HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: bikes/babes/bikinis/Denny's (say what?)
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:46:10 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL

>In article <JET.92Sep14155946@win30.nas.nasa.gov>, jet@win30.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>|> "mparsons" == Mark Parsons <mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu> writes:
>|> mparsons> . . stepping out of full leathers . . and only having a
>|> mparsons> bikini on . . . .  *pant* *pant* . . . . where's the nearest
>|> mparsons> Denny's!?!?!?!?  		 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>|> 
>|> For those of you who've never been so lucky as to ride with Parsons,
>|> *any* place that he stops becomes a pickup joint.  I've seen him give
>|> his number to a woman at Denny's that happened to have been looking at
>|> him while we were there.
>|> 
>|> Get some class, Mark, try Bennigan's or Chili's...

He's probably better off at Denny's, at least from
an epidemiological standpoint.
-- 
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.
From: dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: key fobs
Date: 9 Sep 92 10:42:48 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <pmercer-080992182640@kip-24.apple.com> pmercer@apple.com (Paul Mercer) writes:
>Count me in on the key fobs too.
>

I was doing work when this thread first came out.  What's a key fob?

-- 
I hate the 3B2
The 3B2 can bite me.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: prange@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Henry Prange)
Subject: Off-Road courses
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:40:05 GMT

I have done R.A.T.S and C.L.A.S.S. with my K-bike but now that I have 
seen the light and switched to an R100 GS I am wondering if there are
similar classes to develop off-road skills. I have a dim memory of a
class run by the former Pridmore/Beach collaboration at the Grattan
Raceway in Michigan. If anybody has info on this subject, I would 
appreciate it.

Thanks.

BMWMOA #11522  R100GS
The relentless pursuit of folly is the unifying trait of our species.
From: conrad@pico.OZ (Conrad Drake)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Inject me! (was MY Winner . . . )
Date: 15 Sep 92 06:18:11 GMT
Reply-To: conrad@pico.qpsx.oz.au
Organization: QPSX Communications
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

pooder@msus1.msus.edu writes:
: > ObMoto: Who can tell me if there are any bikes other than BMW with fuel 
: > injection?  (If I can't afford a big twin, maybe I can select second 
: > choice from something that don't have no steenkin' carburetors.)  
: 
: Sure, 851 and 907.  Both Ducs.  Both twins.  One quicker and more expensive
: than the other.  Both *RED*.  What have you against carburetors?
Same thing Al Bowers has against "steenkin' valve springs"

--
"There's something stirring in my loins and it isn't the spirit of Jesus"
                - Helen Razor, JJJ announcer, 1992.

Email: conrad@pico.qpsx.oz.au
Snail: QPSX Communications, Private Bag 24, West Perth 6005, Australia. 
Numbers:(ph) +61 9 324 1641, (fx) +61 9 321 2984 (dod) 0604
From: bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob pasker)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: DoD Merchandise
Date: 8 Sep 92 07:31:42 PDT
Organization: Disorganized Organization

In article <1992Sep8.132946.10292@ericsson.se>, etlanar@slartibartfast.ericsson.se (Alan Arthur) writes:
> OK, these American DoD'ers seem to be pretty keen to produce DoD merchandise,
> so how about us Euro DoDers sorting something out?
> Arnie just posted about DoD zippo keyrings, but how about DoD zippo lighters?
> Now that would be cool....

i just love it when life immitates art!

-- 
-- bob pasker
-- bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us 
--
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: rblander@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Robyn Landers)
Subject: Sabre FOIL cable
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:50:37 GMT


	Any of you Sabre owners ever wondered if that fancy F.O.I.L.
anti-theft cable gadget actually works?  Well, it sort of does.

	F.O.I.L. stands for fibre optic integrated lock.  It's a
long piece of stranded steel cable surrounding a fibre optic cable,
that plugs into a receptacle on the bike.  A nine-volt battery powers 
it.  If the cable is cut a siren is supposed to sound.

	Last weekend (on the inaugural run of the micro-mini-Waterloo-
Toronto-DoD-Caledon-Hills-rally, attended by me on the Sabre,
my wife Susan on her Fazer, Jody Levine on RZ350, and Jody's boyfriend
Louis on a Radian) I had occasion to lock up our helmets using
the FOIL cable while we went for a walk.

	A few minutes later, some distance away from the bikes,
we heard a fairly loud beeping.  We assumed somebody's car alarm
had gone off.  Wrong -- it was my bike!  The cable was uncut,
and after I got home and tried it again all was well, so maybe
the contacts were dirty or the fibre optic cable is breaking down
from repeated flexing.   This is the first time in years of using
the cable that the alarm has gone off.  

	So, I guess it sort of works.


-----
Robyn                              | "Any profit should go to Arnie's `get the
rblanders@math.uwaterloo.ca        |  daemon carved on Mount Rushmore' fund."
Den0051,  KotV4                    |       - Marty Albini, DOD0550
VF750S Sabre (his) FZX750 Fazer (hers)

Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: brianm@sco.com (Brian Moffet)
Subject: Re: glasses and helmets
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:17:35 GMT

egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) writes:

>Folks, I don't think wearing *glasses* inside a helmet is such a clever
>idea.  If there is *no* movement of your face within the helmet, you're
>helmet's too tight.  If there is, you are risking glasses pieces in
>your eyeball.

>Contacts and tinted faceshield work for me.

Umm, I know that you can shatter a contact lens while it is in your eye.
I have a friend that did it.  No permanent damage luckily.

Some of us do not wear contacts, as long as you don't have a sharp
object hit the lens of the glasses, there won't be a problem with the
lens.  The frames may get bent out of shape, but that shouldn't be too
harmful. 

Of course, there are always exceptions...

brian moffet
--
"Face it, Chuck.  Taken as an aggregate, the human race is a stupid, sorry lot."
                           -- Jonathan Quist

brianm@sco.com  or uunet!sco!brianm                    Speaking for Myself
From: cgates@mitre.org (Curt Gates)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: glasses and helmets
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:00:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The MITRE Corporation

In article <dbc-140992204442@b62003.student.cwru.edu> dbc@po.cwru.edu 
(Dean Cookson) writes:
> How about a corrective lens face shield?  How's that for an optics
> nightmare. :-)

Yea, but then you would go blind when you raise the shield to spit.  Me, I 
like to see the windshield Im aiming at. :-)
From: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi <tcora>)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Fun with cagers or I'm bored.
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:36:14 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

jerry@stratford.dab.ge.com (Jerry Szulinski) writes:
[...]
>Come on, I'm disappointed in you; this was not a response worthy of a true
>DOD'er ... please sombody take away his number, quick.
>
>Pleas follow the Manly DOD'er Manual (tm) page 3874 and repeat after me:
>1. Pull about a bike length ahead of him (so he can enjoy the show better); 
[...]
>After this, the cager will have no doubt as to what kind of DOD'er you 
>_really_ are. 'Till next time, this is Mr. Manly DOD'er saying goodbye
>and be manly.
>
>- No guys, I've never done that myself, honest...I just made this all up...
>  I always let the jerk go instead of engaging in this immature display of
>  immaturity. Did I mention that this is immature and that you'll never see
>  _me_ doing it....really.
>
>Jerry "Mr. Manly DOD'er" S.             
>
>KotM.......Keeper of the Manliness ?????  HeHeHe.

Hey! You messin' with Mr Manly! We got a plan for guys like you:-}
-- 
 
                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil
From: ant@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Antony Espindola)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: X-reg in the UK?
Date: 7 Sep 92 08:37:55 GMT
Organization: Data and Business Comms, BT Labs, Martlesham, Ipswich, UK.

From article <1992Sep4.191922.7758@javelin.sim.es.com>, by blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers):
> ant@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Antony Espindola) writes:
> 
>>	The letters unused are : Q (reserved
>>	for cars of unknown origin or parts from more than one year - used
>>	for kits cars/bikes and rebuilds etc.)
> 
> Would that be where the term "Q-ship" came from? That is, a bike (or
> whatever) that looks stock, but goes like a bat out of hell.
> -- 
> Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland  blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com  BIX:blaine_g
> 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108           Favorite road signs:

This would apply only if the owner cannot prove the origin of all the
parts - eg. if most parts come from 1986, the bike would be registered
as 1986 but if the parts came from different years eg.frame '91,
engine '72 [sick!] wheels 1823 (this is only an example) then it would
have to be a Q. BUT - it depends on how lawfull the owner is !!
In Performance bikes, someone put two RD350 LC engine together (yes,
together) and made a RD750LC (he couldn't count) but that did not have
a Q-Plate.

As for Q Ships....? Never heard of 'em.


Antony
(No, I haven't got a DoD number)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: tp0x+@cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Price)
Subject: Re: More on KZ440 Belt Drives
Keywords: belt-drive kit for sale!
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:15:59 GMT

>  I have discovered that there were two belt drives for the 440LTD.
>  The first was for the '80-81 models with the clutch actuated by
>  the clutch cable on the left hand side (of the rider) of the engine.
>  With the '82 models different pulleys, belt guard, and belt
>  were used.

>  The late model belts ran for about _$300.00_ brand new!  
>  The rear pulleys for either version were of an equally outrageous price. 

Once again, a late-model belt, belt guard, and both pulleys, are
available for only $50! (But maybe I won't pay the shipping like I
offered in the first post. :-) For some reason, I still believe that
this setup will fit other Kawasakis -- if you're interested,
a call to a dealer should be able to let us know if it'll fit yours.

Tom

******************************************************************************
  tp0x@cs.cmu.edu   |   Mr Ethical   |     Tom Price, Obscure Dropout
  1981 KZ440LTD     |    DoD #518    |  	  I'm the DoD.
******************************************************************************
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: dagibbs@quantum.on.ca (David Gibbs)
Subject: Nasty rumour about Maine interstates
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:49:35 GMT
Organization: Quantum Software Systems


I heard from people at work that some (one) of the interstates in
Maine has signs posted forbidding motorcycles on the highway.  Is
this true, or just a nasty rumour?  (Has anyone else heard of this
happening.)

-David Gibbs				Kawasaki Concours
(dagibbs@quantum.on.ca)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: scatlin@bnr.ca (Scot Catlin)
Subject: Need help finding...
Keywords: Kawasaki Emblem
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, BNR-RTP 
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:21:12 GMT

  ...two Kawasaki emblems to go on the sides of my '78 KZ650 tank.  I've called
the local dealer, and they want $33 a peice!  Yoy!  I've tried a couple of
salvage yards, but they don't have them, they are on a good tank, or they want me
to come out an rumage around for them.  The last one would be fine if the salvage
yard wasn't in Washington state!  Anyone have a wrecked KZ or something?  Help,
my ride runs like a champ, but looks like hell!  

  Thanks in advance.

              Scot
              ---- 

-- 
==============================================  K  K ZZZZ   6666 5555 0000
| Scot Catlin            |Home (919)490-1916 |  K K    Z    6    5    0  0
| Bell Northern Research |Work (919)991-8763 |  KK    Z     6666 555  0  0
| RTP, NC                |                   |  K K  Z      6  6    5 0  0
==============================================  K  K ZZZZ   6666 555  0000
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Tuesday, 15 Sep 1992 14:23:22 EDT
From: <REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Synthetic Oil
 <BuMLL5.M4v@acsu.buffalo.edu>

  Although I am not a petroleum engineer, mechanic or surface chemist, I can
be charged with guilt by association with the latter.  The estherized nature
of Castrol Syntec means that is is a dimer (two-molecule polymer) of some
fatty acid:
   CH3 CH2 .... (CO)-O-(CO) CH2 ... CH2 CH3
which, in contact with a metal surface, splits and forms two carbonyl bonds
to the metal surface:
   CH3 CH2 ..... CH2 CO-O-(metal part).

   I sincerely doubt that this will cause a wet clutch to slip any worse than
the original immersion in oil.  The teflon additive in Slick 50 may be another
matter altogether, but I don't see a mechanism for clutch slippage in Castrol
Syntec Oil.  In fact, it seems to me that the if this oil layer would cause a
wet clutch to slip, an automatic (cage) hydrodynamic transmission couldn't
possibly function either.
   As to the question of film patches lifting off, That may be a problem for
teflon polymers, but there are no patches in the Castrol chemistry.  In fact,
the reduction in wear probably means less metal dust in your oil, a definate
plus.
   Jeff Andle   DoD #3005   1976 KZ 900  (My only source of Xportation!)
   Laboratory for Surface Science & Technology
   University of Maine


We'll see if my Employers agree with my opinions when I defend them this spring
Until then, take them with a grain of salt!
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: hamm@weejordy.physics.mun.ca (Craig Hamm)
Subject: Cager has smaller penis now
Organization: Ocean Sciences Centre
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:12:43 GMT

	While riding down the parkway on Saturday, I noted that some 
	guy in  a cage was jockying for position through 2 sets of lights
	to get close to me on my bike.  After the 2nd set of lights he was
	sitting beside me, on my left.  We were both up front on the line.
	Now, I don't have a sportbike, and this happens about twice a year.
	I DON'T look for races.  BUT . . . he wants to make his penis
	larger, and I don't like the idea of me helping him do it by 
	beating a 650cc engine.  I didn't even look over my left shoulder,
	I knew he wanted to race.  I didn't rev the engine, I just played
	dumb.  The light goes green, and I pull away normally, just in case I
	was wrong.  I hear this piss-pot cage screaming for all it's 
	worth ($1), and I commit.  It took about 3 secs to catch up to him
	as I shifted up slowly to keep the revs high.  He preceded to pull 
	away, so I just fueled the engine more, and passed him again (I actually
	passed him 1st time).  I looked down, and I was going about 150km/hr
	(~90mph).  I could tell his car was near it's limit, and I stil had
	room for speed.  Unfortunately, the next set of lights dictated that
	I restore myself to near-legal speeds JUST in case of a red/amber light.
	The light went green, and he took off.  My job was done in any case.
	I think he was embarrassed. : )

-- 
  
    Craig Hamm, Memorial University, | I don't think the letters which appear
    Newfoundland                     | on your letters page are genuine. I 
    DoD #1500,                       | think you just make them all up.  In
    81 Maxim 650                     | fact you probably made this one up
    ------------                     | too.  -J. Clark, Rotherham (Viz comics)
From: parker@gdls.UUCP (The Dougster)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: RCR rider seeking employment
Date: 10 Sep 92 21:48:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, MI

For those of you who were at the RCR, you'll remember the dorky (TM)
sign I stuck in the ground: Artist/Engineer seeking employment...

Well, that was the sign I took with me to the BMW National Rally in
DuQuoin, Illinois that got me an interview with a Department Chief
with NASA Lewis Research in Cleveland. I took the same sign with me
to the Finger Lakes Rally in New York and it sparked a conversation
with a K100RS rider who works as a self-employed contractor for
Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.

I got her phone number and address and I'll be contacting her when
she gets back from her *four week 'cycling vacation.* (envy...) Any
other contacts would be appreciated.

I even got to meet another DoDer because of the sign! Mark Cervi stopped
to say hi! I think he was the only "Moto BMW Guzzi" rider at the camp.
Expect to see more of the sign...

Douglas
--
Reply-To: gdls!parker@ilium.troy.msen.com
DoD #1961    BMWMOA    Renting N56136
--
A dress is nothing but pants with one pantleg.
From: dbc@po.cwru.edu (Dean Cookson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: More centrifugal
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Date: 9 Sep 1992 18:38:14 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62003.student.cwru.edu

In article <18kv22INN49i@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>, egreen@east.sun.com (Ed
Green - Pixel Cruncher) wrote:
> 
> Oh, bullshit.  
> 
> The *real* pity is that 1 out of 100 American students ever see a
> physics class in high school.  For those that do, a good grounding in
> vector math and some Newtonian mechanics is plenty complicated.
> 
That's right damnit!  Everyone should do like me.  Go to college and get
within a semester of an undergrad degree in physics, before deciding
on your real major!

> ---
> Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,

| Dean Cookson / dbc@po.cwru.edu / 216 754-1834     | DoD #207  AMA
#573534|
| Case Western Reserve U. Computer E. and Sci. dept.| KotNML  /  KotB     
|
| "If I was worried about who saw me, I'd never get | '81 CB750C          
|
| nekkid at all." -Ed Green, DoD #0111              | '88 Bianchi Limited 
|
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston)
Subject: Re: Least Favorite Road Sign
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:40:54 GMT

(1) Tollboth ahead (especially on the NJ turnpike in a massive rainstorm)

(2) Groved pavement ahead (not the Calif. kind, the New England road 
resurfacing kind...)

Bill
---------------
wtr@mitre.org
** Opinions are mine only, and not my employer's **
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: mark@lenti.med.umn.edu (Mark Olson (CDC))
Subject: Re: >wheelies
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:06:03 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.165651.19456@varian.com> bob@csbvax.uucp (Bob Palin) writes:
>There are a few roads in England which are marked 1 in 3 which means they
>go up 1 foot for every 3 feet horizontally, 30 degrees I believe  8-)
>These suckers are STEEP - I have never come across a road that steep
>in the US, some in San Francisco are pretty steep but not 30 degrees.
>btw, these 1in3 roads mostly go up the cliffs from those cute little
>fishing villages you always see in the post cards.
>
>Bob Palin, Varian, Walnut Creek, Ca (510)945-2278, AMA, FSSNOC, DoD #257
>bob@varian.com     242,201 miles and counting     CBR600, ST1100, KLR650


   1 in 1 is a 45 degree angle, so 1 in 3 is 33% of 45 degrees, or 15
degrees.  The percent grade marked for hills is the percentage of a
45 degree angle, so a 6% grade is 2.7 degrees.
  
   It is not very common to find hills that approach 45 degrees, although
I swear that some of the hills I've skiied in the mountains were steeper!
  
  The steepest marked grade I remember seeing was a paved hill near the
Columbia Icefields - 22% grade.  They made you unhitch trailers before
attempting the hill.  It looked pretty steep...
  
mark olson
mark@lenti.med.umn.edu
From: dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: The man without a number
Date: 7 Sep 92 15:40:25 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <984@pico.OZ> conrad@pico.qpsx.oz.au writes:
>: In article <1992Aug31.145210.10222@news.nd.edu>, Richard.A.Swift.1@nd.edu (Richard A. Swift) writes:
>--
>"There's something stirring in my loins and it isn't the spirit of Jesus"
>                - Helen Razor, JJJ announcer, 1992.

Maybe it's the Calvin and Hobbes jockey shorts that UCLA sells and the 
freshman girls buy to wear as shorts . . .


-- 
I hate the 3B2
The 3B2 can bite me.
From: rogerc@discovery.uk.sun.com (Roger Collier)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: HERE I AM! LOOK AT ME! I'M MAKING A BIG NOISE! I'M SPECIAL!
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:54:15 GMT
Reply-To: rogerc@discovery.uk.sun.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: discovery.uk.sun.com

In article <25617@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>
>Open pipes, or the noisier kind of sport "silencers", produce enough
>noise to completely destroy the hearing of their owners in less than
>ten years of riding. Hearing damage can be measured after one hour's
>ride. It's just a shame we have to wait so long before they get deaf
>enough to fail to hear the horn of the approaching juggernaut and
>become road pizza.

IMHO, The noise from the loudest exhaust (As perceived at the lugholes of the
rider with helmet) is considerably less than the wind noise.
When someone invents a quiet helmet then the hearing loss from exhausts may become
significant.
---

Roger.Collier@Uk.Sun.COM		Sun Microsystems
					Warwick University Science Park
(44) 203 692255				Coventry CV4 7HS
					England

:-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-)
:  My advice is worth what you paid for it. )
:-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-)

DoD#226		GSXR1100L
From: ramarren@apple.com (Godfrey DiGiorgi)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: MY Winner for DoD Ballard (wuz Winner of the Official...)
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:36:29 GMT
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Organization: Apple Computer

In article <24988@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, cervi@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Cervi)
wrote:
> 
> (John Miller - SysAdmin) writes:
> 
> >ObMoto: Who can tell me if there are any bikes other than BMW with fuel 
> >injection?  (If I can't afford a big twin, maybe I can select second 
> >choice from something that don't have no steenkin' carburetors.)  
> 
> You can have a big twin and fuel injection. The Moto Guzzi Datona 1000 
> has fuel injection.  They only cost about 14 grand, and I think there's 
> a waiting list. Call 1-800-USA-MOTO
> 
And the Ducati 907IE and 851 models have EFI (1992 models). It's fairly 
certain that the new '93 models will also (the 916 and whatever else 
comes in...)
========
Godfrey DiGiorgi | ramarren@apple.com | DoD #0493
"Logic may be the beginning of wisdom, but logic never bought
 me a Ducati."
 Rule #1: Never sell a Ducati.
 Rule #2: Always obey Rule #1.
Honda VFR700 Intercepter 1987, "Bright White"
Ducati 750GT             1975, "Thunder"
Ducati 250 Mk III Diana  1966, sleeping beauty
Toyota MR2               1985, "VSSC"
========