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Oops. Upside down.

Does anybody know what this thing is? A friend dropped by and his 89 venture has one of these. Added by previous owner.

I think it might be a combo of both. Fortunately the pain is manageable at least for now.

The jacket is a high quality jacket. The jacket leather was scraped but intact, not ripped up at all. The abrasion/burn came from inside the jacket. Some of the nylon mesh liner fabric is melted. I turned the sleeve inside out and found a good supply of my epidermis.

Well after 6 years of riding to work in the dark and a couple near missed it finally happened. Tuesday morning I saw one cross in front of me up the road so I had slowed down to about 25mph looking for more. Then the next thing is I'm down off the left side. Didn't see the deer, didn't feel it. The rest was slow motion. Slide, roll, slide, roll, stop. The whole time I can see the bike sliding along next to me sparks flying off the crash bars. I layed there for a split second assessing my injury situation. I knew I lost some skin on my knees and left arm. Everything else ok. The bike had stalled but was laying on it side lights on radio playing. This was 4:45am and not a car in sight, not even a headlight. I decided to pick the bike up and assess the damage. Left footpeg and shifter bent pretty bad but functional. So I jumped on, got it started and rode the remaining six miles to work. Called the boss and told him I was heading to emergency. Bottom line... Road rash on both knees and a pretty good spot on my left arm plus a sprained foot. Really lucky. Jacket was a lifesaver. Helmet doesn't have a mark on it. (And yes, I was wearing it)

This one from MCM would be the easiest way to go. http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/555-8492?scode=GS401&utm_medium=cse&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=google&scid=scplp6876280&sc_intid=555-8492&gclid=CIXC4rPIw84CFUclgQodBsUJFA

I use the RAM mount that is similar. Holds the phone great.

Glad to have the opportunity. Sent from my LG-H810 using Tapatalk

Well Puc I fully intended to make it to this one, however, just as I was about to sit down for my first beer on Friday afternoon underneath a nice share tree at a friends house, along comes a yellow jacket that stung me on my left pinky. Now I know I have a bee sting allergy but that day I am not carrying an epipen. I tell my friend that we need to go emergency RIGHT NOW. I recall leaving his house and about a mile of the two-mile trip. I came to in the ER about an hour and a half later. I knew it was serious when I realized that I had pissed myself and one of the ER nurses was crying. Apparently I had checked out. No pulse, no BP, and they brought me back. Since my heart had stopped they transferred me by ambulance to the heart wing at a Saginaw hospital and 36 hours of monitoring. Amazingly, no damage, no repercussions, no restrictions. I'm a lucky guy. Lesson learned..... CARRY YOUR EPIPEN! "Have fun out there" stanG

Yup. The real deal. Actually, I am program director and IT manager for three stations but do the morning show on WMIC 660AM 5am-9am and do a call-in show between 1-2pm. 660 is primarily a news/talk station, so no request line. You won't be able to pick us up over there on the west side as our pattern is mostly north and south. We do get into the Detroit metro area and north nearly to the bridge. West about as far as Saginaw. Currently we are not streaming but may do so in the future. As always, good to see you and chat about Ventures.

The puckster comes through again with a great time! A nice little ride and some good times with the ventureriders family. The weather was nice and I even took the indirect route home! Thanks again @cowpuc for your fine efforts and crew. Here is how it came together for me: Gas...$14.00 Incidentals...$5.00 Hot Dogs...FREE Meeting up with Ventureriders...PRICELESS

Looks like the rain is going to clear out by then. Sounds like a plan @cowpuc. Get the dogs ready!

If you want to go another route, I installed this setup on my first gen before this riding season. I do a lot of riding in the dark and am always on the lookout for deer. I nixed the standard headlight altogether and installed a pair of Rigid LED spots using the standard bucket frame allowing me to retain the headlight adjustment knob function. Using this for about two months and its the best setup I have found so far. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?117559-The-recent-diode-thread-helped-me-simplyfy-my-project&p=960178#post960178

83 Blonde with 82,000 and change. Rising rapidly and running great!

Dingy, i remember this post had photos of your unique boards. Are they available somewhere? They're not showing up. I wanted to review the way they folded up. Thanks. "Have fun out there" stanG

Not going to be able to make this one Puc. I gotta feeling this won't be the last one this summer. I'll catch ya next time if I can. Sent from my LG-H810 using Tapatalk

I have been using the Rotella T6 synthetic for the last three seasons with no problems. I actually think the clutch has a better lockup with the T6 when hammering the throttle. (IMHO)

Well here is the completed setup. First the diode soldered into the headlight connector. Then a look at the bracket modification from the backside. I'm not certain I am going to keep the separate spacers. I think I will fab a solid spacer all the way across the bottom of the bracket. Here is the bracket mounted back in position. Note that I added a piece of sheet aluminum to the back to hide the wires and crap that you would see behind the lights. Low beam with floods High beam with floods Completed look. I think it looks nice and clean and the output is amazing. We've been getting a blast of winter from @Flyinfool the last couple days so I still need to get it out at night and make some final adjustments to the beam pattern.

The recent thread on diodes couldn't have been timed better and I am still whacking myself in head for not thinking of this myself since I have some background in electronics. My goal this winter has been to replace the stock headlight in my 1st gen with a pair of Rigid Dually Spots without making any major modifications so that if needed, I could return the bike to stock. The Duallys fit nicely side by side in the stock headlight bracket opening after removing the frame that holds the lens assembly from the bracket. With some spacers and by drilling a couple holes in the bottom of the bracket I was able to position the lights near the center and fitting the lights was the easy part. I then adjusted one of the lights to cast it's beam higher than the other. The goal is that when on low beam the light with the lower beam is illuminated and then when on high beam both lights would be on creating a low beam-high beam effect. I also was able to retain the use of the headlight adjustment knob. The dilemma was how to tie the lights together when power is applied to the high beam circuit. My original intent was to use a relay to accomplish this but after getting my memory refreshed on the function of diodes I simply calculated the load and went down to the local electronics store and grabbed a 50v 6a diode. The amp draw on the Dually is 1.1a so 6a should be more than adequate. I simply had to solder the diode across the low and high beam wires in the proper direction and whalla, done, and so simple. The following drawing illustrates the two scenarios and as you can see the diode is much simpler and has no moving parts. The relay is shown in the "low beam" mode. Please note that I had already completed the mod to the dash electronics and to the reserve lighting unit as I converted the bike to all LED's long ago. I am now working on cleaning up the install and adjusting the lights. I will add some pictures later on. Any of you who have used these lights know that they really cast a good beam that I would say is superior to HID. I expect to have plenty of light going down the road with these and the set of Dually floods that I have mounted off my custom horn brackets with all four lights drawing only 64 watts and roughly 4.5 amps! Now before I hear about the legalities of such a modification, let's just say I'm willing to take the chance to dodge critters get good vision at 4:30am when I am traveling my 23 mile commute to the radio station each morning. Plus, I think with proper adjustment the five-oh will leave me alone. I' hoping so anyway! More later...

I rode mine for 2 seasons skipping 2nd then finally decided to open it up and fix it. The bottom line here is that skipping 2nd gear is acceptable but being able to bang it into second and lift the front end is a lot more fun! Of course you have to tear down nearly this far to get er done!

Waiting for the announcement of the season's first @cowpuc meet n' greet! "Have fun out there" stanG

... and you said your butt puckered up a bit when you watched me ride my bicycle on the icy road.... HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! YOUR CRAZY MAN!

That is one nasty looking hand there Puc. Good luck with the recovery!

Yes I have replaced all the dash lights with LED. I used white which casts a slightly different color for the display.

Usually about 30-50 hearty souls, (both men and women) come out for this. I believe the event is in its 18th year. I only learned about it a few years back.