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From: dbc@po.cwru.edu (Dean Cookson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Time for rec.moto.tech?  (was: sick and tired!!)
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Date: 8 Oct 1992 05:00:26 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62003.student.cwru.edu

In article <1098@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>, labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth
Gill) wrote:
> 
> thompson@Apple.COM (Paul Thompson) writes:
> : >        Has anyone ever given thought to a new group called
> : >rec.moto.tech? 
> 
> 	I'll second that!!!

Can you second a question?

| Dean Cookson / dbc@po.cwru.edu / 216 754-1834 | DoD #207  AMA #573534|
| Case Western Reserve U. Computer E. and Sci.  | KotNML  /  KotB      |
| "You can lead the house to order, but you     | '81 CB750C           |
| can't make it think"  -William Weld (Gov. Ma.)| '88 Bianchi Limited  |
From: cdw2t@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Clifford David Weston)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Leaning into it
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:57:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Virginia

In article 22360@porthos.cc.bellcore.com, fist@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Richard Pierson) writes:

>>>>Doesn't everybody learn from a dirt bike first...

i learned on my boss's fzr600.  at least it wasn't a 'wing :-)

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|        Cliff Weston           DoD# 0598          '92 Seca II (Tem)       |
|                                                                          |
|         I've found I can't sustain the technique for very long,          |
|           as it puts rather undue strain on my groin muscles.            |
|                              -- Phil Stone                               |
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
Subject: Re: Bzzzzt! Was: How to break-in new rings?
Summary: Bon Ami
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 23:10:35 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.201223.2025@serval.net.wsu.edu> bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu
(William E. Johns;S23015) writes:
>In article <Qeou1ke00WB=0PurMd@andrew.cmu.edu>
Mark Joseph Andy <ma1w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>God damn discourse on TILE CLEANSER! :-)
>
>So what's your problem.  I'm still waiting for the chemical formula
>and crystal structure of the decomposed feldspar.

I could probably make a pretty good guess, but if you
really want to know I'll put some Bon Ami in the
ol' X-ray diffractometer and find out for sure.


--

    Chuck Karish          karish@mindcraft.com
    (415) 323-9000 x117   karish@pangea.stanford.edu
From: uzn10@ccc.amdahl.com (Uday Naik)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Leather jacket for sale
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:33:14 GMT
Reply-To: uzn10@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Uday Naik)
Distribution: ba
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA


Brand new, brown sheep skin leather jacket for sale for $125 o.b.o.
Nice and soft leather, Medium size, multi-pockets, made in India.
Friend got me wrong size. Must sell.

Reply by mail or phone me at 944.5049 weekdays.
                             982.9822 res.
                             (408). area code

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AMDAHL Corporation               LIFE: HONDA Interceptor 500VF
1250, E. Arques Ave, M/S: 342    	E-mail:uzn10@amail.amdahl.com 
P.O Box 3470, Sunnyvale,                       uzn10@juts.ccc.amdahl.com
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
Subject: Re: Like You Care
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA Ames
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:10:10

"osborn" == John Howard Osborn <osborn@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

John, I like the idea of posting in cookie-format... :-)


osborn>   "Actually, I work for BMW and this is a prototype of a bike
osborn> we're thinking of selling.  What do you think about it?
osborn> Please don't tell anybody you saw it, OK?"

Pinhead-in-a-bmw: "Hey, I didn't know BMW made bikes"
What-I-Said: "Well, they do".

What-I-Should-Have-Said:
    "They don't.  They just bought Harley Davidson."
    "I didn't know they let pinheads buy their cars."
    "They only sell BMW bikes in Germany, I rode this one across the
     North Pole just to get it here."

--
             J. Eric Townsend --  jet@nas.nasa.gov -- 415.604.4311
                              '92 R100R, DoD# 0378
"I love the iPSC/860.
The iPSC/860 is my friend." (repeat until your code runs...)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: clayb@county.lmt.mn.org (Clay Babcock)
Subject: Re: ignore  -  test
Organization: LaserMaster R&D, Minneapolis, MN  USA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 01:45:33 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.230106.16712@colorado.edu> laszlo@piper.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth) writes:
>From: laszlo@piper.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth)
>Subject: Re: ignore  -  test
>Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:01:06 GMT


>all bicyclist should stay off the road. its for motorcycles.
>since we pay road taxes that they (bicyclist) aren't willing
>to. also there should be helemet laws for bicyclists

>laz

Don't pay taxes?  Wake up! Even if I didn't ride a MotorCycle,
I pay over $20,000 a year in state and fed taxes. A LOT of that
is going to roads and highways, so I'll ride my bicycle ANYWHERE
I WHAT.  You and your college student taxes (plus bike tabs) couldn't
pave 5 feet of highway.  Why don't YOU stay off the road.

Clay Babcock
83 Seca Turbo
clayb@county.lmt.mn.org
From: HAHN@UCF1VM.BITNET
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: From which side do you mount? (Centerstands anyone?)
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:09:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: UCF1VM.92289.230924HAHN
 <1992Oct15.084437.14671@walter.cray.com>
 <viking.719167868@vincent1.iastate.edu>
Organization: University of Central Florida--Computer Services

Depends.....are we talking EST, MST, PST?

In the morning going towork?  Coming home?  Or out for a jaunt?

On the centerstand or kickstand?

Oh...not all of you out there have centerstands?  *smirk*

Now that's an interesting question...who has a centerstand out there,
and who has to figure out weird ways to get their wheels off?
Do Harleys have centerstands?
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: INTERCEPTOR  500 or baby Ninja Mods
From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:17:00 GMT
Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Courts of Chaos * 501-985-0059 * Public Access Usenet


-> :    My dream setup is a turbocharged, intercooled (if it will fit),
-> : nitrous augmented engine. This bike will not be my commuter, so :
-> practicalities will not be a problem.
-> :
->
->      Uh, a turbo, intercooled, nitrous Ninja 250. Oh yeah, that makes
-> sense. I'm glad practicality has no bearing on what you're doing.

 Intercooling is gonna be a hassle unless you don't mind looking like
some sort of goob with the heat exchanger just stuck on somewhere.
You're better off with water injection as far from the turbo inlet as
possible.  The tank can be fairly small and out of the way.

 Like mine.

=======================================================================
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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From: mlj8e@mljsg.pharm.Virginia.EDU (Michael Johnson)
Subject: Re: If you could pick only 5 bikes...
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:05:48 GMT

>In article <92Oct14.151535.15488@acs.ucalgary.ca>, parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes...
>>Okay, denizens...If you could only have 5 bikes in your garage,
>>what would they be?
>

   1) Harley Low-Rider
   2) Ariel Square Four
   3) Indian Four
   4) Triumph Bonny
   5) Honda CB-77     

I already have all but the Indian Four, anyone have $25,000 to finish
the list?



--
      Michael L. Johnson
      mlj8e@virginia.edu
From: behanna@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Harley Fashionable == Deaths
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:12:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: research.1992Oct8.211258.901
Organization: NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc.

In article <daved.718259959@convex.convex.com> daved@convex.com (David Dorfman) writes:
>Do you all think that it is possible that people are buying a Harley as their 
>first motorcycle because it is so fashionable, leaving the show room 
>with their first bike, which happens to be one of the largest fastest
>bikes you could ever start out on and getting killed?
>
>Being a poser is one thing but paying for it with your life is another.

	Happens all the time.  It's only getting coverage now because
"respectable" people are buying and riding Harley-Davidsons.  I've heard
of more than one case of rich teenagers buying the farm on sportbikes.
Don't tell me there was no fashion/peer pressure/status seeking there.
Add too much testosterone and whappo!  Road pizza city.

	At any rate, the bike is not to blame (and yes, I know you didn't
say it was).  The yuppie poser is to blame.
-- 
Chris BeHanna	DoD# 114  KotHLF    1983 H-D FXWG Wide Glide (She lives!)
behanna@syl.nj.nec.com	            1975 CB360T (needs a name)

Disclaimer:  Now why would NEC agree with any of this anyway?
From: joe@woody.mpd.tandem.com (Joe Senner)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Impact drivers
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:42:28 GMT
Reply-To: joe@mpd.tandem.com
Organization: Tandem Computers Inc., Austin, TX.

]I'd like to do this for my bike, but I've been unable to find any place
]accept the dealer for purchsing SS Allen bolts.  Anyone know of a secret
]distributor?

BMW.

cheese-head screws are the exception on BMW's. your local BMW shop should
have a nice supply of all kinds and grades of allen bolts. I don't know
about SS, but is that REALLY a requirement?

-- 
Think Peace.
-- Joe (joe@rider.cactus.org)
KotBBBB (1992 K100RS16VABS)  AMA# 1234567 DOD# 4210
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jjb@dtc.hp.com (Jim Brewer)
Subject: Re: Racing Classes
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:08:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: HP Design Technology Center, Santa Clara, CA


thorick@sybase.com (Thorick Chow) writes:
>I'd like to see a racing organization take a hing from 'Bike' magazine
>of a few years back, and start having Moped races..  yeah...
>that you truly be affordable racing !

  There is a moped class in Southern Calif.  Some of those vespas haul ass
with a pipe and a flat slide carb.

In article <1992Oct16.131653.19986@javelin.sim.es.com> blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>Speaking of weird things seen at Steamboat, there was a Kawasaki YSR-50
>pit bike.

  Are you talking about he ZX .5?
From: egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Shaft effect, What is it?
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:15:18 GMT
Reply-To: egreen@east.sun.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
NNTP-Posting-Host: laser.east.sun.com

In article 1195@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu, labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill) writes:
>
>	I keep hearing about something called shaft effect...what is
>	it?

Oh, sure!

You're not going to get an answer out of me, bud!

---
Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,
  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...
From: meb4593@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Michael Bain)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: FJ/FJR/GTS
Keywords: INFO
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:33:35 GMT
Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle

"You bought a VCR long before most people knew about them.  You had a CD
player in your car when most folks hadn't purchased one for their house
yet.  Your friends often ask you "what's new?", not just to be polite,
but because you know."

I just got the sales brochure from my dealer and there are a few
interesting tidbits on it.

The single sided front swingarm has a fully adjustable single shock,
with varying settings for preload, compression and rebound damping.

ABS front and rear, massive 6 opposed (?) piston caliper front brake.

Liquid cooled oil cooler and a large concave radiator "with not one, but
two fans".

Storage spaces in the tank and body for carrying small items.

"incredibly sophisticated instrumentation.  There's an electronic
speedometer and tachometer.  Plus a sophisticated ignition system with
an advanced anti-theft device".

Someone mentioned that this bike is heavy (the dry weight is listed as
N/A., as is the seat height), but I wouldn't doubt that the weight is
distributed well to enhance handling.  (was it the ST1100 that handles
better than its weight figures indicate?)

I also don't see where hard bags would be installed although there is a
curious looking "holes" in the grab rail that might be put there for
soft bags.

A small "luggage rack" on the back (integrated in the rear, ala FJ) and
the rear turn signals are integrated with the brake light; no signals
sticking out the sides.

4 into 1 exhaust, I suppose with the "ABS Catalyzer" that implies that a
catalytic converter is in it.

A beautiful bike ... too bad you can't see the engine.  And too bad
it'll go for about $13k.


-- 
Michael "Chuck" Bain                       meb4593@icdfs.ca.boeing.com  
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		       "Visualize Whirled Peas"
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: groh@omicron.cs.fsu.edu (Jim Groh)
Subject: Re: Harley Fashionable == Deaths
Reply-To: groh@nu.cs.fsu.edu
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 15:45:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.203759.13754@megatek.com> randy@megatek.com writes:
>In article <LOTTO.92Oct7085723@laura.harvard.edu> lotto@laura.harvard.edu (Jerry Lotto) writes:
>|>>>>> On 6 Oct 92 21:01:58 GMT, randy@megatek.com (Randy Davis) said:
>|Randy>   I'll take that bet.  The stats show that the death rate for HD is
>|Randy> higher for miles traveled by each type of bike...
>|
>|This is a very interesting statistic, especially because it
>|contradicts most other data that I am familiar with.  Could you please
>|cite your source in a way that I can attempt to retrieve it?
>
>  Nope, I made it up.  Just to bug Jim Groh (which it sure seems to have
>done:-).  [Thanks for noticing, Jim, and I apologize if I raised your blood
>pressure any]. Pretty much just to counter the overgeneralization made by the 
>poster I responded to about "crotch rockets", and spark some thinking in this
>generally thoughtless medium.
>

	 I knew that, you and that DeVerona(not my real name) person just
do that to piss me off.  I'm too old for this shit. Don't apologize for 
nothing Randy.  This whole thread has started to wear me down a bit.  I
guess I want everybody to think like I do, that is sane, logically and 
completely rational.  I think the only bike that I have never ridden on
was a Spagethorpe Imperial (not enough blue blood) and I can say without
equivocation that I liked them all.  Each had there good and bad points,
some where faster then others, some cornered better then others, some 
appealed to my sense of aesthetics more then others but they ALL where fun.
(Except maybe the Spagethorge Mastiff, never could learn to kick that
6000 cc single over)  Anyway I now vow now, to not let you sniveling little
twits get me down no more, even if you all are wrong wrong wrong....

>
>Randy Davis                            Email: randy@megatek.com
>ZX-11 #00072 Pilot                            megatek!randy@uunet.uu.net
>DoD #0013                                     ucsd!megatek!randy
>

-- 
Jim Groh     groh@sig.cs.fsu.edu  | DoD #0356  |   Hog# 0437643 |new  improved
1959 XLH 900  **  1982 FXR  **  1989 XLH 883  **  1990 XLH 1200 | smaller sig
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: shz@garage.att.com (Keeper of the 'Tude)
Subject: Re: Harley riders are JAGOFFS!!
Organization: Office of 'Tude Licensing
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:25:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.172109.12989@megatek.com>, randy@megatek.com (Randy Davis) writes:
>   I'm still not quite sure which group Seth belongs in...  Yet, I'll be happy
> to brag about how fast my plastic coated toy is compared to Seth's two-wheeled
> truck, and I'll let him brag how his bike satisfies him better than mine ever
> could (which I hope is true)...

While I'll be the first to admit that you do brag about how fast your toy
is compared to mine, I never mention how my bike satisfies me more than
yours ever could.  I haven't ridden a ZX-11 and can't say at this point how 
much I'd enjoy riding one.   However, there's no doubt it would be fun.

I'm obviously happy with my bike if I've kept it long enough to ride 
19,000 miles in 14.5 months in the NorthEast (about 14,000 of those miles 
were clocked in 1992).  I enjoy the vibration (the main reason I got a
Softail instead of a Low Rider), noise and wind more than the bad-boy
image that makes people lock their car doors when I rumble up next to them.

Harleys first captivated me when I pulled up along side one on my CB350
years ago and saw how the whole thing pulsated and bounced at idle.  I
remember that day every time I stop at a traffic light...

- Roid
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jlp@blink.att.com (Jon Peticolas(x7058))
Subject: Re: Harley Outperforms ZX11, Film at Eleven
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:35:57 GMT
Keywords: flames spooge yes no maybe

root@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith) writes:

>* * *   [  about 130 lines of "yes it does / no it doesn't" deleted  ]   * * *

>I thought rec.moto.harley was invented for this type of verbal spooge ???

WRONG

rec.motorcycles.harley was invented to escape this type of verbal spooge. 
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From: JDR118@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: DOG FOOD (was RE: Who harasses whom?)
Date: 16 Oct 92 00:14:12 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

Brice Dowaliby writes:
>Of course, who know what the hell a dog hears?  I mean, they eat
>dog food - does it taste different to them or does it taste
>the same to them as it does to us and they enjoy it?

Gee Brice, whats your favorite brand of dog food?  Perhaps we should start
the Denizens of Dogfood and you could be the head taste tester!!!
              It was just a thought.

                            James D. Ruhlman  1972 Triumph Bonneville 650
                                DoD#0712      1976 Honda CB550 (now 600)

                  "If you didn't like it, I didn't write it"
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: Drag racing
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:38:31 GMT

shz@garage.att.com (Keeper of the 'Tude) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.143246.24111@javelin.sim.es.com>, blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers) writes:

>> >"Ride Free" generally means "helmet free."  Do you plan to drag race
>> >without a helmet?

>> Is this the new, Politically Correct, definition of an old phrase?

>> Are you now Keeper of the PC 'Tude?  :-)

>Let me assure you that there is nothing politically correct about me...

Good, I was starting to worry there.
-- 
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
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: wsh8z@Turing.ORG (William S. Heyman)
Subject: 2 Tech. Questions.
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 23:40:16 GMT

The first might be a FAQ but not in the FAQ. My roommate has a 78'
CB400T which has a small oil leak in the head gasket. I know I should
go home right now and rebuild the engine right away but... Anyway,
while at Cage Supply stores I have seen oil additives which will
supposedly help stop leaks.   

Has anyone used this stuff in a motorcycle? Is it a bad/good idea?


The second question is a little less common. The bike was well overdue
for a cam chain tension adjustment. The shop manual as well as the
clymer manual described the proper technique as:

	While the engine is idling loosen the nut on the back of the
	engine. The cam chain will adjust itself. After a little while
	retighten the nut. 

As I loosened the nut the engine started to sound quieter (rattled
less)  but as I continued it started to sound worse. I let it run for
a little while and then retightened the nut. The engine sounded the
same or a little worse than before I started. I tried the whole
process again but it did not help. 

Has anyone had a similar experience? Did the chain adjust itself too
much? Will the engine explode? Maybe I should just put in Syntec and
drain it. It should run well then :-)

Thanks

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

Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Jeff Achenbach)
Subject: Re: Stupid Questions
Organization: TI Semiconductor Process and Design Center
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:42:10 GMT

In article <1992Oct07.150434.18472@i88.isc.com> jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.184908.622@halfdome.sf.ca.us> bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob pasker) writes:
>>In article <1aq50tINNouj@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>, egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) writes:
>>>>6.  What was the ugliest motorcycle ever produced?  (New, not ratted out.)
>>> 
>>> BMW R100G/S.
>>

Nope. The Honda Dream.

Jeff Achenbach
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: Why is my face shield so scratched so
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:44:42 GMT

egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) writes:

>The universal problem is that a motorcycle helmet face shield is a
>weird shaped thing that doesn't pack efficiently anywhere.  It's
>probably not practical to carry a light and dark around all the time,
>planning to switch them depending on the lighting, at least not unless
>you have big saddlebags.

My Arai shield fits perfectly in the front of my Eclipse tank bag. If
I'm headed anywhere for long enough to be worrying about changing
sheilds, I'm probably also be carrying a few things along, so the tank
bag always seems to be there.
-- 
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
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine)
Subject: Re: Turnsignal conversions
Organization: Ontario Hydro - Research Division
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 15:57:17 GMT

In article <6130294@hplsla.hp.com> kens@hplsla.hp.com (Ken Snyder) writes:
>/ hplsla:rec.motorcycles / jlevine@ohrd.hp.com writes:
>
>>I haven't tried this, but I figure that it would work. How about using a power
>>transistor to keep the turn signals normally on and have them flash *off* when
>>you signal? Has anyone tried this?
>
>   Since the object is simply to have a running lamp that goes off when
>the appropriat turn signal is activated why not just take the running
>light power from the FRONT running lamp?  Nearly all bikes have front
>running lamp/turnsignals.

If I had front running lamps, I would not be trying to make my front 
signals into running lamps.

I've        bike                      like       | Jody Levine  DoD #275 kV
     got a       you can        if you      -PF  | Jody.P.Levine@hydro.on.ca
                         ride it                 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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