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Any of the aerosol type. Doesn't matter I don't think. Go with the "extra hold".

Hairspray always worked for me.

LOL....that was a long time ago. The day in ... April I think...of 1999 when I was taking delivery of my brand new RSV.

I've looked at every option I could think of and talked to the people at VBulletin and keep being told no, there is not way to do that. Probably is but apparently not within my or their capabilities. I've already started restoring pictures to posts. Did one of yours, among others, today in the read only library.

That would certainly be easier. If you don't know how to do that though, feel free to send them to Eck or Myself.

Yes, no problem. Mine came out once on the '99. I used a rubber mallet to tap it back in but a piece of wood with a regular hammer will work fine also. Never leaked a single time after I did it.

That may be possible but everybody I've asked has said that it's not. They all tell me that you can't selectively input the missing data. They say that If I did backed it up today and then restored the old one that I would not be able to then selective input everything from that date until now. If I could do that, then it would be the same as simply importing the old date into the current one. I'm told that neither will work. I've talked to people a lot smarter than me and if they can't do it, I know that I can't. Maybe some folks out there can, it wouldn't surprise me, but I can't.

Well the date was October 29th, 2014. Not all photos were lost though. Some threads still have them intact.

Unfortunately that won't work. The images are not missing, they are in the file folders. They are just no longer associated with the posts. All the posts and image links are stored in the database. According to the experts, there is no way to just selective restore the database. It's all or nothing. Knownhost only keeps backups for two weeks. That's not the problem though. I have a backup that I did just hours before the upgrade. The problem is that there is just no way to selectively restore it.

No, because though a backup was done, they tell me that it won't include the information that is missing from the database. Not only that, but we would lose everything from the time that it was done.

Most should be on the site if they were uploaded to the site. If you have the originals, that would be the easiest for me. If I have to find and download them then I may as well just do it myself. Any help is certainly appreciated.

Yes, if any of you can edit your own posts and upload the photos that would be fantastic. Every little bit helps.

OK folks, here's the thing. We lost a LOT of photo attachments in the forums. I am more than a little upset over it. When I did the major upgrade to the site, it caused this issue. What bothers me is that VBulletin knew that there was an issue and was a procedure that would have prevented it but they did not make it known at the time. The problem was not with the new software but actually with the old. It's pretty technical but the short version is that a flag was improperly set in the database of the old version that we ran for years. When the software was updated, the new version corrected the bug that caused the flat to be set improperly but in correcting that bug, it saw old those old attachments to be seen as "orphan" attachments not attached to any post and deleted them from the database. So, the actual images are stored in directories on the server but the links to them were removed from the posts and the database. The only way for me to restore them at this point is to manually edit every thread that is missing images. I know that there is some good technical information that is not missing images that are important to understanding the subject being discussed. Therefore, I am committed to correcting this problem and can assure you that I will. I have already started as of this morning but I can tell you, it's going to take me several weeks and possibly even months to get it all done. The procedure is that I have to check every thread that had pictures attached. I then have to look at the date of that post and then search the image directory for the relevant pictures. I then have to download those pictures. The software changes the file type to .attach instead of .jpg or whatever it was originally. I have to download those photos, change the extension back to .jpg and then edit the post and reattach the pictures. I will have to do this for thousands of pictures because there is no way to do it in any type of bulk process. Like I said, this is going to take some time but when I'm sitting in hotel rooms in the evenings, I will be working on it. Please be patient. In the meantime, if you are are trying to get immediate information about a particular procedure and find the pictures missing, please send me a PM and I'll get on that one ASAP. Please be patient. This is going to take me MANY MANY hours but I will get it done.

Pictures have been restored.

You are right. They were once THE club for the Venture owner. I was a member for a few years and went to a few of their rallies. They published a nice magazine. There was a time when they were even sponsored by Yamaha and gave away a brand new Venture at their rallies during that time. A year or two after Yamaha dropped the Venture in 1993, the decision was made to change the name to the Motorcycle Touring Association. They started losing member during those years but put up a good fight to keep it going. After Yamaha came out with the Royal Star Venture in 1999, they changed the name again and it because the VTS/MTA or MTA/VTS, don't remember. Membership has continued to decline but they have still kept it going. They still have a website at http://www.mtariders.com I actually registered that domain for them and built the website there but it has been redone a few times since then. For a while after I first launched it and the forum there, it was a fairly busy site but has gone steadily down over the years and there is very little activity now. I check it every once in a while and often there are no new message from the time I was there before. They are still chugging along though and I wish them nothing but the best. I think that they still have the Venture Roads magazine but I'm not sure that they have a print copy any longer. I know that they were publishing a .pdf version but not even sure about that now.

It's looking beautiful Eck. That thing is going to belong in a museum.

$120.00 per day in Naples, FL. About 188 miles from Port Richey though. You'll spend about as much on gas as the difference between 120 and 170. http://www.toys2rent.com/detail/motorcycles---mopeds/united-states/florida/collier/naples/105

I don't think you'll find anything much cheaper than 170.00. Eaglerider has a few locations in FL but I'm not sure where the closest to you is. I looked though and it looks like about $160 is about their average daily rate.

I don't know when this happened. Had to be during the update to the new software back in the fall of 2014 or an upgrade since then. It may be a pain to get them back but certainly possible because I have a backup still that I did right before the update to the site. I am going to have to find some help to do it though. I have submitted a ticket to the software developer to find out what needs to be done.

LOL...I just want a GoPro. Small steps my friend.

I've seen that before and yes, I think it is VERY cool.

Yes, they come with an online fuse. Per factory instructions, it is usually inside the faring so you will likely have to split it to find the fuse. Many of us put that fuse in a more accessible place when we installed the lights.

I've been thinking about buying one also. Will want the waterproof enclosure because I plan to use it on the wave runners also. Haven't even started shopping yet but have never seen any great price differences between one store and the next.

Not my cup of tea but a beautiful bike. Ironmike here sold his RSV a while back and bought a new Concours also. He loves it.

I saw no problem with any of that. That's the way we are supposed to do things. I'm just happy to see that your Christmas decorations are still up....now I don't feel so bad about mine. Glad to see that you don't read instructions either. It's the mark of a real man. If you had actually read them, we would have had to ask that you turn in your man card.