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I was so excited that Big Blue was up and running the day before leaving for EOM. It ran flawlessly for 1700 miles and I'm happy to be home again. Everything came together with perfect timing for me. My grandson was born the day before I left, and after a great time at the hospital with my...

The eagle has landed. Brodie made it to Flagstaff. There was no clutch as well as no ability to shift gears as expected. He shut down the motorcycle in a Motel 6 parking lot, but out of curiosity, he turned it back on. The sh__37 code went away. It looks like whatever got wet... got dry on the...

On my way home from EOM, riding west bound on I-40 near Gallop, New Mexico. The Sh__37 error code has popped up along with the amber light. I am currently running in 5th gear and have no way to shift gears and fear that if I come to a stop the motor will stall, and once stalled, it WILL NOT...

Home from EOM 600 miles in about 11 hours. Not the best time, but I had to stop a lot for sore butt relief and water as it was reaLLy hot.lldsds Excited that I didn't repeat my go down again at Maggie Valley like I did 2 years ago. Great to see everybody, and great to watch the generosity of our...

How do you spell "V-I-C-T-O-R-Y?" Finished up my labors on the FJR this morning just in time to head off to the hospital to witness my daughter screaming at everybody and my grandson being born. All the hollering turned into tears as mommy and baby Allen (he's named after his poppie, of course)...

I'm so excited to share this good news: IT LIVES. That may sound odd, but for the last 17 months, Big Blue has been sitting on its center stand in the back of the workshop. I took my FJR apart to repair a bent fairing support bracket that I incurred at EOM 2016. There it sat collecting dust all...

Thanks for the link Uncle Hud. Highway closures could be an issue, especially on highways east of Maggie Valley. And even more so, at least for motorcyclists, is the highway debris that is lying about for days after a hurricane. This could be the one issue that we do need to pay attention to...

BC I will look forward to it. But at the moment, I have a lot of work to do and there are a lot of unknowns. Going to need a small miracle to get this all done in time. Speaking of unknowns, is anybody watching the weather forecasts? We have a hurricane bearing down on Maggie Valley... right...

Must admit, I haven't been posting on the forum much, but I'm still reading it each week. Bought some new fairing pieces from my buddy Tony about 18 months ago and just haven't been able to get to fixing the bike... until today. As some of you may recall, I layed my beautiful 05 galaxy blue...

My uncle, who was to become a brother-in-law to dad, fought in WW2 as well. He was so excited when he found out he was coming home. On the ship on the way back, he was having what he thought were some terrible stomach pains. Someone checked him out and failed to diagnose and/or treat his acute...

I agree. At dad's funeral, my cousin Steve stood up to speak for a couple moments. He said that exact same thing. There will never be another generation like that one. I'll have to ad-lib a little, I don't remember it all, but it went something like this: Guys were lining up around the block at...

As I said, dad told a number of war stories. This month would have been mom and dad's 73rd anniversary and they lived to celebrate it. Dad's nick name was "Lucky" as he had a knack for winning everybody else's money during World War 2; much of which he sent home to mom to put in the bank. I...

No biggie. Told my daughter I'd jump on the forum and get her some advice. She bought a pair of Cardo bolds for her and her hubbie. Seems to be enjoying them thus far. She took her Triumph out on it's first long ride today. 45 minutes is a long ride for her. I guess the smoke has finally...

Not very often that I ask a question of this forum and get no reply. Oh well. Guess everybody was out riding. She bought a pair of Tracktalk Bolds. Now she's looking for a garmin of some sort. Advice?

My daughter and her hubby just bought two brand new Triumph scramblers and are wanting advice on some bluetooth communicators. I advised them to check out this thread. After reading most of it, it appears that the majority of posts favor the Cardo. They likely won't be doing any group rides and...

My heart goes out to you guys who live this every year. Out west is such a different world. I had to go there, and drive those roads, and feel that heat, and experience it for myself. Glad I made that trip those many years ago. Sad that such a paradise has this achilles' heel. Here in Fla, our...

Ross: Beautiful machine, man. I didn't realize it had the V4. BTW, I didn't mean to sound so negative about the old Venture I rode, now that I just re-read my post. It was comfy and had pretty good power for what it was. As I recall, it had good wind protection. I was riding a 91 GSX1100G in...

Congrats Fish, on that new ride. Looking sweet. I was just remembering how popular the street/trail bikes were many years ago. Seems like there were more of them in our school parking lot than there were road bikes. Yamaha owned the segment in those days and their DT250 was king. And ya gotta...

Just remembered another one of Dad's war stories. He said that most of the time, they did their bombing runs at night. During his off-duty time, he was busy learning Italian and would some times spend his "off" days riding around in taxis. On one occasion, they took a taxi into an area they'd...

Very old Venture: It was a 1984 XVZ Venture Royal 1200cc with the V4 engine. Had a drive shaft. I didn't realize that Yammie made so many different bikes under the Venture name. My experience was with a very different machine I guess. I found some pics of it here: CLICKY