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Brian, I'm with you on this one. The Scrambler would be my choice. Love it.

It's just talk. Heck I won't have time to do anything except company stuff. Between meetings and the show, my time will be completely taken. Wish I could though.

Man...it would be great to have the bike with me. Can only dream about that though.

Hey...it goes both ways. I actually got and posted pictures after the IR in Galena of various bikes being worked on during the rally. It is all in good fun. They all need something done to them sooner or later. Listen folks, I have no false illusions about the long term reliability of the Harley. I have seen a number of Ventures with over 100,000 miles and even 200,000 and more that have needed NO major repairs. I absolutely don't believe that a Harley can do those kind of miles without needing engine work. So.....you will all get your opportunity sooner or later. I just hope that SOME of you carry some regular tools. Those metric sizes may not be enough to help a friend in need.

Well Google made some changes that totally screwed up our members map. I've been working on and waiting for a solution but none have come yet. I'll give it a while longer but this may be going away. Sorry.

OK folks, it is time for me to start updating our events countdown page. If you have the dates set for our annual or semi annual events, please post them to this thread so I can get them added. Please note that the countdown page is not intended for any little meet up but primarily for regular evens such as the IR Rally, my Maintenance Day, B2Dad and B2Moms meets, the Western NY meet, etc. It doesn't have to be a major event but not every little get together for pie type thing either. So if you have your dates set, post them here and I'll get busy on the update. Thanks.

Got home late last night from a week at our company resort on Round Lake near Hayward, WI. It was beautiful up there but dang was it cold. It was sub zero every night with the low being about 27 below zero. Did a little snowmobiling but it was just too cold to do much. Now I'm home but it's supposed to be 11 below zero here tonight. Gotta get out and plow the driveway today but am going to get it done as quickly as possible. I typically hate the hassles of flying now days but have to leave for Los Angeles for a trade show on Tuesday and am almost ...ALMOST...looking forward to it. At least it should be a little warmer there. Hope everybody's new year has started off on a good note. Remember....spring is right around the corner.

She will absolutely be in our thoughts and prayers as will you and the rest of your family. Sorry to hear of your year starting off this way. I hope that she is better very soon.

I may just do that Patti...I didn't know Tom was going to make fun of me and hurt my feelings like that.

Yes, I feel the love. Some love is illegal though.

OK....I admit it is funny. NOT TRUE....but Still funny.

I did an exhaustive search for models of our bikes a few years ago. Even contacted a company about making some for us. The cost was prohibitive to me as the tooling alone was somewhere around $10,000.00. I gave up.

HEY...my bike has the Harmon Kardon stereo. Maybe I'll give that a try.

I just want to personally wish you all a very merry Christmas. If I'm not mistaken, we are getting ready to enter our 10 year of this club...maybe 9...I've lost track. Either way, I am so blessed to have the quality of folks that make up the membership of this organization. Yes, there is the occasional disagreement but most are handled with dignity and grace and I know of no other such forum where there is such a level of mutual respect between one another. These are the things that make it a pleasure to login here and keep up with all my friends. Regardless of your religious beliefs, I wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, whatever it is to YOU. I am blessed to have you all in my life. Don

That trailer on Ebay is really nice. A bit pricy for me and I really don't need a trailer with riding the Harley and all.

Cast my vote for him also.

I just bought my brother in law a heated fleece jacket last week for Christmas. He doesn't ride but recently moved to Ohio from Texas and is freezing to death here. So...the one that I bought him does not hook to a bike but has it's own 7.4 volt lithium ion battery. Charges in about 3 hours and will last from 2 to 8 hours depending upon the heat setting. Says "Cabelas" on it but says "made by Gerbing" on the inside. Very nice jacket.

Fantastic....we never now how a simple act of kindness may affect somebody's life forever.

Ok...I have sat back and just let this go even though I still don't entirely understand the beef. The reason I don't understand it is because Condor has said many times that he does this for the members and makes little to nothing on these things and in fact, would have lost money a couple of times. That being the case, I honestly don't know why he is so upset because of an add from another reputable vendor. Not to mention the fact that he has gotten more exposure from this thread discussing the ad than he had ever gotten without it. I was willing to just let it go and add no additional comments until this last post in which he says " Personally, I don't give a damn about this website, but I do care a lot for it's members and their common love of Venture MC." Now to me, this website IS the members here and without this website, he and the rest of us would never have heard of or met many of the friends that we have made. So to not give a damn about this website is an offensive remark to me after the many years and hours I have spent getting it started and keeping it going. I'm done with this thread. If anybody wants another comment from me about this they can send me a PM. Had Condor sent me a PM to begin with instead of going off here then perhaps it could have been resolved in another way. I tell you what, I just marked Condor's membership paid in full for an additional 5 years. That should come close to compensating him for any money he may have lost on these items that he was making no or very little money on. I'm sorry this all happened but I am now done with it.

I had Verizon DSL and never had a problem. Once Frontier took it over, it was OK for a while and then became terrible. Constantly dropping out and I had to cycle the modem on and off multiple times a day to restore service. It may be OK where you are but I recently dropped them and went with Armstrong cable in my area. I am very happy with them so far.

If they are offering you the internet through the satellites, you may not be happy with it. Satellite internet is fine if is a choice between dial up and satellite but not nearly as good as DSL or cable.

So sorry to hear about this. There are never words enough to express how much we care and hurt when a friend is going through such things. Please know that you are in sincerely in our hearts and prayers.

Unfortunately, the map was provided through an API from Google. In their infinite wisdom, they changed things and the maps stopped working. I'm looking at a way to get it back without having to start all over.

That ad has been here for a few weeks now and it has already been discussed. SuperBrace is one of the few companies that still make a product for the first gen Venture and should be applauded for still supporting the bikes that many here ride. They were the very first to offer the much needed fork brace for the Venture and have been doing so for many many years now. Yes, their price is higher than the alternative but they are also a business with employees to pay, overhead and etc. They offered to pay a very small fee and offer our members a discount and I thought it was a nice gesture on their part. I have never stated that anybody should buy from them instead of from Condor but there is an option. This is nothing that I haven't also done to myself. I am a huge fan of Diamond R Accessories. I was making and selling center stands for the RSV but Diamond R also offered one. Theirs was much more expensive than mine but had a nicer finish being chromed and etc. I did not feel cheated if somebody chose to purchase their product over mine and I did not feel that the membership here was not supporting me in that case. It is not about not supporting the member vendors. It is about giving the members options and not being afraid to let the marketplace work.

Congrats. Nice accomplishment. I did another after that first one. Did a Bunburner a couple of weeks later. After submitted it yet but will soon. I did get my package from the first one.