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From: jamesf@public.BTR.COM (James G. Franklin  jamesf@btr.com)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,rec.nude
Subject: Re: Call for votes - rec.motorcycles.nude
Keywords: Full moons ride!
Date: 11 Sep 92 00:26:00 GMT
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. Contact: Customer Service cs@BTR.COM

In article <0wsnklj.shoun@netcom.com> shoun@netcom.com (Lissa Shoun) writes:
>In article <72169@apple.Apple.COM> jevans@Apple.COM (David Jevans) writes:
>>This group will be devoted to the discussion of all things related to
>>buff biking!  Upcoming articles include:
>
>      "Care and Cleaning of Sheepskin Seat Covers"

Also featured will be a "New Products" section, including tank covers for
when the temperature dips below freezing and you've just stepped out of the
hot tub. (Or, how to avoid the toungue-on-lamppost syndrome).

jim
-- 
*   Jim Franklin * jamesf@btr.com OR {decwrl,mips,fernwood}!btr!jamesf      *
*   (insert new bike here)   | Nothing hurts like the loss one feels when   *
* Triumph 650 (slalom champ) | they lose their first love, get fired from   * 
* DoD #469          KotP(un) | their first job, or sell their first bike.   * 
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: keller@hubble.ifa.hawaii.edu (Tim Keller)
Subject: FJ bearing replacement  
Organization: Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 09:28:15 GMT

I need some serious help here! I have an '84 FJ1100 and am in the process of
trying to repack the rear bearings (it is now a replacement job as will be
described below).
	I get the sprocket bearing out no problem at all, but it's the other
two bearings that got me ready to through the rear wheel through the nearest
window. The service manual says to "drive out the bearings" and to use
eye protection when using striking tools. So I figure that striking a bearing
with a hammer to get it out of the housing can't be good for the bearing, and
I would rather repack than replace. So for the sprocket bearing I use the hand
press we have here and it comes out without a hitch. So I figure that I can
use the hydrolic press to get the other two out (hand press won't accomidate
the wheel) and be on my merry way. Well, I set it up and start the press and
the bearings start to move and then stop. I watch the pressure rise and 
decide that there is something in that wheel that I cannot see preventing
that bearing from going any further, so I back it off. I turn it around and
try the other direction with the same problem. It will move the bearings but
not far enough to get one or the other out. 
	The only way I can see to get the bearings out is to push them out
one side or the other.
	So please Chuck, Blaine, or any other FJ owners who know anything
about this *please* e-mail or post the special trick used to remove the
bearings!
	By the way, one of the bearings is shot so greasing it and putting
it back to gether is not an option.
Thanks, Thanks, Thanks in advance.

-Tim.
From: dbc@po.cwru.edu (Dean Cookson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: equal opportunity cheesecake
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Date: 15 Sep 1992 01:10:44 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62003.student.cwru.edu

In article <1992Sep14.203956.15560@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>,
yduj@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Judy Anderson) wrote:
> 
> No, because a woman who looks like she has a clue is a threat to many
> male egos.  You have to make sure that no woman ever looks *more*
> competent than a man, or you alienate a large percentage of the
> potential male marketplace.

On the whole, true.  There are however a significant number of us who find
the idea of women who are more competent than us attractrive.  But then
I'm reasonably secure with my penis^H^H^H^H^H^Hengine displacement. :-)

> 
> Looking at it from a practical standpoint, since many women are also
> affected by this "women are inferior" stereotyping that goes on and
> therefore *believe* that they are inferior,

Yeah, for my first two years at this school, my SO was a mechanical
engineering student on whom I spent a LARGE amount of effort convincing
that the fact that she was female didn't make her less competent an
enigineer.
In fact the quote I heard from her most often while helping her with 
mechanics or physics was "I can't do this!  I'm a girl."  Sad thing was,
she really did know her shit, but if she had trouble with a problem
set/exam problem, she'd get flustered, convince herself that she just
wasn't
smart enough to do it and freeze.

>        Judy Anderson yclept yduJ     'yduJ' rhymes with 'fudge'
> 	      yduJ@symbolics.com      DoD #166
>     Join the League for Programming Freedom, league@prep.ai.mit.edu

| Dean Cookson / dbc@po.cwru.edu / 216 754-1834 | DoD #207  AMA #573534|
| Case Western Reserve U. Computer E. and Sci.  | KotNML  /  KotB      |
| "If I was worried about who saw me, I'd never | '81 CB750C           |
| get nekkid at all." -Ed Green, DoD #0111      | '88 Bianchi Limited  |
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: murfeypj@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Subject: Info/Opinions needed on Honda Hawk (NT650)
Reply-To: murfeypj@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:50:16 GMT

I am looking for any information about the Honda Hawk 650 (NT650). I am
considering a 1989 with 3000 miles on it as my first motorcycle. The dealer
seems to think it will be fine, but his only interest may be his commission.
Any information I can get will be appreciated.

				Thanks in advance,
				Pete Murfey
				MurfeyPJ@RoseVC.Rose-Hulman.Edu
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard)
Subject: Re: Castrol Syntec (Oh God! Not oil again!)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:17:19 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <1992Sep14.104947.13665@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> fist@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Richard Pierson) writes:
>Valvoline also has a 20/50 synthetic out now, anybody
>use it yet. ?

My best friend and I just tried it in his 1980 Yamaha 650 twin last week and
noticed a big difference in smoothness and a tiny bit of additional power
over Castrol non-synthetic 20/50. The Castrol only had a couple of hundred
miles on it. I'm tempted to put it in my Harley 1200 Sportster next time I
change its oil.

=======================================================================
= Neal Howard                         | '91 Harley Sportster XLH-1200 =
= email: neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org     | DoD # 686                     =
= CompuTrac, Inc. (Richardson, TX)    | '69 Cougar XR7-GT390          =
=======================================================================
From: ohrd!jlevine@cs.toronto.edu (Jody Levine)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: KZ400 Good, Bad or Ugly?
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:26:38 GMT
Organization: Ontario Hydro - Research Division

Nice bike. Rides well. Tours well if you happen to have the optional
seat which is the best riding seat on which I have sat. It's the
first bike on which I scraped a peg. KZ 400 good.

I've        bike                      like       | Jody Levine    DoD #275
     got a       you can        if you      -PF  | Jody.P.Levine@hydro.on.ca
                         ride it                 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: behanna@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna)
Subject: Re: Accident Report!!!
Organization: NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 21:33:26 GMT

In article <ck.715760740@iconix.oz.au> ck@iconix.oz.au (Chris Karadaglis) writes:
>Same happened to me - wearing tracksuit pants. Ouch! I hear vitamin E cream
>is the best thing for reducing scarring - wish I'd known this before...

From my Rec.Moto Accumulated File of All Knowledge(TM), courtesy of Mike
Tiberio:

	Silver Sulfa Diazene, available from your doctor via prescription, is
the absolute best stuff to use to help heal road rash with minimal scarring.

(Sorry for the liberal paraphrasing Mike!).

Hope it helps,
-- 
Chris BeHanna	DoD# 114  KotHLF    1983 H-D FXWG Wide Glide (She lives!)
behanna@syl.nj.nec.com	            (I need another bike for this space!)

Disclaimer:  Now why would NEC agree with any of this anyway?
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Chain Problem Update
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:02:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.031557.9028@serval.net.wsu.edu> bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (William E. Johns;S23015) writes:
>In article <1992Sep5.044124.26338@ncsu.edu> jrwaters@eos.ncsu.edu (JACK ROGERS WATERS) writes:
>>A few days ago I posted a problem about the noise
>>my once loose chain was making after I tightened it
>>(and before).  I checked the sprockets and the rear one
>>had many worn down and broken teeth.  I ordered a new
>>rear sprocket and chain from Competition (we will see if
>>I get it).  Anyway, I thought the front sprocket should
>>have been the one to wear first.  It looks fine to me.

Chances are the front is steel, the rear aluminum.  (Or do you say aluminium?)

>>After putting the chain back on (just a little looser than
>>I had it before), the bike sounds much better.  When I 
...
>>to be safe.  All suggestions are appreciated (except vulgar ones).

>This is a joke, yes???
>
>If it is not a joke and you are serious then yes, continue with your
>plans to replace the chain and the sprockets.

And replace the front as well.

>Would someone with experience, a racer perhaps, tell what can happen
>if a chain lets loose at speed.

I'm not a racer, and not experienced, however a colleague of mine had
a nice CB350 story.  He had the bike, and didn't really know about
chain maintenance.  One day, after pulling away hard from a traffic light,
he saw something small and dark shoot out ahead of him.  He couldn't
imagine how a snake could move that fast.  About that time he noticed
that he'd lost power, and as he coasted to a stop he passed a motorcycle
chain lying on the road.  He looked down and saw a large hole poked
through the upper front of the drive sprocket cover, as well as a smaller hole
ripped in the timing cover.  For those who know the early Honda twins, it
will come as no surprise that his clutch adjuster mechanism was partly
missing, and the cable was severed.  He estimates that from the point
where the chain departed the bike to the point where it landed was
probably 20 to 30 yards.  The shrapnel from the exploding side cover
cut a small but neat hole in the leg of his jeans, though his leg was
miraculously unscathed.

I won't pretend that any of these details weren't exagerrated between the time
Bill lost his chain and the time he told me the story, but I figured
it made sense to take it at face value, and I ordered a new chain
and sprockets the following day.
-- 
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.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: randy@ninja.megatek.uucp (Randy Davis)
Subject: Re: glasses and helmets
Reply-To: megatek!randy@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:51:40 GMT

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 - i.e., I think glass
in your helmet would be the least of your worries in such an instance.  For
that matter and if that still worries you, don't wear "glass" glasses...  The
prescription pair of glasses that I sometimes wear are plastic lenses.  (20/40
and 20/55 vision doesn't require me to wear them unless I feel like it).  My
sunglasses are glass lenses, though, and the only real risk I feel I am
taking is getting cut near the nose bridge from the nose-pads.

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

|Contacts and tinted faceshield work for me.

  Not for me, at least not as well as glasses work for me.  The contacts I
used to wear were less than ideal for long trips.  Between drying out and
irritating my eyes and combined with the care that contacts requires, they
were more of a liability to actual vision at times, thus increasing (IMHO)
the chances of an accident.  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.

Randy Davis                             UUCP: randy@megatek.com
ZX-11 #00072 Pilot                            megatek!randy@uunet.uu.net
DoD #0013                                     ucsd!megatek!randy
From: ranck@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: RCR rider seeking employment
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:55:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

The Dougster (parker@gdls.UUCP) wrote:
: 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...
:<stuff deleted> 
: Expect to see more of the sign...
:
  So, you don't actually expect to ever get a job. 

--

*******************************************************************************
* Bill Ranck     DoD #496  ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu                            *
*******************************************************************************
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: robert@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Robert Kennedy)
Subject: Re: Most Favorite Road Sign
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:55:42 GMT

In the spirit of fun road signs, I saw one today that I unfortunately
can't show you because of the limitations of my ASCII Art (tm) skills.
I didn't get a picture, so I can't scan it in, either. But anyway, on
CA highway 236 soon after you leave Big Basin Redwoods State Park
headed logical north, there's a sign showing a person on a horse,
indicating horse crossing. Normal enough. Then about 150 meters later,
there's another yellow diamond sign, with the black silhouette of a
person riding a horse, wearing a park ranger cap, and carrying a
surfboard under one arm. Absolutely unmistakable, even at squidly
speeds. I was a bit too squidly to see whether the sign was made that
way or whether someone had added their own personal touch. But if it
was done after the fact, it was done well; none of this "blotches of
spray paint" stuff.

I'm not sure whether this one beats the sign I saw in York (the old
one -- neither New York nor the new York) at a car park by one of the
rivers, showing, schematically but quite graphically, a car tipping
off the quay and into the waves. This one I have a photo of...

	-- Robert

Robert Kennedy					(415) 723-4532 (office)
robert@cs.stanford.edu				(415) 322-7367 (home voice)
Computer Science Dept., Stanford University	(415) 322-7329 (home tty)
From: mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu (Mark Parsons)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: How long for Dod number?
Date: 15 Sep 1992 13:47:46 GMT
Reply-To: mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu (Mark Parsons)
Distribution: na
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
Originator: mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu


In article <1992Sep15.001201.13579@balrog.dseg.ti.com>, keith@balrog.dseg.ti.com (Keith A. Schauer) writes:
|> In article <BD.92Sep9090701@fluent.UUCP> bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU writes:
|> >
|> >
|> >How long does it take to get a DoD number once you've sent your
|> >request off to the KotL?
|> >
|> 
|> Well, I got mine in an hour.  Yea, DoD # while you wait.  But one thing,
|> Make sure your VISA Card # is in the Keywords section.  The KotL really
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Because he doesn't take American Express!!

I just crack myself up!! haha . . . Huh? OK, OK, I'm going back
to Denny's! :-(

Mark
From: pooder@msus1.msus.edu
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: A Sad Tale
Date: 10 Sep 92 05:41:49 GMT
Organization: Minnesota State University System


Last night I came out of my neighborhood grocery store and I saw a truck
in the parking lot.  There were lots of people carrying merchandise out
of the back and I assumed there was a sale going on.  As I got closer, I
saw the figure of a grinning skull and words about "flaming" on the cab.

"What the . . . ?", I thought.  I went in.  The truck was FULL of items
of every kind, and on each one was "Geeky the Daemon" in full glory.  
There were notebooks and pencils, whiskbrooms  dustpans, window scrapers,
coffee mugs, beer steins, and plates.  And the clothing!  Jackets, shirts, 
belts, caps, and scarves - all bearing Geeky's likeness.  
table with three-dimensional daemons at each corner.  Wow! Statione

I looked way in the back and there, next to the Zippo lighters and belt
buckles, sat a rather forlorn looking fellow.  I struck up a conversation
with him and heard a sad story.  At one time he had been a rather high 
ranking official at a major university.  But he fell in with the wrong
crowd.  He spent more and more of his time helping his friends with their
obsession for trinkets and less and less at his job.  He was eventually
fired and found himself homeless and pennyless.  He now depends on the
kindness of those generous souls who will buy his trinkets when the truck
is in their neighborhood.

If you see a truck like this outside your supermarket, please ride over and
buy something from this poor fellow.  At least you will know your money is
going for a good cause.

I never did learn his name, but I noticed the truck carried Ohio plates, 
and the initials "A.S." were on the gentleman's shirt pocket.

Hmm . . . bedtime again, I guess.

Pood - a - dood
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Beer! (Was: Re: Fabulous Harley Babe Bashing etc.)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:04:28 GMT

In <193aoaINN7mq@rodan.UU.NET> smm@rodan.UU.NET (Steve Mansfield) writes:

>On a sad note, I just watched a Bud-Light commercial, where they show your
>stereotypical Harley Biker-Gang guy standing in a bar, and they actually
>were able to pay him enough to say:  "Bud Light.  The beer for biker of the
>90's."  I almost gagged.

	Is nothing sacred?  First, it was the Joe Piscopo commercials, with
Helga the E. German Women's Swin Team Captain, then Joe as the pro-wrestler,
and now they went and got serious on me?  Feh!  Now you know while I never,
ever, drink light beer.

	Though I did like the commercials for Dorito's or some such, where
the house-wife meets up with Skunk-Boy, but this example you give is pathetic.
The only way it would work is if he advertised Harley Davidson Heavy Beer,
or perhaps Old Milwaukie (gratuitous pun fully intended).

<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"I see angels on Ariels in leather and>
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | chrome, Swooping down from heaven to >
<viking@iastate.edu      | carry me home."   ---    R. Thompson >
<ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee.>
From: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Nasty rumour about Maine interstates
Date: 11 Sep 92 02:29:49 GMT
Reply-To: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <zxtnwsj@quantum.on.ca> dagibbs@quantum.on.ca (David Gibbs) writes:
>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.)

	I was on the Maine Turnpike about a month ago and so no such signs.
	Of course, it was flat and straight and I don't see why you would want
	to ride on it... not that my cage was any funner :-(
-------
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.|
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Watch out
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:35:40 GMT

In article <RTARAZ.92Sep10104233@bernoulli.WPI.EDU> rtaraz@bernoulli.WPI.EDU (Ramin Taraz) writes:
>I was at a light last night and when the light turned green for me I
>started to move.  But ever since I bought my bike I look both ways at
>an intersection no matter what the color of the light is.  Lucky me I
>saw this moron not stopping.  If I hadn't seen him and stopped, I
>wouldn't be here to post this article.
>
>So watch out for assholes who run red lights.


Funny you should mention that.  This morning I heard of a study made in
some eastern U.S. city (possibly Boston) that indicated a nearly 20% rate
of drivers running red lights, compared to under 7% 4 years ago.
-- 
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: keith@ctms.gwinnett.com (Keith Warren)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: DoD - How about a DoD Key Fob made by Zippo?????
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:18:22 GMT
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Organization: Consolidated Traffic Management Services (CTMS)

In article <14598@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu (Mark Parsons) writes:

>I've currently got a soft, flexible motorcycle as my key fob . . 

.... errr who makes this soft flexible motorcycle?.. does it weigh as much as
a non-flexible moto?

>Mark 


-- 
 keith@ctms!gwinnett.com         God made Love-Handles so that our SO would 
 Keith Warren  DoD #4761 (69^2)  have a place to hold on to in the Twisties!
 Personal Proprietary Opinion      74 Kawa F11 Enduro      75 CB360T 
                                   1993 Kawasaki KLF220-A6 4 Wheel ATV
From: ryang@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Robert H. Yang)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: A question.
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:01:37 GMT
Reply-To: ryang@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu

In article <1992Sep14.211121.9389@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, klinger@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jorg Klinger) writes:
>   I know if I was being left behind I would start to push it in order to
> keep up, and if someone told me to take it easy when they loose me I
> would feel insulted and even more adamant to keep up. I know I'm not my 
> brothers keeper but I feel this kind of situation   
> occurs quite often and can have tragic results.
>    
>   What's the right thing to have done?

	I think that if you all know where you are going, and trust
each other to stay at your own pace, you shouldn't have to worry about it.
There ought to be an agreement on the part of all concerned that nobody
goes faster than they feel comfortable.  If they do try to keep up, then they
are taking their lives in their hands  "We're all adults here, we take the
consequences of our actions."

	But I think it may be wise to take it easy with someone who hasn't
ridden very long or in a long while or you just don't know very well, because
you just don't know whether or not that person will try to keep up, or
blame you if they crash, or even how well they ride.

	If I were you, I'd say "Sorry, I should have taken it easy" to your
friend.  He will probably say "Sorry I shouldn't have pushed myself".
But I'd also keep in mind that I'm not responsible for other people's
business.

	If nothing else, you know what's the *safest* thing to do next time.
---
Rob Yang (Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A) RYANG@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU
'92 CBR600F2 (Hon) "It hisses on snakes." AMA 642916 DoD 0593
"B. Pasker: I've always wondered what 'STOP' stood for. Could anyone tell me ?
 C. Paull : Spin Tires On Pavement."