BlueSky

Very sorry to hear about your issues. I had an irregular heart beat when I was working my job in FL that included 14 months of 6 - 12s. I ate too much and gained to my all time peak weight. When the job ended, I retired and lost 25 lbs, got back to walking 50 minutes 3 times a week and on alternate days I did a set of pullovers and arm curls on the Total Gym, pushups from the knee, situps, and squats. My heartbeat got back to normal. I was 70 at the time. So, my advice would be to lose weight and exercise, gently at first, the best two things you could ever do for your body.

Fuel pump? They seem to fail on the 2nd gens. Surely did sound like a venting problem though.

Water cooling is a must on a big bike in my opinion because the oil gets very hot in an air cooled engine. The review I read of the LA Sheriff's dept tests of potential police bikes showed the facts. The police Harley had a factory spec of the oil temp not to exceed 410 degrees F!!!! The air/oil cooled BMW R1250RT has a spec of not exceeding about 300 plus degrees. All the water cooled bikes had specs for their oil temps in the 200s. I'm sure that IF Yamaha does offer another touring bike it will be a clone of the Kawasaki Voyager, V twin, water cooled, and maybe belt drive. From what I have read about the Voyager, Kawa has modified it to duct the heat away from the rider in the front and also the passenger in the rear. So, it may be a decent choice for those who don't mind a v twin.

Just found a photo of the new Venture!

No doubt it will be a V twin and that will keep me from being interested. These V4s are the best feature of the current Ventures.

Color?

Wow! On the road already! Nothing can keep you two down!

When I recently drove out to Wyoming, my Garmin I was using in my old F150 crapped out and I used the navigation in my iphone. I was surprised when I got a low battery warning using the nav when I had it plugged in and charging the whole time. So, that may be something to consider.

When the rioters start throwing rocks and molovtov cocktails at the police, it is beyond my logic why the police don't shoot the perps. I suppose I'd be arrested if someone threw a molotov cocktail at me or my home because that is exactly what I would do.

The counter argument for paying extra on the loan is that if you lose your job and find yourself without funds, you can't borrow money and you can't get the extra money back that you paid on the loan. So, always have some liquidity handy for emergencies.

With a conventional loan you need a 20% down payment to avoid mortgage insurance. I used my VA loan way back to buy my first house. When I moved, I sold it myself and I allowed the new owner to assume my VA mortgage. Cost almost nothing to sell the house. And the new owners actually put in the extra effort to assume responsibility for the mortgage after the sale. Way back in 73!!

I bought some from partzilla.com

Some of the recent offenders had been arrested 28 times. I think anyone who has been arrested that many times should have a bounty on their head and anyone can shoot on sight.

http://www.partzilla.com/parts/search/Yamaha/Motorcycle/1987/XVZ13DT/CARBURETOR/parts.html Looks like partzilla may have the jets you need.

When you provide a service for customers, it is best to always keep personal opinions of the people out of it and just do the best job you can or that is the way I look at it.

Low 90's and feels very hot!

Don't tell the wife you forgot about $1600. She might have you committed!

Shinko bought Yokohama's motorcycle tire division so I wouldn't be afraid to put them on my bike.

Yeah, I second that! Great job! Years ago, I needed a couple of guys with strong backs to help me. I called the Employment Security Commission and got a couple of guys to help that Saturday I needed to do the work. Well, actually only one showed up and I had to go pick him up, but he worked his arse off and I was happy to pay him for his services.

If I'm selling something big and expensive like a car, I won't discuss price until they show enough interest to come look at it. When they call and want to talk price I say, "Come take a look at it and decide if you want it first. If you like it, we can haggle over the price. If you don't like it, it's a waste to talk price."

I arrived at the motel in Spearfish mid Sunday afternoon driving up from Denver, CO after dropping off my wife at the airport. My son who happened to be driving from LA to NYC detoured through and we enjoyed the area until this morning. We went to Deadwood Sunday and spent several hours in Sturgis yesterday and late in the day went to Mt. Rushmore. I've never seen so many bikes. A few had big block Chevy V8s with up to 1100 claimed hp. If you saw an old guy wearing shorts and a cowboy hat (I had vacationed in Wyoming for a week and just had to buy a Cowboy Hat!) walking around with a tall longhaired young man, that might have been me. When I first got to Sturgis, I mistakenly drove through the middle in my F150. I didn't think I was going to make it through with the bikes parked so close to the street. I looked and looked for Ventures but only spied one blue 2007 and the rider wasn't a member. I also saw a Yamaha scooter and a road star. This was my first time to Sturgis and I didn't have my bike with me. I did enjoy looking at the young ladies who were showing their stuff!! If yah got it, flaunt it is my philosophy! My Garmin directed me through the hills coming in and I passed a motorcycle wreck. My son said the motel desk clerk told him when he checked in Saturday that already three bikers had died in accidents at that time.

With any bike or auto that old, condition is everything. If it hasn't been ridden in a while and is missing, you could find yourself doing a lot of work to get it right. Things like fork seals, fork springs, clutch slave cylinder, carb cleaning, elec wire cleanup are some of the things you might find yourself working on. It's worth paying a little extra for a bike that has been kept in good running condition.

Well then, a first gen it is!!! Inexpensive to buy! Lots of friends to help you sort it out! Or a wing! The low center of gravity is a great thing for a 900lb bike!

I may be there for a day or so in my truck. My wife is taking off a week from work next week. I'm driving to Denver and picking her up from the airport Saturday with the plan to tour Wyoming and areas. After dropping her off the next weekend, I may go over to Sturgis just to say I've been, regretfully without a bike though. I wanted to drive out so I could do a little more touring before coming back home.

Wow! What a disaster! So glad you two are recovering well! A big buck deer ran into the side of my car after I entered the 35 speed zone of Peru, Nebraska after dark. That is when I decided that deer were so stupid that they had to have been put on earth for food and we should be eating more deer!