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A lot of sign shops do vehicle wraps and can likely make you about anything you want.

Boy that car looks familiar but I can't remember where or why it does.

I love it and Eileen would love it even more than me. She could care less about being close to the stores. The only negative might be getting in and out during the winter but I'm sure you would lean to adapt. Looks like planting of room for all of you to camp during Maintenance Day.

Very nice. I actually love those cars. Never owned one but have driven one a couple of times. I'm not sold on the orange stripes but that is just a personal preference. Looks very nice and you should have a lot of fun with it.

Yes, plenty of places to ground it. I grounded it to one of the screws on the radio bracket.

I just walked in the door also. We took all backroads and managed to turn a 4 hour ride into a 12 hour ride. My body feels it but it was a great ride.

Yes you can. That's how I had mine turned.

Great band at dinner tonight.

Some of the bikes turning in to breakfast on the Jonesy Memorial Ride.

OK....first of all, I'm really sorry to hear about all the issues. It seems that as we get older there is more and more health stuff to deal with. Hope the wife's surgery is successful and she can get back to normal. Secondly, I really like those little T-Birds. Never owned one but have driven one and it was a nice little car. Hope you get may miles of smiles out of it. And LASTLY...so you traded the bike...does that mean that you IMMEDIATELY forget all the rules and things that we have taught you around here? I mean come on....PICTURES PICTURES PICTURES.

I don't know. To be honest I've never checked. I figured if I had to make a call then I had to make a call.

Any reports about the Dunlop E4 yet? Anybody running them or do they even have them yet in the sizes for the RSV? I just wonder how they differ from the E3.

Is this just an issue with Straight Talk? My Verizon phone has always worked when I've been in Canada.

Gary, I was told all of that about my Road Glide also. After doing it, guess what...it was still HOT!

I agree with Barry. Though I specifically use Mobil One Racing 4T in my RSV. It is made for motorcycles and maybe it makes no difference but I know it is formulated for wet clutches. I've been using Mobil One in everything I own for many years. I think I started using it exclusively around 1997 or 1998. I've used it in anything I've bought new and swapped to it in anything that I've bought used. Cars, motorcycles, boats, wave runners, etc. The first Venture that I bought was an '88 model with around 45,000 miles on it. Swapped it to Mobil 1 immediately after my first trip and it became harder to shift. Never had any problems after the swap and never had any leaks. It's not cheap though. I changed the oil in my RSV this past weekend. 4 quarts of the oil and a K&N filter cost me about $65.00. The filter was too high at $16.99. Don't know if I'll use the same one next time but we'll see.

That's amazing. In my 48 years of riding, I don't ever remember having anything stolen off my bike. Maybe I've just been very lucky. There was once when I thought that somebody had walked by and broken an antenna off but after replacing it and losing it again, I learned that the cast aluminum mounts I had covered too were breaking and I likely lost it on the way there. To do something like that in front of your kid....that just makes it worse.

For the record, I don't believe it. I just have to think that if Yamaha was introducing a new touring bike, there would be some kind of teasers from them out there. Like they did a while back on a new ATV or something. Make some type of event out of it. We hear this every year and nothing comes of it. I don't expect it this year either. I hope I'm wrong.

If I'm not mistaken, there iS a anti-rollover check valve that prevents gas from running out of the vent line if you drop the bike. Don't remember exactly where it is but you should be able to follow the tube and find it. Unless I'm thinking about another bike but I'm almost sure that it has one. If that is the case, you probably won't be able to blow air through it from the top.

Would you be interested in a new 3rd Gen Venture?

I agree with you. If it is a Twin, I wouldn't be interested. OK...maybe a water cooled VTwin could get my attention but I'm still now sure. If it's air cooled, I would have no interest at all. I will keep what I have. If I wanted another Twin, I would buy another Harley.

OK...I think I have it working again. The only thing that remains to be seen is whether or not it updates as it should.

I didn't remove it but you are right that it is gone. Don't know why. Will try to figure it out.

HEY...I'll BE THERE. I mean..unless it's raining...or the sun is in my eyes...you know...major things like that.

So....you are saying that I need to bring my trailer? Will all my loot fit into a Bushtec?

I'll be at dinner along with Paul. Also want to buy those tickets. Will be arriving Thursday evening.