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From: ravi@maxine.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: vanity plates
Date: 15 Sep 1992 02:19:55 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
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Originator: ravi@maxine.wpi.edu

In a previous article, I said:
:- 
:- 	thats funny... when i got my title in april they told me no
:- 

	please stop sending me congratulatory notes! i was *not*
	knighted by the DMV... i meant the title for my bike ;) ;)

	- ravi

Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears)
Subject: Re: vanity plates
Reply-To: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:27:14 GMT


	My favorite (but only works on a cage 'cause you need the front plate
	for the effect):

	3M TA3

	Now imagine that in your rear-view mirror...

-------
Bored of my old .sig and lacking enough bikes to make an impressive list...
Sea-Bass Sears --> scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu --> DoD#0516      |Stanley, ID.|
'79 Yamaha XS750F -- '85 Toyota 4Runner -- '92 Perception Corisca|    NYC, NY.|
From: ivan@erich.triumf.ca (Ivan D. Reid)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Thoughts on VMAX
Date: 6 Sep 92 07:36:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Sep4.185220.12758@morrow.stanford.edu>, AR.JTC@forsythe.stanford.edu (Jay Cena) writes...
>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...
>>                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
	Hmm, 4 US gallons=64 fl.oz. = 3.2 Imp. gallons.  Not that far from
2.5, especially if he was only talking about main tank. ;-)
> 
Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH.     			ivan@cvax.psi.ch
GSX600F, RG250WD.	SI=2.66     "You Porsche. Me pass!"	DoD #484
"noematical -- a. Obs. rare;  Originating, or existing, in thought, or in the
 mind alone."	-- Compact Oxford Dictionary
From: egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Leather pants
Date: 11 Sep 1992 19:06:07 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
Distribution: world
Reply-To: egreen@east.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: laser.east.sun.com

In article 28121@eos.arc.nasa.gov, phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Phil Stone) writes:
>
>I don't understand this oft-stated advantage of chaps.  I bought my leather
>pants sized to fit over a pair of Levi's 501's. 

>How does having an exposed butt and crotch make it any easier to change in
>and out of chaps?  

Chaps don't go on/off the way pants do.  It's more like they fold
around you, and you hook them up.  Not everybody wears 501's to work,
and with chaps you don't have to slide your leg into anything, the
chaps go around your slacks, so there is less hassle and less wrinkle.

>Personally, I'd rather not get roadburn on my buttocks or
>genitals, but hey, that's just me.

Chaps obviously don't offer the protection of full leather, the same
way they offer more protection than denum, and leather offers less
protection than taking a cage.  It has been my experience that the
knees are the primary target of m/c spills.  I've seen a couple of butt
slides, that could fairly easily be turned to hip slides.  I'd like to
see somebody try a genital slide... ain't gonna happen.

Chaps are a point in the protective gear spectrum that many find offer
reasonable protection from road rash, wind, dust, and light rain, and
at the same time offer an order of magnatude more ease and comfort than
leather pants.

---
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: stafford@msus1.msus.edu
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Waving with meaning..?
Date: 7 Sep 92 11:24:42 -0600
Organization: Minnesota State University System

 Roar.Larsen@termo.unit.no (Roar Larsen) said: 
[...
> According to this system, a wave with the hand _above_ the handlebars
> means just a friendly acknowledgement of fellow bikers, while a wave
> with the hand _below_ the handlebars means: "Danger - drive legally"

I'm not aware of any meaningful intent in this area (Minnesota)
but there are styles of waving.  Typically Harley riders wave with the hand
below the bars, midly extended.  A cool gesture.  Touring bikers (big
oriental bikes) wave higher.  Seriously.

While I've little hope that all bikers could get it together to have a
good semaphore, maybe someone could come up with a way DoD people could
ID. 

(Oops - forgot to be foolish.  Well, it's a good thing the Italians
aren't assigned to define the wave language.)

 john
From: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi <tcora>)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: keeper of the motorcycles (was: Re: Not so Swift.)
Date: 10 Sep 92 12:47:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

cdw2t@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Clifford David Weston) writes:
>In article <1992Sep6.121357.26317@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small) writes:
[...]
>>Mail Cliff
>
>in my best laszchsvxlo voice:  I AM NOT THE KEEPER OF THE MOTORCYCLES!!

He is correct. *I* am the Keeper of The Motorcycles (KoTM). So, send me
your motorcycles. I'll keep 'em (And, no. You can't have them back:-}).
-- 
 
                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil
From: dboyd@informix.com (Diana Boyd)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: vanity plates
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:00:29 GMT
Reply-To: dboyd@informix.com
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.



The plate on my sportster says:

EVO WMN

Sometimes it's kind of embarrasing, like when I have to explain the humor to  
someone who doesn't know about the evo motor, but most of the time I really  
like it, it's such a good play on words.

Before Paul Blumstein (of course) referred to me as "that evo woman", I thought  
I might get:

LOWNSLO

Paul was also the one who suggested I try and get those plates, I never thought  
they would be available, surely someone had thought of that. I thought I might  
have to get: EVOWMN or EVOWOMN or something. Well, someone had EVO MAN but not  
EVO WMN, it was so cool!

No, I don't have KLR WMN on the KL, that would be going a little too far.  
Vanity plates on a DP bike?

Someone I know, Karen (HI Karen, are you out there, Karen) wants to get  
NOTAMAN. I really like that.

Diana

DIANA BOYD	"Walking with the spirit, talking with the spine
EVO Woman	 Mama sing, open up yourself when worlds align."
KLR Woman                                            -C. Whitley
From: egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: glasses and helmets
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:25:28 GMT
Reply-To: egreen@east.sun.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
NNTP-Posting-Host: laser.east.sun.com

In article 18851@megatek.com, randy@ninja.megatek.uucp (Randy Davis) writes:
>In article <192ap6INN64e@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> egreen@east.sun.com 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.
>
>  How so?
>
>  An impact severe enough to break your glasses INSIDE your helmet won't
>leave much of your head to worry about, it seems to me

Not true.  Even a realtively light bop on the side of the helmet will
attempt to twist it around on your head, pushing the nose bridge into
your nose, or maybe your eye if the frames warp the right (er, wrong)
way.

A *serious* bop on the helmet will cause your head to decelerate into
the foam, and your nose into the bridge of the glasses, and your
temples into the temples.

>  But, BREAKING the lenses?  Does anyone have any evidence that this is a
>major risk factor?

This wasn't my concern.  I was primarily considering my own experience
wearing sunglasses inside a helmet.  Any movement of the helmet (like
the wind when turning my head sideways at high speed) pushed my glasses
into my nose, and close to my eyes.  I decided it was not safe to wear
them, and got a dark faceshield.

In the part you quoted, I said glasses pieces, not glass.  It takes
very little force to reduce my wirerimmed sunglasses to lots of
squiggly little pieces of wire.  "Blades" type sunglasses are aptly
named.  They are large enough to lodge in place within the helmet, and
will go right through your face flesh as your head sinks into the foam
liner of the helmet.

>|Contacts and tinted faceshield work for me.
>
>  Not for me, at least not as well as glasses work for me.  

Seems to be the case for a lot of folks.  If you can't wear contacts,
you can't wear contacts.  I was speaking primarily of sunglasses.

In any event, it is something to consider.  Inside a helmet, the
glasses cannot fly off your face, and they *are* close to your eyes.

Some people have no choice.  Most do.

>For that matter, tinted faceshields don't block
>UV or infrared, so you are possibly doing more damage to your eyes with a
>tinted faceshield than with good UV- and IR-blocking sunglasses.

I doubt it.  The plastic blocks most UV.


---
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...
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: darell@island.COM (Darell Dickey)
Subject: Re: key fobs
Organization: Island Graphics Corp.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:24:50 GMT

I wanna fob too!  Then I can get rid of that stupid motorcycle-
shaped thing that came with the bike.  It legal, isn't it, too
ride with an aftermarket fob?  I'm pretty sure that the fob is
the only DOT appoved piece of equipment left on my bike..
-- 
*        Darell Dickey                DoD #0655
*      (darell@island.com)              DR350S
*
* "I meant what I said, I probably just didn't say it right."
From: john@kennel.FIDONET.ORG (John Hamilton)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Least Favorite Road Sign
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:51:46 GMT
Organization: Fido's Kennel, Cupertino CA

Friday September 11 1992 09:27, Victor Johnson wrote to All:

 VJ>   Least favorite road sign:
 VJ>      Motorcycles prohibited.

Reminds me of a day about 19 years ago, when I needed to get from NY to
Wildwood NJ (ahhh... a few days holiday at the beach with friends). I got
onto the New Jersey Turnpike, actually made it through three toll plazas
paying toll, and finally got pulled over by a NJ Highway Patrol and was
asked, "Didn't you see the signs, MOTORCYCLES PROHIBITED?" I told him I
was hoping they were a joke. Anyway, I was not ticketed, just asked to
take the next offramp. I rode frontage until I could find the road I needed
to get headed back for the Jersey shore.

New Jersey people..... is the Turnpike ok for mc traffic now? I thought they
changed it not long after I was chased off, but I've never been back to try.

John

--- GoldED 2.40.P0720+
--  
John Hamilton                  uucp: uts.amdahl.com!kennel!john
DoD #0327   ToT #11            internet: john@f8.n143.z1.fidonet.org
ZX-11 From Hell.               arpa: john@kennel.FIDONET.ORG
She said, "Its either me or that ZX-11!" Too bad, I'll miss her.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 19:21:49 EDT
From: <JDR118@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject:    RE: MOTORCYCLE PARKING

  It can be dangerous for cars and motorcycles to share the same parking spaces
 because sometimes morons in cages aren't looking for bikes and try to pull in,
 not knowing that only one atom can occupy one space at any given time.
 However, separate spaces for motorcycles may not be the answer.  At Penn State
 Erie, the Behrend College, motorcycles must park in motorcycle spaces.
 PROBLEM: There are only lots with motorcycle spaces- one on each end of campus
- so bikers have to walk much further than cagers!!!!

      "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it." John Doe

                           James D. Ruhlman.....1972 Triumph Bonneville 650
                                                1976 Honda CB550 (now 600)

                              DOD#?????(still haven't figured out who KotL is!)
From: jon%vector0.UUCP@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Dazed N. Confused)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: DONT READ THIS!  *CENSORED*  -Does not meet DoD humor standard
Date: 11 Sep 92 01:31:56 GMT
Organization: Vector Zero

Richard A. Swift <Richard.A.Swift.1@nd.edu> writes:

> ______________________________________________________
> Rich Swift    DoD # 3030   "Provocateur Extraordinaire!" - Datasbuild
> ZX-10  - Faster than the speed of thought -

          ^^^  no wonder a bunch of idiots ride them...


(flamewear on)

--Jon

   jon%vector0@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US           Two 3b's fell off a cliff.
   PacBell.COM!sactoh0!vector0!jon                         Boom Boom.
From: danac@morc.asd.sgi.com (Dana Crom)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Fabulous Harley Babe Bashing etc.
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:02:41 GMT
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA

In article <18lni0INN49i@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> egreen@east.sun.com writes:
>In article 24786@oasys.dt.navy.mil, cervi@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Cervi) writes:
>> Life
>>>is too short to drink bad beer, and Bud tastes like they ought to pour it
>>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Read the writing on the screen, Ed.
>
>Hey, I AGREE!!!  I didn't hear any complaints about my selection of
>beer for the Right Coast Ride!
>
>In article 13297@eos.arc.nasa.gov, phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Phil Stone) writes:
>>You have driven your pickup truck of logic off a blind curve.
>
>Yeah, RIGHT!
>
>I'll put MONEY on the fact that after a good hard ride, I could sit any
>one of you people down with a choice between a cold Bud or NOTHING, and
>you'd drink the damned beer!  
>
>And you question MY logic!  Harumph!

Ed, Mark was quoting ME - and I already said that if Bud was the *only* cold
drink around, I would drink it.  It is just that usually, thank god, there
is a better choice available.
-- 
-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------------
Dana Crom    DoD #0679 | Silicon Graphics, Inc. |  Smile - let them *WONDER* 
danac@morc.asd.sgi.com | (415) 390-1449         |  what you've been up to . . .
From: smm@uunet.uu.net (Steve Mansfield)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Brake problems
Date: 14 Sep 1992 20:21:40 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

O.k.  I drive an 83 Suzuki GS550E.  I was changing the brake pads and brake
fluid this past weekend.  I got all the pads replaced, and got the brake
fluid for the rear brake taken care of, verified that my rear brake did
indeed still work, and proceeded to do the same for the front.

Well, after dealing with a screw that decided it really didn't want to come
out, but did anyway, I went to bleed/drain the old fluid out so I could
begin adding more fluid (adding as I drained so I didn't get any air in the
system), and now that it's topped off, I don't get any resistance from the
lever any more.  I know it's not a clogged hose cause I'm hearing it expel
and draw in air from the system, but I can't get it to pump fluid back into
the brakes.  Am I just being completely clueless here, or is this just a
simple, honest mistake that any wee^H^H^H^H^H^Hnice guy like me could make?


Steve Mansfield	    | The system we've learned says we're equal under law
smm@uunet.uu.net    | But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall
1983 Suzuki GS550E  | Let's tip the power balance and tear down the crown
DoD# 1718	    | Educate the masses, we'll burn the White House down.
Queensryche	    -       Speak the Word.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: laszlo@eclipse.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth)
Subject: Re: Fabulous Harley Babe Bashing etc.
Organization: University of Colorado Boulder, Pizza Disposal Group
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:33:34 GMT

In article <BuBxyC.10n@cup.hp.com>, hesh@cup.hp.com (Chris Steinbroner) writes:
|> Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher (egreen@east.sun.com) wrote:
|> : I'll put MONEY on the fact that after a good hard ride, I could sit any
|> : one of you people down with a choice between a cold Bud or NOTHING, and
|> : you'd drink the damned beer!  
|> 
|> i am "any one of you people." i will NOT drink Bud after a
|> good hard ride.  PAY UP, ed.  since you didn't name your
|> price, why don't you just GO HOME instead.


nashville opry land hotel for usenix 600+ miles of super slab
at high speed (yes dod nominal was achived) wearing full racing
leathers, helmet, combat boots, and guantlets in 90+ degrees. 
pull in to the hotel (hey talk about good parking the let me 
park with the limos). find out that my roomies haven't shown up
(room wasn't under my name) so i go to the bar to order a beer.
order a dark beer get a heineken (normal). at that piont i wouldn't
have cared if it was bud IT WAS GREAT!!


anything cold and beer like is GREAT after a day like that
(of course anything with alcohol is needed to deal with nashville
and that hotel).


Laszlo Nemeth
pond_scum_sucker@cs.colorado.edu
"hey - my tool works (yeah, you can quote me on that)." From elef@Sun.COM
"Flashbacks = free drugs."
"My you have a long dipstick" Jill Lundquist
"Do you believe some pin-head actually requested 90210?!?" Ed Green
DoD #0666          UID #1999
From: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi <tcora>)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: carb synchronizer recommendations?
Date: 10 Sep 92 12:51:47 GMT
Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

davide@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) writes:
>In <viking.714884551@vincent1.iastate.edu> viking@iastate.edu
>(Dan Sorenson) writes:
>>In <1992Aug26.204442.4987@objy.com> bruce@objy6.objy.com (Bruce Reed) writes:
>
>>>Anyone have any recommendations/opinions on carb synchronizers?
>
>>	J.C. Whitney, of all places, sells a pretty good set.  Purchased
>>at the same time as the $65 leather jacket was their standard round-face
>>four-gauge set. 
>
>When this was discussed on a list here the general opinion was that a set of 
>mercury manometers was preferable to dial guages. They work out cheaper as 
>well but I don't know if you'll be able to buy then in the states without 
>signing a toxic products liability waiver..

You can get them (mercury manometers) from JCWhitney, as well. About 30 bux.
They seem to work real well (smoothed my idle out like nobody's business).
-- 
 
                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Monday, 14 Sep 1992 12:00:49 EDT
From: <REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Full Maine Hiways answer

  OK - Maine and Mass have these signs, but a motor driven scooter is a
low hp bike (less than 5 hp!).  True Motorcycles (>5 hp) are allowed on
I-95 and its tributaries (195, 295, 395 & 495) which are the only interstate
in Maine.  Yes, the back roads are better, but Rt 1 is a real bitch during
terrorist (tourist)season!  I-95, OTOH, is often clear sailing (avoid
the turnpike - re: speedtraps) and take alt-95 from Scarborough to Brunswick
to Augusta... Rarely a speedtrap and fairly good road quality.  Until I
get new tire & do valve clearance, I'm self-limitted to 85 MPH, but plenty of
room <grin>.

  Jeff Andle   1976 KZ (read original Zephyr) 900  28800 mi and it keeps on
               running strong.  DoD #3005

  Election Strategy:  Convince Every American to Vote for themselves (Write-in)
  When nobody wins, nobody spends our money!!!!!  (Also, nobody passes new laws
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: equal opportunity cheesecake
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:45:19 GMT

bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (William E. Johns;S23015) writes:
>In article <18mdcjINN2ma@cs.utexas.edu> osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) writes:

>>Do hets *really* find the heels-bikini combo sexy?  Even when holding
>>a pipe wrench?

>No, I sure don't.  I rather think it quite stupid.  I also think the Corbin
>catalog (yes, I got a '92 catalog) has some remarkably stupid photos in
>it based on infantile display of skin.

Worse yet, they used ugly models.

(I'm just mad that the pictures Corbin took of my FJ & Fisher-Price
luggage weren't used in the catalog. :-)
-- 
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
Subject: Re: What's a "stroker"
From: emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 19:52:11 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Robert Smits

ranck@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) writes:

> Chris Walsh (mack23@avalon.eecs.nwu.edu) wrote:
> : 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?
> 
>    Actually the connecting rods may remain the same, what changes is the
> location of the hole in the crankshaft that the connecting rod attaches to.
> Think about it, the connecting rod attaches to a crankshaft but is offset fro
> the center.  That makes the piston go up and down.  If you move the point 
> where the rod connects farther away from the center of rotation then the pist
> moves farther up and down.  That is how you increase stroke.  
>    Making the connecting rods longer would not change the length of the strok


No, but lengthening the stroke without shortening the con-rod is apt to 
have the piston kissing the valves. You gotta do BOTH!

Robert Smits Ladysmith BC  | I don't wanna pickle,
emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca      | just wanna ride my motorsickle - AG
From: paulb@harley.tti.com (Paul Blumstein)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Fabulous Harley Babe Bashing etc.
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:38:57 GMT
Organization: Black Belt Motorcyclists Association

In article <1992Sep10.221735.15806@rtsg.mot.com> declrckd@rtsg.mot.com (Dan J. Declerck) writes:
+
+One of the ME's that runs the production lines at Buell used to work here
+at Motorola. We went to Mukwanago Wis and toured the plant. We got to ask all kinds
+of questions. 
+
+I asked why they chose HD Sportster engines. I was told the cost to certify
+an engine with the EPA was prohibitive (Buell only makes about 250 bikes a year)
+So they chose HD. 

I suspect that a major factor in chosing HD engines was the fact that 
Eric Buell used to work For HD, 
____________________________________________________________________________
 Paul Blumstein, paulb@harley.tti.com, DoD #36, ABATE, AMA, HOG, KD6LAA
            Transaction Technology, Inc., Santa Monica, CA