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From: bigdog!jon (Jon Wright)
Subject: Re: Jean-Claude Van Dame rides a Triumph
Organization: Pages Software Inc.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 04:08:22 GMT

Mike Weaver writes
> 
> I had a chance to see the new Jean-Claude VanDame (or however it is
> spelled) movie last night. It contained some gratuitous motorcycle
> action.

  gratuitous JCVD plottage, dead-on I might add  

Didya notice the rear tires were changed around in different scenes, from  
street to nobbies and back again several times?  Also, it didn't sound quite  
right.
From: mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Know of any motorcycles movies?
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:35:49 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

ceri@brite.demon.co.uk (Ceri Mitchell) writes:

>In article <104506@netnews.upenn.edu> ggrevera@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (George Grevera) writes:

>PPS. When are they going to show Easy Rider on UK TV because I've never seen
>it.

>--
Er, seem to recall it was on last year...looks like you missed it!!
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: kevinh@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch (kevinh)
Subject: Hawk/Bros/Revere/NTV650???
Originator: kevinh@nath
Reply-To: kevinh@hasler.ascom.ch
Organization: Ascom Hasler AG
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:27:05 GMT


In a recent Performance Bike magazine (I think!) they tested a japanese
import called a Honda Bros. It seems that this is sold in the US as
the Hawk GT. A similar bike is sold in Europe as the Revere, now called
an NTV 650 Revere - the main difference being shaft drive.

PB *really* liked the Bros (Hawk GT?) whilst they always seem to slag off
the Revere. Anybody know why? - are there big differences between the
two bikes, what are they? Is the Revere really boring and is the Hawk
really fun for a low powered bike?? :-).

kevinh@hasler.ascom.ch
From: Michael.Nelson@f20.n125.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Bike to bike communication
X-Sender: newtout 0.07 Jan 18 1993
Date: 26 Jan 93  21:54:22

Monday January 25 1993 09:51, Jon Wright wrote to All:

JW-> I know that Calif. Superbike School uses nifty bike communicators that
JW-> do what  the original poster wanted.  Anybody attending care to
JW-> comment?

    I took their two day class at Laguna Seca last November, and they use
flags and hand signals only.

                            - Michael -


 *--------------------------------------------------------------*
 |                          |                                   |
 | Michael Nelson           | "A billion here, a billion there, |
 | DoD #735                 |  sooner or later it adds up to    |
 | 1993 Honda CBR900RR      |  some real money!"                |
 |                          |                                   |
 | nelson@seahunt.imat.com  |           EVERETT DIRKSEN         |
 |                          |                                   |
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From: robinson@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Nationalized Lawyers  was Re: pitch for nat'l health, was: etc
Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:31:37 GMT
Organization: Institute of Cognitive Studies, U.C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: cogsci.berkeley.edu

In article <1993Jan25.135630.4790@bnr.uk> npet@bnr.ca (Nick Pettefar) writes:
>LISTEN!  YOU SHIT-FOR-BRAINS LITTLE DWEEB!  NEXT TIME YOU GET TURNED AWAY FROM
>A HOSPITAL FOR NOT HAVING PAID YOUR INSURANCE AND ARE LEFT TO DIE IN THE GUTTER
>BECAUSE NOBODY GIVES A TOSS ABOUT EACH OTHER IN YOUR PATHETIC EXCUSE OF AN
>EXPERIMENTAL COUNTRY,

Actually, it doesn't work that way.

For example, when I wrecked, I was sort of hoping the incompetent gaggle
of emergency services personnel who had gathered at my side *would* just 
leave me in the gutter to my own devices.

They made me lie on the one injury I had sustained (a third degree tailpipe
burn on my butt) for the better part of an hour, while they debated the 
severity of my spinal injuries.

They sat around debating about whether to call Life-Flight (a helicopter
ambulance service).  I was strongly against the idea, but they weren't 
paying any attention to me.  Fortunately, this was in the mountainous
terrain near Alice's Restaurant, and the helicopter couldn't find anyplace
to land, so I was spared a $24,000 ambulance trip.

Etc., etc., etc., and all before anyone asked if I had insurance. 

See, in the United States, we're not so crass as to allow people to 
die in the gutter.  In fact, that's how most uninsured people get their
medical care; they start out with a minor ailment which progresses to 
the point that they are about to die in the gutter, at which point they
receive emergency room treatment at ten times what it would have cost
had treatment been administered in a timely fashion.  The hospitals 
then absorb this cost as overhead, and pass it along to the insurance
companies in the form of higher costs for covered procedures.


>PONDER A WHILE ABOUT THE MARVELS OF A NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE!

Ok.

There.  Happy?

>Our postal service is the envy of most countries.  91% (?) of first class
>letters are delivered by the following day, even from Cornwall to the 
>Highlands of Scotland.

Big fat hairy deal.

Q: What's the difference between the United States and Great Britain?

A: In the United States, a hundred years is a long time, and in Great 
   Britain a hundred miles is a long distance.


-- 
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,rec.motorcycles.dirt
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: homebrew truck ramps?
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:10:28 GMT

erikn@vcd.hp.com (Erik Ness) writes:
>Dances With Bikers (blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com) wrote:
 
>:  Now I can just putt up into the bed of the truck. I wouldn't
>: care to try the stunt on a 2-wheeler, but it works perfectly with the
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^
>Back when America's Stupidest Home Videos was popular there was a clip where
>someone tried this.  Rode right up that ramp into the short Ranger pickup bed
>and looked pretty terrified when he realized that he'd run out of space and
>was still going too fast.  Smashed into the front of the bed and the rear
>window of the truck just shattered everywhere.

Where'd the rider go? :-)

One reason I haven't been inclined to try it, is a guy I used to work
with did it. He had a jacked up shortbed Chevy, and had only had the
YZ490 a couple of weeks. He made it into the bed ok, but wasn't ready
for the sudden stop at the end, and went over the bars onto the roof.
And the hood. And the ground in front of the truck.
-- 
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,rec.scuba
From: tjfeue@bb1t.monsanto.com
Subject: Re: Ninny alert over in rec.scuba!!
Organization: Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:53:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan16.060725.1204@elektro.cmhnet.org>, charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith) writes:
> In article <JET.93Jan15162621@boxer.nas.nasa.gov> jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>>
>>>Welcome to rec.scuba.  The newsgroup is for discussion of scuba,
>>>diving, snorkeling, dive travel, and other underwater activities.
>>>Frequent topics are safety, equipment, and certification.  We welcome
>>>postings from new folks and old hands.
> 
> I've noticed that the water gets pretty deep here in wreck.moto, too ...
> 
>>>Rec.scuba has had a fairly flame-free history.  Not that we don't
>>>speak out against practices that we disagree with, but we do try to
>>>avoid flaming people.  Flaming for flaming sake is to be discouraged.
> 
> 	Yuh, huh.  Probably just because they can't get the flames
> 	lit under water!   Any old excuse will do, in that case!
>  
>>An end must be put to this immediately!  Discouraging flaming for
>>flaming's sake?  Egads, what do these people think they are, civilized
>>or something?
>>
>>Let's go toast some ninnies.  Show 'em what USENET's *really* about.

ninnies???  NINIES?????  Dumb F**king Bikers...  We don't use flames 
on rec. scuba because we simply don't need 'em.  There are so many
better ways to deal with adversity.  We first use our spear guns to 
slow the other poster down and then take out our dive knife and hack 
them to shreads.  Then we simply leave the poor bastard bleeding, but 
still alive for the sharks to finish off.  The less honerable people on 
rec.scuba just sneak up on the other poster from behind and pop
'em with a bang stick or cut their air hose at depth.

It get's the job done, no?      

Remember:  Leathers will *NOT EVEN SLOW DOWN* a 36 inch spear!  So 
get back to your *OWN* newsgroup before you piss us off!   B-)

Ninnies indeed!  Sheesh.

Ted Feuerbach - Scientific Systems Consultant
Disclaimer:     Monsanto didn't say this, I did!
Stupid Quote:   I could care less who politicians
                screw on their own time...  As long 
                as they're not screwing us.
                                            - Me
From: egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Hemming Leather PantS
Date: 22 Jan 1993 14:15:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
Distribution: world
Reply-To: egreen@East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: laser.east.sun.com

In article 28190@sybase.sybase.com, leighann@sybase.com (Leigh Ann Hussey) writes:
>
>Damnear any sewing
>machine will sew garment leather (which is what I presume the pants are
>made of) -- but do make sure you have a heavy-duty needle.  

If you don't have a sewing machine (or don't trust Leigh Ann), find a
shoe repair shop.  I've found the little hole in the wall shops,
downtown, with the 80 year old man, do the best work.  They've got all
the stuff for sewing leather, putting in grommets, zippers, etc.
Reasonable prices, and they usually do really good work, it being such
a nice change of pace for them and a break from fixing buckles on
smelly old shoes.

---
Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,
  Ed.Green@East.Sun.COM   |and I showed him a picture of you.  I said,
DoD #0111  (919)460-8302  |"Go on, get to know her, you'll like her!"
 (The Grateful Dead) -->  |It seemed like the least I could do...
From: davewi@soccer.wv.tek.com (David H. Wise)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: 1983 Yamaha Virago 500 question
Date: 22 Jan 93 21:35:12 GMT
Reply-To: davewi@soccer.wv.tek.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.

In article <C19tFy.y8@iat.holonet.net> remmons@iat.holonet.net (Robert Emmons) writes:
>neglect for 7 years, was to install a new battery and a new
>starter relay. I've heard the starter relay is one of the few
>common problems with the bike.

Yes, that reminds me.  Apart from spooged-up carbs (surprisingly, only one
of the two was dirty), the relay is the only fix my wife's bike has
needed.  It had an undetected manufacturing defect, a sliver of plastic
which eventually wound up between the contacts inside.  I was able
to pry its case open and find and remove the offender.
--
David Wise	davewi@orca.wv.tek.com
DoD#427		1980 CX500C (Packy), 1976 Guzzi 850-T3 (Mother Goose)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: npet@bnr.ca (Neil Harrington)
Subject: Re: Call for DoD PINS!
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:48:25 GMT

mpmena@skcla.monsanto.com wrote:
: I'm trying to determine the level of interest among DoD'ers in
: purchasing a DoD pin.  Arnie Skurow has graciously consented to put in
: an order for another batch of pins, if sufficient interest exists.

: If you would like to purchase a pin, DO NOT E-MAIL ARNIE.  SEND AN E-MAIL
: TO:
:     	Michael Menard   MPMENA@MONSANTO.COM

: I'll tabulate the interest in pins, determine costs, etc. and post the
: pricing.  If you are interested, please e-mail me by the end of next Wednesday,
: January 27th.

: Thanks!

: Michael Menard   DoD 0786  doh 0000000003   HOG 0532231
: 1992 FXDC    1992 FSXTS

No Email so I'll just say that I am interested (and interesting!)

Nick (Pin me, Pin me!)   DoD 1069  No pin!


M'Lud.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray)
Subject: Re: Highways/Backroads with no speed limit
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:31:04 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.151656.22783@nevada.edu> nhodge@nevada.edu (nhodge@nevada.edu (Neil Hodge)) writes:
>In article <OH8043B@netmbx.netmbx.de> fischer@netmbx.netmbx.de (Axel Fischer) writes:
>>Hi,
>>
>>are there any highways/backroads/whatever somewhere in the USA that don't
>>have a speed limit? Thus I can go as fast as I can.
>>
>>Somewhere in Utah, Nevada, or whereever?
>>
>
>I'm writing from Las Vegas, and I can tell you, there are NO roads which
>legally have no speed limit.  However, there are roads that are so far
>away from anything that even police don't travel them unless they really
>have to.

But they are in "open range" country...

I was on a trip through Nevada in a 4wd truck, on highway 50 (the "Lonliest
Road") in the middle of the night.  I hadn't seen another car
for an hour or so, and was tapped out at 85 mph.  I'd been driving for
a long time and was tired, so the occaisional bit of cow shit on the
road didn't register with my brain.  Neither did the "open range next 20 miles"
signs every 5 miles.  I came over a slight rise, and there were cows
all over the road, all laid down and _asleep_!!  Fortunately for me
they'd left a gap and I managed to slalom between them.... otherwise
I wouldn't be posting this.


I wouldn't want to do any top-speed testing out there without
first running the road to see what's sleeping on it.




--
  Eric Murray                                             ericm@microunity.com
      "Archiving the net is like washing toilet paper!"- Leader Kibo
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: spgo@is.morgan.com (Stefan Goellner)
Subject: Re: really, really waterproof gloves?
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:46:30 GMT

Just picked up industrial strength kitchen rubber gloves from a restaurant
supply store. They're large enough to fit over the winter gloves and have
foot long (no exxageration) gauntlets. Plus they're a very stylish puke green.
Cost me 3 bucks. Let you all know how they work after the next rain storm.

--
Stef            aka  spgo@is.morgan.com   DoD#0190 
'82 KZ550 (Commuter) '84 750 Interceptor (Toy) '86 Alfa GTV6 (Money drain)
                Warning: I brake for radar traps. 
        Disclaimer? I don't need no steenkin' disclaimer!
From: iqj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Removing rear wheel, BMW R100
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:50:37 EST
Distribution: rec
Organization: Cornell University

Assuming that the rear wheel removal drill is similar on your 
R 100 to that of my R 80, here's the scoop.  First remove the
front wheel...easy, slack off the axle pinch bolts and then the
axle nut and pull the axle.  Now if you tilt the bike gently onto
the fork ends the rear wheel will drop out very easily.  The
problem is that when you rock the bike forward onto the fork ends,
the center stand will collapse and the bike falls over in a heap.
The solution is to make up a little special tool that will fit
between the lower crossmember on the center stand and the frame
cross member just in front of the swing arm pivot to prevent the
collapse.  I used a couple of fish mouthed fittings for scaffolding 
tapped to take a 3/8" threaded rod, a couple of nuts to match, a 
couple of big flat washers and a length of 1/2" dia. copper tube.
The fish mouth fittings go onto an end of two 4" lengths of threaded
rod as do each of the nuts followed by washers.  These two assemsblies
then go into each end of the tubing.  The fish mouth fittings fit nicely
on the center stand cross member and the frame cross member.  The
big flat washer prevent the rods from being pushed back into the tube.
Use the nuts to adjust the length.  When done, pull the rods out of the
tube and stow neatly in the tool tray under the seat with the inner 
tube patching kit.  You *do* have one, right?  Should this description
be insufficient, I will gladly send anyone who requests it a drawing.
Cheers! Chris Finlayson
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: dab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Flash)
Subject: Re: Blue Ridge Parkway
Originator: dab@space3
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:25:03 GMT

In article <1jni4kINNiad@CS.UTK.EDU> dlady@galoob.cs.utk.edu (Don Lady) writes:
>It also has a speed limit of 35 MPH most of the way. But, sometimes
>you can even get up faster. But then you miss all the scenery. :(

The Best Part is from Asheville to Great Smokey Mountains National Park with 
the tits being right around Pisgah.  Eat a meal at the Inn at Pisgah, 
preferably either a fresh trout or breakfast.  It is not very expensive and 
has Hell of a View.

BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY WARNING:  They aren't real fond of speeding motorcyclists 
up there.  If you can see a fire tower and you are speeding, you WILL get a 
ticket.  This is particularly true from Pisgah on down to the south end 
(Smokeys).  If you feel the urge to ride like a maniac, get off the Parkway.  
The roads leading down on either side are better rides than the Parkway 
anyway; and they are virtually unpatrolled.
==============================================================================
"Far away is far away only if you don't go there." - O Povo, Fortaleza, Brazil
    		Flash	  -   dab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu   -   DoD # 412
From: npet@bnr.ca (Nick Pettefar)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Rising Insurance Charges versus decreasing Accident Rate (U.K)
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:14:32 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Cookson wrote:
: Mike Sixsmith writes:
 ~~~~~~
: >
: >In fact, the official annual rate for a bike is something absurd,
: >like about 2500 mikes a year.
                  ~~~~~~~
: >
: 2500/yr?!!?  Hell, I did almost that much on the RCR last year!

That's a hell of a lot of mikes!  Very absurd!  I doubt if I did more than
about two mikes, last year.


Nick (the Miker)   DoD 1069   Concise Oxford   "two miker"


M'Lud.


Sidecar>  There's a KLR650 in the car park with a stereo and speakers on it!
          Gadzooks!
From: ant@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Antony Espindola)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Police blame BMW
Date: 25 Jan 93 10:57:44 GMT
Organization: Data and Business Comms, BT Labs, Martlesham, Ipswich, UK.


I was readin in the national press over the weekend about how the
Police are blaming BMW for the numerous accidents happening due to
the 'wobble and weave' effect.

In the UK, BMW supply 90% of bikes and the 'wobble and weave' effect
was first noticed at high speeds on the older R80s.
The various Police forces have since replaced the R80s with the newer
K100s, hopefully to solve the problem but alas it still continued.
The paper quoted a figure of #25,000 (pounds sterling) paid out to
officers injured in these high speed incidents.

The Police forces are now blaming BMW (I can't remember the exact
reason) but BMW are defending themselves by repling that the effect
is not caused by the bike itself. They claim it is a mixture of
poor maintainence of police bikes, bad load spreading, increased wait
of police equipment and also rider inexperiance.

So what is the opinion of the netters ?

BMW to fault or Police Riders ?




Antony.
DoD#1832. 
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith)
Subject: Re: single vs. dual disk
Organization: Why do you suspect that?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 00:07:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.214705.10423@twg.com> rwalls@twg.com (Roger Walls) writes:
>In article <C15uqr.1tK@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> prange@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Henry Prange) writes:
>>Does anyone know if the GS can be converted to dual disks?
>>
>>Henry

Sure it can.  All you have to do is come up with the parts.  EG: All you
have to do is have the $$$$.  Try wrecking yards, etc.  Plan on changing
the hand brake master cylinder also.

>
>The Gold Wings have dual disks up front, but only one is activated by
>the lever (the other is activated by the pedal along with the rear disk).
>Has anyone heard of a conversion to put both front disks activated by the 
>brake lever.
>				Jolly Roger

Should also be do-able.  Watch out for things like the hand brake master
cylinder not having enough volume to actuate both front brakes.  I friend
of mine who has an artificial right arm rides a good bit.  His latest bike 
is a BMW K-100 LT; he has both front and rear brakes actuating off the
foot pedal.  He had to machine up a new master cylinder body with a larger
diameter piston to get it to work really right.  The problem you speak of
will be similar.  When he first hooked it up, the bike stopped well, but 
under hard braking the master cylinder bottomed out ...  by making one 
with a larger piston, it is back to a foot pressure level about like the
original pedal, but applies both front (dual disks) and the rear brake.
Combined with the ABS on this bike, it works real well.

As a note, if any of you rec.moto readers know someone who needs this, my 
friend built a left side hand control that combines the throttle, clutch,
choke, throttle lock lever, and all the electrical controls that used to
be on both sides.  He designed it with Autocad, and being a machinist by
trade, then proceeded to chop it out of a block of aluminum.  It looks like
it came from the factory.  He could probably make another one from this
design if somebody was in need.


Charlie Smith   charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org  csmith@dsac.dla.mil  whois ces10
  DoD #0709   doh #0000000004  &  AMA, MOA, RA, Buckey Beemers, BK Ohio V
                BMW K1100-LT, R80-GS/PD, R27, Triumph TR6
                          Columbus, Ohio USA

Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: bleve@hoggle2.uucp (Bennett Lee Leve)
Subject: Re: Its off to the basement we go
	<1993Jan26.142435.7724@linus.mitre.org>
Organization: Starved Photo-Linux Hackers Association
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:05:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.142435.7724@linus.mitre.org> cookson@mbunix.mitre.org (Cookson) writes:

>>   I moved my CB750 back from school this Dec. with a u-haul. (no ramp).
>>   Took 3 people to put it in and out.  Two lifting, one steadying.  It
>>   really wasn't that bad.

My Sabre has the Hondaline fairing on it and the truck did not have
a low deck like the ones on the U-Hauls.  It was not that it was too
heavy for 6 people.  Just very awkward.

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