and record the current time in a memory location A. The second time the sensor spikes the interupt records the time again in memory location A, but the previous time is pushed to memory location B. The time recorded in location A continues to get pushed into location B as often as a tooth passes the hall effect sensor. So later, in the progam, you can call up the time recorded in memory location A and B. That can be used to calculate rpm. The current calculated rpm and the previous rpm can then be compared...if the calculated rpm changes by a significant amount, like 150%, then the computer knows it is at the gap. The next tooth becomes your zero reference point. Something like that anyways I think...

I have been researching fuel injection systems for a while now, and there is one thing I cannot figure out. Most aftermarket fuel injection systems such as MOTEC use a hall affect sensor with a toothed sprocket attached to the crank or cam shaft to monitor engine speed and position. I understand the logic for engine speed, as the teeth spinning by the sensor create a voltage proportional to the engine speed. To detect an initial engine position, the sprocket will have one or two teeth missing. How does the computer detect and determine that the missing teeth is a larger gap than all of the other gaps? Let's say you had a 60 tooth sprocket that is missing two teeth attached to a crankshaft spinning at 10,000rpm. The teeth will be spinning by the hall effect sensor with an AC voltage at 10,000Hz, and two teeth missing will create a zero voltage incident only 0.0002 seconds long. How does the computer notice this is different from the other pulses? I understand that with a 2MHz processor 200microseconds is a long time, but what does the computer logic look like?

I got this email through the MSF communication forum. If you are interested, they would like you to take a survey http://tinyurl.com/VTTIDASsurveyV2

I picked up a 1985 GS 450 for a really good price. Only problem is, most of the bike came in one of two boxes. The engine wasn't even in the frame. I have the engine back in, and the suspension back on, but I am having a hard time routing the wires properly through the frame. I have a wiring diagram, but not a routing diagram. If anyone out there has one of these bikes, I would really appreciate if you emailed me. I would like to get some digital photographs of the wire routing, so you would have to be ok with removing the seat and gas tank. If not, no biggie, it just will take longer to get it right. At this rate, I figure I will be done in time for snow to start sticking to the ground...

I have an anniversary coming up about the same time I will be spending 2 weeks in Moline. Thinking about a working vacation (Free hotel, and food for me). I live about 1.5 hours from Moline so my wife could stay as long or short as she wants. I dunno... There is the John Deere Museum...anything else?

That is a great price for the two tone color scheme. If you like sitting in a lazy Boy you will like riding a new Venture. That's not to say a venture is boring, they carve corners quite well, comfortably

Nathan fell asleep on me a couple of times, but because he was sitting in front of me it was easy to wake him back up. No that he is older it is easier to go on longer rides.

Something to consider when purchasing a helmet: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/MSF/helmet-impact-zone.jpg

My kids have been riding my motorcycles since they were three. The first time I rode no more than 300ft and stopped at a four way stop. There was a city police officer waiting at the interesection. He looked at me and my daughter (sitting in front of me on the tank), looked ahead drove about 1 foot, stopped, looked at me again. He had right of way so i waited. I sat their for 20 seconds (seemed like an eternity) when the cop finally drove off. Must not be something he sees every day. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Ggerg1186/Kids/DSCF0976.jpg Heaven forbid a parent should decide what is ok for their child. But I don't live in Texas.

Snell's response to the article: http://www.smf.org/articles/pdf/btlo_tech_response_2.pdf And the Snell M2010 standards: http://www.smf.org/standards/m/2010/m2010_final.htm