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About 8AM this morning I was booking down a state road that borders the south edge of the Ocala national forest, doing about 60MPH, it was a little chilly so I had the heated grips on, I decided to adjust the setting. Took my eyes off the rod for about 2 seconds to find the adjuster wheel, bike drifted slightly right, and looked back up and there was a brown blur coming out of the woods on my right. It took about 2 micro seconds for me to focus and realize it was a good size deer right in front of me , bolting across the road. I had just enough time to get off the throttle, hit the front brakes and dive to the right just a bit. For what seemed an enterniity the deer and I locked eyes, I could see that he knew it was all over but the shouting and I am sure he saw the same look in my my eyes. Other than divine intervention I have no idea why I did not hit him square in the rear quarter. It was so close that some part of him, I suspect a hoof, tapped the toe of my left boot and another part , probaly the other hoof tapped some plastic panel on the Goldwing. I know he contacted the bike beause, I heard it hit behind me and felt the shock wave come thru the bike. I looked in the rear view mirror expecting to see a deer down on the road, but nothing just thin air, was able to get it all stopped and to the apron in short order. Could not find any evidence of where he struck the bike. Continued down the road to where I could find a parking lot to do a more complete check, still nothing. Thing is I was looking for bears to be out on the road this morning so I had been looking for them, never have seen a deer on that road in the last 19 years I have been riding it, you better know I will looking for them the next time I on that road. Both of our lucky or maybe better said Blessed day! Everyone that is still riding , becareful out there .

Agreed the numbers are different, the 3 code identifier, first 3 numbers is for the bike model they are different, but the main body of the number 22210 is the same, the remaining 4 digits I believe refer to revision numbers, the 06 version of the Venture shock is an 01, because it is revised from the original design from 1999. All of that said, the TD and the Venture are essentially identical when it comes to the frame and the power plant / transmission, so I would say yes they are interchangeable, the pictures look the same in the ilustrated parts break down. If the one if free what do you have to lose, if you get the one out and it does not match the free one, give it back and buy one that fits.

Nope, there are to many others already doing Goldwing plug and plays for much cheaper than I can do them. Shoot I cannot even by the parts for less than what some folks are selling completed assemblies for, I need to find out where they getting their parts.

Get a torque wrench in inch pounds where the value you want to use it at is in the middle 1/3 of it's range, do not use a torque wrench in the lower or upper 1/3 of it's range, they start to lose accuracy as you get towards the uper and lower extremes of the range.

You can browse this web page http://www.cycleterminal.com/index.html, Joe is good guy, should be able to help you with your questions.

Ask away, I sure all the answers are here somewhere.

OK mine is updated, lets see what it looks like

Guys, Thanks for all the kind words, glad to hear that everyone is having good luck with th elight bars. As far as ordering one, just send me a PM thru this website's messaging service or send me an email at stevemarilyn@hotmail.com, so we can discuss options and I can make sure you get the product you need and want.

The top hole is a drain for the well the spark plug resides in, the only thing that should leak out of that is water that gets in there when washing or riding in the rain. If you have green coolant leaking out of that hole you have a bad hose, gasket or radiator cap, all of which reside some where above the head and a leak from them could find their way to that well. Pull the tank and look for a leak above the head, you can dust the suspect areas with talcum powder and that will show the wetness very quickly and should help to identify the source of the leak.

Had a similar thing happen on my 07 when i switched to K&Ns and opened up the air boxes, I shimmed out the slider needles and it was better, I eventually went back to a stock set of air boxes with the K&Ns, all was good after that.

Don, I am on travel until Friday, when I get home I will see if I have similar quality photos and send them to you.

The photo for the Royal Star 1996 to 2001 is not correct, the photo is of a later model Venture based Tour DeLuxe that was only made from 2005 to 2010. if you need a photo of say a 1998 Royal Star Tour Classic I have some , just tell me you to send them to.

Dion probably comes as bad link because it was put in befoe the new site upgrade a few days ago. I will check to see if Rick hs relisted his parts,if so I will up date the link. OK All fixed now. I suspect there will be issues ike this from time to time.

Fixed again, looks good.

I am using IE on all devices.

Thanks Don, all of your hard work is much appreciated.

I am seeing it again on my home desktop computer, earlier today it was OK but I was at work on a laptop. ??? Just checked my lap top I have at home, it looks fine on that machine. The soup thickens

I was using blue when I saw it last night, looks fine now, still using blue.

Yes, that is what I see also, I posted about it on another topic, to notify Don.

Don, On the lower command bar (below the one that has "What's New" on the left hand side, the command button just below that has double text in it making it hard to read, at one point it read "New Posts". Also in the classifieds every time you do an edit on a listing , it unselects the postage setting check box.

Don, I would like to be in the member vendors section.

Rick, go to the lower left of the page and there is a box that allows you to change the color. Classifieds are gone, Don is working on something, he does not like the limitation of the default classified section, said he will let us when he has something worked out.

Those boots always crack and look bad, In 17 years of being around Royal Stars I have never heard of any that cracked thru. There are a couple of things you could do. To see if they are cracked thru spray some starting fliud on them while it is idling, if they are cracked thru the idle speed will change. You could treat the outside with plastic drip like what they use to cover tool handles or get some liquid electrical tape at Home Depot and brush a coat of that over the outside and let it fill the cracks.

I have the pins for the aux connector under the seat, if any one needs some let me know,just PM me.

Barry, Here is a link to the updated thread. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?89377-New-location-for-Florida-Meet-amp-Greet-Nov-9-th The address is: 210 S.R. 60 West, Lake Wales, FL 33853.