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The way I see it is if they come out with a new Venture or what ever, The price of a used second gen. will drop significantly. I should be able to keep my trike on the road for another 20 year with all those used bikes and parts out there. only problem is what to do with all those cassette players:confused24:

Hope he's right, getting tired of playing this game every year.

Did you loan it out and forget to who?

All I gotta say is..... you better be house broken

Robin says, if Jonas is a dog she would be more then happy to adopt him:178:

Only real pizza in this country is in NY and NJ. Where it all started.

Sorry, not going to make MD this year. Looking forward to seeing you at WNY. As for Kristjan....I'm staying out of it. Robins problem.

No, the video's came out a week or two prior to the 1st.

No, but I took her out for a first of the season ride today......On the bike.

to my one and only.

So it looks like the sneak peak pic's in the other post just might be the new venture, stratotour or what ever they call it. I said a couple years ago that the replacement for the venture would be a big V-twin. Reason for saying this.... all the other guys are v-twins, except Honda. They build what makes them $$$. Don't matter what a hand full of people like us would like to see them do.

There is another thread about this, started about a week ago. I don't believe what we see in the picture is what the bike is going to actually look like when it is finally available to the public. It looks like a fake fairing cover and several other fake covers bolted on hide what it really looks like.

Two words.....Strato tour. I believe the Venture is dead. I said several years ago that the next Yamaha touring bike would use a Big water cooled V twin. I believe we are getting a preview of that bike. It will probably look a lot better with out all the flat black paint and probably some fake plastic parts to hide some details.

Hate to burst your bubble Bongo, but the twist was written and performed by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters in 59 Chubby covered it in 60 and made it famous with the dance.

Never had a problem with shipping from Pinwall.

Every year after the rally is over many folks will post saying how they wished they had been there and saying how they would like to have joined in all the fun. This year don't wish....DO! join us for a weekend of fun and family.

66 deg. Here in fla. I like it!

Left home in NY 5 hours ago, now in Hagerstown MD. heading to Fla. for the week. One more day of snow and I would have killed someone. We are going to look around for our future retirement home. We have had enough! Looking forward to sun and sand:sun:

Right now I'll take the 30's. Just finished digging the truck out of a 4' snow bank in my driveway. Single digit temps. This stuff sucks. Looking forward to heading to Fla. in three days. going down in the cage, so I don't care if the temps are in the 50's/60's. That's a heat wave compared to this....stuff.

What did you do? Bring that cold Canadian weather to Florida with you. Just looked at the temps for Florida tonight. Hope you brought you cold weather gear with you. Do me a favor will you, bring that cold weather back home with you so it will be warm when we get down there.

What Brake Pad said. Where you going to be? Robin and me are heading down there next week. Seems like we are always following you around.

Goose is right on this. The problem is usually caused by an exhaust leak or carb problems. in my case it was several pin hole leaks in the "y" pipes. The "y" pipes are made out of a milder steel then the front pipes, why, I don't know, but they will rust and get thin over time. You need to take good care of these pipes because they cost something in the neighborhood of $450.00 each. If not the pipes then maybe your carbs need some adjustments. plugging the AIS is a waste of time.

If there was any bashing going on, it was the rest of us against you and your HD, all in fun of course. I sincerely hope that is how you take all the ribbing we give you. If not, then it is all of us members that need to apologize to you.

OK, lets try the simple fix first. As mentioned previously, You probably have air in the system. This is very common when the cooling system is drained to replace the thermostat. Try removing the radiator cap and start the truck. Let it run until the temp comes up and the thermostat opens. you can tell it is open by watching the coolant inside the radiator, you should see it start to flow around inside the radiator. Shut it off and let it sit with the cap off for an hour or so. replace cap and drive it. If this doesn't work, buy a new truck.