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Well it is Friday the 13th and I had my first PT session. The therapist was amazed at the lack of swelling and the amount of flex that I already have. She measured both feet to see how far they can move. They both matched in all motions except for how high I can raise my toes, as in stretching the Achilles. My good foot has 16° and the bad one is at 14°, so I only have 2° to go to reach my goal. The biggest part will be to get some strength back in that foot. My calf muscle is shrunk down to half the size it was and there is where near enough strength to hold my fat butt up. Since the injury happened back in mid Aug, I have put on 15 lbs that I need to get gone just to get back to where I was at, then still have to loose the 20 that I was already working on. It will sure help a lot once I can at least get back to walking. My old brown fat dog will like when I can get back to walking also.

I have installed a switch in my truck to turn the no fun nanny off. The factory give you a switch that is labeled as turning off the nanny but she is still there and messing with you. there is one fuse that when pulled will cut power to the nanny, so that is the wire that I can now switch off. I can now spin my tires and skid sideways till I blow something up or roll the truck.

When I bought my venture the sales man was a skinny 5 foot tall kid (late 20s early 30s). I doubt if he weighed 120 lbs. I asked about getting a bike this big on the center stand so he popped it up there like nuttin. Once I got it home and tried it a few times, I was like there is no way I am gonna get this thing on the center stand. I am 6'1" and 250 with a lot of it muscle. But that scrawny sales man had no problem. It took a bit of time for me to learn that it is all in the technique. Just like picking a bike up off the ground is all in the proper technique. Now I to can pop it up their with no issue at all. As mentioned, left handle bar grip in left hand, Right hand grip the passenger grab rail, I can not bend over far enough to grab the crash bar:whistling:). right foot goes on the center stand lever, have the right foot positioned so that the point of contact with the lever is directly below the ankle. If you try to use farther forward of your foot on the lever. when you put power from your leg, that power will be taken out because your calf muscle is not strong enough to hold it. Even if you do not think your foot is bending, it is. So for the lift, have your right arm near straight, put some light pressure on the lever and rock the bike back and forth till you can feel that both pads of the stand are touching the ground. then push down with your right leg while pulling the bike to the rear and it will just jump right up there. Maybe we can get the famous @cowpuc to make a vid...................

I am in the same issue where I think I will need to loose some bike weight due to my medical issues. I have been looking at the Yamaha FJR1300 it is 200 lbs lighter than the Venture with the same size engine and a bigger gas tank.

The easiest way is to clean off all of the oil and then it is much easier to see the leak. Not just possible but highly likely Real easy, get a new one, you are trying to get a 35 year old paper gasket to reseal. As mentioned make sure that the copper washer is under the head of the bottom screw. That bottom screw is drilled into the oil sump and the copper washer is to stop the oil from leaking out along the sides of that screw. Another common leak in that area is where the stator wires come out the top rear of the left engine cover. While you have the middle gear cover off you will be able to see where the wires come out of that cover.

With these bike if you are in 5th at under 60 MPH you are lugging the engine. Many of us will not use 5th until 65. That will give you an idea of the RPMs that these like to run at. If you are coming from a V twin, a V twin red lines close to where these V4s like to cruise at. As for the temp difference. With the engine completely cold, start it and let it idle and using your wet fingers see if the pipes all come up in temp at the same rate. the cool ones are the ones that are having an issue. If 2 are not heating up, it could be sync, it could be an ignition issue, or it could be a carb issue. When you said that you checked the temps with a heat gun and the front 2 were cooler, was that at idle or right after a run? The front 2 do get much better airflow so they may run a bit cooler under power. Syncing carbs is very easy to do, once you have seen it done once. That is why some dealers get big $$$ for it. By asking for a sync you are telling them you do not know a lot about the bike. That is why most members here will do it for the refreshments needed for the visit and then you will know how to be able to pay it forward and help the next person that needs a sync.

No I never got to touch off a 50 BMG. Yest the 50 BMG is the antiaircraft round from WWII. That is why there are so many tracer rounds of mil surplus. BMG stands for British Machine Gun The Raufoss round is an interesting round You have several incendiary chemicals to create a lot of heat to soften the target and then the solid tungsten carbide core to punch thru and let the fire into the hole coating everyone on the other side with molten metal.

Yest that is really $75 per round, each time you pull the trigger it is $75, http://www.gunbroker.com/item/704881398 A single round is $75.00 A box of 5 rounds is $375.00 A box of 25 rounds is $1875.00

There is no data on how many amps this diode can handle. You need to lookup data on the lights you have to find out how many amps they need and then size the Diode bigger by at least 25%.

If I am understanding your situation correctly, just add a diode to the controller output so that power can not back feed it.

Damage report? The deer was tasty. The shot annihilated both lungs and the heart was split in 2 with no exit wound. I did look but was unable to find the bullet. I was loading the 50 with 325 grain hollow point and launching with more muzzle velocity than the 44. As far as compared to my Colt Anaconda 8" 44 Mag. The 44 was noticeably less damage, the entry side lung was destroyed and the off side lung would have a hole in it but still resembled a lung, also no exit wound. For deer I was loading a 240 grain Hollow point. I did some experimenting with 300 grain hollow points but could not get the velocity high enough for good expansion. Bottom line, they both have close to the same effective range, with the 50 being able to reach out slightly farther. The range limitation was my accuracy with the guns not their knockdown power. I would expect clean kills with either out to 100 yards. My personal rule is the max deer hunting range of any weapon is that rage where I can keep ten of my shots in a 4 inch group. With either the 44 or the 50 that was about 70-80 yards depending on the wind.

They are a hand full but a lot of fun, and as mentioned in the vid they do make a LOT of noise. Usually when I fired the first shot at the rang everyone stops to see what made that noise. In that vid he cheated, he got the one with a muzzle brake. Without the brake there is a LOT more muzzle flip and you better be hanging on tight. There is even a WARNING in the owners manual to NOT lock your elbows while shooting or it will break your wrist.

I have had a desert Eagle 50AE. That was a fun gun. Getting another one is on my wish list. That 50AE has also put a bunch of deer in the freezer.

SOOOOOO Curious minds like to know. What was the issue?

Nope me either I am a carnivore, this old body was designed to eat meat. Cutting meat out of my diet will not make me live to 100, but it will feel like it. Besides I still need to get over by @cowpuc for one of those hot dog shindigs, and make a LOT of dogs disappear, maybe even before the flies.

Well I was born in the same cities where hardleys are born. This was all part of the same event that took out my tendon. After the tendon blew out the bike hit my knee while we were both falling to the ground. I just thought it was a bruise that would go away.

Well last week Wednesday I went to the foot doc for a scheduled check up on my surgery. She said it all looks real good and has me starting to walk on it kinda sorta. I can put up to 25% of my weight on it while still using the crutches and the boot. Next week I can move up to 50% weight with the boot and one crutch. On Friday the 13th I get to start PT. While at the foot doc I asked about the knee on my other (left) leg it is still sore and makes grinding noises when I move it. Since she is a podiatrist she can not legally do anything above the ankle. But she said it did not look good and that I should see my regular Doc. So I did that today. He yanked and pulled and twisted and poked and sent me up for Xrays. He said it looks like I probably have a fractured kneecap, He is forwarding the xrays to an orthopedic to determine what to do about it. It could be anything from just give it time to heal on its own to surgery to fix it. ARRRRRGGGgggggg!

One you tread into the world of LEDs, none of the old rules you thought you knew apply any more. If bulb A is 2500 lumins and 60 W and bulb B is 2500 lumins at 40 W. That means that they will both output the exact same about of light but bulb B will do it using less electricity. Watts has a direct mathematical relationship to amps, so if you take your 60W ÷ the bikes 14 volts running you get 4.29 amps. So watts is noting but the total amps that the light will draw from your electrical system. It has absolutely no bearing on light output. The difference in watts between 2 LEDs of the same brightness is in the efficiency of the driver circuits that are taking bike power and converting it to the power that the LED needs. Also some LED technologies will produce more light on less power that other technologies not even including the driver efficiency. SO do I now have you totally cornfused?

Some of the newer cars can be totaled from hitting a deer, especially at interstate speeds. The farther north (read that the harsher the winter) you go the bigger the deer are. As mentioned we are just starting to enter the silly season, where the ONLY thing on a bucks mind is procreation of the species, when you only get lucky once a year you are going to try to get the most out of it. Big bucks are trying to chase all of the smaller bucks out of their territory so that they can have all of the does to themselves, those chased bucks are literally running for their lives. Then those horny bucks do not want to wait until the doe is ready, they are trying for some early action, but since the does want nothing to do with it they are also running for their lives, and dignity. since all of these deer are being chased, they will blindly run across any road, I have seen them cross 8 lanes of interstate.

Nope my cholesterol is wonderful to bordering on being to low. But my drug use was the very first thing every Dr asked me along the way. I take no forms of statins, and None of the meds that I take have weakened tendons as even an uncommon side effect. The first one everyone asked about was an antibiotic that has blown Achilles as a very common side effect. When I first had my heart issue on of the meds that made my heart work did cause me a lot of dizziness to the point that I did not ride the bike for a full year. once my heart got stabilized and the dosage cut down to 25% of what it was the dizziness went away and has stayed away. By the way I am now 4 days into walking on my foot with up to 25% of my weight on it but with the use of crutches and the boot. On Friday the 13th I start PT. Doc says it is looking good so far.

Back in my day we went to a movie at the theater and got a soda and pop corn all for 25¢. Just the movie was a nickel or a dime depending on which side of 12 you were on.

For me those options make it a much harder choice. The ammo availability is why I mentioned reloading ability as a factor. I am a reloader so ammo availability is of little concern to me, I don't know if it is for you. As for stainless vs blued, If you are going to take it hunting then to me it is stainless all the way. If I have a choice I will never buy another blued hunting gun. I have had blued guns showing bits of rust buy the end of just one day of hunting in the rain. For me and my bad eyes, a scope is also a requirement.

First make sure the bolt you are putting in is really a metric bolt of the correct size. If the threads are stripped I would put in a heli coil so that you are still using the correct screw. I hate going up a size and having one oddball screw. That oddball will just make things more difficult for as long as you own it.

So this is now the 6th Friday in a row. Will you be riding this weekend? You know it will not be too much longer before @cowpuc does something silly to make me go out to play with my machines in the shed......... I am sure you do not want to have to ride it home someday in 6 inches of partly cloudy.