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I've had good luck with these guys:

https://fortnine.ca/en/motorcycle-parts

And they make it easy to return as well.

I don't know anything about this mod except a fellow from England was asking for air intake suggestions.  These are the before and after pictures of what he decided on.

I second RatMan's "WOW people".  Next thing you know somebody will say "I didn't know it had a neutral finder"!

A what?

Bungee cords?  Now wait a minute.  That puts a whole new spin on things.  I do some of my best work with bungee cords. 

There was a bill introduced to restrict children under 14 years old from riding as a passenger recently but it never made it to law. But as you say, it is a requirement of law that they must be able to reach the passenger foot rests, which my grandson can do. However, I don't have a backrest and as I was a little uneasy of the idea to begin with, I think I'll just shelve this idea until he is a bit older.

Just wondering what opinion or experience anyone has about riding with a youngster behind.  I have a grandson who is itching to ride with me but I have been a bit leery about taking him.  But now I see a company in my area that makes a harness that straps the rider to your back, and it provides two handles for the rider to hang onto.

Any thoughts on this?

Due to a posting by Uncle Ronny here on the forum, I have been in talks with a local lad who is an airbrush artist. I showed him what I wanted done, and he is going to draw it out for me to see it and then we will be discussing prices.

What do you want done?

Finally someone saw it....lol......Hoggy you will just have to wait for the Feb issue of the magazine to come out, I have a complimentary issue sitting on my desk right now........

I've seen it.  So it's either the article on the 2017 Tour of Honor Motorcycle ride, or given that we now know you are 99, it could be the article on scooter riders.

As a side note all you forum members should purchase the Feb 2017 edition of the magazine RoadRUNNER Motorcycle Travel and Touring Magazine and check out page 106..........

I just checked your profile and see you are 99 years old. So which article are you talking about here?  The one on the scooter riders?   

We should get this guy to be a member of VDR's.  He could go right to the top of the list.

So the oldest guy is 72?  When's he birthday, Ratman.....March?
I wonder who helps him on and off his bike.

A Newfie is visiting Texas and starts a conversation
with a Texan at a local bar.
The Texan asks the Newfie where he's from and
the Newfie says, "You know where New York is?"

The Texan says, "Yeh, yeh, I know where New York is."

The Newfie says, "Well bye, you just drive north of
dere about 6 hours, turn right for 3 hours and catch
a 6 hour ferry and you're there in Newfoundland."

The Texan says "That's got to be close to China!"

The Newfie thinks about this and then says, "Lard
tunderin' Jaysus bye", I tink you might be right.......
I work with a Chinese guy and he goes home for
lunch every day!

DC,  I like the first picture best.  Would you mind if I used it as a pattern for a Halloween Mask?

It's getting to be too dangerous to use clown masks.

This is going to make it hard for a real clown to get a job.

Better to get a finger stuck in there than something else.   

Well, that would have been next but they fired the pickle slicer.

There IS the story about the guy who got his finger stuck in the pickle slicer.......buy you probably wouldn't appreciate it right now.

I hope you aren't in too much pain with it at this point.

                                                                      Boredom.

and we are all nice people up here....lol.....even the train people.....

Even the train people?  Now you're stretching it.

There is a few, and I mean a few nice people down in the southern part of Ontario....but once you get up north they arr all friendly......

You must have forgotten.  I've been up North. LOL

Life in the Australian Army...

Text of a letter from a kid from Eromanga to Mum and Dad. (For Those of you not in the know, Eromanga is a small  town, west of Quilpie in the far south west of Queensland )

Dear Mum & Dad,

I am well. Hope youse are too.. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than workin' on the station - tell them to get in bloody quick smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don't hafta get outta bed until 6am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz all ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No bloody horses to get in, no calves to feed, no troughs to clean - nothin'!! Ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz there's lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing!

At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks or goanna stew like wot Mum makes. You don't get fed again until noon and by that time all the city boys are buggered because we've been on a 'route march' - geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the bullock paddock!!

This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin' - dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a bloody dingo's arse and it don't move and it's not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull got into their prize cows before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target - it's a piece of piss!! You don't even load your own cartridges, they comes in little boxes, and ya don't have to steady yourself against the rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you reload!

Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy - it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster.
Turns out I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm the best the platoon's got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers - he's 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders and as ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin' wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer.

I can't complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before word gets around how bloody good it is.

Your loving daughter,

Susan

Well, I didn't want to turn the story into a book but just to show how helpful people can be, Dennis from Delhi wasn't the only one to stop.

When I first pulled over a car passed and stopped in front of me just to tell me my daughter had turned off at the last exit.  And then while Dennis was helping,  another biker stopped. He had been going in the opposite direction and turned around at the next exit to come back to see if he could help.

Bikers are great people. I didn't ask but the cager must have had a bike at home.

Ok so first off you have a child? and it is a girl, and she rides? ok so you are old........lol.......

Ok I'm old because I have a child?  Or I'm old because she's a girl?
Actually I have 5 of those girls and THAT's why I'm old. 

ok how do you know this info about her bike and tools.....lol......

Three hours into a seven day trip I look in the rear view mirror and there is nobody behind me. I pull over only to have my daughter limp up behind me and when she shuts off her motorcycle, it won't start. She's had battery problems before so that was the first thing we wanted to check. To remove her seat we need an Allen Key. I had three and none fit.

Two hundred feet ahead of us is a CAA truck getting ready to tow a car off the 401. I rode up to see if he had any tools and he had nothing. The only thing left was for us to call CAA.

While we were waiting another biker pulls up and reaches into his pocket and pulls out a handful of Allen Keys. After we got the seat off we could see one of the battery terminal screws nearly backed out completely. We tightened it down with the Drifter tools and it started right up.

So thanks to Dennis from Delhi, we were on our way again.

My daughter says "She meets the nicest people on a Honda"

And one more:

If you're riding with your daughter, make sure you have tools that fit her bike.

Ask me how I know.

I will shortly have some info on this event once I secure a motel and Hoggy said he was going to help defray the cost of everyone's room........

With your connections and penny pinching abilities I figured we'd be staying underground in the Air Force barracks.

Oh that's not a problem.  They put up road signs telling you where the moose cross.