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From: cdw2t@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Clifford David Weston)
Subject: Re: Personal to Datasbuild
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:54:21 GMT

In article <moseley.39.712602520@u.washington.edu> moseley@u.washington.edu (Steve L. Moseley) writes:
>>Nick          DoD 1069   (Self given number as I have no Email use and 
>>                          therefore no access to KOTL).

>To make up for it, I'll 
>personally EMAIL the KotL and officially request your number for you. I've 
>never done this, I hope they won't have to kill me. 

NOTICE:  you're dead.  return all pieces to the gamemaster at this time.

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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: kkw@wam.umd.edu (Katarina Wong O'Gara)
Subject: Advice Needed -- Tires for K-100 RS 16
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:01:02 GMT

After 7,500 short miles, the Michelin tires on my 91 K-100 RS 16-valve are
close to shot -- even the front tire!  The exact tire model is A 59 in the
front, and M 59 in the rear.  I have no complaints agaist the tires, 
except the high cost and need to replace once a season.

After asking  around at dealers, etc, I am now looking at replacing them
with Dunlop Sportmaxes or possibly Metzler ME-33 (front) and ME-55 (rear).

Advice please!  Which of these two is best?  Is either?  I'm leaving for
a 2,000 mile ride out to New Mexico in < 3 weeks, so not only is time of
the essence, tread wear is also!

Thanks for any assistance.  Email and  I will summarize for the net.
-- 
  James F.X. O'Gara
  kkw@wam.umd.edu

P.S.  I don't usually leave postscriptums, but I'll make this an exception.
From: sandy@beeker.cs.umass.edu (Sandy Wise)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Tires: Metzler 55a vs 99a
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:00:15 GMT
Reply-To: wise@cs.umass.edu
Organization: Organization?  I thought entropy would take care of that...
In-reply-to: patlo@microsoft.com's message of 29 Jul 92 00:03:19 GMT

Rider info:
        Scoot: '84 Nighthawk S
        Riding style: I cannot call myself fast. I seldom drag pegs
                      I do have a twisty 25 mile commute to work, do
                      some rec riding, and do a lot of 70mph slabbing.

When I bought the bike, it had a ME99 rear, and a friend with an RZ350
has used a couple of them as well. Experience with the 99 is that is
wears badly. About 2000mi into the tire, we have both found the tread
wearing such that leaning the tire results a wobble that is not there
when the tire is new. For me you could explain it away as not enough
lean, for him that doesn't wash.

Last year, I replaced the 99 with a 55. I got about 7000 miles out of
the tire. I rode it to Canada in July and came back with it so bald
that you could no longer see the center tread line.  It still had good
grip. Both tires warm up quickly and are stable in the rain.
        /s
--
Alexander Erskine Wise /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Software Development Laboratory
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ WISE@CS.UMASS.EDU /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
\/\/\ This situation calls for large amounts of unadulterated CHOCOLATE! /\/\/\
From: bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (William E. Johns)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: tire mounting
Keywords: help
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:36:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Jul21.203608.3711
Distribution: na
Organization: Washington State University
Originator: bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu

So I go wandering off to Portland for a long weekend and miss a
very interesting thread on tire mounting.  If someone saved all this
info, could you please send it to me at johnsw@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu  .

Thanks,

Bill

________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: cookson@mbunix.mitre.org (Cookson)
Subject: Re: Shoei Safety Helmet Corp.
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:57:42 GMT

In article <4910@gdls.UUCP> parker@gdls.UUCP (The Dougster) writes:
>In article <1992Jul9.235203.17263@serval.net.wsu.edu>, bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (William E. Johns) writes:
>>                                                                              
>> I called Shoei [ (213) 477-6051] and asked how much it would cost to          
>> check over my helmet.  They said "No Charge, just send it in."   Ok, I          
>I thought Shoei went bankrupt!
>
Since when has that meant that they had to stop doing business.  All it means
is that they were having trouble meeting their debt repayment schedule, and
want court protection/help in restructuring it.

Dean
-- 
| Dean Cookson / dcookson@mitre.org / 617 271-2714    | DoD #207  AMA #573534 |
| The MITRE Corp. Burlington Rd., Bedford, Ma. 01730  | KotNML  /  KotB       |
| "Nothing is as over rated as a bad fuck or as       | '81 CB750C            |
| under rated as a good shit" -Laszlo Nemeth, DoD #666| '88 Bianchi Limited   |
From: laurie@halfdome.sf.ca.us (Laurie Abbott)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Tshirt.gif
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:22:21 GMT
Organization: DFWM, Inc

In article <1992Jul21.145231.25665@i88.isc.com>, jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
> In article <1992Jul20.202301.11351@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ksmith@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Kevin Smith) writes:
>>In article 207@halfdome.sf.ca.us, laurie@halfdome.sf.ca.us (Laurie Abbott) writes:

>>>GGOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGG!!!  yamahas make pianos, and damn fine ones
>>>at that.  but thank you for playing manufacturing trivia!
>> 
>>Yamaha makes not only pianos but mediocre musical instruments of all shapes
>>and sizes. Guitars, brass, woodwinds............
> 
> Them's fightin' words, mistuh!
> 
> Maybe we should create rec.motorcycles.king or rec.motorcycles.selmer
> for those who don't like Japanese band instruments.

rec.motorcycles.hammond.organ.  it has poser pipes :-)

-- laurie
____________________________________________________________________
"Never underestimate the ability of a man to underestimate the abil-
ity of a woman."                                   --V.I. Warshawski

laurie@halfdome.sf.ca.us                                   DoD #0023
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: aki@nimbus@UUNET.UU.NET
Subject: Re: GATO Camera From Hell (tm)
Organization: The World Bank
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:30:05 GMT

In article <14717.89.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave
Williams)  writes:
>
>-> Warning to UK bikers: Where the M4 (Highway to Hell (tm)) joins
>-> London (Hell (tm)), the filth have put one of their f**king
>-> little boxes.  It is on the incoming side, on the left, just
>-> where the limit goes from 70 to 50!
>
> Back in the 1960s the state of Texas tested a photo-radar system called
>ORBIS.  It worked for about a month, until the Texans discovered spray
>paint, mud, or fecal matter worked fine to cover the lens.
>
> The police wound up staking out the boxes for a while, but they
>eventually decided that if the cop had to be there anyway, he might as
>well write the tickets too.
>
> Every now and then some state in the US tries photo-radar again, but
>they don't seem to last long.  The most successful variants have used
>mobile units mounted in vans.
>                                                                              
       
>
That reminds me of an article in the Washington Post a few months back.
Seems the local "federales" wanted to test the photo radar on the beltway.
Where, I might add, EVERYONE either does 70 + or less than 30 mph, depending on
the hour of the day.  They set up the photo equipment on a popular stretch of
the beltway well known for the high speeds most people
drive just before/after rush hour.  Needless to say, because everyone was
going well over the posted speed limit of 55 , the CAMERA RAN OUT OF FILM
IN LESS THAN TEN MINUTES.  In fact the police stated that the camera had to
take some many pictures that even after they reloaded the film, the shutter
jammed and completely locked up.  The "experiment" was a complete failure.
The police recommended an either looking at alternate methods of traffic
enforcement (radar traps etc) or more reliable, high film volume cameras.
In the end, they finally just decided to can the entire idea.  Can you
imagine what the DoD could do if we all rode the min DoD speed spaced about
a 100 yds apart past one of those cameras?  Heh heh...;)

-aki
DoD#0628


Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: Siddharth.Soni@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Siddharth Soni)
Subject: Re: winter bike storage tips
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:12:06 GMT

>>   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
>>     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 
>
>I haven't been through a full winter here yet, but I'm pretty sure you
>don't need to put the bike away!
>
>It's not like you're in Boulder or something...
>
 just use the unc bbs to post, I'm actually in NY
is that storage file you sent me going to be in the FAQ?
 bet a lot of people could utilize it.


Sidd, Virago, DoD#9199
 
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Slagle)
Subject: Re: Helmet laws, abortions and why national health care is a Bad Idea.
Reply-To: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com
In-reply-to: rblander@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca's message of Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:01:51 GMT
Organization: You wouldn't ask this if you'd seen my desk.
	<21642@sybase.sybase.com> <Bs2A73.638@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 06:27:16 GMT

In article <Bs2A73.638@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>, rblander@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Robyn Landers) writes:

> We also spend less per capita on health care than the 
> American system does, with better overall treatment for patients.

If you remove all the elective and cosmetic surgery from
the "cost to society" of medical care in the US, all the
tummy tucks and breast enlargement/reduction and liposuction
and so forth, then we probably pay less.

> Now, there is a lot of "cross border shopping" for specialized
> medical procedures that have huge waiting lists here, because in
> America, if you are rich, you can buy your own health care 
> without delay, which is nice.

"Nice", certainly, and life-saving in many cases.  But you don't
need to be "rich", just middle-class and/or insured.

> On the other hand, if you are poor
> in Canada, you still receive decent treatment, whereas if you are poor
> in the USA you die on the sidewalk outside the Emergency room
> because they won't let you in with an empty wallet.

Bullshit.  Find me one major hospital in the US that has a policy
of turning away trauma cases on the basis of the patient's wallet.
--
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slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com                       Sunnyvale, CA   94088
408-756-0895                                   USA
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Minimalist biking (was: Re: Dead Sidestand switch
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:37:50 GMT

 egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) writes:

>In article 12656@gandalf.rutgers.edu, kcchu@gandalf.rutgers.edu (The Beach Bum) writes:
>>
>>Yeah, what a good Idea, while I'm at it , why don't I get rid of the
>>turnsignal indicators, the oil light, the temp. gauge, and the
>>headlight out light. And while I am at it I'll put and on and off
>>switch on my headlight to save power! Real bikers don't need gauges
>>and lights, 

>I know you're being sarcastic, but there is a complete school of
>thought among motorcyclists that believes exactly that (with the
>possible exception of the turn lights).  They would also remove the
>tach, and the netural indicator, probably the speedometer/odometer if
>legal.

>How about it?  What is the minimum instrumentation or controls
>necessary/desirable for a motorcycle?

	My '66 Honda CA-160 is perfectly street legal.  Tt has a speedo,
a neutral indicator, and a high-beam indicator.  Anything more would
detract from it, in my opinion.  My '74 750 has non-stock tach, speedo,
and soon will sport oil pressure, ammeter, voltmeter, and oil temp in
addition to the regular light set.  That's the minimum for that bike.

>You gadget-freaks, what is the benefit of a 747 cockpit on a bike?

	There isn't one that I can think of (rate-of-turn indicator?
Artificial horizon?  Altimeter?  Yech!).  Layout is much more important
than what nifty gauges you have.  Tach on right, speedo on left.  Upper
right is oil pressure, upper left is oil temp.  Voltmeter and ammeter
are lower right and left, respectively.  My peripheral vision allows
the checking of oil as I ride and when I glance down, and if I get the
time I'll check the electrics.  Easy.

	Above all else, idiot lights for vital functions must be either
1) removed, or 2) backup systems for real analog gauges.

<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"There'll be angels on Ariels in leather>
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | and chrome, Ridin' down from heaven    >
<viking@iastate.edu      | just to carry me home." -- R. Thompson >
< ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee. >
From: ps3p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Peter A. Simon)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Daughters of the Dust
Date: 26 Jul 92 19:38:37 GMT
Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

This appeared on cmu.misc.market

>Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:35:23 -0400 
>From: "Carol A. Buckner" <cb30+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>Subject: Daughters of the Dust
> 
>Don't know if this the right place for this post, but I need help.  I
>need a video copy of the above movie ASAP.  I'm really want to see this
>movie.  It aired on PBS the other night and I missed it.  I wasn't aware
>it was going to be on.  Anyone out there record it that wouldn't mind
>loaning the tape to me or recording it to a tape of mine?  Respond to
>this account if so.  Thanks.
> 
>Carol Buckner
>Carnegie Mellon University 
>            
>Trivia is so unimportant, but if we had none what would we talk about?
> 
>"Fasten your seat belts.  It's going to be a bumpy ride."--Bette Davis

Is the above mentioned "Daughters of the Dust" the ladies' dirt bike
auxilliary of the DoD?

-peter

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From: lotto@laura.harvard.edu (Jerry Lotto)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: ERC (was: Get your feet ...)
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:52:36 GMT
	<1992Jul24.043209.11566@cs.cornell.edu>
	<1992Jul24.133138.15520@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
	<1992Jul24.153613.11295@cs.cornell.edu>
Organization: Chemistry Dept., Harvard University
In-reply-to: karr@cs.cornell.edu's message of 24 Jul 92 15:36:13 GMT

>>>>> On 24 Jul 92 15:36:13 GMT, karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) said:
David> In article <1992Jul24.133138.15520@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> crpresto@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Charlie Preston) writes:

David> They teach a no-touch full stop at ERC.

Chas> I'd like to know which exercise that is. I haven't seen it in my manual
Chas> or on the range cards.

MRC:RSS Exercise 26 - Tight U-Turns and Stop-and-Go (see below)

David> Funny thing, though, my memories of the course I took don't match
David> EITHER of the ERC descriptions ("optional" or "new") that I've
David> recently seen posted.  We did swerving exercises at speed (and one of
David> the friends I went with dumped during one of them), they had the
David> business with the instructor giving last minute signals as to which
David> choice you had to make, but it wasn't as elaborate as some of what
David> I've seen described (basically just "right" or "left").

You took the optional ERC.  I thought it might have been a hybrid,
until I looked more carefully at the description above.  You are
describing MRC:RSS exercise 19, part C.  The "new" ERC would not have
been released at that time (first revision - vintage 1989).

The MRC:RSS contains 11 optional exercises that many people never see.
Four are designed for remediation and practice.  One of these
(Exercise 22 - Offset Weaving) is often used at the start of the
second range session for "warm-up".  Four more are an intermediate
evaluation that can be used to determine the need for additional basic
skill development.  Some states (Connecticut for example) require this
evaluation to be administered.  The last three address advanced skills
and can be used at the end of a course if time and fatigue factors
permit.  They include:

MRC:RSS Exercise 26 - Tight U-Turns and Stop-and-Go
	S-turns in an 18' wide box and stop-and-go with feet up.

MRC:RSS Exercise 27 - Decreasing Radius Turns
	Left and right handed decreasing radius spirals.

MRC:RSS Exercise 28 - Surmounting Obstacles
	Usually 2x4's and 4x4's.

There is no reason I know of that would prevent these exercises from
being offered at the end of an ERC.
--
Jerry Lotto <lotto@lhasa.harvard.edu>      "Have you hugged the curves today?"
Chemistry Dept., Harvard Univ.              MSFCI, HOGSSC, BCSO, AMA, DoD #18
From: dboyd@informix.com (Diana Boyd)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Harley riders waved !!!
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:18:29 GMT
Reply-To: dboyd@informix.com
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <ceOkCy200Uh_M3DjFH@andrew.cmu.edu> ps3p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Peter A.  
Simon) writes:
> 


> Excuse me, who are you speaking for?  I do not consider riders of 883s
> either "Harley Dudes" or "bikers." Harley posers, more like it...

FLAME BAIT ALERT!!

I think Peter is just trying to get a rise out of me! I haven't been very  
active on-line lately.

By the way, I consider myself a "Harley Dude", a "biker", AND a "poser", as  
well as a lot of other things.

Diana
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: ck@iconix.oz.au (Chris Karadaglis)
Subject: Re: winter bike storage tips
Organization: Iconix Pty Ltd (World Headquarters)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:06:46 GMT

In <1992Jul27.023509.23919@samba.oit.unc.edu> Siddharth.Soni@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Siddharth Soni) writes:

>As the end of my 1st riding season approaches, I've started to give 
>some thought to the proper storage of a bike for the winter.  

>I've heard various pieces of advice, some of which are conflicting:

>carbs: drain them?
>gas tank: keep it empty(rust?) or full?

Water usually sits under the petrol - from condensation etc.
I`ve Kreemed my tank. I guess the other thing to do is to flush it and 
spray it with a thick oil - any comments? (I`ve never tried this, but
it seems reasonable)

>cylinders: put a little oil directly in SP hole?
>tires: ??
>battery: remove? tricke charge?

definately remove.

>Should the bike be started periodically?

One thing you should do is cover the exhaust holes. I had to
rebuild my engine because water (well, actually, a flood)
ran up the pipes and into my motor. Sitting there for 5 months -
did a lot of damage.

>I think this issue should be addressed, so does anyone have 
>any comments on any of these or any other common procedures?

>Share your experiences, Sidd

Shckwish!
RG250FH Walter Wolf Racing rep.
"I've got my baby back!"

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>     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: rblander@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Robyn Landers)
Subject: Ontario DoD ride this weekend!
Keywords: let's go riding
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: ont
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:09:34 GMT


[Distribution set to Ontario, so if you're outside Ontario and see this,
 don't bug me -- some machine between yours and mine is ignoring
 the Distribution field.]


	Hey, you rec.motorcyclists in southern Ontario, let's
go for a ride on Monday!

	I propose that people in the Waterloo area gather,
and people in the Toronto area gather, and the two groups ride up to
Orangeville, meet, and go for a spin through the Hockley Valley
and Forks of the Credit a few times.   (If you've never been
up there, it's *really* nice.  Even if you have, it's still
really nice :-)

	So, Ed Grackle (oops I mean Walker), Jody Levine and S.O.,
RJ White, you guys over at NCR with the Fazers, Rosi "the Terror
of Toronto (tm)", Matt Kwiecien, and perhaps even DoD #0001 himself, 
and everyone else whose name I've forgotten, whaddya say?   (
I remember Keith Hanlan and Scott Pace too, but it's a bit much to
expect you to ride down from Ottawa and back in one day.)
Send me mail and I'll coordinate.



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Robyn                              | "Any profit should go to Arnie's `get the
rblanders@math.uwaterloo.ca        |  daemon carved on Mount Rushmore' fund."
Den0051,  KotV4                    |       - Marty Albini, DOD0550
VF750S Sabre (his) FZX750 Fazer (hers)
From: egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Right Coast Ride is a GO
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:24:36 GMT
Reply-To: egreen@East.Sun.COM
Distribution: world
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
NNTP-Posting-Host: laser.east.sun.com

The First Annual DoD Right Coast Ride will happen this Saturday, 7/25,
culminating in a campout at the High Country Cycle Camp off the Blue
RIdge Parkway near Boone, NC.  37 Denizens are confirmed to date.

If you wish to take part in this historic non-event, e-mail
Ed.Green@East.Sun.COM immediately.  I will be buying food in a few
days, so I'd like as accurate an accounting as possible.

The plan is to ride in, meet up, swap lies, drink beer, munch BBQ,
laugh at the Boulder and Bay Area DoD, do donuts, terrorize a few
nearby towns, write some shell scripts, and crash.  There will be
separate DP trail rides and twisty street rides Sun. morning, or maybe
not.  Nobody knows.  

The ride is open.  You do not have to be a member of the DoD to
attend.  You do not have to ride a motorcycle.  You do not have to
contribute to the Roid Legal Defense Fund.  You do have to contribute
to the RCR food fund (<$10), and pay for your plot ($8/solo,
$12/couple).

No rules.   Live to Flame.  Flame to Live.

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  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...