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Can any of you tell me if you are getting the emails that your supporting membership's are expiring? There and two cron jobs that run. One sends out expiration notices to you and the other sends notices to me that your memberships are expiring. Recently the emails sent to me contain no subject and no text. It is sending me the emails but I have no idea what they are for or who is expiring. Are you getting them or are you getting a blank email from VentureRider.org that you have no idea what was for?

I've sold a number of things on Craigslist and with that always comes the spam type emails. You just have to be wary of them. I always use a throw away email address from Google or Yahoo that I can cancel when done. I have a boat listed now as well as the Chrysler Crossfire. There is a boat broker in NY that just won't stop emailing wanting to sell my boat for me in spite of me telling him in no uncertain terms that I am not interested in his crap. I got an email about the Crossfire last week from a person in Houston, TX. Could be legit but I'm not interested in going through the aggravation of finding out and doing a long distance deal involving his credit union so I just stopped replying to him after telling him I would prefer to sell it locally. It's a pain sometimes but I've always found it to be a fairly successful way to sell things.

I'm not sure what tool you are talking about. I may have it and if so, would certainly let you borrow it.

I'm so sorry to hear this news. I don't know that I can even imagine the pain that Abdul is feeling at this time. My heart and prayers go out to him.

I'm so sorry to hear this news. I don't know that I can even imagine the pain that Abdul is feeling at this time. My heart and prayers go out to him.

I'm not familiar with the radio on the 2005. Does it have knobs or push buttons to increase the volume? It sounds like a bad connection or a dirty volume know but I doubt that it has a resistor type volume knob so I would go with connection somewhere.

Also, how old is the oil? These bikes get harder to shift when the oil gets older.

To all our members who organize and hold meets and eats, rallies, maintenance days, anything that brings our members together. Without all of you, we would be nothing but another website instead of the club, and some say FAMILY, that we have become. I am not going to list names and events because I would surely miss one or more but regardless of how large or small your event is, it means a lot to the members who can attend.

They are great bikes and we are glad you have joined us.

They are great bikes and we are glad you have joined us.

Since they are aftermarket, we really don't know how they are wired but typically the green will be ground. By the way, where are you from? Your profile info doesn't match your IP Address. Almost deleted you as a spammer.

I have done the same thing. I bought an '86 I think it was off Ebay one time. Spoke to the owner a few times and was sure that he was an honest seller and the bike was as described. So I clicked buy it now on Ebay but told him I would pay in a day or two when I got there. Hooked the trailer up early one morning and drove from Oberlin, OH to somewhere NE of Buffalo, NY. I knew instantly when I pulled into his driveway and saw the bike sitting there that it was nowhere even close to how he described it. Total piece of junk. I got out of the truck and he came walking out of the house with a big grin on his face and said "so, what do you think". I said I think that you are either a liar or completely blind. Pointed out a dozen or so things that were terrible and made it clear that I wasn't pleased about spending a day and a couple tanks of gas for nothing. Got in my truck and drove home. You just never know until you get there. I have bought a few bikes off Ebay or Craigslist and etc. and most have been exactly as I expected. It happens though.

That's correct. It's the links for "What's New" and under Quick Links, "Today's Posts".

I understand what you are saying but no, I'm sorry that I don't know of a way to do that.

This question about "What's New" just keeps coming up. "What's New" is exactly what it says...NEW things that you have not read. You can view the site several different ways. If you want to view "What's New" and want that to be the page that you start with, simply bookmark it so that is where the site opens for you. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/search.php?searchid=563494 If you want to see "Today's Posts" with the things you haven't read in bold, then bookmark this link. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/search.php?searchid=563511 If you want to find your OWN posts or threads, click on "My Search Links" in the small menu bar at the top. The friends list on the side is gone. Maybe it is something that I can add later but for now, you have to scroll to the bottom to the "Who's Online" box. People in your friends list with have a + after their name. Not as convenient but it's all there is right now.

Yes, that is pretty cool.

That is 100% correct.

Folks, I'm tired. For more than 20 years I've had jobs that require a lot of travel. For more than 10 years I worked for a company that is based in Hong Kong and traveled all of North and South America with many trips to Hong Kong, China, England, Germany, Japan, Thailand and other places mixed in here and there. For the past 10 years, I've been at a job where the distances were shorter but the travel is even more frequent. I travel weekly in OH, MI, IN, KY, WV, PA and NY. Usually leave on Monday morning and return either Thursday night or Friday and that is week after week. I am fortunate to work for a very good company and I have no complaints about them but like I said in my opening remark....I am just tired. I want to spend more time at home. I want to sleep beside my wife every night. I don't want to drive miles and miles and miles. I am seriously considering making a job change. It will be a lot different but very close to home and no travel. Money will likely not be as good but has potential of being very close. A BIG negative is that I won't have the vacation time that I have now. At least not paid vacation. I think I can probably at least negotiate a deal so that I can get the same amount of time off but without pay. I could live with that. It's a hard decision and to be honest, more than a little scary. I ask your prayers for me doing the right thing. Thanks.

When you post a thread in Meets and Greets, it does NOT automatically get copied to the watering hole. Meets and Greets is where it should be. and yes, when you post to a thread, it will no longer show up in the "what's new" until somebody replies. It is NOT new at the point that you post because you've already seen it. If you have email notifications turned on and you get a email that there is a new post to one your threads or replies and you click on that link and go to that thread or post then you have seen it. If you then go to What's New it's not going to be there. If you get an email that there is a reply and do NOT click on the link to the thread but just go to the forum and check "What's New", it will be there. Then when you go to that thread, it will again disappear from what's new. That's the way it is supposed to work. If you've seen it, it's NOT new.

That makes no sense. They should show up in the forums, just not the "what's new" page.

That's strange. I just looked and your post showed up for me under what's new.

If you post to a thread, it will not show up under "what's new" until somebody responds. It's no longer new to you, you have already seen it. To find you OWN posts, click on "My Search Links" in the small menu bar at the top and then "My Posts" or "My Threads".

Price comes down to table size and power among other things. About 12 years ago, before I took my current job, I bought a small laser for some ideas I had in mind. The one that I bought would handle material up to 18" x 24" and was 40 watts. I bought it new and paid around $12,000.00 for it. I did very little research though and quickly learned that it was very inadequate for what I had hoped to do with it. My plan was to etch chrome clutch covers and etc. among other things. I had no doubt that it would NOT cut metal but thought that it would etch chrome. I was wrong, I put my first chrome cover on it one night and ran it on the very highest power and the lowest speed. Not only did it take almost an entire night to complete the operation but when I got up the next morning and looked at it, there was not even a slightly visible mark on the chrome. 40 watts is simply not enough power to mark hard chrome. About all 40 watts is good for it cutting plastics or engraving on double sided engraving material, rubber stamp production, etc. I sold it after taking my job with Gemini. Now Gemini is the company that I still work for now. We manufacture dimensional letters and plaques that we wholesale to the sign industry. We have many manufacturing methods including water jets, CNC machines, injection molders, plastic sheet extruders, vacuum molders and yes, lasers. We have a number of 5,000 watt lasers that handles 4' x 8' sheets of aluminum, stainless, mild steel and etc. We regularly cut Aluminum from 1/4" to 1" and SS I think up to 1/2". It makes quick work of these jobs. Not exactly in the range of a hobbyist though. At least not this hobbyist. I don't have an exact price but I know that these 5,000 watt machines were in the $750,000.00 and up range. I realize that for what most of you here would want to do, a 5,000 watt machine would not be necessary nor would a 4' x 8' table but I think that any machine that will actually cut metal is going to run in the $250,000 and up range. Even used. Also, you have to be aware that there is some learning, a lot of learning, to using one of these things. You need to know something about graphics as you will need to create a vector file to cut or engrave a part. I used Photoshop and I can tell you that there was a steep learning curve for a person who had never used such software. To tell the laser if it should cut, etch, whatever is done with the line types that you use in the drawing. Then you have to know the power settings for various materials, thicknesses, etc. Don't think you are just going to drop a laser into your basement or garage and start making things unless you have some graphics software experience already. All that being said, it sure was fun.

This thread is teetering right on the edge of being deleted. Please do not turn it into a political discussion.

When did you order them? If it was just in the past few days, give it some time. Due to weather, some mail is slow now. If it's been a couple of weeks or more, PM me your address and I'll send you some again.