RDawson

You nailed it. Look back to the 80s Mustangs, Chargers, and for goodness sake a 4 cylinder Camaro. They all resembled their ancestry somewhat and carried the badge but were nearly brand killers. The Venture faithful ride 4 cylinder water cooled peg draggers that will eat HDs for lunch and go for 250k miles or more without major rebuilds. I know it's marketing but I still can't wrap my head around changing that platform. I have a 32 year old bike that I can tour on or go tear up the twisties. Maybe it will pull in some Harley faithfuls but I believe the 1800 water cooled boosted power plant would've been the Venture boom we were looking for. Having said that I'm somewhat technology phobic, I envision lots of problems with so much tech on a bike being ridden in the rain. I hope in 30 years while I'm sitting in a corner of whatever nursing home my kids imprison me in eating jello and drooling on myself somebody proves me wrong with a 2018 Yam with 300k miles and going strong. But for now I'll stay with 4 pistons and 10,000 rpms.

I've talked to Rick twice about doing my seats. Can't wait to send em after MD. Seems like a real nice guy.

Please post a follow up on how she likes the pegs. My wife wants something to help with the seat pain, she mentioned somewhere else to rest her feet. I talked to Rick Butler last week about seat mods to help her too. He was too booked to get to it before MD so I'm going to send them when we get back.

Doing 80 today on the interstate going to dr when a woman in the right lane decided to be in the left lane. Rear brake lockup, tire smoke, and one finger waving. Maybe the book is right. Just don't know how that Japanese book writer knew.

Now jump on and bring it to MD.

In my area you hardly ever see an RSV but most of them that are for sale are blue/black. Those are the best ones by the way.

I'd start with the switches on clutch handle, front and rear brakes. I had one that broke on a big bump once, mine was on the clutch. The housing cracked and let the plunger come out.

Prayers up. You know these little tykes bounce back quick.

Good looking scoot. Congrats. :happy65:

My 07 usually cruises 80+ when on the slabs with bags on and loaded. I wouldn't get too excited. Now for the big part there is a rule around here that says if there ain't no pictures the bike don't exist. Is it the blue/black 07? You know blue is the best model right?

But is it water cooled?

:confused24:I've still got my old squirrel gun and my deer rifles. We always just dug our taters, never had to shoot em. :think:

Never heard of the hairspray method but many aerosol cans use unscented propane as a propellant, I have used propane from my torch to seat tires too. I don't know if hairspray uses propane or not but any good explosive gas should work. It doesn't take hairspray to make diagnosis of being nuts though, I think most of us passed that a long time ago.

On another note I use Wallyworld carb cleaner to seat the new tire on the rims if they don't want to seal up. Just a short blast in the tire letting it get a little on the outside of the bead, drop a match on it and BOOM the tire is seated. Take out the valve core first or sometimes it will suck the tire right back off the bead. This is a variation of the old starting fluid method, carb cleaner isn't near as volatile as ether so I prefer it. Remember I said SHORT blast of cleaner it doesn't take much of an explosion to do it. Less than second of spray usually works. DISCLAIMER: PLAY WITH FIRE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

On my 07 where I have to put the jack the rear comes up first. Then I throw a couple jack stands under the rear of the frame and move the jack under the engine to lift the front. I'm putting in a new 5000 ft shop next month so I will have room for a lift after that. Using the straps works really well for somebody without a lift though. They need to go out to the posts just a few inches higher than the bars. You can also go high enough to be able to clear the fenders front and rear. AND I'll say it before somebody else does: it is redneck engineering at its best.

I have used two ratchet straps from the bars to nearby posts to hold it upright and stuck a floor jack under it with a 2x6 on it to hit the frame rails. Then just jack it up and go to work. Works fine.

OK am I just dense or did I just miss something? The contribution link says it's going to the maintenance use of the group, I didn't see an SAF link. I don't really care where my contribution goes but I was trying for the SAF. I trolled this site for a while working on my 86 before I joined so I probably owed some backpay anyway. Either way contribution sent. If I haven't said it before, Thanks Don for what you do.

Our routes will cross around Elizabethtown north of Franklin. Not sure whether we leave Thursday or Friday.

I'm with Tyler on that one. They're rotor buttons around here.

Add WD-40 and a big effin hammer and you have the top of the line Ky toolbox. Funny story when my oldest was small my wife was in a fender bender that tore off the bumper cover. Next week we were going to a dr 4 hrs away and the car overheated. Found that without the cover a plastic piece would fold down in the wind and block the radiator. Using the line out of a Barbie fishing pole in the trunk I tied the flap down and finished the trip. Ya should've seen the body shop guys face when he asked me what the fishing line was for. His response was to say "Only in Ky, and was I out of duct tape".

This reminds me of my teenage years, a $300 car with a $500 tool box and spare parts in the trunk.

KY is move over OR slow down. With our narrow roads here it is a life saver. I've been grazed with a boat trailer working a wreck scene when people fly through. We usually park a fire engine in the lane next to the scene as a barrier to keep from getting hit. Away from the interstates we have narrow to no shoulders on our roads, we have to do what we can for our own safety. If it pisses somebody off to slow down or stop while we work to get injured people out they can get happy later. My guys and I want to go home in one piece at the end of the day.

Prayers up for Dan, the Woods family, and those riding in today. Travel safe.

Oops. Sorry, off my 07 RSV. I thought I changed my profile to show that bike.