Chaharly

I still ride my 1988 daily and on big trips. My mom who's 69 years old went with me to the Olympic National Forest last fall. She took her 2005 Goldwing Trike and we put on about 5000 miles in ten days. My old bike rolled over 100k miles on that trip. Since we got back in the second week of September, I've put over three thousand miles on her since then. We are looking to finally upgrade after eight years of ownership to a 2021+ Goldwing. Certain parts are getting hard to obtain, especially in decent condition. My rear spring is starting to get pretty soft, and its hard for me to trust buying one off of Ebay that I have no idea the condition of. I don't have room to have multiple parts bikes laying in the garage right now. I do all my own maintenance, including tire changes and balances. I'm pretty meticulous with my old Venture. I didn't have to touch a single tool on that last road trip. After we get the Wing, I'll keep the Venture and still ride the crap out of it, but I'll take my lady with me on the Goldwing on big trips. The Venture has been and continues to be one of the most consistent, reliable and solid aspects of my life. I've been through alot in the last 8 years (haven't we all??) and the Venture has been reliably by my side then entire time. We have our first baby on the way, due in June, so it'll be a slow riding year this year, so I'll focus on plastic repairs and keeping it running in tip top shape. I'll share a few pictures of our Washington Trip for proof.

Very cool, and a creative fix ta boot! Here's to 100k more worry free miles on that shock! Enjoy!

You could try jumping the starter relay and see if it started, I read somewhere that that code can come up when the bike has been attempted to start too many times?

This is the Star Venture you're having problems with?

Hope you get your ride in today! It jumped up to the 60s here in Omaha today, so of course I rode my bike to work! That sun sure felt good!

Cold again here in Nebraska. Was near 60 on Sunday, it's now 11F with a -3 windchill factor. The bike is safely tucked away.

Sorry to hear about him. Hopefully he can make as good of recovery as possible and be back on his feet. It's been a nice week this week in Omaha. I've put 140 miles on the bike going back and forth to work and took the lady out for a ride along the Platte River. Shes still doing good riding for being 5 months pregnant.

@Freebird Have you seen this one as well?

Excellent Write Ups! I wonder if @Freebird has seen these yet? I'll tag him in the other one as well. Maybe he can post them in the read only tech section

I dont know much about Lithium automotive batteries, but I assume they're like a Gel battery in the sense that they can be tipped on their side. I would also imagine a Lithium battery could probably take more abuse than a Gel battery. Is there one you've found online that you could post a link of? I'm curious about it.

I tell ya what! It's not the snow that scares me in that picture, its the nut connected to the handlebars!!! You boys are something else!

You are tougher, braver, and dumber??? than I! Just joking, take out the dumber part lol

Pretty bizaare, they've been having nasty winters the last few years. I keep telling everyone that I want 8 feet of snow here in Omaha. We haven't gotten an inch all year.

0 degrees Fahrenheit here in Omaha today. No riding for me this week either lol We had a hot streak before this cold snap came in. My pregnant lady and me got an hour and a half ride in Thursday, and I rode to work Thursday and Friday morning. Made for a pretty lovely end of the week last week.

Merry Belated Christmas to everyone!!

Glad you're healing up VAZ!

Do it before it binds up like mine! You'll have a much easier time getting everything apart and the bike rides so much smoother! Don't wait 'til after 100k miles like me!

dfitzbiz - Venture Rider Here you go

Good morning here. Writing some easements for waterlines in a subdivision right now and getting excited to start cooking this turkey tonight! Anyone have any big plans for the holiday?

Morning Yall! Another lovely day at work! Going to be too cold for riding for the next couple weeks. We'll see if we get a warm streak! In Omaha at least!

I second Cimmer on the progressive springs. I replaced the horns. Instead of running an FM bluetooth adapter, I gutted the cassette player, wired in bluetooth directly to the inputs on the cassette player and wired an on-off switch to play the bluetooth over the radio. In the spot of the old cassette player, I bought an abs plastic sheet, screwed it into place where the cassette player used to go. I mounted my on-off switch for the bluetooth and mounted it on the sheet, mounted the bluetooth adapter, and mounted a three way switch for my aftermarket heated grips. You'll find you'll want to ride in the winter more with a full fairing bike, and the heated grips make a WORLD of difference! The rest of the bike is pretty much stock. One mod you may want to do if you're only getting mid 30s to 37 on the highway is to drop the emulsion needles on the slides further into the carbs. It leans the mixture and you'll pull 40s doing 65 all day with no wind

I've got a first gen, so I cant tell you exactly what needs to be removed on the 2nd gen to get them off. There will be 2 throttle cables, 4 vent tubes, the fuel line, and the choke cable, I know that much. To get that stripped screw out, i'd simply destroy the clamp and buy a new one, you're just gonna fight it for as long as you own the bike if you dont. You'll have better luck posting the 2nd gen venture tech page, and also look at the technical write ups. I'm sure theres something on there

I promise you're gonna love the machine when its all running right. There's a reason I still use my 88 as my main touring bike. There's really none better

You didn't happen to change the pilot jets while you had the carbs apart? I replaced mine with ebay ones and have been having similar issues ever since. I can get a consistent idle now, but I'm adjusting the screws out like 4 turns to achieve it.

Very cool Cub Cadet youtube video