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  1. Dragonslayer
    I had gotten a pink ( Manly Pink) t shirt from the Wellington F.O.E. from their Poker run for Breast cancer which read "Big or small let's save them all" which is certainly a noble cause in my opinion. And when I returned to MD it was highly covented by at least one young lady that I had never met. I probably should have done the gentlemanly thing and peeled it off and given it to her on the spot..... but, I kinda liked the shirt myself. Instead I tried to appease her by giving her my new equally attractive pink bandana. Which was imprinted with a message about courage, inner strength (Intestinal fortitude). Coincedentally some of the gangee tattoed on my left wrist represent those exact same concepts. But, as pointed out by Don I apparently fell short of my Dragonslayer motto "Your wish is my command" since I did not peel it off on the spot. So..... now I'm gonna have to try and track done the young ladie at the F.O.E. who was selling them for the Eagle Riders Poker run and see if I can get any more to forward to Chris from Il to keep my honor and reputation as a Dragonslayer intack.
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    A cyber space cosmic connection between Big Tom and Swifty.....go figure
  3. Dragonslayer
    Thats probably my Butterfinger Blizzard dripping down his face
  4. Dragonslayer
    Now wait a minute.... she seemed fully clothed to me at the time..... I believe that if she had been naked I would have noticed that.
  5. Dragonslayer
    But, But.... in my defense,..... I had only owned it for a few minutes..... and it was the first (manly)pink shirt that I had ever owned.... and, she didn't look that needy to me. If she had I would have given it up, my blood and maybe a kidney if she needed it...... I did give her my brand new pink bandana..... and I had already forfieted my Butterfinger Blizzard and a portion of my dinner to Big Tom.......I did buy VR merchandise, parts, raffle tickets and donations freely................. Never mind..... PM me her name and address and I'll send her the shirt........ I feel so ashamed.
  6. Dragonslayer
    Don, I truly appreciate all that you do to bring all of us together in the forum and all the work it takes to pull off the annual maintenance day event so flawlessly, including manipulating the weather. I also appreciate the courage and faith Eileen must possess to allow a traveling herd of Venturous nomadic wanderers invade your lovely domicile and property, year after year. The two of you are truly the most gracious and generous host. I feel fortunate to have been invited, able to attend and welcomed to this wonderful event and grateful at your warm and apparently heartfelt invite for future gatherings. The experience and memories will stay fondly in my mind, heart and soul for the balance of my life. The pictures of which will help keeping them fresh in my mind. I learned and laughed alot and will know better next time what not to do. Like walking near Big Tom with an unopened DQ Butterfinger Blizard. No one knows which way the worm will turn in any of our lives, but, as much as possible I will be planning to be present at future MD events. Thanks my friend for all that you do. Atlanta Dragonslayer Bob
  7. Dragonslayer
    Now I have that visual to work with and the lingering after taste of Black Death in my mouth.
  8. Dragonslayer
    It's called Black Death for a reason. The pond Monsters are an urban Legend/Myth A packed umbrella would have been more usefull than the packed harpoon Beware of long heart tugging stories told by Skydoc There was no Strippers tent at MD in spite of what Starbog says. Always take your cold weather gear to MD no matter how hot it was last year and it is held in June. Bring more money next time to Skydoc's table It's great to find a new audience for my old jokes. It's a small world, found new friends who live in Ohio that met and married a mile from my house in Atlanta It was not neccessary to compromise my morals by stealing that roll of toilet paper from the motel the night before after Don posted to bring your own. They had plenty. Beware of Starbog's five dollar footlong. It was not a winner (in my case) Pink is a manly color. Never walk on site with an unopened Dairy Queen sack containing a Butterfinger Blizzard especially if Big Tom is around. If RandyR predicts that we are about to ride into the storm of the century with 70mph wind 3" rain per hour and 2" hail, disregard there is only smooth sailing ahead. Yamma Mama and Moped are just as I imagined them to be over the past few years, and that's a good thing. This event is attended only by old and new friends. Don and Eileen are super people and the most gracious and generous host. But everyone that has ever been to a MD already knew that. Don, Thanks for the good times and great memories I had a great time. It was well worth the long ride and price of admission. I forgot there was no admission price, or was there????????.... Do I owe you any money???????....... Do you take paypal????? Love you man, mean it
  9. Dragonslayer
    You are too, can't I have more than one bestest buddies. I still like you even though you hoovered my Butterfinger blizzard and snagged my diamond cut cylinder covers.
  10. Dragonslayer
    I'll turn you on to something you may find usefull to fix the pinholes in the diaphrams. take them out and spray them with Aerosol liquid rubber on both sides, let them dry, put them back in and your good to go for a couple years. A lot cheaper than $80.00/each for diaphrams.
  11. Dragonslayer
    I'm not saying There was anyone at MD that I didn't like but, Angel turned me on to some safety chrome I had been looking for was a super friendly person to me from the first handshake. The beer investment was well worth it and my pleasure.
  12. Dragonslayer
    I can't believe you came this way and didn't bother to stop by and pick up the insurance premium. I guess I'll just have to call it in as usual.
  13. Dragonslayer
    Ready or not here we come. RandyR and I stopped at ashland Kentucky for food R &R but we should be rolling in on Thursday afternoon.
  14. Dragonslayer
    This is my first time but, I did know about the pond monsters..... So I was carefully to not forget my harpoon.....
  15. Dragonslayer
    I'm gonna ride one of them to the north border 700 miles for Don's maintenance day next week. I just haven't decided which one the 87 MK2 or the 07 midnight second gen.
  16. Dragonslayer
    I have been having a similar symptom. I believe I have improved by eliminating posible bad electrical connections.
  17. Dragonslayer
    The tach/engine drop out has seemed to go away since I uploaded the VMAX old VentureV88.IGN program to th TCI. The high range acceleration stumble and surge has decreased significatly since I cut out the quick connect plugs and straight wired to the TCI adapter cable. However, the gas mileage problem does not seemed to have improved any.
  18. Dragonslayer
    Or maybe Sun spots
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  20. Dragonslayer
    I had to find out so I cut the small plug out and straight wired to TCI adapter harnes. Then went for a test ride. The acceleration was noticeble improved at low range and still stumbleing a little bit on mid to high range acceration between 3500 and 4500 rpm. But, not as bad as before. The upload of the Vmax old venture V88 program to the TCI as Dingy suggested made the drop out of engine/Tach problem go away. I guess I'll go ahead and cut out the large plug to see if that will stop high end stumble.
  21. Dragonslayer
    This is why I haven't cut the plugs out yet just in case I need to hook the old TCI up. I'm now thinking about leaving the female plug in the wire harness and direct wire to the new TCI adapter cable. But, i'm gonna try a couple of things first.
  22. Dragonslayer
    That's my mission to find out why I'm not getting that kind of MPG
  23. Dragonslayer
    I have not cut the quick connect plugs out yet but the ride to work and back today felt like I was back to where I started. Still guzzeling gas 1/2 tank = 50 miles Tach and engine still dropping out at between 4K and 4.5 K RPM still hesitating and stumbleing on hard acceration before it picks up and goes. Does anyone have any other ideas before I cut the quick connect plugs out?
  24. Dragonslayer
    I replaced the fuel filter and found the old one in pretty bad shape.I'm somewhat ashamed I didn't do that sooner. The old one was completely black and there was evidence of hardened varnish on the bottom of the filter bowl. Changed the spark plugs out. All of the old ones had the same dry gray appearence of the electrode. Another test ride , The speed and responsiveness was much improved but it still seems to stumble a little bid at high speed. I'm going to run this tank out to see if fuel consumption is improved any before I cut out the plugs.
  25. Dragonslayer
    So, I went for a xway test ride this morning with the old TCI/TPS config and the bike hauled A** with little hesitation on hard acceleration. It ran a lot better but still stumbled a little bid at high speed. Got home and hooked the new programable TCI/Map Sensor config back up making sure all of the connection pins were pushed up in the plug. Took another test ride and it ran and stumbled about the same. Which all leads me to believe that the problem is not in the TCI old or new. It seems like at hard acceration and high speed an electrical connection is breaking down causing it to hesitate and stumble. Next I'm going to change the plugs and fuel filter to eliminate them as possible contributors to the problem. Then see what happens. I'm leaning toward cutting the quick connect plugs out of the TCI harness altogether and hard wiring or soldering the wires together to the TCI Plug. Which should eliminate any connection problems at the quick connect plugs. Any other second opinions?
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