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Well I made some more progress on the hitch. The Receiver is done, waiting for the paint to dry. I still need to fabricate two more brackets for attaching it to the frame. Then bolt it all up for the last time. Once the receiver is mounted on the bike I will decide on the final length for the stinger and finish building that.

I have seen the commercials on TV for something like that. It was a long time ago, and I do not remember the name. They always showed it as having done half of the car and then dumping the bucket of water to show how it sheets off and the wax stayed wet. I think Turtle wax car wash used to make that claim also.

It could be that your bike was running rich causing it to be low on power. There have been many posts where people put on K&N filters or opened up the air holes and found their engine to be lean and have to make carb adjustments to get it back to right. Even your dealer thought the engine was rich, hence shimming the needles. Just some thoughts.

Check your steering bearings. Pack an oil filter if your normal oil interval is less than 6K+. You can always find oil almost anywhere, but not necessarily a filter. Spare brake and headlight bulbs.

Lookin good. I'm still tryin to figure out how to escape 3 weekends in a row.

NOOoooooo!!!!!!! Don't cross it off. But do take video..

I laid it out to make them on my vinyl cutter 15 x 2 and it came out to WELL under a buck a piece in material. Unless of course you are getting them out of 24K gold leaf vinyl.......

I think / hope that he meant to have them be the one to pull the ticket out of the hat to determine the winner. As opposed to having them be the winner. Just my take......

I have many many types of lithium batteries that I use. First you would use six 2V cells not 7. The cells would be connected in series so that you would get 12V. When you connect cells in series, the AH stays the same and the voltages add up. AH is not the same thing as max amps. AH is how many hours you can power a 1 amp load before the battery is drained to the minimum recommended voltage. Lithium batteries if used correctly can be very good, BUT they have very special charging requirements. Our electrical systems are designed to be perfect for charging a lead acid battery but are all wrong for the requirements of lithium. Lithium batteries are also very bad in the cold. They just go to sleep and wait for things to warm up.

Deer Story - A Farmer's Tale Why we shoot deer in the wild: (A letter from someone who wants to remain anonymous, who farms, writes well and actually tried this) I had this idea that I could rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home. I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up-- 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it, it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope, and then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer-- no Chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals. A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope. I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in. I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back. Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when ..... I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and slide off to then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head--almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts. The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp... I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape. This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a girl and tried to turn and run. The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down. Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head. I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope......to sort of even the odds!! All these events are true so help me God.. A Educated Farmer

That is as bad as a young couple (mid teens) walking by my house while I was out cleaning my 1st gen. The boy says in such a way as to impress his girl with his bike knowledge, (Nice Gold Wing). I behaved and just smiled. My mother says I have the quietest motorcycle in the whole world.

But that means that you have to get there and back to post before I do. Oh wait, my bike is not running yet....... MAYBE this weekend...

Never Mind I found it. VentureRider.Org

What is the font for the "VentureRider.Org" logo in the upper left of every page? I'll see what it takes to cut some on my cutter.

If you are doing multiple colors that will run the price up in a hurry. Or using some special vinyl. The Vinyl for my 8 inch vinyl cutter runs about $1/foot for the good stuff. So it would cost around $0.50 each in material. If the design is not real complicated there is very little labor involved.

Magic Marker. Most of us have plenty of forehead to work with.......

The chroming might be the "cheap" part. There is a LOT of polishing to do first.

How big are you having them made? $100 for a dozen sounds steep from a distance, unless they are big and/or some special material.

Spray them with gasoline. No more trimming, they will stay trimmed........

Here is where I started http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=21986 Not the easiest but looks very good.

Mine was due in a week, so I just paid now while I was there and looking. Thanks Don for all you do for us troublemakers.

These brackets are quite pricey on fleabay right now. But still looking. Watching a couple of them.

I once went to sit in bankruptcy court with someone and most of the people going thru bankruptcy were there because the gave many 10$ of thou$and$ to scammers, many from Nigeria. They took out title loans on their cars and mortgages on their houses to give their net worth to the scammers. I sat there in awe that some of these otherwise seemingly intelligent people fell for that stuff, and to that level. One was just under $250K. So I guess they do find a lot of suckers.

It is not the bleach that I am concerned with, it is the dissolved chrome in the bleach and its environmental impact.

DANG IT ANYHOW!!!! You had to put this where I could find it didn't you.:mo money: