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From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Post-tipover tips?
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:50:51 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH


rowell@socrates.umd.edu (William Rowell) writes:

>Anyhow, the only apparent damage was a little scrape on my left mirror, a bent
>shifter, minor scrape on engine case just below the word "HONDA", and gas on
>the garage floor. Is there anything I should look out for that may have
>escaped my attention thus far?  Please enlighten me, all experienced tipsters.

Check for spilled battery acid.

Bummer about the tip-over.
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
                              DoD # 0698
Xref: sparky rec.motorcycles:34336 talk.bizarre:32452
From: dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Stat du jour
Date: 1 Oct 92 23:34:04 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <1992Oct1.130241.8433@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Code-03 LCDR Michael E. Dobson) writes:
>You, sir, have made a serious breech of protocol.  As the one challenged,
>it is I who have the choice of weapons.  I have a fine pair of cutlasses
>that would suit me just fine.  Pistols are too crude for gentlemen.  My 
>seconds shall attend upon thee at thy convenience.  I look forward to
>adding your scar to my collection.  I trust your affairs are in order.

Affairs? Heck, I ain't even married yet.  Who do you think I am?  Clinton?


-- 
I hate the 3B2
The 3B2 can bite me.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: ed@Tekelec.gecko.uucp (Ed Campbell)
Subject: Re: First Bike
Originator: ed@rover
Organization: Tekelec Inc
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:37:03 GMT


> From: markb@solbourne.com (Mark W. Bradley)
> Subject: First Bike
> 
> I just got my first bike.  It's an 1100 Katana, but it's a little slow
> for me.  Any ideas on how to get some more HP and speed out of it.  Maybe
> a turbo kit or something I can do myself with minimal risk would be the
> solution.  Any ideas?
> 
>                                                       markb
> -- 
> Mark Bradley   (DoD#1100)               Faster, faster, until the thrill


    My grandmother used to claim her Henderson was real fast after
she put a Plymouth 4 cylinder engine in it. When I got my first bike,
the hot setup was a Ford V8-60 in a Harley frame. You might have to
raise the seat and tank a little to get it in the frame, but you
could try a Wright R2800, that's TSO'ed so it should be real safe.

    Drink a couple of sixpacks of the "family size" cans of that beer
from the land of OZ just before riding, then you won't know how fast
or slow your bike is.


Ed Campbell

'57 FL
'76 XLCH
My other car is a '54 Harley Servicar.

*************************************************************
   "Never trust anyone in a cage, if they weren't nuts
    they'd be on a scoot like anybody else."
                        Grandmother
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From: agent86@netcom.com (Michael McBride)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: We are sick and tired!!
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:05:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Sep30.210539.13064
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Sep30.173602.25206@brtph560.bnr.ca> scatlin@bnr.ca (Scot Catlin) writes:
	...
>        It seems like the number of responses to a post is based on
>how much flame material is contained therein, or whether or not a
>witty response can be used.
>
>... he said he had already looked through it [rec.moto], and decided
>that there is just too much CRAP to sort through to make it worth his
>while.  After a bit of thought, I had to agree that the amount of junk
>posting has risen quite a bit since I first discovered the news group.
	...
>        I sure hate to see a news group with such a worthy topic go
>down the tubes like it seems to be.

	AMEN!... My Kill File is getting ridiculous.  I think it is great
	that you DoD gals/guys have a group with which to have fun,
	however, I think that rec.motorcycles is suffering as a result
	of all the "cutesy" posts.

	These posts would be better placed in
		rec.motorcycles.yuk.yuk.yuk


	I wish I could say I haven't been disappointed so far...

	I only wonder how many riders have abandoned this newsgroup because
	of the 'fluff'.  |-(


-- 
_____________________________________________________________________________
  Michael McBride		   |__"I've done...questionable things."-Roy
  [agent86@netcom.com]		   |~~"More human than human..."-Tyrell
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From: meb4593@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Michael Bain)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Pocket size multimeter
Date: 1 Oct 92 17:13:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle


Radio Shack has those little pocket-sized multimeters on sale for about
$17 right now.  They are handy for trips.  Be sure to turn off those
suckers when you are done; they don't turn off by themselves and I've
gone through a lot of batteries already.

-- 
Michael "Chuck" Bain                       meb4593@icdfs.ca.boeing.com  
----------------------------------------------------------------------
		       "Visualize Whirled Peas"
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
Subject: Re: DoD weenies
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:19:36 GMT

In article <28SEP92132927@fnala.fnal.gov> krafft@fnala.fnal.gov writes:
}As of today, being a newly annointed DoD member, it just goes to show:
}
}Us hardware Studs will always be superior to you software geeks.

Well, according to most women I've talked to, the only thing sure about
hardware types is that they're always talking about their equipment,
their equipment never performs as well as they say it will, and they
are convinced they'll achieve the desired result if they just make
the equipment go faster.

Living proof that a DoD number does affect one's brain,
-- 
Curtis Jackson		cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com	(415) 962 4905
USPA #A-10080 (lapsed)				DoD #0721  '81 Maxim 650
  "They that can give up an essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
   safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1759)
From: pooder@msus1.msus.edu
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: full face DoD?
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:49:32 -0600
Organization: Minnesota State University System

In article <1992Sep29.145426.27614@javelin.sim.es.com>, blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers) writes:
> pooder@msus1.msus.edu writes:
> 
>>Besides, I almost never go over 40 on Harvey (commuting and grocery runs,
>>mostly) and Gretchen is for serious long distance faster riding when a full-
>>face helmet is more called for.
> 
> For what it's worth, I'd imagine that asphalt at 40 mph is probably
> somewhat harder than wet sand at 25-30 mph. Until my low speed
> faceplant, I used to use the low speed/close to home/slow bike argument
> to convince myself that my open face helmet was a good substitute for my
> full face. Now I've decided that if I'm going to bother wearing a
> helmet, it might as well be one that will give the most protection
> possible.
> -- 

I can't argue with your reasoning.  But I can continue rationalizing, right?

On Harvey I seldom go over 40.  That means I'm usually well under 40, 
especially at intersections (where accidents are more likely).  I most
likely will have braked before the crash.  Combine all these factors and 
I'm hitting the asphalt at about 10 miles per hour.  I don't need a motorcycle
helmet, I can wear a bicycle helmet.  In fact, I don't need a helmet at all!

Well, anyway, you're probably right and I'm probably going to continue
in my same habits in spite of it.  

Now, what about the DoD riding suit?  That's easy.  *AEROSTICH*  Well, 
that's my choice (except when I'm on Harvey).  Any dissenters?

Don Pooder Fearn - Rochester, MN - DoD #591 - LotN

"What Do *You* Care What Other People Think?" -- Richard Feynman 
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: howland@noc2.arc.nasa.gov (Curtis Howland)
Subject: Re: body leans & swerving (was The DoD ERC (was RSS))
Organization: NASA Science Internet Project Office
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 09:16:51 GMT

cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
|> ---
|> mojo@Caere.COM (Morris Jones) writes:
|>  [lots omitted]
|> |of trouble with swerving -- I'd never seen so many experienced riders
|> |doing body leans before.  :)  [...]
|> 
|> Can you talk about this some more?
... This strikes me as a crucial skill, so I'd like to
|> be sure I get it right...


The swerve is done as a countersteer with the minimum
of mass being leaned. So, the bike leans while your
body remains (comparitivly) vertical to the road.
You'll know it when you feel the bike move under you
as a seperate motion.

---
Curt Howland "Ace"    DoD#0663    '82 V45 Sabre
            howland@nsipo.nasa.gov
From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Nude riding is dangerous (was Re: Risk takers)
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:25:05 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH


shoun@netcom.com (Lissa Shoun) writes:

>The proofs are here. I have 6 gifs of bikers riding without their
>leathers and no easy way to distribute them. Bruce "Scanner" Tanner
>muttered something about losing his job, pornography, and jail time
>so they won't be on Cerritos.

Pornography!!!  What were they doing on those bikes, anyway?
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
                              DoD # 0698
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: Electric accessories, Re: Mounting radar detectors on bikes
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 05:52:11 GMT

chrispi@microsoft.com (Chris Pirih) writes:

>Can I just splice a couple of wires and a fuse onto, say, 
>the headlight lines where they come out of the fusebox?

It's probably simplest to go straight to the battery. Use a large "ring"
terminal, and bolt it to the battery. For ground you can use any handy
frame connection, or the negative terminal of the battery. Make SURE you
fuse the postive wire.

>Is there anything I should look out for (I know little or
>nothing about electrics)?

Smoke. Electrics and electronics work on smoke. If you let the smoke
out, they stop working.
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland  blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com  BIX:blaine_g
580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108           Favorite road signs:
Dumper of Dirtbikes #46             FJ1200   Winding Road Next 77 Miles
My other motorcycle is a Quadracer           Caution: Passing Areas Not Marked
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: behanna@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna)
Subject: Re: Cheers to the new moto TV show!
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Reply-To: behanna@syl.nj.nec.comj
Organization: NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 03:46:02 GMT

>>average show.
>
>one scene, Chris "I'm so full of myself I could burst" was shown welding
>on an old Harley frame.  (I think it was a Harley - how many other


        Warning:  Flame bait!  Flame bait!  Danger Will Robinson!

	Actually, I don't think an authentic H-D hardtail frame would
be entrusted to an actor with a torch.  The newest real hardtails are
over forty years old.  A Paughco repop frame, OTOH...
>hardtail frames would they likely trust to an actor with a torch?
>Anyone remember if his Harley is, in fact, a hardtail?)

	Chris rides a late model Electra Glide.  Swingarm frame and
rubber-mounted engine.

>jeq@i88.isc.com  '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094        Naperville, IL

	Hey, Jon, you think my 360 might be Gleep's little brother?
Gawd, I hope the last name isn't "Git."  Then I'd have to name him
"Stupid Little."

Later,
-- 
Chris BeHanna	DoD# 114  KotHLF    1983 H-D FXWG Wide Glide (She lives!)
behanna@syl.nj.nec.com	            1975 CB360T (needs a name)

Disclaimer:  Now why would NEC agree with any of this anyway?
From: root@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Double  minus 5
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:19:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: elektro.1992Sep29.221915.5480
Organization: Why do you suspect that?

In article <1992Sep28.185248.26735@eos.arc.nasa.gov> phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Phil Stone) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep25.232706.6835@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small) writes:
>>
>>Now is it just me or do a lot of people find that 
>>Double the Speed limit minus 5 mph is a nice rule of thumb 
>>for canyon riding?
>
>I've found that every road is marked differently.  You have to figure
>out what mood the road engineer/sign people were in when they marked
>the road.  If you go through a corner marked "20 mph" at 40, and feel
>like you were conned into blowing off a perfectly good 50 mph corner,
>then you'll know that the next sign is inflated accordingly.
   ( a lot more deleted ... )
>

It usually depends on the state you're in  (Kentucky/Ohio, not drugged!)
some states like Kentucky use the corner marking sign to indicate the
fastest anybody has ever gone around the corner and lived, OTOH, Ohio
signs corners to indicate how fast you should proceed if you are blind drunk
and driving on glare ice with bald tires ...

Charlie Smith    csmith@dsac.dla.mil  charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org  whois ces10
MOA# 52888, RA# 15633, DoD# 0709, AMA# 574722, Buckey Beemers# 411, BK Ohio V 
BMW K1100-LT, R69S, R27 and other even less worthwhile [ 2 | 3 ] wheel stuff. 
             {  Friends don't let friends ride Japanese bikes  }
From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: I won? (NOT!)
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:42:33 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Sebastian C Sears (scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: 	The bad news is I'm told (please tell me if I'm wrong) that because
: I hit him from behind it will be called my fault. This sucks as we called the
: cops and it's going to go to my insurance company who will raise my rates
: but won't pay for the damage I did to his car. All I did to my bike was
: crunch one crash bar and highway peg.

Yep, from your own description I would say it was your fault.  If you hit
someone from behind then you weren't leaving yourself enough following
distance.  I know this is hard to do in New York, but on a motorcycle you
*really* need to be parnoid about what the cagers are going to do and
leave room to stop.
   Now, about this insurance.  What kind of cheesy insurance have you got
that won't cover you for the liability for damages to the other guy's
car?  That is generally what the state laws requiring insurance insist
on.  They don't care if you and your bike aren't covered, but you gotta 
pay for the other guy.  Just curious.

--

*******************************************************************************
* Bill Ranck     DoD #496  ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu                            *
*******************************************************************************
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jet@win30.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
Subject: Re: bmw design, last of the boxers, etc (was Re: ST1100 still reigns supreme
	<JET.92Oct2115247@win30.nas.nasa.gov>
	<1992Oct3.001551.7472@elektro.cmhnet.org>
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA Ames
Date: 5 Oct 92 12:00:13

"Charlie" == Charlie Smith <root@elektro.cmhnet.org> writes:
Charlie> wacky weed.  Since when does one find 6 speed gearbox's in a
Charlie> BMW catalog ??  The world wonders.

Cal BMW has a big set of catalogs of stuff they can get and install.
Including a catalog from a german firm that makes said gearboxes.
--
             J. Eric Townsend --  jet@nas.nasa.gov -- 415.604.4311
                              '92 R100R, DoD# 0378
"I love the iPSC/860.
The iPSC/860 is my friend." (repeat until your code runs...)
From: bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob pasker)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: old cars (was Re: More gasahol)
Date: 26 Sep 92 18:11:39 PDT
Organization: Disorganized Organization

In article <1992Sep26.235140.13869@tcsi.com>, markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer) writes:
> I've always used 105 octane race gas in my Eisenfaust Vulture.  Count
> Gustaf Von Eisenfaust himself prefered to run benzene with the nitrous
> oxide injection turned up full.  

but didn't eisenfaust use a variation of the harley engine: kind of a 
cast iron knucklehead, but in a v-five shape, like a clenched fist?

>   Eeet goes like steenk mit a leetle beet uf zee Nitrous, Ya!
>                                    - Count Gustaf Von Eisenfaust

actually, bartlett's 15th attributes that to his cousin Von Bleifus.

-- 
-- bob pasker
-- bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us 
--
From: ravi@maxine.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan - Mick)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: DoD weenies
Date: 28 Sep 1992 15:36:39 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxine.wpi.edu

In a previous article, blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com said:
:- 
:- Well, if a monthly FAQ posting, three mentions in national
:- magazines, and plaque in the AMA Motorcycle Heritage Museum
:- -- 
:- Blaine Gardner@Evans & Sutherland  blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com  BIX:blaine_g


	i thought these things were to be kept secret! tell him about
	the DoD tattoo!

	peace,

	- ravi


-- 
'''---```---^^^^^^-----#-----~~~~~----'''------~~~~-----````~~~---------$$-----
sig (n): a piece of mail with a fool at one : Ravi Narayan - ravi@cs.wpi.edu
          end and flames at the other. (C).  :       Suzuki GS500E
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From: tjohnson@atcc5.prime.com (Tod J Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Harley riders are JAGOFFS!!
Date: 5 Oct 92 14:49:08 GMT
Reply-To: tjohnson@atcc5.UUCP (Tod J Johnson)
Organization: Prime Computervision, Bedford MA

In article <2OCT92085150@fnalc.fnal.gov> krafft@fnalc.fnal.gov writes:
>
>Why do harlee riders have this superior than thou additude? 
>They obviously aren't very intelligent.
>I know two friends who have had rice thrown at them
>Everyone in my crowd wants SPEED, not a harlee.
>(Their way too slow, cannot corner worth a fuck, and are too $$)
>
>Keith Krafft Krafft@fnal.fnal.gov | "I love booze, I need booze

Kevin;

	I want to make one point in response to your post, and one point
only: WE DO NOT PROMOTE OR CONDONE BRAND BASHING HERE AT REC.MOTORCYCLES!!
We regard any brand bashing as immature, needless, unfounded, irresponsible,
childish, a tremendous waste of bandwidth, and a tremendous waste of the
rec.moto readers quality time. We are here to talk intellectually about
experiences regarding RIDING and or TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF RIDING and/or
the COMERADERY SHARED BY ONE AND ALL FOR THE LOVE OF THE SPORT!!!!!

	So get out there on that JAP piece of shit you obviously are stupid
enough to own; keep your visor down to avoid rice-in-eye, crank the speed
and tach up, and keep on wavin til you run into a friggin brick wall!! And 
it's Harley, not Harlee you pansy ass JAP piece of shit rider. Get a clue
you inferior bastard.

Sincerely;

Tod J. Johnson
DoD #883
"Go Slow, Take Geritol, Keep This Bashing Shit Off The Net Asshole!!"
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: matth@progress.COM (Matthew J. Harper)
Subject: Re: Almost got killed - want tougher helmet law!
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:13:37 GMT

Roar.Larsen@termo.unit.no (Roar Larsen) writes:

>I almost got killed on the FJ last night!!
>Well, OK, I almost got killed _beside_ the FJ last night... :-)

>I was changing the front sprocket (together with the chain and
>rear sprocket of course! - wouldn't want to violate DoD SOP :-)
>and the nut keeping it in place was stuck. I mean really STUCK - it
>was a little bit rusted, and I couldn't budge it with my torque wrench
>(which has a really long arm). I applied some lubricating and loosening
>substance, and thereafter _really_ put my weight into it - whereupon
>the nut suddenly came loose, pitching me forward, to slam my head
>into the (_hard_) left handlebar. Damn near broke my skull!

>I am obviously not capable of properly taking care of myself, so I have
>immediately started lobbying for an extension of our current helmet
>law, namely that "Helmets must be worn by all persons venturing
>closer than 10 feet to a motorcycle". Please support my efforts.

>Roar Larsen           DoD# 463
>Trondheim, Norway    '85 FJ 1100

  *real* DoD'ers don't need this!

  they wouldn't use the "lubricating and loosening substance" either.

  they just bite the nut off (ouch!).

-Matth
--
          Matthew J. Harper ! Progress Software Corp. ! {disclaimer.i}         
   God created heaven and earth to grow barley and hops. Now he homebrews !-)
From: shadow@pro-haven.cts.com (Blaine Hufnagle)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Cold weather gear for the poor?
Date: 4 Oct 92 05:58:27 GMT
Organization: ProLine [pro-haven] - Pariahs' Haven BBS, 409/693-8262, 9600-300

Well, now that cold weather has reared its ugly head, the subject sez it all.
I'm trying to figure out what I can wear to keep warm, since buying good
stuff like Aerostitch or leathers is financially out of the question.  What
is good for those of us who are, for one reason or another, stuck with a
riding jacket and jeans?  Anyone tried anything like sweats or long-johns
under the jeans?

-blaine

-blaine   a.k.a. The Midnight Shadow    |  1979 Chevy Urban Assault Vehicle
Texas Aggie Bus Driver and proud of it! |  1982 Thomas Transit Liner bus
Another Bodybuilder from HELL!!         |  1982 Yamaha Vision   DoD #7192
        "Mine is not to wonder why, Mine is but to look and cry....."
From: lotto@laura.harvard.edu (Jerry Lotto)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Am I wobbling?
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:54:10 GMT
	<1992Oct2.145036.13982@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Chemistry Dept., Harvard University
In-reply-to: dgibb@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu's message of 2 Oct 92 14:50:36 GMT

>>>>> On 2 Oct 92 14:50:36 GMT, dgibb@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Don Gibb) said:
>>>>>> On 1 Oct 92 21:03:28 GMT, benjamin@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Benjamin Renaud) said:

Ben> the bars with one hand only, the front wheel starts shaking (very
Ben> slightly), and more and more as i release pressure of my hands on the
Ben> bar (as an experiment.)  Is this normal?

Don> I'm experiencing the same problem with the '83 GS1100L that I just
Don> purchased. Not knowing the complete history of this bike, I don't know
Don> if my problem is a result of some previous accident.  I have done a
Don> quick check of the steering head bearings and that doesn't seem to be
Don> the problem.  Of course, without checking the torque on them, I won't

You are probably looking too deeply into the problem.

Don> know "absolutely". The front tire is a Dunlop Qualifier ( aaak - yuk -
Don> puke ) with the typical uneven wear on the tread.

Uneven tire wear patterns can be caused by a wobble, but the reverse
is a lot more likely.  Uneven wear (scalloping) on a tire is usually
indicative of underinflation.  In fact, this is the most common cause
of tire failure!  Since you say you don't know the history of the
bike, I suspect that the previous owner(s) did not check tire
pressures regularly.  I assumed from his description that Ben had no
wobble, had an accident, then experienced the wobble afterwards.  He
probably has something out of alignment like a twist in the forks.

You bought a motorcycle with a bad tire and experienced the expected
symptom right from the start.  Change the tire(s), inflate them
properly, balance them and see if the wobble goes away.
--
Jerry Lotto <lotto@lhasa.harvard.edu>         MSFCI, HOGSSC, BCSO, AMA, DoD #18
Chemistry Dept., Harvard Univ.  "It's my Harley, and I'll ride if I want to..."
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