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From: mayer@sono.uucp (Ron Mayer)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: GATO Camera From Hell (tm)
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:36:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California



People write:
}[reasons why photo radar failed]
} [photo radar cameras running out of film]
} [people stealing the systems]
} [cops and politicians actually getting tickets]

Here's the most interesting one I've seen (a while ago):

In misc.legal <18515@oasys.dt.navy.mil> tdsmith@oasys.dt.navy.mil worte:
>Subject: Re: Photo Radar to be used in New Jersey
>
>    I believe they had photo-radar as a trial program in Virginia.
>I also believe they had to stop because of vandalism with high powered
>rifles.  Looks like the second amendment was a good idea after all.

    Ron Mayer	          "Tb.Leather saddles [and motorcycle seats?]
    (mayer@acuson.com)        used to be treated with llama dung"
    DoD#556                        -from alt.folklore.urban FAQ
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: Minimalist biking (was: Re: Dead Sidestand switch
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:02:53 GMT

egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) writes:
>How about it?  What is the minimum instrumentation or controls
>necessary/desirable for a motorcycle?

Clutch, brakes, gas. No tach, spedo, clock, lights, or turn signals.
At least for a dirt bike. Extra weight, and you'll either break them off
or just ignore them anyways. Unless you're one of those superhuman
enduro riders that carries more instrumentation than your average 747.

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

Entertainment center for those boring stretches of highway? :-)
The FJ has spedo, tach, gas gauge, and idjut lights. As long as there
are cops, I'll keep the spedo. The tach is nice when redline is swinging
near, with no rev limiter and a smooth engine, you need some sort of
heart monitor. The gas gauge gives you something to watch when you're
crossing Nevada, that and the tripmeter. That leaves idiot lights. Left
& right turn? Yea nice to have since they don't self-cancel. High beam?
Rather useless, at night you can tell if high beam is on, in daylight
it's too dim to see. Fuel? Why bother when there's a gas gauge? Oil
level? Sure, but oil temp/pressure gauges would be more useful. Neutral?
Not really necessary, but why not? Sidestand kill switch? Well, I
wouldn't base a bike purchase on the presence or absence of the thing,
but it never gets in the way, so why not?
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland        580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com  uunet!javelin.sim.es.com!blgardne  BIX: blaine_g
Dumper of Dirtbikes #46       My other motorcycle is a Quadracer.      FJ1200
From: cookson@mbunix.mitre.org (Cookson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Going to the RCR
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:51:19 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA


I'm heading out for the RCR tomorrow morning.  See those of you
who are going, there.  Talk to the rest of you when I get
back.

Dean

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| 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   |
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From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: Dead Sidestand switch
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:48:46 GMT

On my K (Flying Brick) the clutch and sidestand are mechanically linked.  You
can't pull the clutch in when the bike is leaning on the sidestand and if it's
not, then the sidestand is pulled up when the clutch lever is pulled.

Two little smirks for you:

Many (many) years ago, I was working in an electrical installation company.  My
workmate had an RD200 and decided to fit a sidestand ignition kill switch.  The
next day, he was half an hour late to work.  It turned out that he had fitted
said switch the prior evening.  His route to work was over the Marlborough 
Downs (Wiltshire), a lovely set of country roads with great views, but not
very smooth, the word 'undulating' springs to mind.  Anyway, as he drove along,
every bump caused his sidestand to move and his ignition to die, the bike to 
slow down, the sidestand to moce back again and the ignition to be reconnected.
Unfortunately the frequency was large and the period was small of this ever so
slightly annoying occurrence and by the time my mate got to work, he was a 
foaming apeman!  Of course, he'd not got any tools with him and so had to wait
until he got to work til he could RIP the switch off, THROW it on the floor, 
and then POUND it into a million bits with the largest lump hammer we had!  It
still makes me chuckle when I think of it now, I can still see him jumping up
and down, smashing the bits of that switch ever deeper into the tarmac with an
enormous lump hammer!

I was reading a bike mag' a few years ago, some despatch rider had written in 
saying that he was riding around a large roundabout in London, when the
steering lock on his MZ250 clicked into place!!!!!!  He just sighed, lifted 
his right leg up and waited for the crash.......  He got off very lightly but,
needless to say, when he got back onto his MZ, he made sure that the lock had
been well and truly drilled out!   (Nightmare stuff!)


Nick              DoD 1069

42 ?

"Just another Britt in the wall"
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From: ck@iconix.oz.au (Chris Karadaglis)
Subject: Re: winter bike storage tips
Organization: Iconix Pty Ltd (World Headquarters)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:10:35 GMT

In <1992Jul27.125231.1625@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> ryang@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Robert H. Yang) writes:

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

[stuff deleted]

>     Here is my procedure for storing the bike :


>   8. Cover bike, to keep sun away, if outdoors.  Check on it occasionally
>      to see that kids, insects, etc. haven't done anything.
                        ^ dogs,

(my doggie ate my seat and wiring. This is while my knees were healing, so
I couldn't kick her very far :-)

>   6. Wail on that thang! :-)

Amen.

>Hope it helps.
>-- 
>Robert H. Yang               | DoD # 0593
>Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.	     | '92 CBR600F2 "It hisses on snakes."
>RYANG@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU | AMA # 642916

>   "Society cannot change until persons change.  We have hope for the
>    future because we have seen persons change." - from "I'm OK, You're OK"

Shckwish!
From: sai@formula1.Corp.Sun.COM (S.Fielding-Isaacs [WWFO Pubs Project Lead])
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Why have 2 throttle cables?
Date: 21 Jul 92 00:56:51 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: formula1.corp.sun.com

In article <1992Jul20.191401.26338@news.Hawaii.Edu> keller@hubble.ifa.hawaii.edu (Tim Keller) writes:
>In article <l6c6k5INN4p6@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> sai@formula1.Corp.Sun.COM (S.Fielding-Isaacs [WWFO Pubs Project Lead]) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul16.151715.12876@bnr.ca> space@bwdlh522.bnr.ca (Scott Pace) writes:
>>>
>>>Any one know why there are 2 cables?
>>
>> Hmmm... safety. One push, one pull. You can just remove the push
>> (and we do on racebikes).
>
>Just exactly how is a cable able to "push" anything???

 Depending on the cable, how it is supported along its length,
 and what its pushing it can be done with some ease. I'm afraid
 that you haven't examined too many of these mechanisms or the
 answer would be obvious.

>How about "open" and "close"

 How about about "push" and "pull". That's what they're called..

 S.
--
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From: vijay@tcnts2.tcs.com (Vijay Manwani)
Subject: 86, Yamaha RADIAN, 600 v/s 84, Nighthawk 650 Recommendations
Organization: Teknekron Communications, Inc
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:21:06 GMT


I am still on the look out for my first bike. Any opinions on the 86,
YAMAHA RADIAN 600 ? It has
	
	1) 20K miles on it 
	2) for $1800
	3) Says he has replaced the shocks with something better
	4) Has a chain drive, weights about 350 lbs

Could you bike gurus tell me 

	1) How this compares with a 84 Nighthawk 650 
	2) How is the bike for maintanance, valves tuneup, etc
	3) Is this a general purpose bike
	4) Can I do long rides on it
	5) How many more miles is this bike good for ??

The guy is also throwing in 2 helmets, a tank bang, and some other stuff.
From: blu@cellar.org (Dan Reed)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Question - Old Hondas - 360's
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:00:16 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

I have a bike, that acording to the frame, is a 72' 350, all fine and dandy.

Wrong,

The engine is a CB 360 Twin, acording to Clymer, this engine was made from 
74-77.  The Bike *looks* like a 74 CB 360, but the frame says otherwise.

The bike runs fine, and if I trused cagers here in NJ, I'd take it out, but 
for now, it makes a fun trail bike, looks new too.  Any idea whats it worth? 
Ive never seen this bike before..

just wondering..

----- 
 Dan Reed (Blu-Max) blu@cellar.org - AutoCad Geek - VW Lover - InlineSkater 
68' Cougar, 89 VW Golf, 72 Honda CB 360Twin.. what next?
From: mvij@novell.com (Manish Vij)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Parental riding permission (Encouragement/Discouragement.)
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:38:21 GMT
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, California

In article <rhdmj4q.shoun@netcom.com> shoun@netcom.com (Lissa Shoun) writes:
>My folks didn't even bat an eyelid when I told them I was now into
>motorcycles. Of course, I'm $!x years old (damn noise hits!) so I 
>should be able to make these kinds of decisions on my own. I did start
>preparing them almost 20 years ago by taking up skydiving. Throw in
>piloting small aircraft, a little scuba diving, a touch of rock climbing,
>jumping off of stationary objects (with a parachute), quitting jobs 
>without regular employment lined up, drinking
>alcoholic beverages, not attending church and
>similar sorts of stuff, and you won't have any trouble either. I sure hope
>that wingwalking job comes through for me.
>
>Lissa

That's a damn good idea!  I think I'll hint to my parents that the
hang-gliding bug that bit me last year is back with a vengeance. LATER
I'll tell them about the motorcycle.

Manish
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Subject: Re: Anyone got a saucer helmet? (was: Re: More Helmet Stuff)
From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Date: 27 Jul 92 09:25:00 GMT
Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059


-> "Whatever they feel about it (the helmet law), those bastards are
-> going to be wearing helmets for the rest of their lives."
->
-> We'll miss you, too, Dick.

 Lance Holst may have to share the Jerk position.


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can you help me...help me get out of this place?...slow sedation...
ain't my style, ain't my pace...giving me a number...NINE, SEVEN, EIGHT
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Confirmation of what we already knew
From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:47:00 GMT
Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059


-> From the report of the Victorian Social Development Committee
-> on Motorcycle Safety *

 What the fuck do *they* know?


-> "Surveys indicate that the Australian is:
->
->      - Indifferent to road safety issues

 Hey, I like that.

->      - Unconcerned about motorcycles as a safety issue

 Even better!

->      - Likely to label motorcycle riders as deviant; andd

 From the country which brought us "Mad Max" and "The Road Warrior?"
I thought *all* Australians drove like that?

->      - Ignorant of the opinions of motorcycle riders

 Well, I don't care for deviants either.

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can you help me...help me get out of this place?...slow sedation...
ain't my style, ain't my pace...giving me a number...NINE, SEVEN, EIGHT
(Nazareth)               XJ900 TURBO at 15psi          DoD# 978  KotFAQ
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: spindler@emr1.emr.ca (Chris Spindler)
Subject: Re: Question on rain suit
Summary: Vinyl
Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:49:30 GMT

In article <1992Jul16.194630.21051@bnrmtl.bnr.ca> sproulx@bmtlh182.BNR.CA (Stephane Proulx) writes:

>which allow air circulation and provide a certain isolation
>against the cold.

I favour vinyl.  Cheap, ugly, etc.  The advantage is that if
you go down your raingear will get shredded and vinyl suits
are cheap ($8 to $40 depending on the number of pockets)

Canadian Tire has some perfectly adequate suits for $8.

Vinyl does insulate against the cold and wind but (obviously)
does not breathe.  On cold wet days I find that the latter
property doesn't bother me.

As for comfort, I wear the vinyl over full leathers.

>What about leather (pants) ?

They get soaked - takes longer than denim but happens anyway.

-- 
                  Chris Spindler - Seismologist @ Large       
   '86 Ninja 1000R   - - - - - - - -  o    Never ascribe to malice       
   '91 550 Zephyr  - - - - - - - -  _/\_>    what is easily explained    
    DoD #6371    - - - - - - - -   O,> / O     by stupidity.
From: erika@znext.uucp (erik astrup)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Kawasaki Ninja 600R Question
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:21:00 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: pnet
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

uzn10@ccc.amdahl.com (Uday Naik) writes:
: Hi everyone:
: 
: 	Another newbie question.
: 
: 	I found a Ninja 600R 2K Miles on it. ('86)
: 	It has a dent on its fuel tank and scratches on plastic.
: 	Asking rate $2700 - may be with the helmet.
: 
: 	For my height ( 5'3") I found it little bit too high. So I was
: 	just wondering if it is possible to get the suspension lowered
: 	an inch or two on the back wheel OR anything else that can be done
: 	to have my feet flat on the ground.
: 
: 	Could someone plese give me some pointers ? Also is the price
: 	OK ? ( He may go about $200 down )
: 
: 	There is also another Ninja ('85) with 21000miles on it.
: 	Asking rate $1700. Little dent on the tank & few scratches.
: 	How's the price ?
: 
: 	Thanks in advance.
: 
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From: CHERA@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (ARMSTRONG,Roy)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,aus.news,aus.general
Subject: Re: Australian motorcyclists - do we need our own group?
Date: 27 Jul 92 23:18:23 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.22

In <brent.711170187@coffeeshop> brent@socs.uts.edu.au (Disco Inferno Curtis) writes:
 
>Hello All,
>     I'm finding it impossible to keep track of rec.motorcycles. 
>An aus.bike or aus.motorcycles (or aus.temporary :-) could be
>extremely useful. How many oz.bikers are there? It would be better
>to read articles about oz roads than us ones. So much of rec.motorcycles
>is useless.
 
>Opinions?
 
Wouldn't rec.motorcycles.aus be an "easier to find" heading, 
and what about our friends from across the Tasman on the 
East Islands, rec.motorcycles.aus.nz may be even better.

Safe riding Roy.
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From: mick@maxine.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan)
Subject: Re: Helmet laws (was: Re: Anyone...saucer...(was: Re: More...))
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:34:35 GMT

Somewhere, Sometime, Thus Spake Pooder@vnet.ibm.com, but I can't receive e-mail, so forget it.  :
:-
:- I don't think telling other riders what to do is a good idea, unless what 
:- they're doing is interfering with my rights. 
:- 

	when the man speaks, he speaks sense.


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From: jackr@thorodin.dazixco.ingr.com (Jack Reed)
Subject: Radar Detectors: Best Prices?
Reply-To: jackr@thorodin.dazixco.ingr.com
Organization: Dazix
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:13:36 GMT

Howdy all and sundry,

In looking for the best pricing for motorcycle oriented detectors, about the
best pricing (and product) I've been able to locate so far has been the new or
reconditioned Solo from Damark for $189. Anyone have any other preferences,
prices or products?

Jack
From: txd@ESD.3Com.COM (Tom Dietrich)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Pooder returns ...
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:46:10 GMT

pooder@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Don Fearn) writes:

>Like I tell my kids, "If you're not going
>to like the answer, don't ask".

Funny, that's what I tell my mom now......

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From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Why have 2 throttle cables?
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:46:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: i88.1992Jul21.134631.24199
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL

In article <1992Jul20.191401.26338@news.Hawaii.Edu> keller@hubble.ifa.hawaii.edu (Tim Keller) writes:
>Just exactly how is a cable able to "push" anything???
>How about "open" and "close"

See my previous post on the subject.

>A friend of mine has a bored out monster Katana and needed to add a 2 cable
>throttle because at speed the  engine pulled such a hard vacuum that the
>throttle would not close. It would take a while to respond to backing off the
>throttle - not exactly what you want at high speeds I guess.

Does anyone besides me think this guy has his throttle plate installed
backwards?  Or has a serious design flaw in said part?
--
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jeq@i88.isc.com                                        Naperville, IL
'71 CL450-K4 "Gleep"  -   "Worth Reposession"
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From: pms@druhi.ATT.COM (Paul M. Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Pro-stock drag bikes
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:21:55 GMT
Distribution: rec

My 7-year-old and I went to the NHRA Mile High National drag races
Friday night to watch qualifying.  As always, the Top Fuel and Funny
Cars were the most awesome thing there, but much to my suprise, for
the first time the Pro-stock bikes were there.  I'd never seen pro
bikes run before, so this was a real treat.  There were probably a
dozen or more bikes.  Vance & Hines was represented, but I couldn't
tell who was riding.  We were on the wrong side of the track to hear
the PA, and I could only catch little bits of the track announcer in
between burnouts and launches.  I _thought_ I heard him say that Byron
Hines was _riding_ the V&H bike.  Does anybody know?

I've seen pictures in the magazines, and read the articles about these
bikes, but seeing them run was something else.  One observation...
they sound like they'd run like crap.  A high-performance car has a
lumpy idle, etc., but still sounds powerful.  When the first pair of
bikes came to the line, the burnout sounded like I expected, but as
the bikes idled, and they walked them into the staging lights, they
really sounded rough.  Not a lumpy, powerful kind of rough, but almost
like they were missing on a couple of cylinders.  I thought there was
a problem, but soon noticed that they all sounded that way.  The roughness
disappeared as soon as the light turned green. 8-)  What a wail!

Unfortunately, a 3.5-hour rain delay set the schedule back so much that
we couldn't stay to see the second round of qualifying for the bikes.
4000 HP nitro cars are great, but we could have watched the bikes all
night long.  Go see them if you get the chance.

--

P.M. Smith
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: wsh8z@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (William Scott Heyman)
Subject: Re: Savage make a beetle sound (question)
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:36:41 GMT

sproulx@bmtlh182.BNR.CA  writes:
> Two days ago, my Savage started to make a metallic sound
> (something like the sound of a VW beetle) on acceleration.
> It will do that independently of the gear (even on neutral).
> The oil looks OK. I didn't notice any difference in the
> global behavior of the bike.
> 
> I have a rather weak knowledge of bike's mechanics. Does
> anybody have an idea of what could cause this noise? 
> 
> Since this bike is minimalist, my idea is that should come
> from the valves, but then, I still don't what to do with it.
> 
> Meanwhile, should I stop riding it ?
> 
> I'm waiting for advices.
> 
> Steph.

You might want to adjust the tension on the various internal chains
(cam chain etc). On my bike you can do this without taking the engine
apart at all. Check the manual (what you don't have the service
manual?)

Will Heyman		UVA Applied Math	wsh8z@virginia.edu
DoD# 638		CB450T Hawk '82		$5 Ultimate

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