HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: baxter@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Mike Baxter)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles.dirt
Subject: Re: HOLDING BIKES ON A TRAILER
Date: 15 Oct 92 03:02:41 GMT
Organization: TI Semiconductor Process and Design Center

>
>john castaldi - the world's meanest KDX200!
>BBBRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHPPP! ERRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
>

What?, does it have a 1986 CR500 engine wedged into it that George ported?

hahahahahaha  ;-)
_____________________________________________________________________________
DoD #359         '91  CR250            |         Mike Baxter   
AMA #607249                            |              
TCCRA  #061    250cc int. class        |      baxter@spdc.ti.com
Texas Cross-Country racing series      |   
50 miles of off-road Hell              |   Texas Instruments, Dallas Tx.
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From: mcclend@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Mike McClendon)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:11:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: No spark on XL600
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles.dirt

oops, your pulse generator output is the same as RPM, just twice as many
firings as you need for a four-stroke.

Mike

Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles.dirt
From: couyant@convex.com (George Couyant)
Subject: Re: Busted? or Busted! was:happened to 500cc
Organization: CONVEX Computer Pty Limited, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 06:03:55 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In Article <1992Oct6.183625.11844@access.usask.ca>, donald@dvinci.USask.Ca (David Donald) writes:

> 
> Good to see you back.  About the ride:  Share, man share.  It's about -2
> degrees C here today, and riding is starting to look like it's not going to 
> happen.

	-2 C!!  Suffer lad suffer.... Nearly 3 weeks of 25-35 C riding! Ha
	ha ha ha ha......
> 
> BTW... Any comments on the Rick Sieman interview on 60 Minutes, or have you 
> seen it?

	Nup, haven't seen it. Don't know if I want to after reading about
	it. I hear the guy's a jerk, but from where I stand, I see he's
	done a lot for dirt biking and he's prepared to get up off his big
	bum and do something about our situation. I must admit that I do
	enjoy his editorials... I wonder if it was a case of 60 Minutes
	doing their usual thing of showing the most sensational 30 seconds
	of an interview and leaving the important stuff on the cutting
	room floor. I was interviewed some years ago about a CAD/CAM
	project I was working on and man, did I they go to town on me.
	Hundreds of people potentially losing their jobs due to our
	project producing a better end product more efficiently and for a
	fraction of the cost....I was pissed off...but I digress...
	Anyone who so obviously spends so much money on beer, pizzas and
	cheap cigars can't be that bad.

	Cheers Dave
	George C.

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86 TT600,90 KX500,88 KX250,85 CR250,86 CR500, oh yea, and the kids 92 PW50.

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From: couyant@convex.com (George Couyant)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles.dirt
Subject: Re: How do you weld plastic?
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:55:50 GMT
Organization: CONVEX Computer Pty Limited, Melbourne, Australia
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In Article <17550035@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>, mcclend@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Mike McClendon) writes:

> How do you weld plastic?  That should be the ultimate repair/modification/fab-
> rication for fenders & panels & such.
> 
	[....]
> 
> So is it like oxy-acetylene -- melt the base material, then dip in the 
> welding rod?  How do you ID the base material, so you don't, for example,

	There are a number of ways of telling what sort of material it
	is.... The way it burns is a dead give away. Unfortunately I can't
	remember which is which, but I found out by reading up on it at
	the local library.

> use a PVC rod on a polyethylene base?  Does it really work?  Is there a
> home-shop method cheaper than $100?

	Yup, a soldering iron held close to, but not touching the plastic
	will give you a well controled melt front. Kawasaki (green)
	plastic is a bitch to "weld" because of the affect of the green
	deyes used....Last time I looked, a rear fender for my TT600 was
	$15 and the front $25. I'd rather just buy a new one...You'll
	never get the right colour match with welding rods. Maybe you
	could buy the cheapest plastic part of the right colour and use
	that. Oh yea, an old fashioned razor blade will do wonders when
	you want to clean up the welded site.
> 
> Just think of all the great stuff we can build if we can make good plastic
> welds . . . !

	A reuseable condom?....No seriously, you've got me thinking...

	Cheers
	George C.

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 /      \ 	Senior Systems Engineer		Ph    61 3 823-6216
 \_/--\*/	Convex Computer Pty Limited	Fax   61 3 823-6254
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86 TT600,90 KX500,88 KX250,85 CR250,86 CR500, oh yea, and the kids 92 PW50.
From: barosb@carn24.alleg.edu (Brandi Baros)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles.dirt
Subject: more plastic fixing
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:55:33 GMT
Organization: Allegheny College

I read in Dirt Rider a while ago...May?...the a good thing to do is take  
the plastic off the bike and give it the Frankenstein treatment.  drill  
small holes with a 1/16" bit every 1/2" on each side of the crack, about  
1/4" away.  Drill a slightly bigger hole at the end of the crack to keep  
it from going any farther.  Get some strong safety wire and lace it  
through the small holes, going across the crack, and tie or weld it  
together somewhere where it won't snag your gear.  I've never done this  
myself--never had a bad enough crack, but I think this would work just as  
well as zip-ties...just a little more time consuming and a little spookier  
looking.

-Brandi 

<mud, sweat, and WD-40.....>
Jeff Ward, I'm gonna miss you!
From: kenm@array.com (Ken Murphy)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles.dirt
Subject: Re: what to do
Date: 12 Oct 92 11:22:22 GMT
Organization: Array Microsystems, Colorado Springs, CO. USA
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James Picone (jap@sei.cmu.edu) wrote:
: Can anyone tell me a good way to keep my stock(with a smaller front
: sprocket) 90 CR250 from fouling plugs when woods riding.

Assumption:

By saying in the woods, I assume that you're not running on the pipe, but
rather lugging the bike.

You can first try backing out the air screw, but if you're fouling plugs
you're jetted too rich.

Go smaller on the pilot.  Maybe raise the needle a notch.

You are just a little 'fat' on the jetting.  

: 
: thanks,

Noprob

: 
: james(endo in the mud) picone


  O                    Ken Murphy aka kenm@array.com              President RMEC
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From: jld@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Deeney)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:23:40 GMT
Subject: Re: '93 YZ250
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles.dirt

In rec.motorcycles.dirt, baxter@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Mike Baxter) writes:

> also said that the YZ is faster than any of the 1992 models.  Sounds good 
> doesn't it.  It does to me.  I saw a few days ago that someones friend just
> picked up a '93 YZ250 and that they were going riding to break the thing in.
> What was the impression.

That was MerfMan.  I'm not sure that the bike got broken in, but Ken did.
How long till you can ride again Ken?  Good thing that racing season is
over :-/ 

-Jeff Deeney-  KotD #0000  DoD#0498    NCTR    '88 XR600-Shamu   
jld@hpfcpe.fc.hp.com       AMA#540813  COHVCO  '81 CB750F-Llamaha 
We don't stop riding because we get old, we get old because we stop riding.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles.dirt
From: schottd@ucs.orst.edu (Derek Schott)
Subject: Re: Rebuild
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 05:01:29 GMT

Wow! If I had to pay that much for a piston on my KDX I'd quit riding.
Anyways, has anyone else had the the "oil gusher" syndrome happen on
their KDX? I have a 91, and ever since the day I have owned it (going
on two years now) it has shot gobs of oil out the silencer. Switching to
synthetics has helped, but it is still pretty bad. Tried jetting it
leaner, but no big difference. Seems to run fine, but it is a pain 
cleaning the burnt oil off the rear fender. Anyone else seen this, or
have a solution?

-- 
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From: Usually Dazed <clane@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Frankenstein Plastic Fix
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:50:05 GMT



Speaking of fixing plastic, I remember a friend who had a quat that had a
buch of cracks of the rear fenders.  So he drilled small holes on each side
of the cracks and laced them up with about (i guess) 18 guage SOLID copper
wire.

It held GREAT and looked Pretty cool!

	Frankensteins Quad.



                    		Things To Do Today    1) Get up
later					  	      2) Drink
chuck!					              3) Goto Bed.
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From: matth@progress.COM (Matthew J. Harper)
Subject: Re: Idiot bicycle races on non-closed courses (was Re: ignore - test)
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:52:21 GMT

ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray) writes:

>Dangerous because of testosterone-crazed ZX11 riders, no doubt.
>Have some fuckin' tolerance, will you?  The road's not your
>personal playground, there's other people with different hobbies
>than you.  Deal with it, or you lose the right to complain when they
>try to take away _your_ hobby.


>>  No markers, etc...

>It probably wasn't a race then- most likely a centry ride.
>Most races (and all races put on by good promoters) have vounteers
>stationed at the road junctions, or at least signs, to warn motor vehicles
>that there's a bike race goin' on.

>--
>Eric Murray   ericm@microunity.com   Ride fast, die young, wear black leather.

  It seems that someone has his head so far up his ass that he's looking
tight into tomorrow:

  Point:  The original poster stated he was following the posted limit.  
          (Actually going slower I believe)

  Point:  Bicyclists (of which I am one) are the biggest offenders of
          breaking road laws:  (They here is a general term.  Some 
          know what they are doing)
          - They ride against traffic
          - They don't stop for red lights or stop signs
          - They don't feel they need to yield the right of way because they
            are the slower vehicle
          - And the big one here:
            They ride more than two abreast!

  I don't know what the laws are in CA.  I do know that in the 5 states I have
lived in it is legal for cyclists to ride *no more than* two abreast.  (Heck,
how could you fit more than two on a breast?-)  This is one of the biggest
problems law-abiding motorists have with law-breaking cyclists today.  They
ride 3,4, or 5 abreast a refuse to form a single line to let traffic past.

  As far as I'm concerned cyclists should be given moving violations just as
Motorcyclists do.  The laws are on the books, but they are never (well, almost
never) enforced.  Maybe with a little observance of enforcing the laws we
could all use the roads at the same time with out people being accused of
being "intolerant testosterone-crazed ZX11 riders, no doubt" simply because
they get annoyed because a pack of Shimano gear sucking Lemond wanna' be's 
are inconsiderate to others on the road.

-Matth
--
          Matthew J. Harper ! Progress Software Corp. ! {disclaimer.i}         
   God created heaven and earth to grow barley and hops. Now he homebrews !-)
From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Loud Pipes = Safety?  Not always...
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:08:02 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH


Cycle World, Nov. 1992, p. 33
Reprinted without permission

Down:  To Connecticut State Trooper Arthur V. Limouze, for allegedly 
shooting at two unarmed motorcyclists.  According to a report 
published in the NY Times, the 49-year-old Limouze, upset by the 
noise generated by the motorcycles, fired several rifle shots at 
the men, wounding one in the leg.  Limouze surrendered to authorities 
and was charged with second-degree assault with a firearm and 
first-degree reckless endangerment.
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
                              DoD # 0698
From: root@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Ride to Work Day: Today?
Keywords: commute
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:58:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: elektro.1992Oct13.145837.2004
Organization: Why do you suspect that?

The other day I saw somebody's .sig that said "Everyday is Ride to Work Day".

Since I subscribe to that, and I while riding to work this morning in the
39 degree f. sunshine I was rolling the thought around about the .sig;
the idea struck me (at 80 MPH ideas stike and stick!) of taking a survey
of the DoD, and even other beasties inhabiting rec.moto, to see how many
rode to work today.

How about sending email to the address below and I'll tally it up and
repost for everybody's enjoyment.

           Send to:    vote@elektro.cmhnet.org

Questions:

1.  Did you ride to work today, October 13 1992 ?

2.  Do you also have a cage ?  (so I can tally voluntary / involuntary riders)

3.  Do you usually ride to work ?  Your subjective opinion !



Charlie Smith   charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org  csmith@dsac.dla.mil  whois ces10
MOA# 52888, RA# 15633, DoD# 0709, AMA# 574722, Buckey Beemers 411, BK Ohio V
BMW K1100-LT, R69S, R27 and other even less worthwhile [ 2 | 3 ] wheel stuff

    [    97 miles an hour;  it's not the law, it's just a good idea    ]
From: leighann@alpine.sybase.com (Leigh Ann Hussey)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: We are sick and tired!!
Date: 7 Oct 92 23:50:36 GMT
Organization: Sybase, Inc., Emeryville, CA

In article <1adv00INNmas@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, ravi@maxine.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan - Mick) writes:
|> 	rec.motorcycles exists as it is and we instead start an all new
|> 	domain called "dod"!!! and we have under:
|> 
|> 	dod.humour
|>	[etc]

You forgot dod.oil, dod.horns, dod.aftermarket.seats, and
dod.merchandise!

	- Leigh Ann -- just contributing to the noise... joke 'em if
		they can't fake a tuck.


----------------
Leigh Ann Hussey  leighann@sybase.com  DoD#5913  AMA#624549  AWRRA#23 (skidoo!)
'74 Honda CB360 "Fyrdraka"   			'81 Yamaha Maxim650 "Elhaz"
"And they ride, and they ride/ And the White Hounds run beside/ And they'll
seize the night and shake it by the throat."
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From: mlj8e@mljsg.pharm.Virginia.EDU (Michael Johnson)
Subject: Re: Harley attitudes and other bikes
Keywords: Buell
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: rec
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:32:36 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.160544.4512@elektro.cmhnet.org> root@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.195353.22342@rtsg.mot.com> declrckd@rtsg.mot.com (Dan J. Declerck) writes:
>>In article <21228@drutx.ATT.COM> klf@druwa.ATT.COM (FranklinKL) writes:
>>>I've noticed that many of my friends, who are fanatic Harley people
>>>rave about the Buell, usually referring to it as a "Buell Sportster".
>
>   ***   [   losts of loving descriptions deleted   ]   ***
>
>>A buell is more American than a Harley, it has more north American Content
>>than a Harley.                                                     ^^^^^^^
>
>Didn't you mean North American Continent ??
>
>Thought so.
>

No, he ment content, i.e. % part that are American made.



--
      Michael L. Johnson
      mlj8e@virginia.edu
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From: tjones@triton.unm.edu (Tom Jones)
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 08:05:41 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <dbc-161092022146@b62003.student.cwru.edu> dbc@po.cwru.edu (Dean Cookson) writes:
>In article <1992Oct15.170607.683@halfdome.sf.ca.us>, bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us
>(bob pasker) wrote:
>> 
>> [v pnaabg erzrzore n ebg13 guernq ba e.z. qbrf nalbar ryfr erzrzore
>> bar?]
>> 
>Abcr, vs sbe ab bgure ernfba guna gung jbhyq cynpr n erfgevpgvba ba
>gur ahzore bs crbcyr jr'q or noyr gb bssraq. :-)\
>
V whfg unq na vqrn. Sebz abj ba jura fbzrbar nfxf, "Jung vf QbQ?", jr
fubhyq cbfg gur SND rapbqrq yvxr guvf.

Gur Srj, gur Cebhq, gur Pelcgb-nqqvpgf!!!

-- 
Tom Jones    DoD# 691 |   University of New Mexico   |
tjones@triton.unm.edu | Chemical/Nuclear Engr. Dept. |
1993  Yamaha  Seca II |   Albuquerque,  New Mexico   |
From: mausoof@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Kawasaki CR250's
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:15:01 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

	I have just come across an immaculate Kawasaki CR250 and have fallen in
love with it. Unfortunately, I know nothing about that model and have never
even seen one before this. I would appreciate if there is someone out there who
can give me some information on this bike.
						Saqib Mausoof
						mausoof@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
P.S The model is 1981.
From: labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Shaft effect, What is it?
Date: 16 Oct 92 12:58:06 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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	I keep hearing about something called shaft effect...what is
	it?

					Ryan
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: car377@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (charles.a.rogers)
Subject: Re: rec.moto.tech
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 03:00:55 GMT
Summary: wishful thinking

In article <22843@galaxy.ucr.edu>, tgrupe@watnxt11.ucr.edu (Todd E. Grupe) writes:
> 	Absolutely.  The tech discussion needs to be separated from the  
> eternal flaming and opinion wars so that those of us that need to get  
> something *done* can do it.  I could have used tech advice when I started  
> rebuilding my 440LTD engine a month ago.  I think there are enough  
> free-time mechanics hanging around here with nothing better to do.  
> 
> Opinions, support , flames, etc. -- what do others think?

Yeah, this year I resurrected a '79 KZ400B2 that had been sitting for
5 years previously in an open parking lot near Colorado University
in Boulder Colorado.  I had to rebuild, refurbish, or replace tank, 
petcock, forks, chain, ignition parts, carbs, braking systems, 
throttle hardware, seat, battery, etc. I stripped two parts bikes to 
get some parts, bought others, and had a Denizen in Georgia ship me 
others from a bike he was parting out.  I got all the advice I needed 
from the service manual, a Clymer's manual, a couple of How-To books on 
carbs and electrical systems that I bought mail order, back issues of
"Motorcyclist", "Cycle", "Rider", "Cycle World", and "Road Rider", and 
from other KZ4X0 owners in rec.moto.  I've got it pretty much done, and
I'm working on painting it now.  I didn't need no steenkin' special 
tech group to do it, because mechanickin' and socializin' 
about/on/with/for/inside motorcycles is all part and parcel of the same 
experience for me.

> What are you reading this for?

Because it's in rec.moto.  If it were in rec.moto.tech, I *wouldn't*
be reading it.

Chuck Rogers
car377@druhi.att.com
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From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
Subject: Re: Fogging and how to stop it?
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:55:06 GMT

In article <dbc-121092164658@b62003.student.cwru.edu> dbc@po.cwru.edu (Dean Cookson) writes:
}I've been very happy with the anti-fog juice put out by the rain-x
}people.  Blaine, however, says it don't work to well with his Quiet-Rider
}in place.  I'll be ordering one this week, so I'll post my opinions
}about the combination when it gets here.

What is a Quiet-Rider? I haven't seen them at the local cycle shops.
I suppose it is some kind of seal or baffle to keep air from coming
in the bottom of your helmet?

Tell me quick -- with the windscreen and the trunk and the front toolbag
and the gear glove I'm running out of places to put accessories on the
bike and have to start buying accessories for me. Gotta make sure them
bike shops don't go outta bizniss, dontcha know.

Maybe it's time to get those helmet mounted airhorns....

-- 
Curtis Jackson	'91 Black Lab "Studley Doright"   '92 Collie/Shepherd "George"
cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com	USPA #A-10080 (lapsed)	DoD #721 '81 Maxim 650
  "They that can give up an essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
   safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1759)
From: thorick@sybase.com (Thorick Chow)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Racing Classes
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:08:01 GMT
Organization: Sybase, Inc.

>In article <1992Oct6.041356.24740@javelin.sim.es.com>,
>blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers) wrote:
>> 
>> >ST1100's remind me of Pacific Coasts,
>> 
>> Remind me to mention the "RC-34" Pathetic Coast that was seen cruising
>> around Steamboat at the races a couple of weeks ago. It's a damn shame
>> they didn't race it. Anyone for a GoldWing racing class? :-)
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>

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 !



-t.c.




--
"We must be careful not to discourage our 12-year-olds by making them   
 waste the best years of their lives on preparing for examinations.  If
 we do not stifle their interest in science, one of them has a chance to
 be the new Heisenberg..."              - Freeman Dyson
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From: edw@boi.hp.com (Edward Walsh)
Subject: Re: 80/81 CB750 s
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:29:34 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
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svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda) writes:
: In article <1992Oct12.234554.13398@morrow.stanford.edu> karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish) writes:
: |
: |It also does a drunken weave when I ride it at in-town
: |speeds after an hour or so at 85+.  Probably due to
: |shock fade.  This is with Fox shocks and springs that
: |are probably a bit too soft.
: 
: Hmmmm.  My Concours does this after a half hour at DoD
: speeds.  Are there other explanations?  How would a
: single shock cause a weave?  I have wandered about this.
: 
: Dave Svoboda (rubis@gagme.chi.il.us)        | "I just can't take

My FJ used to do this...about a 1~2 Hz. oscillation when slowing down in town
after long straight fast cruises. Getting rid of the stock front tire fixed
it (I now have a ME33 Laser up front). My theory is that local heating
in the center band of the tire changed its profile slightly, and probably
also its stickyness such that the more dynamically stable position was off
to the edges, rather than the center, and it would hunt between the two sides.
------------------------------Edward Walsh----Hewlett-Packard Company-------
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                              FJ1200'89,XZ550RJ(Vision)'82,DoD#98