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I bought an economy, long range scope based on a couple YouTuber's reviews a couple months ago. When I received it, I was impressed with the apparent build quality so I decided I would build a new long range whole punch to go under it. I was considering my options and leaning toward a Ruger Precision Rifle in .308. It looks to be a great system out of the box and reasonably priced, though still expensive. While down in VA for a family reunion, I found a new bang stick shop and spent a few hours trading lies and drooling on their stock when the proprietor asked me what I would say if he could show me .308ish ballistics from an AR15 platform. He then went on to educate me on the 6mm ARC from Hornady. After a few minutes googling the round, I decided to buy the parts to build a Upper in 6mm ARC. After gathering everything up, the nice young man offered to assemble the upper free of charge. BONUS! I ended up with an Aero Precision upper receiver(no forward assist) and Aero Precision 12.5 M Lock forearm with a Ballistic Advantage 18" barrel, rifle length gas tube and adjustable gas block. Capped with the Silencer Co. QD muzzle device. OH, some nice Trump 2024 graphics on the dust cover. Here it is mounted on my Fight! lower with the 30cal JK suppressor and Magpul bipod.

Good evening fellow riders. My Bro-in-law and I made it back home this afternoon after a trip down to Natchez MS on the Natchez Trace. We got on the Natchez Trace Parkway a little SW of Nashville TN and took 2 days to get to Natchez, with a night in Tupelo MS. We crossed the Mississippi River and stayed in Vidalia Louisiana Thursday night. I have been up and down the Mississippi River hundreds of times in my career as a towboater and driven through Vidalia several times chasing boats down for crew change but never spent the night there. We were blessed to stay in a hotel that was right on the river.

Lowes is changing packaging and clearing these out. Good price for us metric guys.

Just to be clear on this, the level in the sight glass is with the bike vertical, not leaning on the side stand. When I had my Venture and my Royal Star, I used a mechanics mirror with an extendable shaft, so I could see the sight glass while straddling the bike to hold it vertical. Alternately a 1-1/2" to 2" thick piece of wood under the side stand will hold it almost vertical, just be careful not to bump the bike or turn the handle bars, as it could cause the bike to fall over to the right side .

Brakes are not linked on Royal Star Ventures. May be a collapsed line somewhere. Start at the outlet of the master cylinder break that connection and press on the pedal, if fluid freely flows, reconnect and work your way down the line until you find a point where the flow is diminished, if you get to the bleeder valve on the caliper and do not find an issue, maybe the calipers are stuck or dirty to the point they will not move freely.

I considered something like that but in the end, I’m holding on to some hope that Eileen will get better and want to ride with me again.

I’m thinking that the oil came from under your garage floor… there’s an oil well there just waiting for you to start drilling!🛢️🛢️🛢️

Talk about iron butt rides. I think this man sets a record!

I just saw a video, today was #143 2 to go.

Naah, they’re arguing synthetic vs Dino.

They have sold to Cypress Creek Motorsports. Dave and Ruthann are staying on staff for a three year transition before fully retiring. The Venture was never a huge seller for them but I don’t see very many people willing to invest that much $$ into a bike that’s been out of production since 2013. He did tell me they’re hanging on to the molds. The trike market is falling just like the touring market, younger people aren’t buying them. I use the same powder coater as Hannigan, he told me a couple years ago that he gets trailer and side car frames but very few trike frames anymore. They have a 3rd gen in right now getting a sidecar fitted to it. Cypress Creek builds a ground up trike using Chevrolet V8s and automatic transmissions. Called Challenger Trikes.

This was a politically motivated assassination. Quite simply any politician that promote violent crime should face 15-25 years in prison, lose their seat immediately, and be forced to take all their gained wealth while in office and donate it to charities that provide services to the violent crime they promoted. They should never again be allowed any governmental or political job. How does one go from a net worth in the negatives to a millionaire in just a couple of years? Become a Politician. I pray for Mr. Kirk's family.

Good morning to all. Today, we remember all the lives that were lost 24 years ago, 09/11/2001. I still remember where I was when this all happened. May God Bless the United States of America.

Sad news. I don’t know what to say. I’m sad, I’m angry, I pray for his family.

Likewise on this end...planning to do some moderate riding around and take advantage of the nice weather all weekend long and up until Labor day. I wear a fitness band on my wrist all day and it keeps track of my activities including steps, workout activities and one of them is heart rate. I find it comforting to know that my heart rate drops all the way down to 50, when I ride and simply enjoy the wind. With that said, relax and enjoy the ride.

Rode to the office today. Been able to get in more and more. Wife is still a little scared of me riding after the stroke but just taking it easy and not pressing it. With the Monday holiday hoping the weather holds out and I can get in a couple hundred miles.

My riding has slowed considerably since Loretta won't ride and now I work remote. I would put ~500 miles a week on the bike when it was my daily commute.

If ever I decide to explore the darkside, BF Goodrich T/A Radial is on top of my list. I am not sure though if my 'go to' motorcycle shop will mount a car tire for me here in Pa.

You know where Shirley is gona stay.

I'm glad I found her a good home. Feels like she's still in the family. Did Hannigan give it a checkup?

I wonder what those two bikes are saying to each other, looks like they are having a conversation about Ronnie. 😊

I've been on segments of the Natchez trace and wouldn't mind doing the whole route. First time on it we were passing quite a few. In talking to and Attorney I work with he let me know to not get caught speeding on it because it's a federal road. Getting a ticket on is not just paying a fine you have to show up in federal court. Good thing we didn't get caught 'cuz we hit some of it pretty hard.

I did an I.B. Lake Michigan Loop as my 40th Birthday "bucket list", got home in 18hrs and joked with my riding buddy that we should have planned the 1,500 Gold ride just in case. 5yrs later and my knees hurt every morning and hands getting numb on the commute to work....and I wonder how I did it with such ease.

The Natchez Trace is very close to my sisters’ home in Franklin! I envy you!

Sounds like a great ride. Wish I could have been there.

We have to get the names of whom ever he's taking orders from first then hang him from the gonads.

Just saw they caught him. Sad part is they can’t hang him on the court square today.

I changed the air filters and did a carb sync on the Venture today getting ready for a trip down the Natchez Trace tomorrow. While I had it sitting level, I checked the oil level, and it was dead center of the sight glass. And I have not seen any more oil on the under the bike. So MAYBE, I was wrong about the oil coming from the bike. It could have been some oily drippage from the washing we gave it. I'll keep a close watch one it and see how it goes.

Copy cat,,, I was first!!

Our store had 3 sets. I now have 3 sets, come down this way and get one, I’ll even pay for the coffee and donuts.

Can you buy me a set and then drop them off on your next trip around this way?

Glad you did not go without your riding partner. lol It could have been a bonus ride to and from today and another ride next week. When it comes to remembering important dates like that, I always input them on my iPhone calendar. I love the iPhone calendar and it has saved me and reminded me several times over the years. Not that I've mentioned that, I just might upgrade my iPhone 13 to the upcoming new iPhone 17 by the end of the year. With your 'honey to do' list, you just made it happen. We all know this...A Happy Wife means A Happy Life.

It’s 9:30 am and I’m all dressed up and ready to ride to the Tomahawk Fall Ride in Tomahawk WI. I have to be there by noon and it’s almost a 2 hour ride. My riding partner is supposed to be here and he’s not. He is always on time or early so I’m thinking the worst. At 10 am I finally call him.. no answer! Then 5 minutes later he calls me back and I find out that the ride is next weekend!!! Now I’m doing honey do projects!😠😠😠😠

Still puzzling about the yellow oil patch. If you are in the habit of filling the oil up near the top of the sight glass it tends to blow out the crankcase and back into the air intake, then out the tubes. If there's more oil in the crankcase than you thought and it smells like gasoline you may have a stuck carb float letting gas into the engine and down into the crank. A lot of the guys on this site and the owners manual says to shut the petcock off between runs to avoid that problem. Hopefully that's not what you have going on.

I got a new lock nut and finished installing the shock this morning. I took it out to the Yamaha shop for a new rear tire, and it rode great. Going to take a ride down the Natchez Trace with my bro in law next week. I'll share a report on that ride when we got home.

I forgot to wear mine when riding yesterday. Would have been interesting. Got in 100 mi but dodging some rain drops.

Share some pics when you can! Here's mine just now - dry 950 miles later. And if yours was low on shock fluid and was pogo sticking, you will be amazed at how much better the ride is when you get it fixed.

I got the shock off this afternoon. It took about 20 minutes to get it set in the vise and start draining it. I made the bracket to press it up to change the O ring but stopped for dinner. It looks like it will be an easy fix, but I didn't get the fork oil today so it will be Tuesday before I can reinstall it.

I use dot 4

So the 2022 Road Glide Limited is gone. I had strongly been considering saying goodbye to my riding days for some time now. The Road Glide Limited was a great long range touring manchine but now that I've turned 70, it sure was feeling heavy on these. short rides around home. So it was time to let it go. So my riding days are over. But Nay Nay say I. Today I picked up a slightly lighter bike. It is still HEAVY but feels 300 pounds lighter than the limited due to having no tour pack and them lightening the fairing by about 20 lbs. One test ride was all it took and I was sold. It has three factory ride modes. Sport, Rain, and Highway. Plus another one that you can customize to your liking. The salesman told me that in sport mode, Harley has everything dialed up to about 80%. He created a custom mode for me where he set throttle response and everything to 100% and the performance was amazing. It is really too much unless you really want to play hard. I actually put it back into Sports mode and even highway mode on the way home. So what did I buy? A 2025 Harley Road Glide and I have to say I love this thing. It has the new 117 Cu In motor with 105 HP and 130 lbs of torque. It actually feels even stronger. All the modern goodies. ABS, Traction Control, etc. Apple car play, navigation, etc. 12" digital screen that you can customize to your liking. They upgraded the front and rear suspension and added an additional 3 1/2 " travel to the rear. I am just completely impressed with this bike. I got them, to throw in a passenger backrest and a taller "Klock Werks" windshield. Since taking these pictures, I added a riders backrest and the nearly new highway pegs that I took off the '22. I also took the nearly new Vance and Hines mufflers off the '22 and put the stock mufflers on it. The Vance and Hines are the same for this bike also. It is surprisingly loud as is but I''ll probably swap them tomorrow to see how they sound on this bike. I think they had a deeper tone. I went back and forth on the color but ended up buying Iron Horse Metallic.

Those are sweet bikes! I always take a lap around them when I see one out in the real world. Congrats on the new machine!

Brake fluid is hydroscopic, meaning it has a affinity to absorb moisture, water although considered to be an incompressible fluid, often has dissolved air in it, that dissolved air is compressible. Just as a note, Honda recommends the entire brake hydraulic brake systems on the Goldwings be flushed and replaced with new fluid, every two years, that system is a bit more complex that that on a Venture, but replacing your brake fluid at some regular interval be it time or miles, is a good thing to do. Again Speedbleeders make that job way easier to do, just pump the old fluid out into one of their catch bags using the lever or pedal depending on front or rear brakes, refill the master cylinder before it is empty and your done in no time.

Hi All I am finally getting my Venture Max HD Build started and have been collecting parts for the Bike since I purchased it in 2018 **I am missing the Front axle Spacer so I am hoping someone on here has one that I can purchase. **I am also looking for a set of Solid Motor Mounts I have the drawing to have some made but thought I would check to see if anyone has a set for sale before having some turned for me. Here are some details of the build the plan is to have the bike completed and ready to ride from NB Canada to the 100th Ann of Laconia this coming June 2023 The starting model is a 1984 Venture Royale, I have pulled the 1200 (bad second Gear) and purchased a 1300 from a salvage yard out of an 1987 Venture from Ontario, found a set of Vmax heads with Cams from another salvage yard on ebay out of Georgia. Engine is currently being re-assembled all new Gaskets and seals painted with Black metallic for the Main Block and heads, as well as the Clutch , stator and Water pump housings, Thanks to Skydoc providing some knowledge and feedback on the Clutch mods to save some $$$ I was able to use the 6 spring clutch pressure plate and push rod from the 84 1200 and use it with the 1300 clutch basket, removing and replacing the 1/2 friction disc with a full disc, purchased a set of HD springs and the clutch is ready to go. Carburation will be the conversion to a single carb using a VTC motors Intake and VW pict 34 carburator. Exhaust Piping I will be custom building new pipes out of SS Exhaust pipe, HD sportster Headers and a set of 2002 HD Road King Mufflers. Block plates, valve covers center Twinkie, oil filter housing are all painted with Ceramic Hi heat header paint color is Cast Iron, all Chrome inserts to be polished and to remain Steering will be handled with a new set of 1 1/4 in bars 10" mini apes mounted to the triple tree with a 1 piece bitwell HD Riser, new set of Brake and clutch masters, and handlebar mounted Mirrors, HD Handlebar controls. New set of Steering bearings, swap in of new progressive springs into the rebuilt front forks with new seals and dust caps, removal of the anti-dive units and install block off plates. Rear brake Master is being replaced and the addition of HD Forward Controls are being added with custom mounts for Floor boards Rear master will be included on the Forward controls kit up front. Brackets to be fabricated All brake and Clutch lines are being replaced with Russell Brand DOT certified brake hoses and fittings, with the addition of speed bleeders all original Calipers to be reused and rebuilt. All new Brake pads to be installed Luggage boxes I am swapping out the side boxes and replacing with a set of HD hard bags as they have more room and personally prefer the look of these style of bags, purchased a set of HD Saddlebag brackets to cut down on some fabrication time. I will retain the original Trunk and Fairing, and windshield and repair as needed with a plastic welder and plastic welding staples., all body panels Fenders and luggage containers to be painted thinking of Candy apple red over Black to give me a Black cherry Final color. Headlight and all bulbs will be replaced with LED, I am also replacing the old fuse box with a new ATC style fuses. New Tires New Engine Guards will need to be re fabricated to accommodate the forward controls. I will continue to add to this post as the build progresses

Well, it started with one nut........ Full story follows next week. Have a great weekend! July 1..... August 20......

Folks, in spite of us having an area specifically designated for posting classifieds, people continue to post them in the Watering hole and other areas of the forum. I have addressed this issue many times in the past and am going to address it this one last time. Maybe people would prefer that we have NO other areas. Just remove them all and just have the Watering Hole? It would make it hard to find things but that seems to be where everybody wishes to post it all anyway. There are several reasons why anything for sale should NOT be place anyplace except the classifieds or at the very least, the forum "Links to Classifieds, Ebay, Craigslist and etc." The first reason is that the posts there automatically delete themselves after a predetermined length of time. That prevents me or the other moderators from going through the Watering Hole or other areas and manually deleting posts for items and etc. on Ebay that are long expired. The second reason is because the members here, NOT me, decided long ago that they wanted our classifieds open to post only from supporting members. The consensus was that you didn't want strangers that have never participated here joining up as trial members when the only intention they have is to try and sell something. You wanted the ads to be from people that are supporting members here that you know and trust. That was YOUR decision. If you have changed your mind just let me know and I'll open the classifies to everybody. It somewhat defeats the purpose of making the classifieds read only if people are allowed to post their for sale items anywhere they want to. Your ads should be posted in the Classifieds. When you post them there a post is automatically created in the "Links to Classifieds" forum so you are also automatically posting it to the forum. There is not reason to then ALSO post a message in the watering hole or anywhere else that "hey...I just place my bike in the classifieds"..... So, for several years now I have asked several times that you stop posting ads where they shouldn't be. I have deleted a very few that were posted but the vast majority of the time, I take the time to manually move it to the correct place and just keep quite about it. It especially bothers me to delete an ad that I can tell a lot of time went into creating so once again I will take the time to move it to the correct place and let it go. So no more mister nice guy. Any ad that I see posted in the Watering Hole or any of the other forums will be deleted as soon as I see it. Regardless of the effort that was put in creating the ad, I am deleting it. This will make a few people mad. I'm sorry about that but this has been discussed many times.

speaking of metzler i have just had some fun and will never get another. this is a story i put into our ULYSSES magazine warning others about metzler and there tyres . the cracks run right around the tyre NOT A HAPPY CAMPER After our round trip with cub camper behind our Royal Star Venture + sidecar to Alice 7500ks I decided the trusty Avon Venom rear tyre was looking a bit sad. Yes i could get another 1000 to 1500ks left in it, but the Wodonga trip was to be about 3000ks [no pillion this time and no cub camper but did have a very small bike trailer 4’x4’ containing tent and some water and food. Start time was getting close so went online to Evilbay looking for a good cheap replacement rear tyre. I found Motorcycle Tyre Warehouse had a METZELER ME880 MARATHON at a good price delivered. It showed 3 days later, good looking tread and meaty, just what I need for my outfit. I then ripped the old Avon off and fitted the new tyre, left the bike in the shed and didn’t get it out till it was time to go to the boat for the trip to Melbourne. After getting off the boat and heading for Wodonga the bike was just not right so we continued on to Wodonga at a steady speed in no hurry. We cruised up the Hume at about 90kph. We got to Wodonga about 2:30 Tuesday 24th. Wednesday morning we started looking for the problem with the bike. New plugs fixed the slight miss in the motor but still had a grinding noise at takeoff. We decided it must be a crook universal so we spent the rest of the week sitting around the campsite not wanting to put too much pressure on the uni. It was decided then not to do the long trip home via the coast but have a slow trip back down the Hume to Broadford for the Easter bike bonanza [what a great weekend ]. The grinding noise was found to be not a crook uni but a broken stay on the sidecar grinding when the sidecar wheel moved so returned home all running well and normal .Then the fun began in the shed. I checked the rear tyre to find deep cracks in the base of the tread [the tread was lifting off the case] so i sent an email to motorcycle tyre warehouse with photos [no reply]. A few days later I sent another [still no reply].A couple of days later I phoned [oh yes we got your email can you send more pics] so sent more close-ups. A week later I sent another email asking what is happening. Then got an email can I phone them. They asked me was I towing a trailer, said yes, to be told Metzeler do not cover any warranty for a bike towing a trailer. I said the trailer puts 15kgs extra weight on the bike they don’t care they found a way out for a badly made bike tyre. I have since sent an email to Metzeler but still no reply. I would have been better off leaving the old avon on the bike .By my GPS I covered 1142ks with a top speed of 115 kph turned out not to be a cheap tyre so if you are thinking about a new tyre and want to tow a trailer DO NOT buy a Metzeler

Just for clarification Don and certainly NOT to be a smarty pants,, should we also cut the chatter about buying and selling in the Watering Hole? I know we have had lots and lots of chatter about so and so selling this and that, that may be the kind of activity that makes people feel like "double posting" or just posting in the Watering Hole gets them better exposure.. Should "I am looking for,,,,," chatter be handled the same way? Not trying to add to your burden my friend,, YOU have a very tough job and are the bestest ever boss we could ask for,,, just wanna make sure we are all on the same page.. Thanks for keeping the site organized and very well ran! Personally, I LOVE our site just the way it is in design and organization and think removing the other sections would be nothing but chaos!! Sorry for the frustrations we caused you and and THANK YOU for straightening us out!! Puc

Go for it Don. Boomer....who sez he stopped selling pygmies a long time ago...

You have my support.