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From: meh0570@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: still looking for a place in Austin TX
Reply-To: meh0570@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:02:05 GMT

HI guys its me again.

I am still looking for a place in Austin, TX from dec 
to may.

I have some small caged animals and a bike (dosent quite run
but that will be rectified when I get a paycheck)

There has got to be some doders in austin that know of
something somewhere.

pls reply through mail

JC
DoD #0746
		
			MEH0570@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
			engineering student
			professional daydreamer
			aspiring mad sciencist
			and bad speller.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: behanna@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna)
Subject: Re: Mechanic's challenge
Organization: NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 16:33:32 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.052829.2587@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> loki@nazgul.physics.mcgill.ca (Loki Jorgenson) writes:
>	There is a high-pitched whine of something spinning at a constant
>rate.  It continues to spin and whine until I've dropped to about 2k rpm
>and then it "unsticks" (or whatever) and stops.  It's like something
>that is supposed to be spinning fast because the engine is spinning fast
>forgets to slow down when the engine does.  The last time I heard
>it, I pulled the clutch and dropped the rpms to idle so I could hear
>it better.  It lasted for several seconds.  It sounded like it was
>coming from somewhere under the tank (ie. the motor's cam).  But it
>was pretty hard to tell even though it was quite loud.
>
>	I'm sufficiently well-versed in bike mechanics to be thoroughly
>confused.  What could go on spinning at high speed when the bike is
>decelerating, the engine is at idle and the clutch dis-engaged?  Note
>that it didn't change pitch until it stopped which means it was not
>directly related to my speed.  Also, neither brake was being used
>at the time.

	You dog.  You put a turbo on that FJ, didn't ya!

:-)
-- 
Chris BeHanna	DoD# 114  KotHLF  1983 H-D FXWG Wide Glide - Jubilee's Red Lady
behanna@syl.nj.nec.com	          1975 CB360T - Baby Bike

Disclaimer:  Now why would NEC agree with any of this anyway?
From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Corbin Short Roadmaster
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:45:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View

In article <61832@mimsy.umd.edu> leavitt@cs.umd.edu (Mr. Bill) writes:
}CORBIN SHORT ROADMASTER
}	This stubby-looking boot has all the features of the longer,
}original Roadmaster, truncated by 5 inches.  The shorter boot is more
}comfortable to wear all day underneath jeans, and caters to riders with
}larger-than-normal calves.  We found the Short Roadmaster to be just
}as comfortable and long-lasting as the original Corbin boot, but on
}the bike, the boot is too short in the leg and pants tend to ride up
}above it.  Commuters may find it ideal, but we recommend the longer
}version.

I guess the guys at the magazine are compunerds who wear pocket
protectors and flood pants. I wear average length jeans, and no way
in hell can the pants ride up above the top of the boots. Especially
with chaps on. I love my Short Roadmasters, and they are absolutely
right about them being comfortable and great for those of us with
large calves.

ADVICE: If you buy these boots, wear extra-thick socks for the first
2-3 weeks until they break in somewhat, or they will hurt you at the
boottop. Also, to protect them, I highly recommend the Gear-Glove [tm].


-- 
Curtis Jackson	'91 Black Lab "Studley Doright"   '92 Collie/Shepherd "George"
cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com	USPA #A-10080 (lapsed)	DoD #721 '81 Maxim 650
  "They that can give up an essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
   safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1759)
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From: Neil@swamp.demon.co.uk (njb)
Subject: DoD
Distribution: world
Organization: "Industrial EcoDeath Corp"
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 00:13:55 +0000

Can anybody tell a newcomer WTH Do means?

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From: jimbes@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (james.bessette)
Subject: Re: BMW R80/6 manual
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:02:03 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.151638.13012@bmers95.bnr.ca> quiniou@bnr.ca (Henri Quiniou) writes:
>BMW doesn't provide its own technical books, so you have to rely on third party
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I can get the technical manual that the dealer gets if I want it.  It costs
somewhere around $75.00  (US)  This is for my K bike.  The "shop manual" IS
available to the "general public".

>publishers. These are good in highlighting weaknesses of a specific model 
(which is not the case for the maker's book!) and giving good step-by-step 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Probably correct.

>I have the Clymer book, but Haynes has one too. I had a look to both and they
>look about the same. I had no problem using Clymer.

I own a Haynes manual.  My dealer recommended it over the BMW shop manual
because he said it would be easier to understand. (Less technical?)  That's
fine for me.  I think he said it explained things better and took less for
granted (BMW motorcycle knowledge wise).

>Henri Quiniou
>(no e-mail!!)

Henri, please use e a carriage return after 80 characters if you could.

Jim Bessette
From: daved@convex.com (David Dorfman)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: GTS1000A gripe
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:03:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: convex.daved.721432994
Distribution: na
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1992Nov10.203354.3054@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:

>They obviously realize "integrated luggage due tell" looks like shit and
>if people with "integrated luggage due tell" looked behind them they'd
>see everyone pointing, laughing and holding their stomachs. The postman/woman
>neighborhood dog, small children, housewive's, etc.
>John that Buick is you.
> 
>================================================================================
> Ipsissimus of the Inner Order of Sesquipedalian Fruitcakes - I set'r free.Nyuk
> Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. DoD#564. There ain't no more.
>================================================================================

Oh yea, and those 3 foot high tank bags stuffed to the gills look so very
suave and de-boner, integrated hard luggage shows the attention to detail
that says "this rider is so very together"

Dave
DoD 1085
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,ba.motorcycles
From: brad@.island.COM (Bradley Mabe)
Subject: Corbin seat for SECA II
Organization: Island Graphics Corp.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:56:45 GMT


Yamaha has recently announced they are selling a corbin seat for the
SECA II.  Has anyone had an opportunity to check one of these out? 

-------------------------------
Brad Mabe  "Born to be mild"
brad@island.com
Disclaimer:  It's not Islands fault
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray)
Subject: Re: Rumor: Motorcycle market drying up in Livermore
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering Inc.
Distribution: ba
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 02:04:05 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.013026.24440@PA.dec.com> skk@gsg.pa.dec.com (Stuart Kreitman) writes:
>
>A friend from Livermore claims a half dozen bike shops have folded there,
>and the one Ducati shop there has nothing but used Japanese sportbike
>tradeins on the floor.  Anyone know what's up?

It's been that way since I started noticing motorcycles in '73 or so
as a wee lad growing up in Livermore.

Last time I checked in at the Duc/Husky shop, they had only a few
japanese bikes on the floor, some old huskies and ducs, and some
new ones.  They seem to be as sucessful as any shops's ever been there.

Livermorons are used to going elsewhere for bikes I guess.

--
Eric Murray   ericm@microunity.com   Ride fast, die young, wear black leather.
Xref: sparky rec.motorcycles:38412 rec.motorcycles.harley:985
From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,rec.motorcycles.harley
Subject: Re: Get your wallets out...
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:03:01 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH

bcasper@eos.ncsu.edu (Brian Casper) writes:

>They sent a brochure for this thing to all of the HOG members a month or
>so ago.  I opted to pass.  ...Seems the model is made somewhere offshores...
>
>Ironic isn't it.

Not really, any more than it's ironic that so many parts in
the bikes themselves are made overseas.

Welcome to the global economy.
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
                              DoD # 0698
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From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: Hard luggage (GTS1000A gripe)
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:07:23 GMT

jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine) writes:

Gee, I suddenly realized that I passed up a great chance to sneak in
another cheap plug for the FJ1200. :-)

>I want a fast

Check.

>good handling bike

Check. (Unless you're Randy :-)

>that puts at least some of my body in the airflow

Check. Good protection for the body & hands, but still a good flow of
       air from the shoulders up. Helmet & jacket vents work well.

>yet gives me someplace to stow my gear when I get to the movie theatre

>The real world of commuting and grocery shopping requires a clock

Check.

>and some reasonable storage space.

Ok, so it's not stock. And some folks would argue that I've got an
UNreasonable amount of storage space. :-) But the Krauser bags have
more storage space than the ST1100's bags, and they seem like they are
easier to deal with than BMW's bags.

>My next bike will have both. This will limit my choices severely,
>and that pisses me off. So there.

No problem, Krauser has brackets to fit a large number of bikes. My list
doesn't show the RZ350, but it does list the RD350, heck even the XT600
and Honda TransAlp are here. There's even a KTM listed!

> Looks be damned;

Careful what you say, I've been damned (well, taunted at least) by most
denizens ever since I put the Krausers on the FJ.
-- 
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
From: pfs@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Paul Schnettler)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Solution to toll booth troubles
Keywords: Q-free system
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:56:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: pslu1.1992Nov9.215651.4168
Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, University of Wisconsin

In article <daved.721342825@convex.convex.com> daved@convex.com (David Dorfman) writes:
>Anybody thought of the obvious violation of privacy related to computerized
>toll systems:
>
>Take a picture of the driver
>subtract exit time from entry time, divide into miles traveled.
>If average speed exceeds limit compare electronically stored picture of
>    driver to electronically stored picture of the toll account owner.
>
>If they match up send speeding ticket to home address.
>
>This is to scary to imagine.
>
>Dave
>DoD 1085

I can remember "caging" from NYC to Chicago in 1976. Myself (69 mustang-shelby)
and a guy in a Datsun 240Z were pushing through Pensylvania(oops forgot an N) 
on the turnpike. You would get a ticket with the time stamped on it at the entrypoint.
Well, we were caging at a pretty quick pace (avg. 95 to near DoD min.) for a
good 3-4 hours, we even stopped and gassed up together and continued or cat and
mouse game. Anyway, when I stopped at the Penn./Ohio border the toll matron
looked at the card and informed me that if a State Trooper would have been park-ed at his spot by the booths he would have been summoned by her to write me a
ticket for speeding or wasting gas (this was during the 1st oil embargo).
I thought she was just jerking my chain,trying to get a reaction out of a young
(21)guy in a hot cage!! Anyone else have any experiences like this?
From: rogerc@discovery.uk.sun.com (Roger Collier)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: British rides
Date: 11 Nov 1992 11:35:56 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: rogerc@discovery.uk.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: discovery.uk.sun.com

In article 7433@aber.ac.uk, azw@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Michael Woodward) writes:
>
> Car drivers assume all bikers are 16 year old greasy psychopaths,
> and that it is their social duty to kill them before they reach breeding age.


Too late! the legal breeding age is below the legal biking age.


         #                                           # Let's not talk about
   _     #     Roger.Collier@Uk.Sun.COM              # love and flowers and
o_/_\_o  #                                           # things that don't
 (O_O)   #     Sun Microsystems, Coventry, England.  # explode. I've used up
  \H/    #     (44) 203 692255                       # all of my magic powers
   U     #                                           # trying to do it in the
      DoD#226  GSXR1100L                             # road.
               Keeper of the GSXR1100 list.

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From: cstringe@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Chuck Stringer)
Subject: Re: British rides
Organization: Indiana University, University Computing Services
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:28:41 GMT

egreen@east.sun.com writes:

| It varies by state.  The feds are extorting the states to increase the
| age, the way they did with the drinking age.  In *most* states, I
| believe it is 16.  Some states (I believe TN) have "daylight-only" or
| "home-to-work/school-only" licenses for younger people who can prove a
| "hardship" necessity.

In Indiana riders under the age of 18 have to wear a helmet. 14 & 15
year-olds can ride mo-peds and most scooters(horsepower and speed
maximums that are rarely if ever enforced). New riders have to wear a
helmet, daylight only and no passengers until they pass the license
exam, at least 30 days after they get their learner's permit. Permits
require a written test.


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Chuck Stringer                   'If it can't be learned from TV, it isn't
1968 BSA Spitfire                       worth knowing'  -Calvin
Email- cstringe@ucs.indiana.edu.
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda)
Subject: Re: Bikes Indoors and Riding with Gas
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:02:54 GMT

In article <4265@cvbnetPrime.COM> rbemben@timewarp.prime.com (Rich Bemben) writes:
|In article <27785.89.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
|>
|>-> upset, but the fire department?  Though I don't agree with it, I have
|>-> no doubt there are fire codes prohibiting having non-approved
|>-> containers of gasoline indoors, but how did he know?  Whould he have
|>-> beat your door down if you didn't answer, just to find out?
|>
|> Approved by whom?  You'd expect, with the EPA, DOT, NHTSA, and probably
|>the CIA all regulating the design of motor vehicle fuel tanks, it'd be
|>"approved" enough.
|
|I hate to blow halon on your gasoline flame but most municipalities that I
|know of have fire codes that prohibit the storage of gasoline in ANY 
|container in a public dwelling...not to mention that its just damn STOOPID!
| 
|Okay - you want to work on your bike in your appartment?  Take the tank off.

Some of us don't have the luxury of a garage in which to keep said gas tank.
And a moto gas tank sitting out on the apartment complex lawn is not likely
to stay there for any length of time.

Generally, if I have to bring in a gas tank, I either empty it into the
tank of the cage first, or leave it on the balcony.  Many people don't
have THAT luxury either, though.  Anyway, it is a patently good idea to
empty the gas tank before rolling the bike indoors.  And don't forget those
floats.  Motorcycle carbs are notorious for giving off gas fumes, and those
fumes are not only bad for you to breathe long term, but don't like gas
stoves and water heaters AT ALL.

I have thought of taking along a quart or so of gasoline as an emergency
fuel when I go on long tours.  What is the net.consensus on what would be the
best container for that, and where it would be best to put the container.
The best thought I have is one of those spun aluminum camp fuel bottles,
strapped somewhere on the back of the motorcycle.  

I carry a three-fuel camp stove when I travel, but usually empty it and let 
it dry before I strap it on the back.  I wonder if just leaving that full 
of gas would be safe?  It's pretty sturdy.

(And I just know someone is going to suggest the classic gas trasportation
container; an empty beer bottle. :-)

Oh, and for the North American Challenged :s/gasoline/petrol/g

Dave Svoboda (svoboda@void.rtsg.mot.com)    | "I just can't take
90 Concours 1000 (Mmmmmmmmmm!)              |  this weird shit
84 RZ 350 (Ring Ding) (Woops!)              |  before breakfast!"
AMA 583905  DoD #0330  COG 939  (Chicago)   |   -- Evo Woman
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: Bob.Smith@launchpad.unc.edu (Bob Smith)
Subject: 1988 Kawasaki Ninja 750R for sale
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:26:05 GMT


Here's the details:

	New condition
	1900 miles
	Price new now:  $6200
	Price:		$3990

	Price includes $500 Aerostitch riding suit, 2 helmets (1 Bell),
	5 channel Maxxon 2 person communicator set, and $100 cover.

	Absolutely mint/as-new condition.

	Location: 	Huntsville, Alabama

	Contact:	Tracey Reynolds
			(205)971-3173
			(205)837-7647 (Home)

Email sent to this account will be forwarded to him.

later,
-bob

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From: phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Phil Stone)
Subject: Re: GTS1000A; RADD front suspension
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr, Calif.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:38:44 GMT

In article <22879@venera.isi.edu> jwills@ISI.EDU (Jerry Wills) writes:
>
>	As for the boxer, It does look like a bike....... from the 30's
>
>			Jerry Wills 

Jerry knows whereof he speaks...he has has much opportunity to study
the outline of a boxer...

FROM BEHIND!  :-)


 Phil Stone         (phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov | ...ames!eos!phil)
 '83 R80ST               DoD #95              "Motorcycles OK"


P.S.  Jerry is also the craziest m'f'er that ever put two way-overloaded
wheels to the dirt, if you ask me.
From: labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Shaft effect, What is it?
Date: 7 Nov 92 02:01:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: emoryu1.1336
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


	Apparently in one issue of Cycle World, there is a side note
	about a Bike Hacker being able to get rid of shaft affect by
	placing a universal joint at both ends of the shaft...

				Ryan
From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: DoD
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:47:34 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

njb (Neil@swamp.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Can anybody tell a newcomer WTH Do means?

'Do' is usually found at the beginning of a loop in some computer langauges.
Generally it is qualified with a 'While' or 'Until' or some similar conditional
statement to end the loop.
--

*******************************************************************************
* Bill Ranck                                          ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu *
* DoD #496  Bikes past and present: CB175, CB550F, Norton 750, CB350F, XV535  *
*******************************************************************************
From: marrevola@iris-dcp.es
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: How long for a DoD?
Date: 12 Nov 92 09:38:13 +0100
Organization: REDIRIS, Red Nacional de I+D

DoD guys, How long the KotL for a DoD?

manolo@taf.fundesco.es
ZX-11
DR-600-S


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From: quiniou@bnr.ca (Henri Quiniou)
Subject: trip to South America
Reply-To: quiniou@bnr.ca (Henri Quiniou)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:13:45 GMT


I'm planning a 2 months trip to go down to south America  next summer, and I'm looking for advices, so anybody who knows about the folowing matters (or wathever your imagination suggests) just POST IT (I don't have e-mail, sorry):

   -for what make of motorcycle can I find dealers there (maintenance and final       sale);
   -is there alsphalt roads all the way south (I know Mexico has, but further         south?); 
   -suggested months for travelling there (temperature, rain...);
   -any major obstacle (I know you can't cross Amazonia, but what about Panama,       Nicaragua,...);
   -is there any road maps (I've seen geographical maps, but no Rand                  MacNally or Michelin-like road maps);

Any information (addresses, phone num), advice or personnal impressions are welcome.

PLEASE POST, I DON'T HAVE e-MAIL!

Henri Quiniou
Elgin Business Inn
180 MacLaren
Ottawa, Ont.
Canada
K2P 0L3
From: zebee@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Zebee Johnstone)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: motorcycles
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:55:55 GMT
Organization: The University of Adelaide
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.itd.adelaide.edu.au

rxkgre@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Geof Evans) writes:

>SJT5@lafibm.lafayette.edu (SJT5000) writes:

>>Can anyone help a novice?  What type of things should I look for
>>when purchasing a motorcycle?

>>                    Thanks,
>>                     John

>***> Wheels.               

Geez, Ed was right, this business of smartarse answers to novice questions
is getting very old.
  
Possibly folks were more intelligent in email, but I doubt it.
  
Looking for a bike:
  
Standard wisdom says that buying a bike comes in 2 parts - deciding on the
type/make/model and then finding a good one.
  
When buying a second hand bike, you need to make sure it is roadworthy,
and that not much needs replacing.  A bike with not much tread on the tyres
and a very slack chain is going to eat up a couple of hundred bucks
right there.
  
THe usual reply to a question like this is "take someone who knows".  I'd
add that if you can't, check out your local library for books o
motorcycling.  MOst of them have a section on how to inspect a secondhand
bike.  YOu should also look at lots of different
bikes so you can get a feel for when a chain is too slack, how much tread
should be on tyres, etc.

-- 
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     Zebee Johnstone  DoD #605   | You don't own an Italian motorcycle 
     Adelaide City Council       |  - you merely have the privilege 
    zebee@itd.adelaide.edu.au    |    of paying its bills.... 
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