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From: paulb@harley.tti.com (Paul Blumstein)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Deerskin gloves and HG Dakar jacket opinions??
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:22:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: ttidca.34597
Organization: Acme Flamethrowers

In article <1992Apr15.031858.15118@Princeton.EDU> bdhepler@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brad D. Hepler) writes:
+Unrelated:  my brother just moved to LA from Portland, and one of the
+things that he remarked on was the "craziness" of the MC riders in Lala
+land.  (He rides too.)  

Oh, so he's seen me :-).

+So is it really not that bad riding in LA
+traffic, or is it just something you get used to? I've been trying to
+persuade him to try some of the famous roads like Angeles Crest, but he
+doesn't seem to be interested in dealing with the traffic.  :-/

It is something that you get used to.  The upside is that because there
are so many bikes here, cages are used to expecting them.  You just have
to be especially careful of out-of-area cages and people on cellular
phones.

I rather enjoy lane-splitting.  It adds excitement to my commutes.

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      I just had my brain washed & now I can't do a thing with it.
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Paul D. Blumstein (DoD #36), Transaction Technology, Inc., Santa Monica, CA  
{philabs,psivax,pyramid,rutgers}!ttidca!paulb  or  paulb@ttidca.TTI.COM
From: jld@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Deeney)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:36:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Forks on CB750F, advice needed
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles

In rec.motorcycles, danb@hp-ptp.ptp.hp.com (Dan Bergmen) writes:

> of someone who has experience such as yours. In my experience, The most
> difficult part was making a tubular tool to press in the new seal. This 
> needs to be done with great care to avoid damage to the seal or fork tube.
> I would try to use something plastic like PVC pipe or something if I were
> you. Study the shop manual carefully for the proper techniques, use your
> ingenuity and you will be fine.

Also, place the old seal on top of the new one when driving them in for
extra protection.  Rather than make your own tool, you might strike a deal
with the guy at the parts counter.  You'll buy your seals from him if he'll
let you use the official slide hammer to drive the seals in.  The guys at
the local Honda shop have done this for free for me before.  YMMV.  It's a
2 minute job with the proper tool. 

-Jeff Deeney-           DoD#0498    NCTR    '88 XR600(Shamu)
jld@hpfcla.fc.hp.com    AMA#540813  COHVCO  '81 CB750F(Need 6mm helicoil kit!)
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We don't stop riding because we careen through a llama ranch and burst into
flames, we stop riding because the damn engine's torn apart and sitting on
the bench in the garage.
From: pyoung@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk (Peter Young)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: New Security Clamp/Pat on Back
Date: 10 Apr 92 09:06:28 GMT
Reply-To: pyoung@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk
Distribution: rec.motorcycles
Organization: British Telecom Labs

From article <2994@cvbnetPrime.COM>, by tjohnson@prep11.prime.com (Tod J Johnson):

	[Tod describes a wacky security clamp thingy]

> 	Thought people might be interested to know such a device
> exists; and was wondering if anyone has experience with this said
> device. I also am eager to keep the motorcycling public informed
> and safe from crime, as it exists everywhere.

Well that's very interesting. Although this device might deter the
casual thief (in the way a cheap padlock through the front disc
might) I can't see how it would help in the usual scenario: 3 guys pick up
the bike and chuck it into the back of a van. OK, it might take 4 or 5
for an Electra Glide or a Wingybago, but who'd want to steal one of those?

At least an alarm would do something. Personally I think the best defence
against theft is to lock the bike to something immoveable, but even that
wont work if the thief is determined.

The biggest incentive for motorcycle theft in the UK is the insurance
companies, who sell wrecked bikes complete with log books as `damaged
repairables', thus giving the thief an instant new identity for a
stolen bike.

Anyway, what are you supposed to do with these clamps when you are
riding around? Will they fit into the executive leather saddle bags?

  ____________________________________________________________________
  Pete Young         pyoung@axion.bt.co.uk        Phone +44 473 645054
             BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, IPSWICH IP5 7RE UK
   "There are two kinds of jazz, and they're both crap" - Alexei Sayle
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: RE: BICYCLE CRASH
From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Date: 11 Apr 92 21:18:00 GMT
Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059

-> >Why do cars need to honk when they approach bikes? As a biker I find
-> this very >annoying. Some cars does honk when they are just some
-> meters behind the bike.

 Arkansas state law used to require autos to sound their horn before
passing another auto, bicycle, or pedestrian.  This was changed in the
early '80s.  Alabama and Mississippi had similar laws at one time.
Older drivers still tend to pass with one hand on the horn; that's the
way they were originally taught, and there's no law against it.

 At the sound of a horn, Arkies tend to lose what little brains they
started with, jamming on the brakes and veering all over the road.
Therefore most people don't use their horn around here.  Every yearly
inspection, I have to evict the mud daubers out of mine before the bike
will pass.
                                                                                               
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Bike for 1st time rider: Honda 126/Harley XL 175?
Date: 13 Apr 1992 14:33:10 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

In article <1992Apr13.155442.26853@i88.isc.com> jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
>Honda, on the other hand, often boasts that you can purchase, though
>sometimes on special order, any part for any Honda motorcycle ever built.

This comment fired some memory neurons for me.  Digging through the stack
of old magazines at the foot of my desk, I uncovered my Dec '91 issue
of Cycle World.  On pages 58-59 there is an article about an example of
a 1953 Honda 3E Dream.  (The guy who owns it is one of those people that
buy old Japanese bikes and ship them to collectors in Japan.)

Some details:

-146cc ohv single
-2 speed transmission
-215 lbs
-5.5 hp at 5000 rpm
-45 mph top speed

I quote:

"Guidroz claims the 3E is one of just 20 known to exist, and he says that
rarity governs its worth, which he places between $5000 and $7500.  If
restored, the Dream might go for as much as $12,000, Guidroz says."

Later, "And it's the only one in the U.S.  That makes me feel neat."


So, the claim on the table is that I can order any part for any Honda
ever made.  Therefore, I should be able to stop by my local Honda
dealership and order every part I need to assemble a '53 Honda 3E Dream.

I propose, in true DOD style, that we all head down to our local Honda
parts counter and try to order a part for this beast.  The real test, of
course, would be to order a frame.  But, I'll ask about something smaller,
like a carb (or maybe just a piston ring).

I expect you all to report what happens...

-
-John H. Osborn
-osborn@cs.utexas.edu
From: craig@ug.cs.dal.ca (Ryan Craig)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Pulled Over / Sunday Ride
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:20:33 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

In article <1992Apr8.045304.19288@src.honeywell.com> mikep@cfsmo.honeywell.com writes:
>In article 7996@watserv1.waterloo.edu, ed@grackle.UWaterloo.ca (Ed Walker) writes:
>>A down shift and a throttle pull and I went from 70 to about  
>>120 in (what seemed like) a nanosecond (I luv my RZ)
>
>Those canadian RZ's must be nice.  I have an American RZ350 - Catalytic 
>converter, steel frame, etc...  I've only hit 120 once by waiting a *long* 

Um, not only do Canadian RZ's not have catalytic convertors, and thus perform
better, but we in Canada have been using the metric system for some time, so
70 to 120 probably means 70 to 120 km/h, which is within the reach of even
an American model RZ.  Of course, the Canadian model is probably good for a 
higher top speed.  Maybe Ed can clarify this for us.

>time. (At the end Brainerd Raceway's 1 mile main straight)  The wind was at 
>my back (Seriously!) Gotta put an aftermarket or canadian pipe on... nothing 
>like the two-stroke sound!


-- 
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|Ryan Craig: Comp Sci Co-op, Dalhousie University  |  Disclaimer: My opinions|
|craig@ug.cs.dal.ca               are mine, all mine, and you can't have them|
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: vsk@is.morgan.com (Victor Kazdoba)
Subject: Tank bags
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 13:11:10 GMT

I'm looking for a tank bag for my Suzuki Katana 750. Any suggestions?

Thanx,

Vic

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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: RE: WARNING RE. SHOE-LACE
From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:49:00 GMT
Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059

> >That's why I put zipper inserts into the combat boots that I wear
> for >trips.

-> I know someone this happened to. Their heel got totally mangled.
-> Please be careful so this doesn't happen to you.  This person is
-> partially handicapped as a result of the injury and it happened years
-> ago.

 How could this mangle your foot?  Of course, I wear paratroop boots
which already have a zipper down the side anyway.
                                                                                           
Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Date: Tue,  7 Apr 1992 00:26:39 -0400 
From: John Robert Nadzam <jn1h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Warning re. shoe-laces...

hey yeah

I also have an even better TRUE story

Buddy of mine, (A squid to remain unnnamed.) Bought a new CBR600F2 as a
first bike last summer on his credit card. Wears untied workboots to
ride in because they have steel toes and are 'safe'. also decides it is
cooler to ride with feet on passengerpegs so as to be leaned forward
more. Riding from legih to pittsburgh(alone). discovers both boots laces
have become tangled on rear passenger pegs. rolls into gas station
yelling and screaming for service attendant as he lays down a  less than
2month old CBR.

ATTN: andy philips the squid was Lackey.

NADZ
DoD#528

Flame on
From: soderblom@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Flame war invitations: Sport touring choice? FJ, Of Course!
Date: 13 Apr 92 01:07:58 GMT
Reply-To: soderblom@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona, College of Engineering and Mines, Tucson

In article <oduArGS00WBN04RAto@andrew.cmu.edu>, jn1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Robert Nadzam) writes:
>>that's not an oxymoron :-) on the subject. In other words, about 200K of
>>collected net postings on the FJ1100 & 12000.
>                                        ^^^^^^
>
>Sign me up that sounds like a manly sized bike, How many cylinders?
>
>NADZ
>DoD#528

One.  One very BIG cylinder.

  +-----------------+------------------------------------+
  | Brian Soderblom |  soderblom@evax2.engr.arizona.edu  |
  | (602) 323-6705  | 2350 E Water A-213 Tucson AZ 85719 |
  +------------------------------------------------------+
From: mdoug@bnr.ca (Doug MacLean)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Am I ever glad I sold my GSXR and bought a HARLEY!
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:42:54 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research


	In the spring of 1990, I unloaded my '85 GSXR 750 with 18000Km on it ...and bought a 1990 FXST. The FXST now has the same number of KMs on it and still looks and runs great. Its value has only dropped at most 20%, but will continue to appreciate as the years roll by. The GSXR on the other hand, suffered the following quirks and required the following work a few months after having sold it...(to a friend, at a good price)

needed to a major tune up, and tires...the frame was bent after being 
dropped once (as a result of rain...poor stability), had a foot peg break off, needed a new timing chain and alternator and is currently being
carted around in the back of the new owners pick-up truck to look good, because,
yet again, its not running for some other unknown reason... 

The GSXR may have gone fast at one time, but it sure isn't going anywhere now.

'Nough said.

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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Caught my eye...
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 13:29:10 GMT


During my weekly scan of the Chicago Tribune "Motorcycles for Sale"
ads, this entry caught my eye.  I can't do anything with it right now,
but I figured someone may be interested.  Respond to the listed phone
number.  The ad is reproduced verbatim:


===========================
CHANG JAING '41 Chinese war
bike w/sidecar, BMW, many
extras.  Exc.  COnd.  $5500.
      708-246-8588.
===========================


So, Martyn, are you interested in the Treaty of Beijing?
-- 
Jonathan E. Quist                              INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
jeq@i88.isc.com                                        Naperville, IL
'71 CL450-K4 "Gleep"  - "Worth the Obsession"
DoD #094        "I'm not mad; just terribly, terribly hurt."  HDM #007
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,rec.bicycles
From: les@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Les Earnest)
Subject: Re: Taxing bicycles? (note new subject heading)
Organization: Computer Science Department,  Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 21:23:49 GMT

Robert Smits writes:
>[.  .  .]  The real issue is whether or not bicycles 
>constitute a road hazard when operated in the same lanes as motor 
>vehicles. I maintain they do, and while I support the upgrading of roads 
>to make it safer, I don't believe bicycles should be mixed with motorized 
>traffic.

Quite right!  And since paved roads were originally developed for
cyclists the obvious solution is to eliminate the source of the
problem by banning all motor vehicles from existing roads.  This will
greatly reduce accident rates, improve fitness of all the fat-assed
motor-heads who will then take up cycling or walking, and the highways
will last a very long time with minimal maintenance.

Mr. Smits will then be saved from paying those hateful gasoline taxes
that he thinks entitles him to own the roads, even though those taxes
pay only a small part of the construction, maintenance, and environmental
costs of motor vehicle facilities.

--
Les Earnest                                  Phone:  415 941-3984
Internet: Les@cs.Stanford.edu              USMail: 12769 Dianne Drive
UUCP: . . . decwrl!cs.Stanford.edu!Les         Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
From: Roar.Larsen@termo.unit.no (Roar Larsen)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Riding - at long last!
Date: 13 Apr 92 09:50:51 GMT
Organization: SINTEF, Norway

I finally got the registration, insurance and equipment sorted out
on Friday (we're talking big money here: $ 280 for registration,
$ 180 for the yearly "road-fee" and $ 620 for insurance (liability
only!) :-( ) and got the FJ on the road.

Of course it started raining the moment it got out of the garage, and
with the temperature around 4 centigrade (39 F), it was cold and 
wet - but nevertheless GREAT!! It was my first ride ever on the FJ,
and I loved it! This bike sure has power enough to scare the shit out
of me - and that's part of the fun of course!

Going to take a lot of time just driving around slow and easy now, 
and get the hang of it all again. Clocked about 320 km (200 miles) in
the rain during the weekend, and had it up to 150 kph (93.2256 mph :-)
on the freeway. Gee whiz - this is going to be a great spring!!

Of course, today, when I have to sit inside and work all day, the sun is 
shining from a completely cluodless sky...


Roar Larsen  DoD# 463   FJ 1100 (-85) (Better looking than the FJ1200 :-)
Riding to work (taking all the back roads and using twice as much time
as on my bicycle) and feeling GOOD!!
From: frankb@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Frank Ball)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:08:03 GMT
Subject: Re: stock pipes in CA
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles

>
>*get it registered.  Are aftermarket pipes allowed on this bike?
>
>"allowed"?  No.  Will you have to return in to stock?  Not likely.  I
>think a major percetange of the bikes in CA have illegal pipes.   There
>are no smog tests for bikes in CA.  It is a CA model and it still has
>two wheels.  Thats all the DMV will care about.

*OK, since aftermarket pipes are illegal, but tolerated, what
*happens when you get stopped for a traffic violation?  Can/do
*people get cited for illegal pipes too?

The police seem to ignore loud/illegal pipes on bikes.  Don't ask me
why.  They hand out expensive tickets to cagers with blown mufflers,
but even cops who hate bikes and harrass them for other things seem
to ignore straight pipes that say "for off-road use only" right
on the side of them.  At least thats the way it is around here.

Frank Ball   2LR-D          frankb@hpsad.sad.hp.com
Hewlett Packard             pyramid!hplabs!hpsad!frankb
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: BICYCLE CRASH **oops**
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering Inc.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 20:06:43 GMT

In article <92100.003153ERSHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Eric Schweitzer <ERSHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:

>ob r.mc: I mourn the passing of the Earl fork, and can probably

I don't care who your buddy Earl forked.

>rebuild a Bing carb faster than you.

Yea, but I have a bigger dick/SAT score than you AND hitler put together.


--
ericm@microunity.com   If you saw a one-line flame war, would you recognize it?
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: Shop manual for FJ1200?
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:47:55 GMT

jwills@ISI.EDU (Jerry Wills) writes:
>	My factory manual for the 89 is missing/blank pages, in the changes
>	for the 89 model year. I think its page 2-3, or 3-4. check yours and
>	tell me if it just my luck, or not. Its the last section.

1989, that would make it the FJ1200W(C), right? Page 1 is ID info, page
2 & 3 are general specs, pages 4 & 5 are maintenance specs. No missing
pages that I can see.
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland        580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com  uunet!javelin.sim.es.com!blgardne  BIX: blaine_g
DoD #46               My other motorcycle is a Quadracer.              FJ1200
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jackr@thorodin.dazixco.ingr.com (Jack Reed)
Subject: Re: An apology, and a change of .sig
Reply-To: jackr@thorodin.dazixco.ingr.com
Organization: Dazix
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:00:50 GMT

In article <1272@adpplz.UUCP>, martin@adpgate.UUCP (Martin Golding) writes:
> 
> I have a long, sad tale to tell of Martin "No Harley Yet :{(" Golding,
> a silly old fool who spent all his savings on trinkets and gizmos and
> somehow lost his dream by the wayside.
> 
> So if you're posting from a "no tears" area, you better just hit "n" now.
> 

[great, great post deleted]

Here, here and keep them coming!!!
From: bdhepler@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brad D. Hepler)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: CBR Stats: Top Speed in Motorcyclist Mag
Date: 6 Apr 92 04:04:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: Princeto.1992Apr6.040430.22569
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

PAH112@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>Hello,
>
>Did anyone notice in the gearing section of the CBR900RR stats that redline in
>6th gear = 166 mph yet they quoted that top speed was 163 @ 11,400 RPM's?
>Maybe Mr. "Don't swim in them there" Watters could enlighten us all.  Since we
>all know that he is a mathematical genius (FZR vs CBR).
>

Um, relativistic error?  Just a guess; I'll defer to your judgement.

Brad

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Brad Hepler     class of 92 Mech. Eng.       bdhepler@phoenix.princeton.edu 
2 bikes, one with pedals & knobbies.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: laszlo@eclipse.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth)
Subject: Re: Any Interest in DoD Caps?
Reply-To: laszlo@eclipse.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:22:45 GMT

Only if they are the kind that hold beer (you know the
ones that people have at football games) with straws
so that you can ride around in helmet less states like
this one drink'en brews while riding without spilling.

laz
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: grw@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Gary Wasserman)
Subject: Re: R100GS bags at speed
Keywords: too fast
Reply-To: grw@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Gary Wasserman)
Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 16:32:26 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.195424.10318@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> ttmech@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Paul Mech) writes:
> 
> By the way, would anyone be interested in a used '89 R100G/S?
> I'm told by my doctor that the particular combination of carpal
> tunnel and tendonitus will probably never go away.  The bike's
> spent most of the last year parked :-( and I'm looking at a used
> K100RT to reduce the vibration to my hands.
> 

Talk about weird.  Never thought I'd see the day when someone switched
to a K100 to get away from vibration.

On a related note, recently my GS has developed a tendency to
go into tank-slapper mode when I take my hands off the bars.
Originally it was stable.  Anyone know if this is normal as
the Sahara tires wear?  The head bearings seem fine and the
bike is perfectly stable at all speeds with hands on the bars.

My workaround for now is to keep my hands on the bars.

-Gary


-- 
Gary Wasserman      "A completely irrational attraction to BMW bikes"
Interleaf, Inc.      Prospect Place, 9 Hillside Ave, Waltham, MA 02154
grw@ileaf.com        617-290-4990x3423 FAX 617-290-4970       DoD#0216