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Susan and I are going to do breakfast at home (keeping things 'awesome and easy'), leave Portland no later than 7:30am. We'll top off on gas in HR and then meet y'all, around 8:30'ish at the Best Western Hood River restaurant / bike parking lot. See ya' then! - Randy et Stoosan

Long shot here .... but does anyone have a spare Base Plate Set for an Arai helmet (P/N: 3017) that they could bring along with them to Hood River for the PNW Rally? *I* broke the one of the tabs on the base plate wife's Arai Profile helmet. We've got one on order -- but it's not going to arrive until *after* we leave for Hood River. Specifically, we're looking for the base plate on the right-hand side. It looks like this: http://www.powersportsplace.com/parts/aha-3017?seid=pspse1&gclid=CNObnK6Q2r8CFY6Ufgodk24AcA If so, I would be more than happy to ship you our new set back to you once our's shows up from Bike Bandit. Thanks! E-Ticket

Deal!

Good to have you after all. There are a lot of motels/hotels in Bend, did you try the McMennamins St. Francis? You may be the only California rider with us. Very cool. Early Thursday morning sometime. Early enough to grab gas and brekkie in Hood River and then meet da' gang around 8:30am.Won't know exact time until we get closer and think it all through. - ET I'll scout out a good place for breakfast in HR, unless someone has a suggestion/favorite place. Perhaps the Best Western will fit the bill. That would be awesome, Lee. It would be nice to keep it all "awesome and easy." Meeting for brekkies at the Best Western would be the easiest way to accomplish that. T'anks! - rb

Early Thursday morning sometime. Early enough to grab gas and brekkie in Hood River and then meet da' gang around 8:30am. Won't know exact time until we get closer and think it all through. - ET

Gettin' a little antsy .... just sayin'.

Just installed a brandy-new Shorai battery in the wife's Goof. Knocked off 5 lbs. of top-heavy weight! Which is important when said wife is 5'2". :tongue2: - ET

That will make it super-easy for us. :^) Susan and I will launch early enough to get into HR, gas up and grab some brekkie, and then be over at the BW hotel around 8'ish for some visitin' time before the crew launches out for Baker City. - ET

We do have a room reserved at the Best Western in Hood River but I think that we will be releasing it tomorrow. As it's only an hour's drive from Portland -- I think that we will save the cost of the room and just show up Thursday morning ready to roll. As to what time we will ride out? Dunno' at the point. We'll have to get closer to see what peeps are planning for breakfast, rider's meeting, or a launch time. Are you going out on Wed. afternoon/evening, Dfnsman69? - ET

:^)

I great w/ bikes and screen names ... but things get hazy in the real world. Here's our trip info: E-Ticket (Randy Burress): red '98 VFR 800 Flying Ant (Susan Post): black/yellow '04 Honda 600 F4i Cell #: (503) 701-2784 Lookin' forward to seein' y'all again. :^) - E-Ticket

Should we just find you randomly parked by the roadside somewhere by chance? haha LOL! Yah ... maybe ... who knows? :^) Well, we had a lot of irons in the fire lately ... so was a bit tardy on booking rooms. Here's our tale of success and woe. The Hood River Best Western was out of the "VFRD" block of rooms ... but got us another room at the same price. But even with the discount ... it's a bit pricey for us. (The FunBudget is really getting a workout this summer.) So we may bag the room and just show up on Wednesday morning as Hood River is only an hour's ride from Portland. We'll see. Booked at the Bridge Street Inn in Baker City ... no problemo. Went to book in Bend. And ... uh-oh. Guess who discovered that there is a lacrosse tournament in town that weekend and all motels are booked for Friday and Saturday? But we lucked out and found a room at the Motel West just down the street from the Red Lion. About a 6 block walk or a short zip on the mo-mo. So we're in! eh. :^) 1. Choco 2. Axel_7 3. DfnsMn69 4. jimbob 5. MaxSwell 6. Willy 7. Veefer800Canuck 8. jviffer 9. Didit 10. Harhond60 11. yycviffer 12. YWGVIFFER 13. Radar 14. Huckleberry 15. E-Ticket 16. Flying Ant 17. GabeJ 18. VFRAG 19. Frogn8r 20. Q-Dawg 21. Dragonfly 22. FSAE 23. E-TIcket 24. Flying Ant (Susan P. : '04 Honda 600 F4i) Cheers! - ET

Randy Burress (E-Ticket) and Susan Post (Flying Ant) are in. Making hotel reservations tomorrow -- and yes, we're in for T-shirts as well. Sorry to be gone/quiet for so long ... but was off chasing dragons. Cheers! - ET

Just found this thread ... and glad I did. Yup -- E-Ticket and Flying Ant will be joining y'all. Check/approve schedule later this week ... and then make some reservations. eh. <g> Cheers! E-Ticket

Great thread ... as in most of us would like to do the same thing. Cheers! E-Ticket

I did not pack it as tightly as I should have, needed more glass packing. It sounded more throaty, still too loud - it was a D and D afterall. I ended up with a new Staintune the next season. I gave it to one of the wera guys on the forum for track use, it made good power. Just thinkin' out loud here... But the steel wool, while helping prevent premature blowout of the packing, may also be blocking the absorption of sound? E-Ticket Staintunes are packed with nothing but stainless steel wool, they absorb sound, or actually the pockets of air do inside the wool. Stainless wool is just more resilent than fiberglass in terms of resistance to shock. I did not know that ... thanks! E-Ticket

I did not pack it as tightly as I should have, needed more glass packing. It sounded more throaty, still too loud - it was a D and D afterall. I ended up with a new Staintune the next season. I gave it to one of the wera guys on the forum for track use, it made good power. Just thinkin' out loud here... But the steel wool, while helping prevent premature blowout of the packing, may also be blocking the absorption of sound? E-Ticket

Well, if you hated this thread so much, you're DEFINETLY not going to like this one: http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/index.p...1+triple+clamps And you were right ..... you heartless bastage...!! :blink: cheers! E-Ticket

Man.... what a great project and great thread! I especially like how you went the extra mile to ensure proper geometry and handling. :dry: Leaving now to go buy Powerball ticket.... :^) Cheers! E-Ticket

Oh man.... what a terrible, terrible thread......! :blink: It makes me want to do terrible, terrible, expensive things to "Big Red".....! :dry: Thanks for all the great info, step-by-step, and pics! I may have a winter project if I can stop riding my viffer long enough. :^) Cheers! E-Ticket

And this link/site is not working either....dang! Any possibility of doing a repost? Thanks! - RandyB