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From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Test
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:38:54 GMT

What are you reading this for, I'm just testing my editor and my .Sig functions
so that I don't submit blank (but seemingly more intelligent) postings.

I must get Vulva the Volvo fixed so I can stop driving my bloody bike to work.

Ooopps@!  Sorry, I posted this to rec.motos instead of fun.volvos.  My sincere
apologies, everybody.

Has anybody else out there got any experience of Dunlop ArroeMax tyres?  Is it
just me or are they really bad?

My new girlfriend isn't so hot but the route to her place is so I will carry on
going out with her, for a while anyway.  It's an important consideration when
choosing your next beau, the journey to and fro. 

"...Magic bus, magic bus" - The Who


Nick (the quite tyred Biker)   DoD 1069  Brass Gun-Shaped Cooker Lighter

M'Lud.

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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: chrispi@microsoft.com (Chris Pirih)
Subject: Re: Gang FAQ'd by the DoD!
Date: 06 Jan 93 04:16:14 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In rec.motorcycles tgent@dale.ksc.nasa.gov (Tom Gent) writes:
;What I was wondering, though, is whether you guys recommend that I get
;a helmet?  

It is far, far better to remain childless than to father an orphan.

;Also, are there any laws
;concerning helmets that I should be aware of?

They're legal everywhere, except where they aren't.

---
chris
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,ba.motorcycles
From: bade@austin.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re: Prices of bikes in Europe?
Originator: bade@athena2.austin.ibm.com
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:44:03 GMT
Reply-To: bade@wombat.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Austin TX             


In article <1icngmINNh9m@fido.asd.sgi.com>, spencer@hailwood.asd.sgi.com (Paul Spencer) writes:
> jsm@rosencrantz.osf.org (John S. Morris) says:
> > 
> > Secondly, rumor has it that the K75 is a loss-leader in the States. Apparently
> > it's as expensive to build a K75 as a K100 but the market just won't bear the
> > cost of a >$10K 750.
> 
> The K75 (bare K75) is a loss leader. The K75S is not; you pay over $2,000
> for the fairing, which is the only difference between the two.

There is a little more on the S than just the fairing.  How about ABS (not
available as an option on the Base), the stock low seat setup is a cheap
piece of crap, the pad that forms the side covers also sticks your knees
out in the wind.    According to the German dealer I chatted with a few
months back the cost of producing a K75 (read that as any K75) is basically
the same as the K100 so it definatly is the loss leader (if you can call $7000
to $10000 a loss leader).

> 
> Some more prices:
> 
> model	german price	in US$		us price	%diff
> R100R	13,950 DM	$9,486		$8,240		15%
> R100GS	15,350 DM	$10,438		$7,790		34%
> R100RT	18,500 DM	$12,580		$9,340		35%
> K1100LT	23,500 DM	$15,980		$14,890		7%
> K1	26,950 DM	$18,326		$14,290		28%
> K75	14,700 DM	$10,300		$6,590		56%
> K75S	17,300 DM	$11,764		$9,290		27%
> 
> ....paul
> 
> -- 
> Paul Spencer                 Silicon Graphics Advanced Graphics Division
> spencer@sgi.com                                Mountain View, California
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest)
Subject: Re: More amusing BMW trivia... (christmas continues)
Organization: Stanford Center for Space Science and Astrophysics
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:32:20

In article <foo> bruce@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Bruce Krueger) writes:
      try doing a thousand mile day on a japanese bike.  

No sweat.  Drove my KZ400 trotbike a thousand miles in a day -- well, actually,
in a night and a day.  Started out about 16 hours later than I intended, at
1am.  Seems there was a little trouble getting out of my gfriend's hotel 
room... 8-}
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From: doc@webrider.central.sun.com (Steve Bunis)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Belt drives?
Date: 4 Jan 93 22:36:59 GMT
Reply-To: doc@webrider.central.sun.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: webrider.central.sun.com

I understand that there are aftermarket belt drive conversions 
available for other than Harley's.  

Assuming they exist, has anyone tried them?  Do they work well?
Any pros and cons compared with chains and shaft drives would
be of great interest.  Also how much of a pain is it to do the
conversion?

Thanks,

---
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              Itasca, IL
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: fist@iscp.bellcore.com (Richard Pierson)
Subject: Re: A tantalizing calender....
Organization: Bellcore
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 10:04:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.221515.9339@rtsg.mot.com>, declrckd@rtsg.mot.com
(Dan J. Declerck) writes:
|> In article <C0FtnG.39E@fulcrum.co.uk> rct@fulcrum.co.uk (Richard
|> Taylor) writes:
|> >In article <1993Jan5.142001.46127@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
|> wellison@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
|> >> And as I gaze at the soft flowing lines and tantalizing nooks and
|> |> >>crannys and wonderful frames (oh yea, the bike's don't look bad
|> either ;-),
|> >>I can't help but wonder if a Goldwing calender exist.
|> >
|> >Personally Goldwings *never* come into my mind when oggling flesh.
|> >
|> Very true, most of the Goldwings I've seen are ridden by guys
|> weighing 300lbs
|> wearing a baseball cap, and smoking a large cigar. Although there
|> is this older couple in my neighborhood with his/hers Aspencades with
|> bike-to-bike
|> intercoms. They even have one of those tent-trailer camper things.
|> I dunno, motorcycling is much different for them than me.
|> 
|> -Dan


 Who tows the trailer, Him or Her (you never know, a trailer
might be a gender thing) :-)
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From: sdun@isma.demon.co.uk (Stephen Dunne)
Subject: Re: Interesting challenge of helmet law 
Distribution: world
Organization: International Securities Market Association
Reply-To: sdun@isma.demon.co.uk
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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:26:21 +0000

In article <1992Dec19.235113.26199@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c150-bt@po.berkeley.edu writes:

>You are probably referring to challenges by the Sikh bikers in central
>California.  The agricultural valley has many Sikh farmers, and, as you know,
>Sikhism requires its adherents to wear uncut hair which they bind up in
>a turban.  I can't see a 73-year-old originally from India as a anti-helmet-
>law rabble-rouser (like the rest of us :-) ).  But I guess the "uniform law
>of the land" principle was upheld.
>

Hmmm, I think that here in the UK, It *IS* allowable for a Sikh to claim
exemption from helmet laws on religious grounds.

Not too sure how they'd (the cops, that is) check it out but they must do
otherwise all the MAG diehards would be apeing it!!

Stephen
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: nak@cbnews.cb.att.com (neil.a.kirby)
Subject: Re: Build Your Own !
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:53:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.224451.14589@leland.Stanford.EDU> karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish) writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.211716.8435@microunity.com> ericm@microunity.com
>(Eric Murray) writes:
>>Aha, fantasy time!  How about building a v-twin two-stroke sport bike?
>>I'd start with two 250cc (or even 500cc if I was really sick) motocross
>>engines, cut off the gearboxes, and fit them together with an FZR1000
>>gearbox in 90-degree vee a'la' TZ250.
>
>Don't forget to put in a balance shaft.  The flywheels on
>those two 2-stroke singles will make for about 4" of offset
>between the  cylinders, and a big rocking couple.

Did we forget to mention the supercharger to go along with the fuel
injection system?  (Cycle had an article some time back on new two stroke
technology.  Nearly Every one of those engines deleivered about 100 HP/liter
and about 110 lbs/ft of torque per liter)  And that's in mildly tuned,
ready for a cage form.  Just think how hard it could be leaned upon for
a bike....

Neil Kirby
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,ba.motorcycles,sybase.motorcycles
From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
Subject: Re: Kikustaatu-Do: The Way of Kickstart
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 23:58:56 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <1993Jan7.160101.2238@rd.hydro.on.ca> jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.213305.11663@cirrus.com> gopal@cirrus.com (Gopal Ramachandran) writes:
>>
>>Gopal
>>ex-kikustaatu-do master (with bruised shins to prove it) on '68
>
>There are much better reasons to ride in boots than for merely falling down.
>Especially boots with heels.
especially thigh-high boots with heels.

especially thigh high boots with heels, fishnet stockings on a
garter belt, and a 63$ Bra.

especially...Oh never mind.

Regards, Charles
DoD0.001
RZ350
.
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From: labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Application for DoD Membership
Date: 4 Jan 93 21:41:06 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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	After sorting through the list of FAQs that were sent to me...I
	will have to say thanks to Charlie for his prolific
	response....Charlie, you just wait....man -k cron here I
	come....

				Ryan
From: thompson@Apple.COM (Paul Thompson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Help with an electrical problem, please
Date: 8 Jan 93 04:10:52 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

an4929@anon.penet.fi (gonzo) writes:

>I would recharge it, and it would work fine for a while, and then run
>down again.  My manual says that this is probably a bad alternator.
>But, at the same time, my lamp has blown about four times in the same
>number of months, which my manual says is the rectifier/regulator.

If you are blowing out headlamps it sounds like you have an overvoltage
problem.  A defective regulator or a problem with the associated wiring
is the probable cause of this.  Get your hands on a voltmeter
($15 or so at Radio Shack, or your friend at the motorcycle shop will
have one).  Measure the voltage of your battery with the bike running
and reved up a ways.  If it's 15 volts or more you have a regulation
problem.

Paul
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From: jearls@tekig6.PEN.TEK.COM (Jeffrey David Earls)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Honda VFR1000 Help.
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:33:02 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.

In article <1993Jan5.012802.10031@tcsi.com> markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer) writes:
>In article <9301041703.aa19962@Paris.ics.uci.edu>, gbolcer@kleber (Gregory Alan Bolcer) writes:
>>  I just recently got rid of my 1985 VFR1000, and
>>I made the claim to my office mate that I remember
>>it doing 0-60 in under 3 seconds easily.  Does
>>anyone have any stats from this class of bikes?
>>He doesn't seem to believe me.
>
>I guess it's too late to put his cage limited imagination on the
>pillion.  >:-) 
>
>I remember seeing 2.75 or 2.73 sec for the FZR1000 in some magizine
>test.
>


  Heck, even an overweight stock FJ will do 0-60 in 2.8 seconds.



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|Jeff Earls  jearls@tekig6.pen.tek.com | DoD #0530    KotTG      WMTC    AMA  |
|'89 FJ1200 - Millennium Falcon        |   Squid Factor: 3.67 and climbing... | 
|'86 VF500F - Kit bike                 | "Hit the button Chewie!"... Han Solo |

                If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: I hate snow.
From: Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford)
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:27:55 -0600
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Distribution: world
Organization: MSUS

In article <1993Jan4.203814.15439@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>,
groh@omicron.cs.fsu.edu (Jim Groh) wrote:
> 
[...]
>  By the
> way, what is this snow y'all keep talkin about.  <Sneerrrkkk>

I'll tell you if you tell us what a Hurricane is.  
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda)
Subject: Re: Application for DoD Membership
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:18:26 GMT

In article <1777@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill) writes:
|
|	AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
|(insert image of crazed man with larger calibre machine gun)

Larger than what?  Do you have some sort of barrel-envy thing?

|	Don't send me the FAQ....I got it, I got it!!!!!!  thankyou for
|	sending it.... All 30 of you....

Oh, darn, I missed sending you a copy.  Hold on a sec...

|		As to the comment about nothing more than 600cc's  My
|		Honda is a 700....read it _700_!!!

In this case cylinder barrel, but still barrel-envy.

|		As to being a Newbie...I have been quietly reading this
|		news group for six months!!!

Oh, you're just an idiot, then.  Good to know.

|		Now how do I get...wait, wait, wait!!! no more FAQ's I'll
|		find the damn KotL and get my number there.....

If you have been reading r.m for six months, you would have no trouble finding
the KotL, for she recently posted a private message bestowing a number on
a weenie mailered member of the slightly-washed masses.  Keeeeeep Reeeeeeeading.

|(delete image...)

Well, that's...oh, never mind.

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
From: jrd@po.CWRU.Edu (John R. Daker)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: CBR600F2 dethrowned by '93 ZX-6. So what?
Date: 11 Jan 1993 14:59:16 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: jrd@po.CWRU.Edu (John R. Daker)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, rich@grebyn.com (Richard Lawrence) says:

>In article <1imp68INNjgo@gap.caltech.edu> gunning@cco.caltech.edu (Kevin J. Gunning) writes:
>>In article <1ilg3oINNd1l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> starfish@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Smarter than the Average Blur) writes:
>>
>>Yo!  Alan! Ever hear of the CBR900RR?  Meet the once and future king.
>>They are great   :*)))
>
>Have you read the articles about the '93 ZX-11's? Kawasaki is playing
>for keeps this year....
>

All of you: Stop!  Quit trying to pretend that one rice-burner is better
than another.  If you want a _real_ bike, there's obviously only one
choice:

				DUCATI.

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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,ba.motorcycles
From: jimbes@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (james.bessette)
Subject: Re: BMW '82 R65 Ignition Problem
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:55:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.234943.15947@leland.Stanford.EDU> discodav@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Miller) writes:
>
>2)  Does anyone in the US know of a place where I can buy BMW parts
>without getting completely reamed?  I expect motorcycle parts to be
>expensive; but it seems that BMW parts cost approximately 2-3 times
>what I remember paying to fix either a Honda or my Yamaha.  Their 
>pricing structure is, to put it mildly, oppressive.
>

Some places from the BMW MOA magazine.
For used parts:

Eurotech Motor Sports 800-845-4022

Bob's BMW 301-924-5155

Bent Beemer  (N.O.S and Used parts) 503-549-9742

Re-Psycle BMW parts 614-837-1160

Jim Bessette
From: bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (William E. Johns;S23015)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Any BMW R100GS [PD] owners out there?
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:21:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan6.012110.24720
Organization: Washington State University

In article <1993Jan4.205342.5227@elektro.cmhnet.org> charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith) writes:
>In article <1993Jan4.015034.19569@megatek.com> rstewart@ganglia.megatek.com (Rich Stewart) writes:
>>I have been thinking about purchasing either a R100GS or a R100GS PD
>>I was wonder how any owners of such bike feel about them. Hows the
>>ride, what does it cost to keep it running, etc.
>>Thanks.
>>Please reply via e-mail.
>>-Rich
>
>This ought to generate all sorts of flames ...

Hey, I tried to email a comment, but all I got were bounces.

>But, to give a serious answer:
>	a.  Feel great about them.
>	b.  Rides just fine.
>	c.  Costs as little as a churchmouse to keep it fed!

You're crazy.  They are expensive to maintain.

>	d.  no email.

I agree.

>Find a dealer who has a GS on demo, and take a ride and decide for yourself!

Nah, trust us and just buy one.  (Sheeeish, encouraging him to go out and
get data to form his own opinion.  That's what we're here for!)

Ride Free,

Bill
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johnsw@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu  prez=BIMC  KotV KotRR                                
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Yamabeemer fjgs1200pdr100 and a Volvo.  What more could anyone ask?             
                                                                                
We have secretly replaced the small, precision quartz timing crystals           
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: AL weather
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:02:19 GMT

Michael Heathman (heathman@ncsa.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan5.153433.25798@b30.ingr.com> mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com ( Phil Mueller ) writes:
: >
: >To all you Yankee and European DoDers:
: >
: >I rode to work today!!
: >ha ha ha ha ha ha!!
: >
: >-- 
: >Phil Mueller                  Telephone:  (205) 730-3231
: >Intergraph Corporation        FAX number: (205) 730-3453
: >Mailstop: GD3000              Internet: mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com
: >Huntsville, AL 35894-0001     UUCP address: bogus.dont.use

: 	To all you Southern DoDers:

: 	So What!!!  So did I!!!
:         ha ha ha ha ha ha!!

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From: bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (William E. Johns;S23015)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Lance Holst is a Jerk
Date: 9 Jan 93 17:07:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan9.170707.4767
Organization: Washington State University

In article <C0KBn2.DEJ@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> frankb@sad.hp.com (Frank Ball) writes:
>William E. Johns;S23015 (bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu) wrote:
>& In article <5205@equinox.unr.edu> edh@wheeler.wrc.unr.edu () writes:
>& >roads.  Among the crashed were Cycle World's Mitch Boehm,
>& >Motorcyclist's _LANCE HOLST_ and Superbike School guru Keith Code
>& 
>& I must have missed something.  Yes, Lance Holst is a jerk, but not because
>& he rides fast.  What is wrong with riding fast?  Many of us do it all the
>& time. On public roads, too.  :-)
>
>Nothing is wrong with riding fast.  He is a jerk because he rides like a 
>squid and crashes OTHER PEOPLES bikes.

At the risk of beating a dead jerk....  The original post seemed to imply,
based on what was _written_ that he was a jerk because he rode fast.  I
disagree.  He is a jerk because he trashes other peoples' bikes.  I
can forgive him, or anyone else dumping the occasional rice-burner,
but a couple of years ago he took out a Duc!  

Let's find something else to argue about, LH ain't worth it.

Ride Free,

Bill
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We have secretly replaced the small, precision quartz timing crystals           
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From: achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Jeff Achenbach)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: More amusing BMW trivia... (christmas continues)
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:58:33 GMT
Organization: TI Semiconductor Process and Design Center

In article <C0HL6C.58p@news.udel.edu> andersen@me.udel.edu (Stephen Andersen) writes:
>In article <C0Gp6M.796@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bruce@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Bruce Krueger) writes:
>>chris@triage.UUCP (Wheres my 650TT2 Ducati) writes:
>>>"You mean like admitting to the fact that nothing in this world is more
>>>passionate, more soul stirring, more FUN over a twisty road than an Italian
>>>motorcycle?"
>>   *******
>>   try doing a thousand mile day on a japanese bike.  ..or, for that matter,
>>   going a thousand miles without needing a tuneup on a duc.  a fully loaded
>>   R60/5 was just fine on the blue ridge parkway (speaking of twisty roads),
>>   as well as a lot of stuff that made that look like an interstate in 
>>   west kansas.  also, I've got news for you:  you don't need a PD to go
>>Blather deleted...
>
>Just to add some fuel to this fire...
>
>This past summer I took my Ducati, two-up, including
>gear for two for 4 days/3nights of camping (saddlebags,
>tank bag, custom luggage rack carrying inflatable air mattress,
>sleeping bag, tent, 12qt. cooler, bike cover, etc.) down
>the Blue Ridge Parkway 1300 miles in one four-day weekend.
>
>No steeeenking tune-up required, and no breaking down.
>
>Eating spaghetti and liking it...
>
>Steve
>

4 days and only 1300 miles? You call that touring? Heck, Triumphs, Ninjas,
and Sportsters can easily top that! By the way, is that considered an amazing
feat of endurance for an Eyetalian sport bike?

Jeff Achenbach
Norton  Triumph  BMW  Moto Morini  Yamaha
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