HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: shz@garage.att.com (Keeper of the 'Tude)
Subject: Re: Current Harley Craze and Women
Organization: Office of 'Tude Licensing
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:44:08 GMT

In article <16843D39A.DHANSEN@cmsa.gmr.com>, DHANSEN@cmsa.gmr.com writes:
> I can't speak for any other recent H-D buyers, but *I* bought my recent H-D
> FXRS to RIDE  - - took delivery 3July91  - - odometer now shows 17,489 miles.
> [deleted]
> Not all riders of newer H-D's are yuppie posiers.

I guess that makes me a wannabe, yuppie, puke-eater since my 91 FXSTC
is three weeks younger than your FXRS (I think I picked it up around
7/18-7/26) and I only have 16,4xx miles.  But then, you have one of
those rubber mounted poser engines... :-)

- Roid
From: egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Goof2 Stolen at Gunpoint
Date: 17 Aug 1992 18:46:58 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
Distribution: world
Reply-To: egreen@East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: laser.east.sun.com

In article 16oavcINN4ck@cs.utexas.edu, osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) writes:
>
>I'm leaping down your throat because you hit one of my more sensitive
>buttons.  The "liberal == bad" analogy has been forced down the throat
>of USA citizens for the past 12 years and I'm really fucking sick of it.
>Whatever happened to "personal freedom == good"?

Nothing, but the other half of the equation keeps getting omitted:
"personal freedom ==> individual responsiblity."

I submit that it is mostly liberals who have, for decades, at least,
been stating and implying that individuals need not take responsiblity
for their lives.  Don't need to work, don't need to save, the
government is your mother (now nurse as well, with the national health
care), criminals aren't at fault, they have low self-esteem, etc.

Liberal government sucks.  Conservative government sucks.  All
government sucks.  People who rant and rave politics in a motorcycle
newsgroup suck...

---
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: frankb@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Frank Ball)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:18:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Centre, High-Mount Brake Lights (was: Headlights)
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles

    >Sorry, there was a simpler solution.  Make taillights amber and make
    >brake lights red.  This was proposed many times (since the '60s that I
    >am aware of) but _no_ the USA has to come up with its own stupid
    >little rule so that we don't look like we are losing the lead in
    >safety to anyone else...

    *Sorry, but 10% of the male population wouldn't be able to tell crap from
    *this solution, since they are colorblind. Further, it is not the fact that
    *the third light exists that makes it better, it is the orientation of the 
    *light (designed to shine directly into your eyes, rather than just behind
    *the vehicle). 
   
I'm about as colorblind as anybody.  Red-green colorblindness, (stupid name
for it-the person that came up with the name obviously didn't have it) 
which is the most common type.  I can tell amber from red taillights,
and the amber ones are much brighter (to me anyway).  Funny sometimes
I have trouble telling yellow traffic lights from red ones, I guess
the shades are different.

The third lights are conspicuous.  I mounted one on the milk crate I have
on the back of my XT350.

Frank Ball   1UR-M          frankb@hpsad.sad.hp.com
Hewlett Packard   
1212 Valley House Drive     (707) 794-4168 work  (707) 538-3693 home
Rohnert Park CA 94928-4999  KC6WUG Seca 750 XT350 IT175 DoD#7566 I'm the NRA.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray)
Subject: Re: Bay Area Yamaha Service?
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering Inc.
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:46:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.224318.315@halfdome.sf.ca.us> bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (Bob Pasker) writes:
>In article <3880115@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>, gharriso@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Graeme Harrison) writes:
>> A friend who can't post to usenet isn't satisfied with the service dept
>> over at Motors West in Campbell, CA now that Greg has left...
>> Has anyone had good luck with Yamaha County on 13th St
>> in San Jose? Any others such as in Gilroy, Fremont or whatever? Your
>> input would be appreciated! 

Other Yamaha dealers:
(ratings based on ordering parts and talking to
the shop people; I do my own mechanical work.  I'm on my
second Yamaha since I moved here, my 4th overall)

San Mateo Yamaha.  I'd rate them as 'ok, but not great'.  They've
been really slow on parts I've ordered, and got me the wrong jets
(and at twice the price that Zoom charges).  I won't order parts
from them again.  I know more about my bikes than they do, a bad sign.

Yamaha Country (San Jose).  Another Ok.  Didn't seem to have many parts
in stock, but maybe they were hiding 'em out back.

Motors West (Campbell).  I've been in there once, for parts.
The parts guy must be 80 years old, and when I gave him the number for
the RZ500 parts I was loking for, said "Hey, those are 1969 AT125 parts!"
Well, I was impressed.

Pacific Yamaha (Richmond, BC.  Yea, that's Canada)
I've never seen their shop, but these guys are great on the phone.
I can get stuff from them faster than I can get it here in the US.
They're used to shipping stuff to two-stroke freaks down here and
they must be just down the street from Yamaha's regional parts
canter; even stuff that they don't have in stock gets to me
within a week or so.


[bob pasker's info on daly city yamaha]
>the svc mgr, ned, has zero personality, so don't expect groovy
>conversation with him (like you might get from kari at cal bmw).

There's no shop that's halfway as cool as Cal BMW.  It makes
paying BMW's outrageous prices worth it.  Most of the time.
I wish Kari would sell and service Yamahas (and Ducatis) too....


--
Eric Murray   ericm@microunity.com   Ride fast, die young, wear black leather.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,tx.motorcycles
From: keith@balrog.dseg.ti.com (Keith A. Schauer)
Subject: Carb Jetting Questions
Summary: Net.wisdom desired
Keywords: carbs, jets
Organization: Texas Instruments Information Technology Group    Plano TX
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:31:02 GMT

Oh lards^H^H^H^Hords of the net, I beseech you for your wisdom.  
now that that shit's out of the way.

i have a gas mileage problem with my bike.  its a 80 CB900C, windjammer, shoei
style bags.  my typical mileage is 33-35.  my best ever was 42, in the rockies.
my worst was 25, interstate driving 70-75mph.  i've been told that my bike 
is capable of mid-high 40s.

my problem (mileage, that is) was extremely noticable on our trip this summer.
coming thru kansas on the back roads doing ~60, i would consistently be getting
in the high 30's.  as soon as i hit the interstate, with it appropriate speed,
i would drop to the high 20's.  

i've had the bike looked over by the local mechanic.  compression is good.
thanks to some prior hints i've modified my air box & changed my oil to a
20w-50.  those two things gave me about 2-3 mpg.

i think i'm running rich.  after following some of the carb discussion, my gut
feel is that my secondary is too big.  according to my shop guide, i have a
68 primary and a 105 secondary.  my reasoning is that when i've got to start
running 1/2 or more throttle, i start sucking the gas.  my roll-on in high
gear is not impressive (that's why my favorite gear is third).  my bike also
does not have its original exhaust.  900 customs came with 4->4.  i have a
4->2.  probably put on when the bags were added (for clearance).  and it 
doesn't look like its very free flowing, but what do i know?

i pulled the plugs the other night, but it wasn't right after some heavy
throttle riding.  they looked ok, with some carbon around the base, but none
on the electrodes.

i suppose the best long-range plan would be to replace the exhaust with the
stock ones? (but currently not in budget)

would changing the secondary jet make sense?  if so, how do i know what size
to jet down to?  

would changing the primary make sense?

what do jets cost?  will the shop carry them or is this some kind of special
order thing?  kirks? etc...

i want to do one more small run this fall, down to the coast & back ~1000 miles.
i don't want to have to stop every 90 minutes or so for gas.  it would be 
nice to not have to plan a trip around gas stops for once.

any advice appreciated.  mucho gusto.
-- 
Keith Schauer		Texas Instruments	Plain O, Texas
80 CB900 Custom		
DoD #0901		In an insane society, the sane man must appear insane.
			My company disavows any knowledge of my actions.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: howie@che.udel.edu (Ian Howie)
Subject: Re: My views of the RCR
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Delaware/Department of Chemical Engineering
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:39:00 GMT

>jep@cs.duke.edu (Jonathan E. Polito) writes:
>: That's what you get for drinking milk with your chicken. If you had
>: been a real biker and drank your whiskey with the chicken like the
>: rest of us you would of been fine. The whiskey killed all the lively
>: stuff in the chicken ... then add some hot sauce, and you've got a
>: nice sterile piece of chicken....
>: 
>: Weren't you the one who didn't like the hot sauce too?

Then Jack Tavares sez:
>As for the "hot" sauce, it was most definetly lame!!!

I'll second that. It had a good flavor, but it was billed as *HOT* sauce
and turned out to be just hot sauce. The tablespoon or so that I slurped
up as a taste test didn't leave me incapacitated..... .

But in all fairness to Tim, the guy who brought it, I have been looking in
the stores in my area to find it. Guess I'll have to wait 'till I head south
again.. 

Later

Ian

*****************************************************************************
Ian Howie           "Life is too short to drink bad coffee........"
(302) 292-8598   
DoD#0621
1990 FJ1200                                        howie@oscar.ccm.udel.edu     
*****************************************************************************
From: dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Current Harley Craze and Women
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:07:23 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <24879@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>In article <daved.713803311@convex.convex.com> daved@convex.com (David Dorfman) writes:
>
>>She looked at the bike and said " If it was a harley I would ask
>>you for a ride" I was shocked and insulted, ( nothing against harleys
>>but I was pretty proud of my new bike) [ST1100] ...

>your motorcycle. In fact she was telling you that that she only wanted
>to be ridden by a Harley owner. It's well known that Harley owners have
>much bigger dicks than Honda owners.                               ^^^^ are




-- 
I love the 3b2
The 3b2 is my friend.
From: lbghb@rivm.nl (Hans Breukers)
Subject: Replacement rear shock for BMW K75S
Organization: RIVM, Bilthoven, Netherlands
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:29:52 GMT

>One of my BMW mechanics recommended a White shock. I assume he meant
>White Bros. since I do not know if White Power (who makes forks) makes
>shocks. 

>--
>Jonathan Polito                                      DoD #x (K 100)
>jep@cs.duke.edu                                  jpolito@encore.com 
>              "You Don't Say...." --- Sylvia Plath
>>
White Power makes forks and shocks for many motorcycles.
Do not know if White Power makes shocks for the BMW K75S.

White Power forks and shocks are also used by some GP riders of the
250 cc classes.

*****************************************************************
*********************** Hans Breukers ***************************

******                    R  I  V  M                      *******

                         Research for
                      man and environment

National Institute for Public Health and Environmental Protection
Rijksinstituut voor volksgezondheid en milieuhygiene (RIVM)

Laboratory for Soil and Groundwater Research
Laboratorium voor Bodem en Grondwater Onderzoek (LBG)

+++++++++++ Bilthoven ++++++++ Holland ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
Mail adress : lbghb@rivm.nl
Motor	    : Yamaha FJ 600
From: mojo@Caere.COM (Morris Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Countersteering a shafty
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:44:03 GMT
Organization: Caere Corp.

Who started this silly discussion?  Of COURSE countersteering works on
shaft bikes.  How could it not?  What does the drive mechanism have to
do with countersteering?  Silly silly silly.

I've ridden bikes with chains and shafts, and they _all_ countersteer.
Including bicycles.

And YES of course you can turn the bike by leaning.  But countersteering
is considerably quicker, more precise, and requires less physical effort.
Except maybe on a Virago.  :)

Mojo
-- 
Morris Jones
Caere Corp.
mojo@caere.com
From: jamesf@public.BTR.COM (James G. Franklin  jamesf@btr.com)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Triumph '66 650 chopper
Keywords: Triumph chopper
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:49:11 GMT
Distribution: World
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. Contact: Customer Service cs@BTR.COM

In article <1992Aug17.185708.10306@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> paulh@coos.dartmouth.edu (Paul Haban) writes:
>yesterday, well, I bought a chopper...
>Triumph '66 650 T120R Bonneville customized to a very low chopper (about
>maybe 3 inches clearance)

I just *knew* there were people out there who would buy choppers! I have a 
69 650 that's been in my parents' shed for 2 1/2 years and was contemplating
selling it. Are you interested? It's in New York. (Please oh please oh please)

jim

>
-- 
*   Jim Franklin * jamesf@btr.com OR {decwrl,mips,fernwood}!btr!jamesf      *
* Yamama 650 Maxim           | "I'd like a large Ducati, with extra 'g's."  * 
* Triumph 650 (slalom champ) | "Would you like that delivered?"             * 
* DoD #469          KotP(un) | "No, I'll come pick it up."                  * 
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jimi@well.sf.ca.us (Jim Isom)
Subject: The rides I've missed
Summary: Accidental impediment 
Keywords: Lowside
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:57:44 GMT

I just thought I should say something about my lack of presence at 
numerous rides in the last few weeks.  It's not just that I'm antisocial.
It's even more.  

About 7 weeks ago, I lowsided my Radian, Minerva.  Some of you may
remember her.  Anyway, I was on my way to work one morning, headed
South on the Arlington when she lost traction (rather abruptly,
I might add) and I went sliding - doing maybe 45 - and got flung
up against the curb.  Certain commentators have pointed out that
I had forgotten which bike I was riding.  Bunk!!  But the sense of
it is there, nonetheless.  I have achieved lean angles and conf-
idence on the gxsr that I never had on the Radian.  I just got
too cocky or squidly or whatever in the translation process from
one bike to the other.  For several years I knew that Minerva 
could take all I could dish out.  Just isn't true anymore

I had roaad rash on the back of my right hand and on my knee, that are
now healed, thank you very much.  It's my knee that's the problem. I've
seen my chiropractor and he's given up - I saw an orthopedist and
had an MRI scan yesterday.  I'll keep you posted, but it looks like 
I may not ride at all for some weeks, worst case.  Best case would
be a simple thing where I walk immediately after - removal of 
cartiledge in this case.  The other - the worst case - is surgery. 
Decidedly, I'm falling apart.

I am just barely able to ride Minerva (little damage - cosmetic) and
this evening as I was setting out for the wall mounted on Neffertiti,
I couldn't stand the pain.  I had to turn around and come back.  It,s
a fine angular difference that can cause that much pain.  
No question of getting to the balls of my feet - the heel even is too 
much.  Don't  have a knee accident, that's my advice.  Don't have any 
accident. 

I'll keep you informed.


-- 
Jim Isom            jimi@well.sf.ca.us             |     2b+~2b=1 
GSXR-750M (Nefertiti), '86 Radian (Minerva)        | brakeman
From: egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: MC license for scooter in your jurisdiction?
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:11:12 GMT
Reply-To: egreen@East.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
NNTP-Posting-Host: laser.east.sun.com

In article 18631@linus.mitre.org, cookson@mbunix.mitre.org (Cookson) writes:
>>
>Hell, I can get my bicycle up to 80kph down hill on a fairly consistant
>basis.  But then, I'd be willing to be that I have more... How to say this?
>ballast :-) than you do.

So if I dropped you both off the Leaning Tower of Pisa, you'd hit the
ground first?

---
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: ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray)
Subject: Re: Kevin
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering Inc.
Distribution: rec
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 00:16:25 GMT

In article <RKOU.92Aug17110317@skat.ucs> rkou@skat.ucs (Roger H. Kou) writes:


>1) why do you people don't like scooters?

Beacuse they're slow, expensive, and dangerous.

>2) do any of you own a scooter?(e.g. Honda Helix/Elite)

Evil!  No!

>3) are they bad?(i.e. is a bike better than a scooter?)

Yes, a bike is better than a scooter.  It handles better, goes
faster, looks cooler (well, most do) and is safer.  Did I mention
that it goes faster?

>I don't have money for a motorcycle. So I am looking to buy a scooter.
>I think it's a good way to get around the city. Any suggestions?

Buy a small used motorcycle.  It'll be cheaper than a (ick!) Helix.  You
can actually GO places on a motorcycle, even a small one.  A scooter's
only fit for short hops that you could do on a bicycle.  In fact, a
decent bicycle rider can keep up with a scooter...

One day while out on a bicycle ride, a woman on a scooter
passed me (slowly).  I sprinted to get on her wheel, and
drafted her down the road (at 35 mph) to the next stoplight.  At
the light she asked "how long can you DO that!??"  "As long as I want"
I answered.

The moral of the story:

If you want to have guys in lycra tights following you down the
road, get a girly-man scooter.  If you want to make to make girls
blush and people in cars next to you at stoplights lock their doors
then buy a motorcycle.


>PS: there is no rec.scooter, is there?

Alt.skinheads is the closest, but mention scooters other than
Vespas or Lambrettas and you'll get flamed.


--
Eric Murray   ericm@microunity.com   Ride fast, die young, wear black leather.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: cookson@mbunix.mitre.org (Cookson)
Subject: Re: Compressed air for carb cleaning
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:16:01 GMT

In article <ALAVIGNE.92Aug17101310@bmerh930.bnr.ca> alavigne@bmerh930.bnr.ca (Andrew Lavigne) writes:
>Anyone out there clean their jets without fancy, expensive equipment (and 
>without paying some garage to do it as well...)
>
I haven't tried it, but...  Most photography stores sell cans of air
for blowing dust of off lenses and such.  They might be strong enough
to do the job.

-- 
| Dean Cookson / dcookson@mitre.org / 617 271-2714    | DoD #207  AMA #573534 |
| The MITRE Corp. Burlington Rd., Bedford, Ma. 01730  | KotNML  /  KotB       |
| "If I was worried about who saw me, I'd never get   | '81 CB750C            |
| nekkid at all." -Ed Green, DoD #0111                | '88 Bianchi Limited   |
From: essbaum@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Alexander Essbaum)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Cager penile size (was Re: %$*#^$! Tailgaters)
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:01:14 GMT
Organization: IBM Rochester
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

In article <1992Aug19.165423.7190@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, ksmith@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Kevin Smith) writes:
|> In article <Bt3FJt.Gz0@gtsi.com> rich@gtsi.com (Richard Lawrence) writes:
|> 
|>  stuff deleted
|> 
|> >car could hope). End of story, I thought. Nope, dickhead decides that I have
|> >insulted the size of his testicles, and pulls up right on my ass, then "whips"
|> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|>  more stuff deleted

yet even more deleted

|> While in bitch mode, for those of you who lane split, I was doing this on
|> I90 about a week ago. Traffic doing @5 mph me doing @15 when some asshole
|> decides that if he has to be stuck in traffic then so do I.  This guy
|> waited untill I was about 15 F*ucking feet behind him and then swerves out
|> towards the dotted yellow and then back into the lane and then repeated this
|> action every time I tried to get by, with a subsuquent dirty look when I 
|> finally got by.

saw a guy doing this while leaving the AMA superbike event at brainerd this
year.  was with a friend in my car waiting to get out of brainerd.  bikes are
lane splitting/passing on grass and heading out.  cars are barely moving.  guy
in front of me is driving a way cool shiny new Grand Am complete with way cool
thumpin stereo and OAKLEY stickers.  every time a bike would pass, he would try
to weave into their path.  he gave all the bikers the finger.  fortunately, he
was always too close to the guy in front of him to swerve far enough to hit
the bikes.

not only was the guy a dick, he was too stupid to realize what would happen to
him if he actually hit someone. :(

|> I think it's a penis thing.      
|> 
|> "I can't respect anyone whose only | Kevin Smith   DoD #959 
|>  contribution  to  music is  their | '91 GSP21p, '88 RG450, '89 BS110  
|>  opinion."                         |        
|>                 --Nuno Bettencourt |    

axel
From: lestat@wixer.cactus.org (Lyle J. Mackey)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: AGV helmets
Keywords: helmets
Date: 22 Aug 92 18:00:11 GMT
Distribution: rec.motorcycles
Organization: Real/Time Communications

In article <Aug.21.14.05.35.1992.7935@spade.rutgers.edu> cadet@spade.rutgers.edu (Uniquely TiJean) writes:
>Does anyone know about these AGV helmets?
>I like to hear from all.
>Does anyone have a Tech-7? How about the Thema or Sukhoi?
>I appreciate
>JC

I wear an AGV Sceptre (the ones in the ads reading "Exclusively at your HOnda
dealer" or some such).  I'm happy with it, for the most part.  It's light, it
looks good (the only helmet I could find that matched my bike that wasn't
solid black...), and the price was right (159+tax *RETAIL*).

My only real complains about it would involve the noise level at highway
speeds.  The airflow around the ears causes a fairly loud whistle, but I
plan on adding a chin gasket sometime this fall, which may or may not cure
that problem.

I can't speak for the Thema, Sukhoi, or Tech-7, but overall, the Sceptre is,
IMHO, a good helmet.  I haven't done any pavement pounding with it yet, so
I can't really tell how it'll handle a DoD-spec impact with Your Friend, 
Mr. Asphalt.

 -LjM

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