saddlebum

I agree total with what Carl says. With the valve cover, 1st choice would be new gasket and rubber washers for the retaining bolts. Second choice would be a tube of RIGHT STUFF (far better than any silicone product) and some stainless washers for the valve cover bolts. Either way should have a tube of black RIGHT STUFF any way as even with a new gasket its good to use a bit in corners. Most auto suppliers and Canadian tire stores carry it.

@Midicat I just got off the phone with Marcarl and we had a little discussion. So here is what we are suggesting if you want to bring your bike to Carls this Sat we can pull the wheels, you can take them up to Zednos get your tires on and balanced. In the mean time depending on what exactly it is what you want done Carl and I can work away at the rest of the bike.

I am inclined to agree with Carl. They do a lot of work on various bikes there and may even be good at it but it seems to me most places are a little sketchy when it comes to our ventures. As Carl pointed out what sort of issues are you having. As far as the tires go I would pull the wheels either at home or a friends and just take the wheels in. That way you can be sure to lube the rear drive as required which I have heard from some that they forget to do or are maybe not aware of. But price wise on tires and standing behind them They have been good. I have used them 3 times for that now.

Like me, my Daughter in Law loves old planes and loves motorcycles. Well the B17 was at the Hamilton air museum and since my Son and His 2 boys were off camping. She called me up to tell me she was going to see the B17 and would I like to come. I agreed and countered with a suggestion to Take the bike, which made her even more excited. So dropping everything, I picked her up and we had a very pleasant scenic ride stopping for several hours at the air museum and ending the day with My Son and their 2 boys meeting us at my place were my wife made us all a great dinner.

If wire connections are loose or dirty, it creates resistance which in turn creates heat which can melt wires, even the wires themselves if they get hot enough so clean and secure all wire connections.

I disagree you may think Bob is better looking and you are entitled to your opinion but Becky gets my vote.

Just saw the thread now. Gotta do some pondering on this but I just may be up for it. Will know better once I have conversed with upper management.

My condolences to the family as well

I missed everyone as well but due to the fall I took which aside from a cracked tail bone included back and neck injuries, I had no choice but to stay home. They also managed to scare the pants off of me when they called me in 2 days ago to say the neck xray indicated a fractured c-6 Vertebra in my neck and that the muscle spasm was holding it together. Went on to tell me to head straight to emergancy because I was a walking time bomb and that anything could happen inc stop breathing if it should shift. So CT scan was taken and I was given a clean bill of health. Apparently when you get older X-rays on bones can be a bit deceiving, something to do with the effect of age on bones. Better safe than sorry though. Note I said age not old age.

Since none of the three mouthkateers Marcarl, Tooch and Saddlebum (the quieter of the three) did not appear who carried the speech-a-fying ball

Main thing is clean and dust free. then spray the plastic with a plastic bonding agent (body shop supply stores carry this) then primer wet sand with 600 grit or finer paper then the base coat. wet sand again with 600 or finer grit paper then apply clear coat. Wash thoroughly with running water after each sanding and let dry . wipe with clean cloth and appropriate solvent prior to applying the various coats of paint.

Then there is the other side of the coin. I have ignored legit notices out of fear of it being a scam and ended up with issues because of that.

I so miss not being there. Instead I got to go see the Doctor who sent me for neck x-ray's and CT scan. it appears when I slipped and fell landing flat on my back I fell a lot harder than just hurting my tail bone. He thinks I may have suffered a minor concussion since my ear drums started feeling like they where full of water and it felt like I could both feel and hear my heart beat in my ears. P/S BIG TOM whoever told you I was a hard ass? Hard headed maybe (or at least I was) but just too nice a guy (polite Canuck) to be a hard ass.

I am pretty sure that for the most part your fleecing theory applies mostly to the middle class. The government being one of the biggest fleecers.

This thread makes me sick to my stomach. When I think of what us poor Canucks get raped for when it comes to insurance.

You should not be going that fast anyway ------ you will lose your tent poles ------- Silly me I forgot you don't bring tent poles.

Ditto to that. I actually had one casher call over another casher to figure out how much change to give me when the bil was $3 and 13 cents ------I gave her fiver and 13 cents

Must be getting old. apparently what you used to play with in your pocket has gone too far down out of reach.

I did download and run ccleaner prior to making the change. I also ran defrag prior to making the change.

Just discovered I also have NO SOUND

So I finally switched to windows 10. I mostly folowed silvert's directions as best as my limited know how allowed me to during the change. I went to custom settings and switched of pretty much everything. So now that I am up and running I am finding my Computer is slow often freezing up or stalling. I keep getting warning flag's flashing up and google search engine does not seem to work at all in internet explorer, it just freezes up my laptop. I have a Dell Inspiron 7520 with the intel i7-3632QM@220GHz processor (whatever that all means) 8.0 GB of RAM and 700 GB of hard drive space of which I have only used 128 GB . So I am thinking with my limited knowledge all should work well. NOT. :backinmyday:At this point I am thinking I much preferred the windows 8.1, running the shell program Wizard765 installed for me. Problem is as much as I was hesitant to switch over I have been told by more than one IT guy that eventually I would have to any way as support for windows 7,8 and 8.1 would drop off. Sometimes I thnk of the old addage ---- You would never miss the taste of icecream had you never tasted it in the 1st place.-------and how it also applies to the computer age. Though I do have to admit good things like Venture rider and other benefits would not be possible with out it but why keep making it more complicated instead of stupid simple for us average Joes or even dumber Saddlebums.:bang head:

Sorry to hear you had such a bad experience and bad as it was I am glad to hear it was not even worse. Take care, heal well and may God be with you.

Try to come out to some of the meet and greets and you will find it only gets better.

So you make a little kayak trailer to tow behind the bike. that way you can enjoy both together.