HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine)
Subject: GTS1000A gripe
Organization: Ontario Hydro - Research Division
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 18:55:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.185927.3763@rtsg.mot.com> svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda) writes:
>
>Well, as long as we're talking about non-rational, emotional responses;

I think it's really neat. I'd love to try it. I wonder if it's fun.

Talking about rational, practical responses,

I am not picking nits, this is a real peeve of mine.

Why the f*** can't they put hard luggage brackets on a $16k bike? You buy
a huge, expensive machine and you can't ride it three blocks without a 
tankbag because there's no place to store some bungee cords and a pair of
sunglasses! Or a rainsuit for those of us who don't live in the Southern 
U.S.! When it's cold I have carry my rainsuit, electric vest, extra sweater, 
and bulky gloves around, not to mention my usual boots & leathers, wherever 
I'm going because the only thing I can lock to my bike is a helmet! I don't 
want a Gold Wing. Or a Pacific Coast. Or even an ST1100, which, despite being 
a sport-tourer, still has a dashboard reminiscent of my Oldsmobile. I want a
fast, good handling bike that puts at least some of my body in the airflow
yet gives me someplace to stow my gear when I get to the movie theatre (that
would be a motorcycle marquee). Has anyone here tried riding with a 1.5 l can 
of apple juice or a carton of eggs in his jacket?

My hat goes off to BMW, who builds the option of lockable storage into 
everything they make. My next laurel goes to Suzuki, which can supply proper 
bags for the big and medium Katanas. The beemers and the kats would both
fit my riding bill, but what about everyone else? You can't put hard bags
on an FJ, a TDM or a ZX-11, or on a GTS!

The manufacturers come up with these wonderful riding machines but make it
a pain in the ass for people who really want to use them. The real world of
commuting and grocery shopping requires a clock and some reasonable storage
space. My next bike will have both. This will limit my choices severely,
and that pisses me off. So there. Looks be damned; I would put bags on my 
RZ350 if I could.

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
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: howland@noc2.arc.nasa.gov (Curtis Howland)
Subject: Re: R100GS final drive trouble
Organization: NASA Science Internet Project Office
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:39:57 GMT

In article <1deoc2INNcau@fido.asd.sgi.com>, spencer@hailwood.asd.sgi.com (Paul Spencer) writes:
|> behanna@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna) says:
|> > 
|> > 	Touch one sometime after a long, hard ride.  They get HOT!!!
|> 
|> Just what type of shaft are we talking about here?

Mine does, on a '82 Sabre. I was being curious after
changing the rear oil, finding out the dynamics were.
It did get hot, even with a 15 mile drive at DoD
nominal (what is needed to keep up with traffic here....)

---
Curt Howland "Ace"       DoD#0663       EFF#538
howland@nsipo.nasa.gov            '82 V45 Sabre
  Don't bother arguing with drunks or zealots
they're not listening to anyone but themselves.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,ba.motorcycles
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: Corbin seat for SECA II
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:48:06 GMT

brad@.island.COM (Bradley Mabe) writes:

>Yamaha has recently announced they are selling a corbin seat for the
>SECA II.  Has anyone had an opportunity to check one of these out? 

No, but it will be wide, flat and firm.

>brad@island.com

Island's in the SF bay area, right? Instead of buying an off-the-shelf
mass-produced Corbin, I'd strongly suggest a short trip down to Castro-
ville and having one custom made. It doesn't cost any more and you can
get _exactly_ what you want.
-- 
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
From: rogerc@discovery.uk.sun.com (Roger Collier)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: UK - Motorcycle Show
Date: 9 Nov 1992 17:32:19 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: rogerc@discovery.uk.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: discovery.uk.sun.com

Anybody going to the Motorcycle Show at the National Exhibition Centre,
England, on Saturday 5th December?

It's a suitable occasion for a DoD meeting as there are already 3 members
going.

         #                                           # Let's not talk about
   _     #     Roger.Collier@Uk.Sun.COM              # love and flowers and
o_/_\_o  #                                           # things that don't
 (O_O)   #     Sun Microsystems, Coventry, England.  # explode. I've used up
  \H/    #     (44) 203 692255                       # all of my magic powers
   U     #                                           # trying to do it in the
      DoD#226  GSXR1100L                             # road.
               Keeper of the GSXR1100 list.
From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: speedometer gear box questions
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:58:04 GMT
Organization: Xyvision Design Systems

In article <1992Nov11.003055.7000@asl.dl.nec.com> drinckes@nzl.abk.nec.co.jp writes:
>In article 4170@unisql.UUCP, ray@unisql.UUCP (Ray Shea) writes:
>>A few weeks ago I was cruising around 90 mph on my `88 Hawk
>>and noticed two things:
>>   1) a LOUD high-pitched whine coming from down around the front wheel,
>>   2) my speedometer needle was completely freaked out, bouncing around
>>      anywhere between 40 and 120.
>>I took it in to TJ's and they said that the speedometer gear box was
>>just in need of some grease...without it, at high speeds the thing would
>Sorry, no free beer.  I _need_ all of mine.
>
I have never noticed speedo whine on my Hawk, by I have noticed that
it is leaking grease where the speedo cable comes from the wheel.
Perhaps I have trouble coming.

The only whines I have from my Hawk are from very hard front stops.
You know, where the individual tread rubber blocks are sliding, but the 
whole front wheel is still braking very well; I think this is called
threshold.  

As for free beer, if any Hawk owners want to come over and help me rip
the three layers of roof off my porch/kitchen, there will be enough
free beer to make a bunch of frat brothers sick.  All from a real 
CO2 tank powered keg setup on my porch.  I have parking space in my 
garage for about a dozen Hawks.  Perhaps we can make them whine in 
harmony.

-- 
	 Frank E Perdicaro, Systems Admin, etc.		Xyvision Color Systems
      Legalize guns, drugs and cash...today.		101 Edgewater Drive
   inhouse: frank@marvin, x5572				Wakefield MA
outhouse: frank@contex.com, 617-245-4100x5572		018801285
From: egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Motorcyclist Hits Bicyclist on Skyline
Date: 9 Nov 1992 21:26:20 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
Distribution: world
Reply-To: egreen@east.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: laser.east.sun.com

In article 3K4@news.iastate.edu, tomes@iastate.edu () writes:
>
>I may be forced to wear my helmet (instead of making an 
>informed choice to wear it) because the twenty years of riders before me
>compiled some truly nauseating statistics on head injuries 

Wrong.  I have never seen any statistics compiled on the head injuries
of twenty years worth of helmetless riders.  Helmet laws are pushed by
special interests, and justified to the public by lies and hand-waving,
"common sense" arguments.  Solid data on helmet-preventable motorcycle
injuries, and their social costs, are glaringly absent.


---
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...

Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: Won't be in Colorado...
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 14:00:15 GMT

John Howard Osborn (osborn@cs.utexas.edu) wrote:
: Well, I was planning on going through Colorado this winter..... Etc.

: However, Colorado yesterday enacted a new state constitutional amendment
: enforcing discrimation against gays and lesbians.  Etc.

My deepest commiserations and sympathy to you.  This is a strange world run by
strange people.  We have problems like that over here, did you ever hear about
"clause 28" which forbids the "promotion" of homosexuality.  The definition of
promotion is open to whatever the "moral police" want it to be.  Things seem
to have quietened down a bit at the moment but in a way that is even worse.
"Grin and bear it" seems to be the English way.

Ah well, one day there'll be a liberal world (heaven?).


Nick (the Rights-of-People Biker)   MAG 73516   DoD 1069  Concise Oxford


M'Lud.
From: ant@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Antony Espindola)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: KotLQ
Date: 6 Nov 92 09:08:46 GMT
Organization: Data and Business Comms, BT Labs, Martlesham, Ipswich, UK.

From article <1d8qjaINNjh1@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>, by egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher):
> In article 1712@adpplz.UUCP, martin@adpgate.UUCP (Martin Golding) writes:
>>
>>I have approximately six square feet of single malt scotch 
> 
> "Square" feet?!?  
> 
> I prefer my scotch in cubic dimensions.  It's easier to drink.

I prefer mine in a glass.

(groan)

Antony.
DoD#1832.

> 
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
Subject: Whuzza MKM1000?
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA Ames
Date: 9 Nov 92 11:58:58


Well, I know it's an R100 based racer of some sort, and Krauser seems
to have made all the neat parts.

Why do I ask?  I bought a model of one, it looks pretty cool.  (I'm
currently building it).  Does anybody know when/where these were made,
and if anyone in the bay has one, or has pictures of one?

--
             J. Eric Townsend --  jet@nas.nasa.gov -- 415.604.4311
                     '92 R100R, DoD# 0378, BMWOA, AMA, ACLU
                                "HotHead Rules!"
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: dab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (The Nashville Flash)
Subject: 350->750 Riddle
Originator: dab@space3
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:03:00 GMT

Wednesday November 11 1992 09:10, The Nashville Flash wrote to All:
 >Riddle:  What do you get when you bore a 350 out to 750?

John Hamilton:  
>A  handgrenade?

Bzzt.  While that's probably true, that's not the answer we were looking for.
Thank you for playing.

Eric Murray:   
>Metal shavings.

Bzzt.  While that's definately true, that's not the answer we were looking 
for, either.  Thank you for playing today, too.

Blaine Gardner 
>A stack of very large washers?

DING! YES!  Why DwB must have an olde musty stack of Duct Tapes lodged in 
his head.  The riddle was the brainchild of Ed Hertfelder.  Tell him what he 
won, Johnny.

Well, Bud, he won a handy laminated wild west gun rack with genuine mother
of plastic inlays!  And we will be faxing it to him just as soon as we can
get the magneto cranked up on this old army surplus field telephone.
============================================================================
 "No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle." - Winston Churchill
    The Nashville Flash	  -   dab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu   -   DoD # 412
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Turning on bumpy roads
From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Date: 4 Nov 92 20:41:00 GMT
Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Courts of Chaos * 501-985-0059 * Public Access Usenet



-> > I know it depends on your speed, but how bumpy is bumpy?

-> I don't know, how fast is fast?


 "It'll go fast enough to kill ya, boy, an' you cain't go no faster'n
that!


=======================================================================
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
=======================================================================
From: weaver@castor.cs.uga.edu (Mike Weaver)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Metal Shavings where they shouldn't be
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:34:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Nov9.183416.25366
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Originator: weaver@castor

I changed the oil on my bike the other day and noticed some metal flakes
in the oil. I realize that this is a Bad Thing (tm). Could some one 
please tell me just how bad this is.

For example:

What parts in the engine could wear to produce metal flakes?

How would I diagnose this?

How would I repair this?

What time frame are we talking here?

Is there some one in Ga. that any local DoD'ers could recomend for repair?




Thanks!
-- 
________________________________________________________________________________
Michael Weaver            | Never expect the computer to be smart.
weaver@castor.cs.uga.edu  | Assume it is stupid and let it surprise you.
DoD#0529   KotGB          | 1982 Yamaha Vision 550 -- Needs carb syncing
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: Big Yam?
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 14:25:48 GMT

Sorry about your problems in trying to get in touch with me.  Other DoDers have
managed.  Never mind.  here's my "real" address:-

  Nick,
  14 Hogfair Lane,
  Burnham,
  Bucks.  SL1  8BY
  England,
  Near Europe.

BTW, if any DoDers are in need of a coffee or a bed or whatever, do drop by.  I
live about 20 miles (32 klicks) from Smoke (London).  You're all welcome 
(literally!)  Just 'phone beforehand or summat.  ++44 628 666430
                                                          ~~~     weird eh!


Nick (the Hotelier Biker)   MAG 73516   DoD 1069   B&B Guide


M'Lud.
From: joe@rider.cactus.org (Joe Senner)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Uneven Front tyre
Date: 6 Nov 92 01:44:42 GMT
Reply-To: joe@rider.cactus.org
Distribution: world
Organization: NOT

erika@znext.cts.com (erik astrup) writes:
]: so your michelin's were underinflated and the ME33's weren't. 
]	*Not*  Sorry, try again oh overinflated one. The tires were kept
]inflated to the recommended pressures in both cases. A buddy of mine's FZR
]750 exhibits the same problem with the same Michelin's, also inflated to
]the proper pressure. 

sorry pimple brain, you're wrong. count the number of people that agree
with me and the number that agree with you and it should become apparent.

I thought 32psi on my ZX-11 was correct pressure. for the type of riding
I did it wasn't. upping it to 42psi made the cupping go away. trust me,
I didn't stop using the brake...

-- 
Joe Senner -- joe@Rider.Cactus.Org                                 Austin, TX
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: alex@lyra.colorado.edu (Alex Matthews)
Subject: Test your knowledge
Originator: alex@lyra
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:29:52 GMT


Quiz for First Snow Partygoers:

1. Complete the following sentence: 
      
    "Indians don't leak oil, they just _______."

2. Laszlo's sole purpose for existence is to own a bike with loud pipes
   and ride it 

   a. with vim and verve.
   b. to his wedding with Mikii.
   c. home to suburbia.
   d. to hell and then back home to suburbia.

3. The video of the Elephant Mountain Conquest that Laszlo arrived too
   late to see was

   a. horrifying and death-defying.
   b. difficult to describe in most languages indigenous to the United States.
   c. too commercial.
   d. just another winter ride.

4. Honda calls the reverse gear on the CB700SC

   a. "feature where with pilot can maneuver delicately with great skill
       to where is not accessible."
   b. "BKUP."
   c. "Jeff."

5. Road Rash is

   a. a video game for shut-ins.
   b. a painful skin condition often resulting from maneuvering delicately
      with great skill to where is not accessible.
   c. a tasty chocolate cake with vanilla frosting, motorcycles, and
      terrifyingly lifelike barnyard animals, but no cops.

6. In the year 2015 an FJ rider will be overheard saying

   a. "These are called carburetors.  All bikes had them back then."
   b. "No, no, look, the swingarm is on the _rear_."
   c. "Pay up."
   d. "I hear they're making Yamahas again, but it's just a name, they're
       not really Yamahas."

7. True or False:  The Indian factory invented the "Team Stealth" slogan.

8. True or False:  Kevin Malloy's favorite road sign reads "Travel at
    your own risk."

9. James Garnett 
   a. is in Milan.
   b. is in Boulder.
   c. still thinks it's a question of character.
   d. all of the above.

10. John Sloan says his hot tub is working.  He is 

   a. bluffing.
   b. confused.
   c. asking for trouble.
   d. the humble and selfless host of this December's Ride'n'Freeze.
   e. a and c.

11. True or False: "Even with 3rd through 6th gears missing, I 
    can beat you to the top of the canyon."

12. Colorado is
   a. The Alps of America.
   b. going through a tough time, politically and financially.
   c. populated by hicks and perverts.
   d. Could you restate that as a yes-or-no question?

(Partial credit will be awarded.)
-- 
-Alex Matthews (alex@lyra.colorado.edu, matthews@jila.bitnet)
DoD #0010   
"Occasionally we may try to reroute you briefly onto a particularly
beautiful side road...." - Numerical Recipes
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine)
Subject: Re: DoD
Summary: smart ass
Organization: Ontario Hydro - Research Division
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 19:15:54 GMT

In article <721185461snx@swamp.demon.co.uk> Neil@swamp.demon.co.uk (njb) writes:
>Can anybody tell a newcomer WTH Do means?

You'd think that someone in the UK could get the locals to tell him what do
means. He has dod in the subject line, so maybe he meant dodo? Or perhaps 
doodoo?

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
Xref: sparky rec.motorcycles:38478 ba.motorcycles:737
From: spencer@hailwood.asd.sgi.com (Paul Spencer)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: East Bay Salvage (Was: Re: Honda 650 head problems)
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:28:50 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: hailwood.asd.sgi.com

georgew@hspice.portal.com (George Wu) says:
> 
>      What this business really needs is an inventory by part number,
> rather than bike model.

That won't help. Bike manufacturers will assign a DIFFERENT part number
to the brake pedal for a SRX-250 and for another bike, EVEN THOUGH THEY
ARE THE SAME PART! After a few years, they will then change the part
number to the `common' one.

What is needed is a cross-reference of other part numbers that are
absolutely identical, parts that are identical but a different color,
and parts that are different but may work anyway. But, don't expect
the manufacturers to give out this information.

....paul

-- 
Paul Spencer                 Silicon Graphics Advanced Graphics Division
spencer@sgi.com                                Mountain View, California
From: klf@druwa.ATT.COM (FranklinKL)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Japanese Motorcycle Repair Kit
Keywords: Yet another dude with a 'tude.
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:20:55 GMT
Distribution: rec

Just a humorous sidebar:

I came up behind a car on I-25 last night.  It had several bumper stickers
on the back, one of which was one seen frequently (and which is also
popular on T shirts).  I'm sure you've all seen it. The text says:

		"Japanese Motorcycle Repair Kit"

Next to the text is a picture of a hand grenade.  Deucedly clever eh?
Anyway, as I passed, I glanced over at the driver.  He was a type you
would not be surprised to see riding on a well known brand of American
motorcycle.  Heavy set, big bushy, long moustache, longish, bushy hair.
So far, nothing unusual, right?   But something didn't seem right so I
looked more carefully at the car.  It was a farking TOYOTA TERCEL.

I'm sure the simple bastard doesn't have a clue.  Can you say hypocrite?
I knew you could.

--
Ken Franklin 	They say there's a heaven for people who wait
AMA     	And some say it's better but I say it ain't
GWRRA           I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
DoD #0126       The sinners are lots more fun, Y'know only the good die young
From: tjohnson@atcc5.prime.com (Tod J Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Not A Problem?
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:41:00 GMT
Reply-To: tjohnson@atc1.UUCP (Tod J Johnson)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computervision, Bedford MA

>In article <BD.92Nov2120836@fluent.UUCP> bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU writes:
>
>Tod....Fuck off. Please.

All;

	I've been humiliated in front of everyone. I've been crushed at my own
game. This cunning and intellectual man from Dartmouth has certainly demonstrated
his superior wisdom, and grasp of the english language; and I would be a fool to
even attempt to combat him in a battle of wit and cunning. Let's disect his most
imagininative and effect retort so that we may all learn, and become better
citizens.

He starts "Tod...." - Note he spelled my name properly and, and adds a most
                      dramatic .... to in effect allow the reader to pause
                      and draw a breath for what is about to be bestowed.

"Fuck off" - Clearly a Rhodes Scholar. A master of dialect. A man whose verbal 
             assault could knock even George Will on his posterior. A true Poet
             and a Picasso of speech. Obviously we have a man of exceptional
             magnitude. Our future as a nation is in his hands.

"Please" - A delicate gesture of manners and sincerity. A perfect closing to an
           insightful passage.

	I'll never flame here again for fear of just such prowess on the net. I
can not stand the degradation and humiliation thrust upon by the man we should
all be fearful of from Dartmouth College. He is the victor not of this short
battle; but of the war. It is truely a sad day for me.

No More Flames;

Tod J. Johnson
DoD #883
"Go Slow, Take Geritol"
From: molenda@i1.msi.umn.edu (Jason Molenda)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Long winter's nap . . .
Date: 11 Nov 92 04:03:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.1992Nov11.040301.20416
Organization: University of Minnesota

Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford) writes:

>In article <1992Nov09.180153.18205@rchland.ibm.com>,
>pooder@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Don Fearn) wrote:
>> 
>> It would seem to be the time of year for those of us who can't ride year
>> around to think about putting our motorcycles down for a nap.  I put
>> Harvey in last weekend, and Gretchen will probably be put in next week.
>> 
>[extensive article deleted]

>Ya blew it, Pooder.  It's in the 50's today!  Still riding.

I'm with john.  all of my friends have been teasing me about riding in
any temp we've had so far (not too tough - coldest ride was 24F for
about 15 minutes on the freeway).  my new definition to abate them is
``if the bike starts, it's riding weather.''
-- 
Jason Molenda, University of Minnesota, Supercomputer Inst., Technical Support
SGI Iris Admin        molenda@jason.msi.umn.edu       DoD #1867     '77 CB750F
``If you are what you eat, I'm dead meat.'' -- Timbuk 3