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Condor
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Don't feel alone on the shelter/tent. I'm storage challenged too. I suspect that one company in Bangladesh private lables for many different companys. I bought the identical 10x20 labled as a King tent about 3 years ago at Sam's Club. It did OK... not great.. but OK... for 2 years, but this year we had a lot of high winds and the front and back panals finally ripped completely out. It's coming completely down this summer and I'm building something more permanent.
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Well I down loaded it at Freebirds suggestion a while back when I had Windows 98 installed on another machine, and liked it. Then the old computor sorta crashed and I ordered a new one from Dell with XP already installed on it, and low and behold the resize was already there??? Beats me how it got there?? Maybe when I transfered work files and such it came along for the ride??? I always thought it was a standard feature of XP because I didn't do a dang thing.... Oh well. It musta been mirrors...
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Man, I can't believe all the gyrations everybody is going thru to resize a pic. Windows XP, right click on the file, pick resize, the size, hit OK. It keeps the original intact and gives another file labled smaller. Takes about a nano-second, and it's ready to upload. I don't see why everyone gets involved with full blown image editors, when all you need to do is resize. You can also highlight a whole folder of images, do the same thing, and they'll all resize......
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Removing the Choke Lever
Condor replied to a topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
I believe if you take the control off the bar by loosening the two screws, there's a phillips that holds the choke lever on the housing. Once off you can remove the cable... -
Thanks Rocket.... It's nice to know I wasn't hallucinating....
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Well........ it is early.... Actually everything else worked great, but when I tried to access venturerider.org up popped this data base error page. Only lasted about 2-3 minutes, but thought 'oh boy' not another crash. When it went away, it did so slowly. Finally getting up to full speed took another minute or so.... ??????????
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Yeah, Latin American is the way you want to go. Spanish or Castillian Spanish is the proper form. There's still a lot of slang that you'll run into... 'luncho'... but it can only be picked up by usage....
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From your gallery pics it looks like you have the OEM foam grips, and I think I might have one floating around out in the garage. I'll check. OK I have one but I'll be damned if I can figure out how to get it off the grip, but I do see a phillips head at the bottom of the tube??? I suppose I'll need to find a long phillips to find out. It whole cap turns freely. You might have to remove the grip to get another one on. The cap I have isn't mint, but it is presentable. If I can get it off, it's yours if you want it....
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Any PC running Windows XP has the resize feature. Right click on any pic file and the resize option is in the drop down menu.
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Wow!! Did the system hic-cup. Got a data error message when accessing the website???
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http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/cdl_htm/lic_chart.htm Not sure if it's even legal to do that with a non-commercial class A license. I'd check with your local DOT office.
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1989 Venture Oil Leak - HELP!
Condor replied to jfarr53's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
I'd agree with Fred except for your discription that the back of the engine was covered in oil. Therefore..... .... I'd have to put my money on the rear valve cover gasket.... but that's still a guess. Take a can of carb cleaner and wash off the back of the engine and then get in there with a strong light... a mirror reflecting sunlight really lights things up... and if it's leaking as bad as you say you should be able to locate the source.... Hopefully.... -
I have an 88 frame that looks the same as your 84 with the gussets. I think I'd look into getting the thing bead blasted to remove all the rust, and as long as you're at it look into getting it powder coated. I'm not sure how the p-coat would hold up to dribbling DOT 3, but it gotta be better than the OEM finish. Replace the bearings and races and anything else you can think of while it's naked....
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I picked up a Whistler... of radar detector fame.... from WOOT for $200 last year and they just offered another GPS for $109 a couple of days ago. GPS's show up all the time. They don't have all the buttons and whistles that a ZUMO would have, but they're pretty informative. The only thing I find annoying with the Whistler is the non-existant screen in bright sunlight. I cured that problem with a home made shade.
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Guess you're in a pickle on your motor-sicle..... Heck I liked it.... in a funky sort of way.....
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I'm 6'6" and my '83 has a stock 22" shield that I have no complaints with. Eye sight is just over the top edge and I can duck down a bit to look thru the shield. My 91 came with a wider shorter 18" shield. I haven't had a chance to ride it enough to give an opinion on the comfort level, but so far so good. Just can't duck down below the top edge. I don't have a passenger to worry about as all my riding is one up.....
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Still toying with the idea of doing the same thing Don. We have a 1.5 acre view lot up in the foothills that a log home would be perfect on. http://www.lindal.com/homes/techcenter/homebuildingsystems/lindallog.cfm
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That is about as creative as it can get. Love it!!!
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My last post with a video I copied the embed URL link off the youtube site, and it came out the same way. After just coping and pasting the link out of the address bar into the post it worked fine. Go figure...
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OK Synpower.... I don't use it. but I may the next time around.....
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I thought of that too George, but figured the rider...'specially big ones... cause more drag then the bags.....
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Pete- First I was going to butt in and then thought the better of it.... and then said wht the hell.... Before you go into a major rebuild of your clutch, and this has been discussed many times on the board before, bleed the clutch and check to see if the very small opening (VERY IMPORTANT) in the reserve is clear. You can change the discs..:mo money:change the plates rebuild the master change out the fluid, and the clutch will still slip because..... when the clutch fluid heats up and expands it can't get back into the reserve with a plugged expansiion hole and it will start to apply pressure on the clutch push rods and it will be the same thing as squeezing the lever. The first place the clutch will start to slip is in high gear at high R's. The load on the clutch isn't as much in the lower gears. As the fluid gets hotter it'll get worse. I suspect that because you're riding in very cold weather the fluid isn't expanding as much as it would in the hotter summer months. It doesn't cost anything but a can of Dot 3 to bleed the clutch...and the brakes while you're at it. This is the first thing any new owner should do when buying a new2them bike. After this if it still slips break out the wallet....
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Thanks for the pics Todd. I like the zip tie mount. I'd been thinking about drilling and tapping a couple of holes in the riser, but I think I like the tie idea better.
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I think for short distances it might work, but I don't think long hauls it would be too good. I not sure there would be any damage to the drive train, but there's a lot of stuff still moving up to the clutch, and the scoot is sitting at an odd angle... I donno???......... On the side to side issue, I think the 'tire well' is deep enough to keep it stable. Just tie it down. And what is the weight rating. Figure about 60% of the weight of a 1stGen being supported....
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YEP!!