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Whats the pay? Is there any climbing involved? Is this a hourly job or comission? How many days off to clear the spinning head? Pension plan? Are there naked people in these visions and if so can the nicknames be used from this? Is there travel involved? Are expences paid? So many questions before a suitable judgemental luminary is picked.

Brother-in-law had a Buick once. Engine blew so he put a Pontiac engine in it. From then on we called it the Buneack. Thats all I know about Buicks. My only requirement for a different vehicle is can I get in and out of it easiley. I had a disabled friend looking for a new vehicle once, he had a stroke that left his left side rigid so he used a cane alot and he took me with him to look at some deals he had found. He pointed out to me that Fords in general have farther opening doors then most GMs that he was looking at. I never really thought much about ease of acess till then. But now it is on my mind as I get older.

First guess does not count. Santa after christmas. Second guess, a retired butcher.

:rotf: Good one! Never say your minds slipping. Ya, never know when the wardens watching.:rotf:

Wash it in woolite. I hang mine out during a good thunderstorm. Then let it air dry. Mind you it gets a little nervous during the thunderstorm. But I hold it tight with clothspins.

How about starting a project one night but not finishing it. Come back in a few days after doing several other projects, now the work bench is full of every tool imaginable. So you say "I'm going to finish what I started days ago" and you can't find what you need to do the job. So you clean off the bench, under the bench, sweeep the floor and put everything away and still can't find what you need. The wife comes in after 2 hours of super cleaning and asks "What are you looking for". I say I need a so and so and can't find what I did with it. She says "Is this it sitting on the bench"? IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN!

No wind in your hair driving that. Although it's neat to look at but hard to climb in and out of at my age. A new Venture would make them more money I would think.

Thanks for the post. I never knew there was a WW2 LST so close. My father was a radioman on one of these for the wars duration. He didn't talk much about his war time experience. Other than being at the D-Day landing. His ship was used as a Hospital ship after it. It shuttled back and forth between the coasts for days afterwards. I've always wanted to visit one to see how he had to live during his time served.

No truer words spoken. Get well and get going.

Congrats, you did not buy that bike, you stole it for that price. My name for your bike would be Scotty. Being it was so cheap.

H'mm ,wait for it. 1 2 3 Ladies.

Used to partake a few drinks of George Dickel. Hard to find anymore. Just a shot to smooth out the aches.

New Mustang, bass boat, International tractor, pocket knife, pickup truck, work boots, assault rifle {hey you never know}, riding lawnmower, snowmobile, 24 x 30 workshop, world peace, round hay baler, square hay baler, hay tedder, grape picker, winter coat, carharts, bulldozer and a partridge in a pear tree! Christmas is for the kids. What will I get? $20.00 worth of things I'll never use. Somehow it just does not make sense. My output thousand. My input $20.00. Ahh as the old saying goes "Tis better to give than recieve" BS! BA HUMBUG.

"OUCH" Must be getting ready for retirement or needs the money for the Obamacare employer mandate coming.

I was 13. It was a Bridgestone 90. Road bike, 72 Kawasaki 350 was first.

BA HUMBUG! COLD,WINDY,WET,LAYERED CLOTHING,DISMAL,HEAVY,FLUFFY,ICE,FREEZING,BONE CHILLING,ARTHRITIS ACHING PAIN. I'll say it again BA HUMBUG!

As you say. Its not about style its about fundamental functionality.

Well after buying a controller unit from a generous member it was not the problem. So a e-bay buying I went and picked up a complete tuner assembly from Airzona for $19.99 plus $9.99 shipping. When I took mine out it was nasty looking to say the least. 29 years of western New York weather had done it in. Plugged the new-to-me tuner in and viola Dots radio is back in business. I am hopeing that the dryer weather in Airzona was much easier on the radio. It looked like new compared to mine.

I have seen these on 2-cycle snowmobile engines. But not on anything 4-cycle. Maybe,maybe-not.

I bought mine from MR Cycles,com . It was $76.82 with $12.25 shipping =$89.07 total.

My son has Cruds brother or sister. K&N pod filters, Cobra Stage 3 carb kit, Cobra 2 in Slash Cut Drag Pipes, Instrument cowl, Corbin seat and L.E.D. taillight and turn signals. It sings a fast tune also. Thing about it is your going warp speed before you know it. Good thing it wasn't around in my younger days. It would scald my old 750 Kaw.

I am in the process of that fix now on my 86. My clutch became very spongy while we were riding through St Louis last year. I don't like that feeling of no clutch on a 800 lb bike. I ordered a new slave last week. It came in a few days so I put it in. Let me tell you to get the old slave out you have to hold your lips just right. That thing has about the width of a hair to slide down and out. I'm waiting for the clutch master rebuild to come now. I suppose its possible for the fluid to seep into the clutch activating rod cavity, following it and end up into the motor if the seals are bad there. The slave has a rubber boot on the engine side that could act as a seal when tightend, so the oil wouldn't leak on the outside. If so I would be changing the engine oil also, being the cluth fluid is brake fluid. When you remove that slave throw the phillp screws away and replace them with allen head screws. Easier for the next replacement.

I was called up for jury duty at our town level once many years ago. I was a little late in getting there. The room was filled with seats and most of them were taken but a few near the back. The local judge comes into the room and says " Is there any reason you people sitting in the front row of chairs can't be here" Of course no one said a word. That was it. The jury was selected. Ever since then I never sit up front for anything!

Nice Motel, but probably tuff to haul around with your Venture. Some guys have it all figured out. Puc, I don't think I would be able to "rise and shine" after sleeping out. Those days are over for us. The solitude and quiet of your {Motels} would definately be a plus though.

The list of dives we have stayed in is quite long. But the list of great little mom & pops is quite long also. But in keeping with the worst motel it would have to be the last one we stayed at. We rode up to Penns Cavern this summer. So I did some internet work to find a close mom & pop. Found us a little 12 unit motel run by a family that also had a bar & resturant. BINGO! Food, beverages and sleep. When we drove up to the rooms behind the resturant I noticed at the end room were 2 chairs outside. Not motel chairs but something like personal chairs. Oh well, someone lives here I think to myself. Not uncommon these days. We unpack , shower and walk to the resturant and eat. Good meal. So we are back at the motel and the shouting starts at the end room. It gets loud then stops, then loud, then stops. The wife opens the door to investigate what all the shouting is about and she says "Alan check this out" ! "There is a guy outside Naked"! Now I'm sitting on the bed relaxing and jump up to check it out! Sure enough here is this old guy buck naked with a beer in one hand punching his old lady with the other. She is blocking all his blows and giving some of hers back. He quits {personally I think he got worse than she did} and runs back into the motel with her following. The shouting continues for alitte while longer than quits again. About 10:30 the shouting starts again followed by the sound of breaking glass. That was enough for me now this is getting serious. I call the desk. Told them that the people that have been fighting all night have just either broke a car window or broke the motel window. She says "Are you serious", "We will be right there". It wasn't 30 seconds and there were 4 large people from the resturant there. The cops came, the shouting stopped and all was good the rest of the night. This is only one story like I said the list is long. But its things like this that make a ride memorable. Ahh, the remniscing. Oh yeah, those coupon books on the thruway can lead you to some pretty interesting dives. But that is another story.