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Late reply here....my wife and I travelled down that way through a short section of Skyline Drive in early October. The Blue Ridge Parkway was closed at that time due to the hurricane damage. The section we travelled was beautiful that time of the year. We came across Hwy 250 from the 219. Hwy 250 from Huttonsville to Staunton WV looks fairly straight on a map...Wrong. It was a beautiful twisty road with breath taking scenery. It was obvious to me afterwords that going over the mountains is going to be a little twisty and up and down. It was a challenging ride to say the least, all loaded up with my wife on the back. I'll bring the Venture next time, I think it would handle the twisties better. We made it to the Howard Johsons just after dark, which wasn't wise travelling in the dark as we noticed lots of deer appearing at dusk. Made it safely and there must have been 25 motorcyclist's staying at HoJo's. Most of those bikes were in the class of adventure touring, which seems to be a popular way to ride, especially through the mountains. It was a great ride and hope to do it again next year and this time travel south down the Blue Ridge Parkway. Mark

I made the mistake of hosting the wife’s family dinner, a very small group. I seem to only be able to cook like it’s my family (35-40 people). There’s enough left over for a Venture rally supper. Now we get to go Saturday for the big one, at least we can leave the leftovers at my brother’s house.

Hope your bellies are full and family is happy n healthy.

oh wow did I get full and because not as many showed up we brought enough home for a couple of days.

Thank you to all my fellow Veterans, Happy Veterans Day

Glad it’s not any worse. I watched Col Steve Austin as a kid, now I think a lot of us are becoming the new $6 million men. I’ve got the screws and anchors in my shoulder and a hardware store in my back according to the X-ray tech a couple weeks ago. This getting old stuff ain’t for sissies 😫

It's been a wonderful day kicked back in the recliner with my foot propped up on pillows while my beautiful wife made a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner for us. I pray everyone has had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. Ronnie check out the pictures I posted on My Ride post.

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Yes! We had a nice gathering with family and friends earlier than normal. Belly is full and I have no more space for dinner. I am so ready for leftovers tomorrow. Enjoy the football game and to whatever you are doing tonight.

No riding for me today up through the weekend. With the Thanksgiving holiday and weekend is upon us, people love to party and some may be venturing on the road slightly impaired by too much food and alcohol to drink. With that said, I am not riding my bike. Enjoy your Turkey days with friends and family.

Kris and I have been talking about doing some landscaping clean up on the back side of our small, park like back yard. We got a couple estimates to remove some over grown and/or out of place pine trees and just generally clean up the layout. I was amazed at the $10,000.00+ prices! Today I decided to start on the job myself. I tackled one of the smaller, out of place blue spruce trees at the back of the lot. It was about 8" di. at the base and 25 feet or so tall. My Bauer(Harbor Freight) 18V 10" chain saw made short work of felling, limbing, and sectioning the evergreen. One 5Ahr battery still had 2/3 charge after it was all said and done. I'm thoroughly impressed with this inexpensive tool that I bought as a onetime use item for pruning a 40 year old apple tree last spring.

I don’t use my saws very often so I switched to canned Tru-Fuel. 2 year shelf life. Saws sit months at a time but fire right up.

Sharp saws use a lot less power and battery,,,,, just sayin.

I used @skydoc_17’s shim kit. He’s got the feeler gauges, picks to get the shims out easier, and the cam tool. I highly recommend having a kit like his to save tons of time. Instead of going through all 16 valves to figure out where to move shims I did each one as I went and then rolled it through again to double check each one.

I just spoke to Seasons Inn about reservations for this, and they will be available for August 13th through 17th. The book for reservations isn't opened yet but you can call and give them your contact information and they will call you back in the order that you contact them when the book is open. The phone number is 1 706-745-1631. When you call let them know that you are with Venturerider. Check in is between 3:00 and 7:00 pm. Once booked if you need to cancel you must cancel by 3:00 pm on August 6th or you would be responsible for the booking.

It was cosy little get together topped of with some of Marca's delicious homemade soup.

I had some pretty rough injuries when I was a kid. Sports and jumping out of trees and off roofs, motorcross and a few other things trashed my knees. I had a Dr tell me and my parents (when I was 17 mind you) that I would probably need a knee replacement by the time I was 40. Lived in Cleveland until I was 40 and during the cold winters I couldn't decide which leg to limp on first LOL. Moved to the Houston area when I was 40 and it's been substantially better. especially since there is only about 2 months of cold and wet weather instead of 5 or 6.

And make sure that when you snug them altogether that the pots are all perfectly flat with each other. You will need a perfectly flat surface to set them on to accomplish this. So first you make sure that they are tight together, and then you bench sync them.

And some are 10s when you take em home but 2s the next morning. 🤪🤪🤪

My sound effects are different though. I sound more like Rice Krispies when I’m moving.

around 2007, when I bought my 07 venture. some of the members of Star 297 Ft. Lauderdale told me about it.

I had them installed on my Honda Valkyrie Interstate this spring after having Dunlop D4's. Two trips to the US through the mountains and twisties of Virigina and West Virginia HWY 250 and 33 and a short drive through Skyline Drive and they worked well. 2nd trip to Vermont this time in some rain and they worked very well in all conditions. I would give them a thumbs up! Mark

Loretta's got an Apple pie in the oven now and will be making a pumpkin roll. Thursday we have my youngest son, one of his neighbors and his wife since they have no family in the area. Friday and the weekend we will actually be celebrating Christmas with my oldest son, daughter in-law and the grandkids. Friday desert will be a peach cobbler. Can't wait for the left overs LOL.

Rode the bike to work this morning, 47 when I left the house. Still enjoyed the ride. Layers are important. Should be a gorgeous ride home at 70.

I have the Ryobi also. Battery does good and it cuts well -- With a sharp blade. Biggest job it's done was some careful plunge cutting into a couple large stumps to prepare for burning them out. I don't have any other chainsaws as living I the city I haven't really needed them. Teh 2 hand axes I have work fine for what I do. 40 - 45 years ago my dad insisted I use a double sided ax. He was not going to spend money on a chain saw since he had a strong boy LOL. For limbing or trimming we had this old bow saw. That blade was a beast, almost lost a finger to it. We'd climb tree to cut limbs and I will never do that again.

Not really newer but definitely not worn out. This one is for sale locally, he started out around $7k several months ago. I’m not looking for one but if the price keeps dropping I may have to. I just don’t want to start over since I’ve gone through mine and preemptively fixed all the known issues and added all the extras I wanted. And yes that is the correct mileage 6700.

Good luck on your surgery!

Another solution is to park by the Harleys, then no one will notice.

@N3FOL I agree and we both checked U-Tube and car forum and alot of them had hard time getting hub off. One guy even used oxy/acceteline torches but no luck! @Marcarls tool did work to get hub loosened up but would have taken more parts to take off (spline of front wheel drive was stopping it from comming off) and was worried about getting $220can part to line up. If hub remover from Canadian Tire would have fit we could have gotten it out with slide hammer. Taking to mechanic I know and will cost $100 labor and $200 parts to replace (dropping off tonight after son gets off work) get done Thursday. Son will take other part back to get money back. (Mechanic would put part on but no warranty, his part would have 2 years 40,000klm.)

Should have remembered Marca's soup as I did have 2 bowls of it!!

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In my book (thoughts) floats are always measured upside down so the inlet valve is closed, that is where the float closes the intake to stop or regulate fuel flow which is the only job for the float. Turning the carb upside right will only let the float hang loose and has nothing to do with fuel flow. And yes,,, DONT depress the spring anymore than what the float does normally.

Ham and sharp cheddar with a little mayo on wheat.

I guess as long as it is getting better, that is something to be optimistic about. Cold air is in place this week in our area, so no riding for the rest of the week. I guess I'll have to hit the treadmill this afternoon.

I'm sure you already know this but, make sure to bench sync the carbs before reinstalling them.

Yep,, some are 40 at 80 and some are 80 at 40.

I have sound effects as well, even when I'm not moving. Funny how that happens. Marca is not often impressed. I keep telling her that the sound effects are for the benefit of those that might have missed the other attributes.

I really liked that show and I would even stop working on my homework just to watch the show for an hour. Your new $6 Million dollar men sounds reasonable taking into account inflation.

Sorry for the slow reply gents, was out of town, and just got back. Here is the link in the Member Vendor's section. This kit has the shim tool, picks to remove the shims, About 80 assorted shims and feeler gauges. I also send out a set of new Valve Cover Gaskets, and instructions for a flawless gasket install. Feel free to PM me if I can help. Check out the link for more info about what is in the kit. Earl.

Per the thread subject, I was able to ride to and from work. Heat is essential to enjoy the ride.

No they haven't called me yet. It will probably be after the first of the year.

I’ve been watching since it went on the market. I knew the owner as kids but haven’t talked to him in over 40 years. I’m sure a lot of rubber parts will need replaced. It’ll have to go way lower before I even talk to him. I’ll probably not be really interested anyway.

Or choke cable length.

Sounds to me that somebody adjusted the wrong screw in a process where it didn't need adjusting. maybe?

@N3FOLI agree the V-twin has power! It was mostly the belt drive as I had NO luck with my Road Star 1600 (2000 year) that went thru 3 belts in season and a half at over $800 can each time (parts and labor)was glad to get back on a 2012 Venture that year. As for keeping eye open for a newer one for keeping on good side of the boss ,I think I ALWAYS do but doesn't seem to help over the past 47 years so have NO expectations on any change in the future( was told back when I got this one as my future retirement bike)

Well now that you know what that feels like, is there any other pains you might like to be associated with? Might want to get then in at the same time eh? You can't seem to win for loosen, but hey, it's winter comin' on so be happy it didn't happen 6 months from now!! Heal well.

To all the Veterans, Thank you for your service.

What! No princess auto. Hope you Don't wake up in the middle of the night with the shakes.

By the way. Most old school bikers will remember Scarecrow. He was a well known and respected pinstriper back in the day. Your post brings back a lot of good memories.

There used to be a group named VTS. Stood for Venture Touring Society. After the Venture was discontinued after 1993 in an effort to keep it going, they changed their name to the MTA, Motorcycle Touring Association. The big yearly rally was V-Daze. Many of our original members here were members there also. Heck, at one time I was president of the MTA. They called it quits a good while back; I don’t remember but maybe 10 years ago. They were great group and were once sponsored by Yamaha. They used to give away a new Venture at their rally each year and one year even gave away two. It was sad to see them fade away.

If you haven’t heard yet, I am now riding a new 2024 Road Glide. I ended up going to the Myrtle Beach Fall Rally and unexpectedly decided to trade the Ultra Classic off. I finally got away from a black bike. To introduce the new ride, here are some pics. Color is “Sharkskin”