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From: terry@prcrs.prc.com (Terry Cunningham)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Perhaps, I have overestimated Mr. Small's intelligence
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:35:54 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: PRC Realty Systems, McLean, VA

In article <1992Aug22.155810.29073@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>, dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small) writes:
> 
> Why don't you put it in your Killfile asshole and 
> SHUT THE HELL UP (tm talk.bizarre)
> 

Was that a flame???

Jim, you're right!  I have no idea what came over me.  Your puerile attempts
at humor, your little man threats, your desire to be a 'big' man in this
forum are far more interesting to the readers of rec.moto than any rational
discussion of bikes and biking.  I should not censure you, because you are an
important voice (in your own mind) with plenty to say.  I realize now that
like a child who has learned to say 'poop' and wants to let the world know
it,  you feel compelled to delight us with your wit.

What a forum huh?  You get to call people ASSHOLES without actually having to
say it to their faces,  you can post drivel, rant like a child, use all
your big cusswords, you can be somebody!   Perhaps you enjoy having your net
personality being that off a whiny 2 year old (tho I have probably insulted
them with the comparison).  We can't shut you up,  I guess we have to listen
or 'kill' you.  But from now on I will read your posts, satisfied in my own
mind that everything you say confirms my own analysis of you, that the
ASSHOLE label you throw so freely shines like a beacon on your own
personality.

So go ahead,  flame away,  I look forward to your sarcasm, the way you will
shade your meaning, your subtle nuances, your witty ripostes.  Perhaps you
will lampoon,  or pun me to death.   Go for it!  I'm waiting.  Dazzle me
with your brilliance!  


'Now that you've found another key, what are you going to play?'  -  Beatles


Terry

-- 
 | Terry Cunningham terry@rsi.prc.com | "Let me take my chances on the wall  |
 | DoD# 541   'Debaucher of Donuts'   |  of death"       Richard Thompson    |
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: AR.JTC@forsythe.stanford.edu (Jay Cena)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on VMAX
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:52:20 GMT

In article <1hftj4#4x8FB7=aal@broue.rot.qc.ca>,
aal@broue.rot.qc.ca (Alain Hebert) writes:
>
>        Hi!  I just finish a ride from Chicago, IL to Montreal, QC CAN with my
>        '87 VMax (Hmmm it was fun)...  Sorry about the Km reference...
>            ^^^^^
                Alain, are you sure. I guess not. There were no 87
VMX12! Guess again!
>        Driving Position:
>
>                Because of the sitting position and the way the seats are
>                designed.  It has for effect that my backpack was sitting
>                weighless on the passenger bench.  I was able to lean on the on
>                the hood (Yep! Its a false kind of gas tank, you remove it to
>                have access to the air intake and fuses...  The Gas tank is
>                located under the seat and hold around ~2.5 gallon I think(?))

                                       A 4 GALLON     ^^^^^^^^BZZZZT
Are you sure you have a Vmax?          inc. reserve


Jay Cena
88 Vmax
dod#90
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From: steve@bucolix.ncsu.edu (Steve Garnier)
Subject: Re: The man without a number
Reply-To: steve@bucolix.ece.ncsu.edu (Steve Garnier)
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:53:37 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.000914.23802@balrog.dseg.ti.com>
keith@balrog.dseg.ti.com (Keith A. Schauer) writes:
>Of course I did.  I believe everything I read on the net.  Don't you?
>	(our writer suddenly looks in amazement)  
>What? You mean? 
>	(a look of terror comes over him)
>It can't be!  Fuck! I've been lied to!  All those posts, all that time!
>	(a look of betrayal)
>And I suppose that now you'll tell me that Deeney really isn't a large african?
>And God didn't make little green apples
>And it don't rain in Indianapolis, in the summertime

I regret to inform you that "it don't rain in Indianapolis, in the 
summertime", but it does occasionally rain *on* Indianapolis, in the
summertime.  If this causes you either great depression or feelings 
of misery, then please accept my most sincere condolences.  :-)

I know that it rains *on* Indianapolis in the summertime, because I've
been there when it rained *on* both YoMaha! and me.

Steve Garnier - DoD #00000005 - '79 XS1100SF w/ 157K+ miles and *climbing*
KotF (Flame),  KotAM (Anecdotal Motorcycle),  The Daemon's Byte
       Contrary to popular belief, I am not the Devil's advocate...
                  ...but I am his speech writer.
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From: shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)
Subject: Re: outstanding MC parking (wuz Re: Motorcyclists get a break.)
Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 05:05:53 GMT

It's not outstanding parking, but they just turned 2 cage parking
spaces into 5 moto parking places, complete with little aluminum
plates for the hot weather on the asphalt, at our new building here at
Dryden.  These were the two closest non-reserved, non-handicapped
places in a lot that's about one-third the required size.

--
Mary Shafer  DoD #0362 KotFR NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov                    Of course I don't speak for NASA
 "There's no kill like a guns kill." LCDR "Hoser" Satrapa, gunnery instructor
                       "A kill is a kill."  Anonymous
From: mack23@avalon.eecs.nwu.edu (Chris Walsh)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: What's a "stroker"
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:23:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: eecs.1992Sep4.192327.25222
Organization: My desk in the Tech building

In article <1992Sep4.152116.25826@informix.com> dboyd@informix.com writes:
>
>OK, no funny business here, I really want to know. I have this t-shirt on today  
>that says "Have you hugged your stroker today?" (from S&S cycles) and people  
>are asking me what a stroker is and I'm not quite sure.
>
>Any bike with performance parts?
>A harley that's been bored out?

Probably not.  You can increase the displacement of an engine by increasing 
either its bore (diameter of cylinders) or its stroke (length of cyls) or
both.  Overboring a block, I imagine, amounts to boring the block out some
and dropping in new sleeves.  I've wondered about increasing the stroke:
I figure it's done by dropping on new cyl. heads and whatever the doohickey
is called that connects the piston to the crankshaft.  Can anybody fill
me in on the technical details here?

#IFNDEF IS_AUTHORITY
#include <stddisclaimer.h>
#ENDIF

--

Chris Walsh                               Pithy Quotation Wanted
TechNet Network Administrator             ----------------------
2145 Sheridan Rd.                         Send candidates to: 
DoD# 0671 <--- as of yesterday!           mack23@avalon.eecs.nwu.edu
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From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
Subject: Re: lane splitting
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:15:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.233449.381@halfdome.sf.ca.us> laurie@halfdome.sf.ca.us
(Laurie Abbott) writes:

>5) if we want to make the streets safer, we should make being an
>   asshole illegal.

Then we could send the law-abiding citizens to Tahiti,
declare the rest of the world an internment camp
for incorrigible criminals, and carry on as we
always have.  I doubt that many of us would recognize
the difference.
--

    Chuck Karish          karish@mindcraft.com
    (415) 323-9000 x117   karish@forel.stanford.edu
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From: tbb@sumac02.cray.com (Todd Blachowiak)
Subject: Re: GSRX's and Posing
Originator: tbb@sumac02
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 28 Aug 92 09:49:40 CDT


> AH HA - a poser is revealed !  You have perfectly summarized the usefulnes
> bikes like the GSXR, ZX-7, etc. Loads of fun for about 45 miuntes. 45
> minutes of cruising around your town looking cool (posing). 45 minutes
> of blazing around a race track. With the FJ, you can actually
> ride for (gasp) *hours* at a time. You know - to actually ride to a
> destination, and still keep pace with the fastest of the fast in all
> but the peg-scraping-est twisties.

 Well I disagree, but I am sort of a strange sort anyways. I ride an FZR1000
 and I consider it my sport tourer. I have done many 400+ mile days and even
 a 700+ and a few 600+ miles days on it. My body was fine, but my mind was 
 shot after these long days. The FZR1K fits my body perfectly. I am 5'11" and
 weight 190lbs. Yes, I have ridden the FJ and frankly after 0.5 hours I was
 in mucho pain, mainly my back was hurting from the upright seating position.
 I told people this and they thought I was being comical, I wasn't. Different
 bikes fit different people. The FJ concept is a great one. The sport bike
 position doesn't seam to fit you, it does me. It sounds like you really like
 your bike, that's great; but I also really like my bike, that's even greater:-)
 Bike snobbery isn't going to help the sport!

 As far as riding fast; on the street it makes very little difference which
 bike you have. Rider skill and courage are the determining factors. Going
 fast in a straight line takes no skill-no mind(I'm not saying it isn't fun)
 , going fast around a turn does. On the street, in the twisties I will get
 blown away by better FAST riders on lesser machines on occasion:-) And
 sometimes I will do the same to others.

> I'm not knocking the GSRX or the people who *ride* them. I am knocking the
> squids who pose on them and zip down Main St. USA dressed in neon with their
> dates on the back on Friday nights. 

 When I started riding I rode in shorts, t-shirt, no helmet...blah, blah, blah. 
 Why? Because I didn't know any better. As the years went by I learned, many
 times from other motorcyclists. If the squids bother you, did you ever think
 they just don't know any better. Maybe when you talk with them you could 
 SUGGEST they try some protective gear....don't be pushy...offer some real life
 stories if you have them(how a helmet saved a friend who has a bazilian years
 of experience, show some road rash scars if you have them...)....most people
 {especially in motorcycling} don't like to be told what to do.

> Give me a 100mph sweeper in the mountains any day !

 Me too!

-- 
Take care,

Todd Blachowiak 
KotD #0004
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From: llane@javelin.sim.es.com (Laura Lane)
Subject: Re: lane splitting
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:14:20 GMT

bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob pasker) writes:

>In article <1992Aug26.185742.12827@javelin.sim.es.com>,
>llane@javelin.sim.es.com (Laura Lane) writes: 
>> Hi I'm a new reader to the group so please be easy on the flames:
>> 
>> IMO it's not very safe from an insurance point of view. 

>blaine put you up to this, right?  what clued me in was:

>> When I lived in
>> Calif. 

>moving from california to utah is an udder absurdity, so therefore 
>you post is a fake.

Not a fake just a misplaced born and bred Southern California Girl dreaming
of the Ortega Highway.

laura
>-- 
>-- bob pasker
>-- bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us 
>--
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From: peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram)
Subject: Intruder 750, Nighthawk 700S
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:40:01 GMT


Hi,

	I am looking for some information on  Suzuki
	Intruder 750 ('91) and Honda Nighthawk 700S ('85),
	and also Suzuki GS 1150 ('83).  I want to know what
	kind of bikes these are (sport, street, touring),
	what their special handling features are and also
	their reliability.  Any information will be greatly
	appreciated.  

	If any of you know the archiver's address, please
	send me.

	Thanks,

Suresh Peram
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: HELP!! Difficult hot starting!!
From: tmockler@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:23:36 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

I have a problem getting my 86 honda shadow 500 started (using the starter)
once the engine gets hot, such as after about 15 minutes of very slow riding
in city traffic. I can pop-start it. Under these conditions I do
have spark and fuel. While cranking, it also tends to backfire a few times. My
theory is that there is a timing problem. Possibly, whatever mechanism normally
advances the timing may be "sticking". If you have any experience with this sort of
problem, please post or send e-mail. Thanks.   -Todd
From: meb4593@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Michael Bain)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: How do you get your way in traffic?
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:51:07 GMT
Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle

bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU writes:
>meb4593@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Michael Bain) writes:
>
>>because it needed some work done.  As I was trying to merge in to a
>>lane, this "lady" cut me off ... I thought "shit this never happens
>
>You were trying to merge and she cut you off?  Sounds like she had the 
>right of way, to me.  Why the 'tude, dude?

So, your typical driving behavior is to speed up to prevent other
people from merging into your lane?  Is this prevalent with the rest of
the drivers in your area?  Man, I'm impressed.

>>	   [assorted violent responses]
>
>So you're talking about doing thousands of dollars of damage to someone's 
>car just because they won't yieled right of way to you?  Have you seen a 
>psychologist about this problem?  You sound like a sick puppy...

Maybe you haven't ridden a motorcycle very long, but let me assure you
that there is a significant difference in weight between a car and a
motorcycle.  Forcing one's way with a large vehicle is not considered
safe driving practice.  

So, like when you run people off the road because they are trying to
merge in your lane, do you think about whether they could possibly
*die* from your actions?  I suppose you think that property damage is
more important than personal injury.

Its times like that when I wish I still had the old '63 International
... nobody would pull a stunt like that when that rust bucket was on the
road.  


-- 
Michael "Chuck" Bain                       meb4593@icdfs.ca.boeing.com  
----------------------------------------------------------------------
"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs and insanity for everyone, but 
they've always worked for me."  -- Hunter S. Thompson
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: rdw@cmn15.Stanford.EDU (Roy Waldspurger)
Subject: Re: Bi-cycles on the back of m-cycles
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 06:45:20 GMT

> A friend of mine told me about a motorcycle attachment he saw
> allowing the easy transport of a bi-cycle on an m-cycle.

This sounds pretty interesting, yet I've seen simpler solutions.  This  
includes watching a motorcyclist transport his bicycle from work to home  
(4+ miles) by sticking his head through the frame, and letting the bicycle  
rest on his shoulders.

I wouldn't recommend it, though.

-- Roy Waldspurger
From: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi <tcora>)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Winter Storage in Boston Area
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:20:11 GMT
Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob pasker) writes:
>In article <daved.714870407@convex.convex.com>, daved@convex.com (David Dorfman) writes:
>> The winter is fast approching , give or take a few months,
>
>winter...winter...winter... sorta rings a bell, but i still can't 
>place it.  could you please define these technical terms when you
>use them in a post?

sher, bob. winter is when you actually enjoy using your cage. cuz after
40 minutes of cag-ing, ya gets ta go ski-ing.
-- 
 
                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil
From: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi <tcora>)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: NY Rte 17 sucks
Date: 3 Sep 92 13:30:07 GMT
Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

heff@ki.ch.apollo.hp.com (God of Thunder) writes:
>
>I rode Route 17 across NY in July, and it sucked. The road is concrete
>blocks with major bumps between blocks - my spine was screwed for days.

I agree. The "fast" lane is better than the slow, but only incrementally:-{

>Anybody have a better way to get from Boston to Binghamton in under 7 hours,
>and on a fun road at the same time?

I assume that you took the MassPike west, NY Thruway south, then NY17
west?

Since ya wanna make time, I won't suggest looking for backroads. So
howsabout taking the MassPike to the Thruway _north/west_ and dropping
south on ?I-81? (I don't have NY map w/ me today) to Binghamton?
-- 
 
                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil
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From: csl@swlrei (SCOTT LILLIOTT)
Subject: Re: lucas...
Organization: Raytheon Company, Tewksbury, MA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:41:54 GMT

Alan.Nunn@f526.n635.z3.fidonet.org (Alan Nunn) writes:

>G'day, and sorry about the aborted message, re Lucas.
>  To start again. When a mate and I ventured into the realm of biking.We each
> had a Matchless 500cc. And we learned to appreciate the saying...

>     Lucas the prince of darkness or Lucas the inventor of darkness.

>                                                       BFN> alan

>...  Old hondas never die..they end up as spare parts in my garage.
> * Origin: God is REAL unless declared as an INTEGER (3:635/526.0)

There's another saying which ostensibly came from the Lucas factory itself...

	"A good day's work and home before dark"

-- 
   #   Scott Lilliott - csl@swl.msd.ray.com                            #
    #   AMA #600897             "If you push something hard enough,   #
     #   DoD #0227               It will fall over."                 #
      #  US/INOA #8563                     -- Fudd's First Law      #
From: tavares@danville (Jack Tavares)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: AAA says Deer Whistles No Good
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:26:01 GMT
Reply-To: tavares@ctron.com


I just got my copy of my AAA rag (no cage jokes please)
and they had a blurb about deer whistles. They reported
about a study done researching the effectiveness of deer
whistles. The study states that deer probably cannot even
hear in the ultrasonic range, which is how the deer whistles
operate. The study even suggested that the deer may be
attracted to the sound, if they can hear it.

Go figure.


--
Jack Tavares    KotHO DoD# 0570 BMWMOA# 58278 AMA# 651191 BMWRA# 16087
83 R80ST	79 KZ LTD 400H (for sale) 
Sorry, but at DoD minimum speed it is impossible to speak. There is just 
too much wind noise.  At that speed I am spending all my concentration 
allowance on riding, and cannot afford anymore thought for words.
However, when I finish a ride and the bike is in the garage cooling down, 
the single word that comes to mind is:

    BEER.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
Subject: Re: Mariage...what happens???
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:24:11 GMT

In article <22798@sybase.sybase.com> leighann@sybase.com (Leigh Ann Hussey) writes:
>In article <1992Aug23.001731.26214@cs.cornell.edu> karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) writes:
>>What other Politically Incorrect hobbies were you referring to?
>
>Oh, you know, guns, red meat, alcohol, sex, that sort of thing...

I enjoy these too, but you should cut down on the red meat, it's very
dangerous to your health.

>Seriously, though, many of the groups I belong to see themselves as
>politically endangered -- homebrewers, motorcyclists, and gun
>aficionados all have their collective nickers in a twist over how the
>gov't is (in some cases only potentially) screwing us.

Unfortunately it's not so potential in at least two of the three cases
(I know homebrewers but I don't know what the government has been doing
to them lately).

Enjoy your ride!

-- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
-- '80 BMW R65   BMWMOA #36829   DoD #0969   NRA #CDF6091M


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From: vwelch@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Von Welch)
Subject: Re: Leaning
Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:21:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.164412.24579@i88.isc.com>, jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
|> In article <LOTTO.92Aug28154658@laura.harvard.edu> lotto@laura.harvard.edu (Jerry Lotto) writes:
|> >>>>>> On 18 Aug 92 09:31:41 GMT, etlanar@slartibartfast.ericsson.se (Alan Arthur) said:
|> >Alan> I'm right handed, so is this some kind of 'built-in' protection
|> >Alan> mechanism that I need to overcome?
|> >
|> >Most people have more trouble turning right than left - regardless of
|> >their "handedness".  In a right turn, you control the throttle and
|> >modulate handlebar pressure with the same hand.  Countersteering is a
|> >lot more natural in a left-lean posture.  This is especially true if
|> 
|> Is it just me, or does anyone else both push and pull?  Not that
|> I claim to be immune to this effect, but I never really noticed
|> it much.

 I tend to pull to set up and then push once I'm in the turn if I decide
I need a little more lean. And I definitely feel more confortable turning
left. I really think it's a throw back to all the years I spend being
solely a cager - used to seeing things flying back rapidly on my left
not so on the right. Any one from UK who drives on the wrong side of
the road have any observations?

-- 
Von Welch
vwelch@ncsa.uiuc.edu
- I speak only for myself and those who think exactly like me -
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: lane splitting
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:03:34 GMT
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL

In article <1992Aug27.233949.386@halfdome.sf.ca.us> laurie@halfdome.sf.ca.us (Laurie Abbott) writes:
>In article <973@cybaswan.UUCP>, eeharvey@cybaswan.UUCP (i t harvey) writes:
>> No. The correct conjugation is "lane splat". i lane split,
>> you lane split, he,she,it lane splits; i have lane splat, you have
>> lane splat, he,she,it has lane splat; i will have lane splat,
>> you will have lane splat, he,she,it will have lane splat; etc.
>
>actually, ian, no, you've got the passive voice there.  i was
>lane splat, you were lane splat, he,she,it was lane splat . . .

In the phrase "I was lane splat", I always thought the verb was "to be", 
and "lane splat" was a noun.  You know, as in "Some asshole cager stuck
in traffic cut me off while I was lane splitting.  I was lane splat."
-- 
Jonathan E. Quist                              INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
jeq@i88.isc.com  '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094        Naperville, IL
        There are many things a person should experience in a lifetime.
       Among them are an infant's first cry, and an infant's first laugh.
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