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My son works for a phone repair place. They replace dozens of screens a day and it's not all that expensive.

Make sure it is not leaking above that spot on the radiator. The fins can catch and retain every little droplet

I'm pretty sure the 2nd gens' factory fuel pumps are designed with check valves to prevent fuel draining through them when not in use.

yep. brand new bike last year and still has original front tire. My last bike eventually went to stock size E3 and all fit fine

Dion, Is this writeup you were thinking of? http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?32359-Ignition-Switch-Wiring-Failure

Not hard to do at all. I made own: http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?492-Leveling-Links-Raising-the-Rear-of-the-RSV

sounds like you have answered your own question. Ride at your pace and enjoy the ride!

I too, had a moment with a car on a tralier. I purchased a Fiat Spider as a basket case profect. It was not running and had no interior or operating brakes. I trailered it home and my wife was willing to help me unload it. Well since I help, my plan was to push it off the trailer with her steering. Since it was a slight upgrade once it got off the trailer there is no need for brakes, right?. With no interior which meant no seat, I put box in it for her to sit on. I told her if it did happen to roll too far to just pull up on the park brake lever. My truck/trailer is backed into my driveway with the truck mostly off the street and maybe two car lengths between the back of the trailer and the garage. The garage door is open. Two car with one half to be the home for the Fiat with the other half for cycles. It was almost all I could do to push the car off the trailer and as soon as the rear wheels hit the ramps, off she went. Unfortunately I had the truck and trailer at a slight angle in the driveway so the car is headed to the side of the garage where, in a nice neat row are my RSTD, Honda CB750, and her Kymco scooter. My assistant is doing all she can to steer but to no avail. I yell for her to pull the park brake but I had not confirmed it worked - there wasn't a need for it right? Wrong. By the time I climbed away from the trailer and ran to grab the car bumper it had rolled into the garage and the car bumper had nudged the saddle bag guard on the RSTD. I saw the bike shake a little but that was all. If it had tipped over it would have had the domino affect and taken down the other two. Upon inspection I found the RSTD had slid ahead a few inches on its side stand. No damage! The whole event was similar to watching my little granddaughter at the bowling alley. Give the ball a shove and watch it slowly roll to the pins. Only in this case the ball was the car and pins were cycles. And... I had to chase the ball down the alley!

I used to think those little plastic deer whistles were just a scam and thought they were ridiclous. I was on the midst of averaging one deer collision a year over a 10-15 year span. On a whim and as more of a joke I bought a pair in the checkout lane of some store I happened to be in. A few months later after having the truck in the body shop for a deer damaged new front end I threw them on thinking they couldn't hurt anything. Its been 10-11 years since the last deer collision and I still drive just as much and on the same roads. I am not saying they work, just sharing the possibility they MIGHT work after all. I even have a pair stuck under the rider footrests of my venture.

My my son 's first bike was a '78 Honda CB750 for which he paid $1.00. It turned out to be a great father- son project. He learned about every aspect of the bike from new rings, valve job to electrical and brakes. He rode it for several years and ended up selling it for more than I had invested in it (labor is free). But working together on it together over a winter was priceless.

I have two Harbor Freight chocks - no problems with Ventures

Mhenderlong, I understand where you are coming from. I am nearly the same age as you but my parents have been gone for several years (father when I was 15). In some respects I am envious of you in that you have gotten to spent so many years with your parents. Our bikes are just "things" that cannot take the place of those close to us.

Not my cup of tea but one of the guys in my office rides one. He has mentioned selling if you haven't got one picked out yet. He wants to upgrade to the bigger engine. He likes and the only two negatives he has mentioned is that a rider is exposed to more wind than a tourer and he's not real fall so he had trouble flat footing it at stops. I believe he installed a lowering kit of some kind

Shoei Neotec modular - love it

Before pushing the pistons in you should clean the outside exposed part of the piston

+1 I am near Peoria. Would be more than willing to meet up

If you wait till you see a problem it will be too late. Fuel passing through will not be visible as it overflows into the engine internally. It is not something that happens often and is quite rare. A small fleck of scale causes one of the four carbs' needle/float to be held open. If your fuel pump has the internal check valve the gravity flow of fuel from the tank through an open petcock will stop at that pump check valve. If your pump doesn't have the check valve and the petcock is open the fuel will flow through the pump and eventually into the cylinder. If that happens, when you hit the starter button the engine cranks, the piston comes up, can't compress the liquid fuel, and now you have junk engine. It happens so quick that there is nothing you can do. All of this happens with no external evidence of a problem. i had this happen but I was so fortunate the cylinder with the fuel happened to have piston already high enough in its stroke the fuel took up all of the space between the top of the piston and cylinder head so it couldn't move. The engine only appeared to be locked up when I pushed the starter button. A fuel pump with a check valve or turning off the fuel every time you shut off the bike is a WHOLE LOT cheaper than an engine

869lbs venture and 844lbs RSTD. Wet - with fluids and fuel. More fuel in venture

Yes and will run down the sides of the carbs too. Been there!

I will try to attend

I have had both also. As for the handling - Your RSTD may have had the rear suspension altered to raise it slightly improving the handling. Tires can make a significant difference also

I use an iPhone with a Ram mount on the handle bar. GPS navigation, stream music with Pandora (soon switching to Amazon Pr.ime, I think), take and receive phone calls, texts, all blue tooth through UClear communications in my helmet which also provides seem less intercom. I wired in a charger inside the fairing by tee'ing into the power supply to the cigarette lighter socket with one of Steve's wire harnesses. It had a USB output so I used a standard cable, sealed with heat shrink, and routed out to the handlebar near the RAM mount. The charger was less than $10.00 on ebay In the event of rain, I put the phone in my pocket. It continues to Bluetooth to my helmet and in the rain I rarely need to see the screen. When the rain stops I clip it back to the ram mount and plug it in to the charger

You just use one of those selfie sticks with mirror on the end.

Trace the cables as it should be obvious, the CB is under the rear trunk

Yes. I added the Yamaha set to my 07 RSTD. Easy to install. The sets for the Venture and RSTD are different. The mounting bar looks similar but they won't interchange. The RSTD set comes with the lamp housings and the Venture requires separate purchase of the lamps. Another minor difference is the RSTD has a small toggle switch on one of the lamp housings and the same switch for the Venture set is separate in order to mount it in the fairing. Just sharing all of this in case you run into a good price on a venture setup.