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Barry seems Sept would be a little early for color. But one never knows and that is a little further north than what we usually go in Oct. After I posted the link for you I actually looked at surrounding area rooms, most everything I looked at was booked. Hope you all dont have as many tourists up there that week we have down in these parts right now. Geeze

Maybe heres a back up plan Barry if you don't get in at park. Canaan Village Inn

LOL Yup I can see that. Best 2nd Lt I worked for was a prior enlisted E-8. Mater of fact he did my last 2 enlistments.

Glad at least on of us GI's made a decision. Almost like working for a bunch of officers.

Indian: I thought I had an old pair of rain britches in the garage for you. Well 1/2 of that was true. I did have an old pair hanging around out there, but when I went to take them off the hanger, well they wont hold any water out lets say. Here is Jafrum, Leather up.com, cycle gear

Check out Cycle Gear or Jafrum. They usually have some pretty good deals on rain gear. Last year I somehow didnt get the wifes rain pants loaded in bag. So when it started raining (naturally it would being I didnt have them) We stopped in to wally world and got a pair of coleman rain pants in the sporting goods section for about $12 or 15 bucks.

Barry, Steve had originally suggested Jaxsons, then Tom said Watering hole. Jaxsons is about 30 min further south in Lake Placid. Jaxsons is fine with me for whomever (or as my boss in NC use to say ever who) is keeping score. Watering hole I wont get out of 4th gear.

A couple thoughts on the caliper. To me it does look as though corrosion has caused you issues. Dissimilar metals like to not play well together. Alum housing and steel pistons. Thats why high performance calipers will have either alum pistons or stainless steel. I had a caliper on a F-150 that hung up. Was that way a long time before I discovered it. It killed the pad against the piston (only movable pad) and didnt really show undo heat had been in rotor. Could be an alignment problem like we have go on @ the rear of the 2nd gen also. The other thing could be what happens on some car flexible lines. The interior rubber deteriorates to the point it act like a "check valve". It allows the fluid to work under high pressure (brakes applied) but with just the return pressure available (static) the hose restricts to where fluid will not flow backwards.

The 4.6 v-8 motors had issues with the "composite" (ie plastic) intakes warping and coolant leak. WE had a town car in the shop a weak or so ago had same thing going on. Leaks and fills intake galley of motor. Not to bad to fix if you can do the work, manifold runs about $250 from Advance. The Ford v-8 with the long long plugs are pretty bad about twisting off in half when you do a tune up. But thats like once every 100k. Look over on a site called http://www.stangnet.com I had a 90 Fox body stick convertible car. Lots of fun. For fuel mileage difference I think I would just pony up (lol) and go v-8 Personally I like the 02 up body of the ones your looking into. Also the range of years you are looking at have issues with the brake calipers locking up when they sit for periods of time. WE have a instructional car at the school I work at the brakes lock up on it due to sitting. Also my brother in law had an 04 I think and his would sit for long periods, he put 2.5 sets of calipers on it before he sold it.

I have both ends from building different cables for folks. So if you run out of options PM me.

Nice days ride

I tried to get the wife a heated seat today. It was attached to a 2016 Victory XCT. But was almost 4k over what we had budgeted. So big no sale.

Some of the states I looked at say no headset. Soooo the $300 I shelled out the for the Sena is illegal? What about all these 18 wheeler I see with these headsets on? Another dumb law to protect us from our-self. I have worn ear buds from fla to and thru Canada and back down to Fla. If I would have not had ear buds in my ears would have been still ringing.

I didnt keep very good track this year again. Just looked at my maintenance records, maybe 10 k. Sad to say the least.

I have not been there for a lunch. Have had dinner there a couple time and it has been good. Bad thing is I wont even get the choke off by the time I get there.

Thats cool. I can remember a couple of my earliest rides with my brothers actually. My oldest granddaughter is only 4 so I dont see this happening for me for awhile. I think probably better when they are yours age. They are a little more aware. Glad you all had a good time. PS Just saw on yahoo that in El Paso it was snowing, so your kids got the better end of that deal.

This is not a headline you often read at this time of year from you all.

Mike I may look at what the summer break looks like for work. Just starting in Aug for fall semester I really have no idea what days I get for summer vacation. But I have looked at the area and looks pretty cool fro riding and things to do

The TD being it has the same lowers as the RSV should be good. I have an RSV currently and the wife gets air but not the kind that bounces her head around. We swapped to Sena headsets here a couple months ago and still fine tuning them to our needs. The OEM intercom was OK but had to put mic mutes on them to keep the whoosh from driving you batty. But turbulence is not a big factor on either bike from what I have heard.

Puc- Many of the small 4 cyl cars of the late 70's had those split bore design. A primary and a secondary. I think the Ford Fiesta, Dodge Omni, maybe the VW Rabbit. I raced a Omni on circle tracks, the problem with the particular year one I had was the carb also had a computer controlled electronic circuitry built in. Best guess I had was once I had modified it the carb went in to a "limp mode" and you could turn the mixture screws in all the way and still run. So I put a small Ford 2 bbl (holley looking knock off) on it. I had to make jets for the thing to get it to not run so rich. Even then it was rich enough when you got to the end of the straight and lifted It would bellow a big ole blue flame out the tail pipe 2ft or more.

It seems every couple years I have to go thru the insurance shuffle. I have had the lizard, Nationwide, back to the green guy via AARP, and a couple years ago Dairyland came up with the winning price. Probably another one or two in there I dont remember.

Mike there were cabins listed for the Venture deal last year, right? Plus motels in local area I'm sure.

All 3 national divisions now use a tapered spacer vs the flat plate with smaller holes than the throttle plate. It actually works much better for throttle response as it is tapered like a funnel so fuel get down it instead of the flat plate that made aire go every which way and killed throttle response.

Short trips are not great on batteries either. 3 or 4 starts in 10 miles or so causes voltage drain and not much time to recharge. Dont think this is your total issue, just for for thought.

Diesel takes less refining than gasoline. So why is it more? Because they can. Maybe thats how Exon and them are making up some of the slack from low gas prices.