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100% completely and totally AGREED Randy!! Now that its all over and done with I gotta get ahold of @Flyinfool and have em come over and clean up the remains of that 11 inches of fresh White Wash he left laying on my lawn last night!!

Thanks brother @The Tooch !! Have read most of it before but WOWZY was that refreshing!! Also,, all the very best wishes for your "gang" of riders as you seek yet more fun out CTFW in 2018!! Dont forget to Dispatch us lots more of those AWESOME pics and trail tales Dave!! Puc

OUTSTANDING Zzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2::dancefool: Like all these other lop eared varmints - I will be following this closely with all the :fingers-crossed-emo possible for complete and full success brother!! Make er go!!!!!!!!!!! Puc

INDEED,, synced out and piped up nicely there is NOTHING that sounds as purdy as a Yamaha V-4!!

Hey @OrlinEngh,, ever see this one out CTFW?? Seems like Tip, Tweeks and I went thru a place called (Eastman) out by you folks one time... Dont remember ever seeing this puppy out there on those gorgeous back roads of yours... Check it out,,, looks like a decent scoot with a decent $ for an actual trike kit installed.. Anyone know what trike kit this is?? https://lacrosse.craigslist.org/mcy/d/1986-yamaha-venture-1300-trike/6491474831.html

Thanks Snype!! Tell ya one thing, IMHO,, the wait is WELL worth it !!!!

Sooo,, while we in the great white, severely White Washed, North are hunkered down in our frost bitten little cabins and found shooting rubber bands at little field mice who are playing on our counter tops as we wait for our hero from California to get on here and report in with yet another one of his AWESOME 3rd Gen Venture/Eluder ride reports (wait for it,,, waittt forr itt ) ,,, wanna hear about a preminition I had?? I had a dream that our hero forgot to c-clamp the floorboards down on the new Yammy he is test riding and this oversight on his part caused him to not be able to complete the Iron Butt he had planned!

GOT THAT RIGHT So far I have an electric tricycle that Birdie and I gotta repair for him to ride when gets two... Then I got a little lawn mower engine mini bike for em when he turns 4, then I have a Honda CT70H (4 speed w/ clutch) for em when he turns 5 and I have an 01 Kawasaki 100 with 400 miles on it sitting down there for his 8th birthday.... Gotta plan ahead you know!!!

Yep,, all good thoughts IMHO... I would probably get myself in trouble and assume right away that its the ol plugged carb circuitry if it were mine.. Under that assumption I would probably rip the air filter out of er and check to see if the air box had become a mouse house (Michigan mice love LOVE to camp in mine).. Then I would take a long skinny screw driver and carefully push on the bottom of each carb slide and gently move them one at a time up into the carb body, release them and see if they move properly while their springs push em back closed.. Satisfied there I would fill my little spray bottle with gas, start er up on choke, move the choke off and spray fuel into the carbs while I fiddled with the throttle to see if I could get er to hit on all four (even one at a time) while I manually gave er a fuel/air mix... If this showed promise,, I would do the old, fill my carbs with carb cleaner thru the drain routine in an effort to get er to run good enough that I could take er for a spin and figure out whether she is worthy of real deal, genuine carb rebuild/cleaning... All in an effort to find out what I have or dont have before I went spending a lot of cash...

Yea,, that Loueeeeseeeanna deal was a dandy! One of the things I have noticed about recent sales on Ebay is that if you have any interest - it never hurts to run the bid up to your max right at the auction end because,, sometimes (and this is getting to be a very popular thing to have happen) the seller will take the last bid even though it didnt make reserve... Nuther something,, Spence did you happen to notice Coyote's post over in the clubs Ebay section? He's got an RSV posted over there @$2500.. Not a bad looking scoot for the $$ IMHO.... But, yea,, that RSTD down there was really really sharp...

Hasnt met reserve yet, wonder if will and it will sell for if it does... Have to wait n see,, it's not over till the old bald guy rides a wheelie ya know!! TONS of awesome deals out there!! https://www.ebay.com/itm/263473448892?ul_noapp=true

Not fun,, please tell your bride we are thinking of and praying for her,, hope she gets feeling good enough to get out and enjoy some time on that awesome new Venture!! Looking forward to the next ride report installment!! You thinking of doing another Ultimate magazine report? LOVED the finish product of the Eluder = very well done!

Birdies 1 now...

ZIP TIES AND DUC TAPE - our very existence depends on them!! ZIP TIES AND DUC TAPE = good name for a Movie,, or a Book!!!

:sign yeah that::sign yeah that::sign Rock On::sign Rock On::sign Rock On: Speaking about testing scoots,,, when I was out at Sturgis playing with the new Venture I attempted to check the engine heat with my Harbor Freight infra red temp checker (had read in multiple reports that Yamaha had figured out how to keep the engine temps down even lower than the water cooled V-4's and wanted to do a scientific check to see if this was true) and the reps out there wouldnt allow it.. Have you got a infra red temp gun Neil? If you do have one,, maybe start your RSV and the new one and let em idle side by side and monitor engine temps and see how they compare... Does that Venture have what appears to be the same exhaust pipe configuration coming as the Eluder Neil?? Same protrusion under your left leg?? Wonder if wrapping the pipes (especially the rear pipe) in pipe wrap like we used to do with our Choppers would help?? Personally I thought the engine heat on the Venture was worse then on a Harley Ultra Limited we have spent a fair amount of time on but no where near as bad as the Indian 111's we demoed.. Right in the middle of the two was my opinion.. You got any time on either of the other big twin pushrod air cooled scoots Neil? If so,, care to share your thoughts? THIS IS SOOO MUCH FUN!! Thanks again for sharing with us!!! Puc

:scared:YOU HAVE ACCESS TO ONE OF THE 1600 BEEMERS TOO NEIL???? You, my brother,, are ON A ROLL!!!!!!!:dancefool::dancefool: Eagerly waiting for this next installment of: CTFW with "Get Out And Ride" VentureFar!

,,, now I KNOW we gotta make the rounds this year! Hit Ashville on the way over to catch up with Mr. and Mrs. Roller to congratulate them on the AWESOME accomplishment!! CONGRATS YOU TWO LOVE BIRDS!!!:173: **** NOTE TO SELF **** Dont forget camera, xtra batteries and xtra SD card.. Plan on doing exclusive YouTube production of documentry interview with Mrs. Roller exploring the answers of HOW and WHY.... Could be interesting... Love ya Roller:big-grin-emoticon:

We have some of those AWESOME birds here on the lake too - just beautiful to watch em take fish out of the lake when your out fishing... Gotta say though,, we have NOTHING like that happening here Randy!! IMHO,, THAT is just flat out awesome!! I will try to remember and follow this as I would LOVE to watch em hatch up and learn to fly and all that! REALLY REALLY NEAT!! Thank you for posting this!! Puc

Well,, I already called and put a down payment at Harbor Freight in Oberlin Ohio on two of those Tent garages they sell.. The plan was to head to Maintenance Day down there this year, grab the Tent garages and homestead a spot on the Pond Monster lake in an effort to escape all this white wash over spray that Fool's been hitting us with. I was gonna stack those Tents up and then hire the Boss to install one of his powerized stair cases for our upstairs... I was also gonna hold one of those "Dent a Car" events like they used to have at demolition days where you get 1 wack for a dollar using Fool's truck that I know he uses to manuver the White Washer around with.. I was planning to use the proceeds from the "dent a truck" for an extra tent garage to store our stuff in next to our homestead and then, of course,, let my friends stay there when they come to visit us at our home on the lake...... All bets are off now though since reading about whats going on down there... Oh well,, would have been fun.. Guess I better call HF and see if I can get my deposit back..

Now THAT is what I am talking about!!! My goodness that Arizona Zipper (AZZI) is one GORGEOUS scoot!! I gotta say,, I TOTALLY agree with ya Riv,, it is endlessly amazing what can come about with just a little patience = WOW did that $250 scoot come out GORGEOUS - :thumbsup: to you brother!! GREAT thread @coreyhill = thanks for sticking it up here!!! more folks notice it and choose to participate!!

I was gonna write something to , and create as much mischief here as I possibly could but a buddy called a bit ago to tell me that he heard on the radio that our local Honda shop has the new Wing on display so now Tip and I are gonna go see if we can get the KIA out of the garage (about a foot of fresh snow) and go see that great big beautiful new Honda Goldwing for our selves!!:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana: my buddy wasnt listening to some fake news channel or just pulling my chain = he's a Harley riding varmint with a good heart but he LOVES to :stickpoke: with me!!! Back in a bit!!

If I get feeling better and if Venturous Randy decides he really is done riding and ever puts that amazing 83 of his with the modified transmission up for sale here in the club and if I can afford what he needs to get for it and can find a U-Haul truck to go down there in Tennessee and get it so I can buy it from him, bring it home and combine Randy's bike with the one I got from Carbon One last year that I combined with Tweeks so Tip and I can get a chance to experience an 83 with that awesome modded tranny, that the math genius gear ratio master Randy almost had me convinced to come to his house and do to Tweeks, all before ride season gets here, it would be a riot to take that bike after getting things all switched around on it and see if it could find it's way back to its home down south even after it had a bunch of Yankee parts put on it and a trip to Ashville would be the perfect way to test it ... Maybe some of those stickers from rides past down yonder would help it find its way,, maybe not,, but maybe.. I LOVE the south!!

Hi Pic, Puc here, wassup!! Maybe a quick call around your area's local dealerships would be revealing... I know here in Michigan the new Yam's are here in stock = both the Venture and the Eluder.. My neighbor called this morning to let me know that even the new Wing is now here locally for viewing (we are still buried under many feet of Fool's White Wash so no demoing yet) and I have been reading that even those are being sold/ridden down there in Texas... Maybe you could just stop by a dealership and take view???

NOW THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT = excellent read,, right from the hip of a non-biased riders perspective IHMO.. VERY VERY well done Neil!! Thank you SOOOO much for taking the time to do that and then to share your thoughts/pictures and adventure with us = YOU DA MAN BROTHER!!! Yep,, you definitely are onto something with your comments about the exhaust,,, still makes no sense to me.. I still think that that bike was designed specifically for the 1700cc Vmax motor = look at it,, it just SCREAMS - dont mess with me - Mom Yam really did turn the touring world upside down with me and all your other touring bikes are MILES behind now, and then someone in the Star group here in the States (I got to meet the Star Riders involved with the decision to go air cooled/push rod in this new one out at Americade) spoke up and said NO = we want air cooled so redesigned Strat motor was stuck in there. Not sure there is even a 1st cooling fan in there Bay, to my recollect the new Venture that we demoed out a Sturgis did not have a fan of any sort for cooling and therefore, I highly suspect that the Eluder is any different.. I wonder if VentureFar could answer for us whether or not he noticed this to be the case?? Neil,, if you get a second, would you mind pouring over that new Venture sitting in your garage for testing (YOU BANDIT LUCKY RASCAL with the bestest of the bestest new found bestest friend for a neighbor ) a little and see if I am wrong on this? I have noticed several comments "Eluding" (pun intended:stirthepot:) to the thought that those new air cooled machines have a cooling fan hidden in them somewhere.. I looked for one (but didnt have the high tempts to ride in or the chance to let one idle long enough that a cooling fan would of come on) I did ask the reps out at Sturgis about it and they said no but they also said that Yamaha had solved the "Heat issue" associated with air cooled touring bikes but never really did explain what they meant by that - maybe I missed something and there really is a "cooling fan" incorporated in there somewhere.. I also am not really convinced that anyone from Mom Yam is still monitoring our club house here.. There is a thread in the 3rd Gen section that Don started for us to develop our wish lists for the new Venture = as I recall, pretty much 100% of those responses (and there were some exhaustive lists in there) clearly stated V-4, water cooled, shaft drive and look what came out.. I know for a fact that Mom Yam sought input from riders here in the States on the design of the new one cause I met them and spoke to a couple of them at Americade BUT - those folks previous experience mostly had to do with the Star V-Twin owners. I also met a super nice guy on the way home from our western tour last year who was returning from the big Star Rally out in Minnesota and is a big wig with some Michigan "Star Riders" group who was all fired up about the new Venture that was out there. He was riding a Strat and was all excited Yamaha finally listening to the "Star Rider" group.. I have a theory that our group here at VentureRider are considered more "Yamaha" minded and less "Star" minded and, maybe therefore lost some connectivity with Mom Yam,, or Mom Star,, or whatever.. Maybe Freebird could shed some thoughts on this cause I am, as usual,, confused by it all...

I have never had either one so my opinion really doesnt matter much but,, I do REALLY like the looks of both of em.. Personally I think the RSTD is one of the purdiest cruiser bikes ever made with endless possibilities to customize to my likings = sort of think along the line of what @StarFan Jonas has done with his and you will get my drift.. I also have always LOVED the looks of the Milliniem RSV and if I ever did own one of those I would name it "The Falcon" for obvious reasons and I would ride it till the wheels fell off!! The only thing that I can think of that I would make a perspective buyer aware of would be just to remind them that the early RSTD's were not a balanced motor and were detuned significantly.. Just a simple read into the clubs "History" section which years this was going on in case a buyer was interested in performance... Here is something interesting.. I have also always loved Mom Yam's attempts at making specialty bikes and have owned a few of them = like the Heritage 650 Special = GORGEOUS!! This RSTD is right in that same category IMHO!! https://syracuse.craigslist.org/mcy/d/1997-yamaha-royal-star-1-of/6486515727.html