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@Leftcoaster ... there's a few of us from this area as well as a few who are no longer members but still ride Ventures from around here. One of these days we should all get together for a M&E ... maybe sometime before Kruis'n the Kootenays rally (and yes, I am still working on that).

As soon as I get mine pee-pad trained, that's the next one !

That sounds almost as delicious as Spam drippins

Two heads are oftentimes better than one (in this case doctors). Glad you found "the" one that solved the problem. Wishing you both all the best!

Only 48 here (9 celcius) but it's sunny and if I wasn't working, I'd be riding. Big weather front coming in for the weekend so no chance then

I took typing in grade 9 for 2 reason's ... 1.) I was too small to make it on the football team and 2.) coz that's where all the girls went. Which one do you think is true? Anyway, I could do 45 wpm then and since around the age of 25 I've been using either a typewriter, telex machine, or computer pretty much ever since. Not to mention I've even taught typing classes LOL But that doesn't make me a fast typist by a long shot and problem I have now is that the signals from my brain to my fingers get crossed somewhere along the way and letters in words get revresed As for "thumb typing" .... not a hope in he||

@cowpuc man oh man you can tell a story ... but I wonder, how fast can you type? Are you a two index finger typist or do you use all of 'em? Most of your posts are quite lengthy and that's a lotta typin! So it made me wonder

Doing first oil change on my "new to me" '06 RSMV. Got the oil draining, decided to have a beer and do some polishing, this after already having a few beers. Finished the beer and the polishing and went to get the oil filter off. It wouldn't budge. Tried every trick I knew to no avail. Decided to drill a big hole through it and use a round bar thru the hole for leverage. That worked! Put a new filter on, had another beer, added the oil, did some more polishing and then decided to get rid of the old oil from the pan. Got all the oil disposed of but to my HORROR there were metal filings in the bottom! OMG I thought, There's something MAJOR wrong with this engine! I was really in a frightful panic for a few minutes ... and then I realized... it was the filings from drilling the hole in the filter! How embarrassing ... yet nobody else was there to witness it! Was it the beer that clouded my memory? LOL

Great movie with George Clooney

Whatever you do, DON'T CUT THE RED WIRE !!! (thing looks like a bomb LOL)

We used to do a gift exchange game. Everyone brought a gift of some sort (generally based on a 'theme') and then we'd play a game ... drawing numbers. Everyone wound up with something but not necessarily something they might want due to how the game is played. This year we've decided to take the money that we would have spent (usually max $50 each) and donate it all to a charity that helps the homeless each Christmas. There's 12 of us in the family so that adds up to about $600. Now we''l only buy gifts for the kiddies who are all under 9 yrs old. I'm sure each couple will buy something for each other though. Nina and I got a pup. 8 week old PooChi

I planned to do this over the weekend but got busy with other things and forgot. Tonight is co xMas party so will get at it Tuesday evening. Sent a reminder to home PC from work.

Did the missus ask you if you read the instructions???

Soon as riding season starts!

. . She's just over 8 weeks - part mini-Poodle and part Chihuahua ... mostly mini-poo. Her name is Millie (after Nina's late mom R.I.P.) Life as we knew it will never be the same LOL

That title is deceiving !

I use the Stratus model. I mount mine using a flat-topped (generally used for a camera) RAM mount. The docking station is glued to the flat top with the ball mount from the Sirius kit. I built a bracket for the antenna that is mounted to my Sat Radio mount on the other side of the handlebar. I ran the satellite feed from the Radio down the left handlebar, into the inside of the fairing and back up to the bracket on the right handlebar. Only problem I've found is over time the radio contacts with the docking station loose connectivity and require a squirt of electrical contact cleaner. Didn't get a chance to look for my pics last night but will over the weekend. This is how I do it on my Victory. On my RSMV, I used the dash vent mounting bracket from the kit, clipped it to the speaker grille and held it there with a couple small zip ties. Worked great.

underwear????? you mean those things called speedos??

Get a universal auto mount and mount your radio to the bike. Get a "Y" splitter cord and tie that into your amp ... then get an extension cord for that and run that to your radio NOTE: you can also sync with an unused FM station instead of the above. Mount the 12v - 5v convertor behind the fairing and run the cable to the radio. You can wire that into the Aux power outlet behind the fairing. You can then listen to the Sirius thru the AUX setting of your stereo. I have some pics somewhere ... when I get a chance I'll find and post them of what I did.

hahaha ... she might disagree .... but then again, maybe not

110% agree with that !!! :thumbsup:

Thanks for that link ... I had no idea those were available.

That's what I was suggesting in my first post.

I scooped this from another post .... best advice I ever read!

Having read all the posts so far, it seems many are content to leave the site as is. I have to say that I don't wholly agree with that because: Unless Yamaha comes out with a new "Venture" model, owners of these bikes will eventually go to other models or brands and that is evident already as several here are doing it or have done it. That means either a drop in membership and/or less discussion about the "one" bike this forum is currently about. The primary concern expressed is the declining membership. How can anyone increase the membership if you don't cater to what folks ride? You want to increase membership?... include more variety. I guess that's now my 10 cents.