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I would like to trailer my 2019 Venture Touring Bike from Florida to Colorado, but am stumped regarding the best procedure. Yamaha customer service was clueless, and my local Yamaha dealership about as bad. The touring package covers-up pretty much all standard strapping points. Has anyone trailered this year/model bike, and if so, please share your tips. Thank you!!

I’m really hoping things start getting back to normal this year. Of course we have the get together here, I’m really looking at Asheville if I can get away, and maybe one more trip with the wife to Florida this summer. I’m planning to retire this summer and hope to see friends again and meet new ones at any rallies we can make.

You shouldn't have to tune very often. Why you need to do a tune is to balance the in going air into the cylinder and that is controlled by the carb linkage. So in fact what you would be doing is adjusting for wear in the linkages. I would say that if you did it once every 2 years or 50k km you should be good. Now if you rip tearing at things under the tank and adjust the wrong screw, then to get things right again you will need a carbtune.

Just can't figure out why somebody would pay for a 24hr bed and then only use it for 8 hrs. Got to get the use and value out of things eh!

I remember doing all that in my younger years. Oh the memories. Another fire starter I also used was soaking news paper with hot parafin wax then roll them up into tight 1 inch dowels while still soft. once they cooled I cut them into 1 to 1-1/2' pieces. To start a fire you peel back about an inch of the roll for a wick and light. They burned for a long time and were unaffected if they got wet. Little folding twig stoves are also amazingly light and effective.

Always a great reminder of good advice. Maybe even more so for seasoned riders since we sometimes get to comfortable and overlook whats important. BTW who you calling crazy?

I've got a few things brewing over the summer, so waiting to see how the summer schedule shakes out. In any case, how does late Sept/early October work for everyone interested? Would give us more runway for planning. Somewhere in the Lake Shasta, CA area (very northern CA)? Mount Lassen, Burney Falls and a few other great day rides can be done from that area.

When I used to do this a lot (before wife and kids) I always carried home made fire starters. I would grab wood from around where I would be and start a ground fire. I always had a small hatchet with me. For the meals I always carried tin foil and made foil packs. This way I could stop at a small store and grab what I wanted. I only carried a small metal cup, a metal spork and used my pocket knife to eat. The metal cup was good for boiling an egg if I had them but mostly cowboy coffee. I also only use water from nearby streams. I used to drink directly from them and by todays standards I should be dead just from the water. Fire starters were basically a cardboard egg carton add a mix of saw dust/shavings and wax, (thick on the saw dust) and add a candle wick sometimes but the egg carton worked just fine.

Small propane tanks with screw on burner tops. One large, one small. Cook mainly burgers, bacon and eggs and boil potato's for parsley potato's. Eat salads for lunch when fishing.

You really do not need brake lines rated for 3,000+ PSI. The max pressure in the front shocks is only 17PSI and most run less than max. I was thinking some cheap black polyethylene or polyurethane line rated for 100PSI that will go on a barbed fitting with a cheap spring clamp. If I had a 2nd gen I would have already made something up. The outside of a Schrader valve is a 5/16-32 UNEF thread, the same thing as a -4AN fitting. Just take out the valve core and screw on the an fitting and attach your hose to the barb. It does not have to cost a fortune to work.