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Sitting in my office chair, watching a remote tech support control one of my servers. Watch him open this and look around, watch him open that and look around, watch him click here, click there, change this, adjust that, and finally the problem is fixed and I watch him go bye-bye. Just another day at my office ... NOT !!!! 4 hours on Sunday (just me), 2 hours yesterday (just me), 1 hour today with the tech just to get their frikken application moved from one server to another. ggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! Manuals and Instructions don't always "tell all" in the world of IT. But the cold beer and warm sun on my deck afterwards sure felt great!

I burned off a lot of fat last Friday evening

That would be the "all new" Yamaha Rumour! Unfortunately, nobody can ride a Rumour

Not a good choice to replace a 1st gen Venture. After all, it doesn't have all the ..."power, handling, pillion comfort, load capacity, weather protection, audio performance with passenger/rider intercom sophistication, 'two-up touring capability'" that a 1st gen does. :Laugh:

Not the greatest pic but this is one I've regretted selling since 1968. 1958 Chev Impala Convertible (US model with a 348 engine and 2 speed powerglide). Even had factory continental kit. Bought it for $350, sold it for $350 [ATTACH]83779[/ATTACH]

What about the CD player? (OK, maybe that wasn't "modern" LOL)

All these "suggestions" yet not one of you mentioned "wipers" ... I have a pair of those "yellow" glasses with mini-wipers on them ... work like a hot-damn! As for the water pooling ... I recall that was an issue one time and it near caused me to crash. Was travelling on the freeway in a fairly heavy rain storm, min-wipers at full speed, full length rain suit on, and all of a sudden I got this blast of real cold water on the "jewels" ... (keep in mind I was toasty warm down there up to that point). Well, that made me shriek and jump and I nealy lost control of the scoot! Turns out, as I discovered later, I had a hole in just the "right spot" and a pool of water found that hole when I moved slightly. (just kiddin 'bout the wipers)

yep and the main reason I renewed!

I wonder if Pootin has been eating too much Poutine and his brains have turned into it ? [ATTACH]83727[/ATTACH]

UPGRADE to a Harley?

http://www.wtvideo.com/video/1619/the-extraordinary-and-superlight-russian-motorbike

Couple other things to note... The valve train is chain driven. Some think the tranny is helical cut gears but in fact, only the gear between the primary and secondary shaft is helical. All the other gears are straight cut. It does make a distinctive "clunk" when going into 1st as well as 2nd but the rest of the gears are relatively quiet, especially if you pre-load the shifter a bit when changing. "blipping" the throttle when gearing down, especially going into 3rd, 2nd, and 1st is not a good idea. For some reason the computer doesn't understand this for what it is and sometimes kills the engine. A real flaw IMO. Took me a while to get that habit out of my head.

I'm not sure exactly what makes the noise in these engines but they are noisy as the rpm's climb. You hear it because the engine is solid mounted and in fact, forms the lower part of the frame so all the engine sounds are "reverberated" (for lack of a better word) thru the frame. It's one of those things that is "normal" and you just have to accept it and tune it out. Took me a while to do that as I kept thinking "there's something wrong with this motor" but talking to other owners and after 16000 kms it still sounds the same ... I just ignore it and "ride it like I stole it" LOL Oh, and the D&D pipes help to tune out the engine sounds LOL

nope, I knew you were just razzin me

I'll be looking forward to your "review".

AHEM! as I recall .... on the RSV I had to change out the clutch basket in hopes of getting rid of that frikken whine ... which helped ... some. Then I had to try a 130 front tire to improve the terrible low speed handling.... which helped ... some but not enough so I then went and installed levelling links which again helped... some but it still handled like crap at low speed. Oh yea ... and I had to change the tires coz the stock ones were crap. ... and I had to put on the bar risers coz with the stock setup I kept getting a pain in my neck and shoulder and all the while, all of this was giving me a pain in the ... AHEM! ... and I already had one there from the seat. What have I done to the Vic that even compares? NONE. Performance mods is all just because I wanted to ... not because the bike needed "FIXING"

Congratulations Larry and Joyce! In this day and age it is somewhat rare that two people stay together for such a long time. I'm coming up to 41 years ... 3 with the 1st wife, 30 with the 2nd, and 8 with the 3rd to you both!

Warranty? These things have a warranty? ... for what? Here's the list... Lloydz high flow air filter Stage 1 ECM flash 02's disconnected CATs gutted Lloydz timing wheel @ 2 degrees advance D&D slip-on mufflers Lloydz VFC-III (Victory Fuel Controller) 1/4 turn throttle ring HID bulbs high & low Gustaffsson shorty flip shield is there a Harley corner? (I think that will come first)

First thing you should add now is the Lloydz Timing Wheel. Makes a big difference in the bottom end power. With the mods I've done, I can crack it at 1800 and no faltering. Stock would have been around 2200.

Looks good on ya! Congrats! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Removing the Catalytic converters makes a big difference because they are directly under the passenger's feet.

Well that's a LOT better than what I thought you meant LOL ... at least it would fit I'm thinking (yes, I do that sometimes) ... as time passes and RSV or 1st gen owners decide to replace their scoots, we'll see more of them switching over to Victory or some other brand if Yama doesn't bring out a new touring model.

You couldn't have said "bend over" any clearer ...

Like a fool, I sent my payment in so now I gotta wait until next April (maybe by then some of youse guys will dump those behemoths you ride and get a real bike )

yep... seen those black and white ones in a news article