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Hey Lou, I second what Larry said! It would be easier to find a Unicorn than to find an independent shop that will treat your bike the same way that you will. And like Bpate said, the dealers won't work on these bikes now because of their age. Pick up a Metric Tool Set, roll up your sleeves, bring up the VR.ORG Forum on your computer, and dive right in. There is NO better feeling than completing a service on your own motorcycle and patting yourself on the back for a job well done. Trust me Lou, we won't let you get into too much trouble! Feel free to PM me if you need a "one on one" about a service on your scoot! Earl

It may be a good time to start some of the repair yourself ...You might surprise yourself how much the repair you can learn to do yourself , with a manual and a few small simple tools ....I am 75 now and I grew up on a farm in Southern Manitoba Canada and there was little help back then for any repair in the early 1950's ...Take your time read the manual carefully and find a friend who knows some of the mechanics .. I am a bit to far away from you or I would say bring it down ...I spend most of my days working on old bikes

This is a final posting on my experiences repairing Venture plastic. Along with repairing broken tabs and cracks in various plastic parts, as described earlier, this last post deals with fixing/replacing broken posts on the side covers. broken posts are not an uncommon occurrence, especially if you replace the old rubber grommets with new ones. These will hold the side cover posts much more firmly, and increase the risk of breaking a post, as I did, when removing the cover. I purchased a bag of plastic rivets from Napa. These are commonly used these days to hold all and sundry plastic parts together of ATVs and autos. First cut the head off the rivet plug, and push it in somewhat to expand the rivet. Test fit the rivet in a rubber grommet to make sure the fit is snug, but not too snug. It's then a matter of gluing the rivet to the side cover mounting base, perhaps using a small hand-held grinder, or file to make sure the surface of the rivet and the mounting base are flat. I used Chem-weld for gluing the two together, as the rivet didn't seem to be ABS plastic. Once that set, a layer of fibre glass and epoxy was wrapped around the post base. Hopefully that will hold the rivet securely in place.