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From: Roar.Larsen@termo.unit.no (Roar Larsen)
Subject: Re: Fuckin' maggots knocked my bike over
Organization: SINTEF, Norway
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 10:52:26 GMT

... must be a real light-weight bike to be knocked over by copulating
worms!!

(Sorry - I was sad to hear your story, just couldn't let this one
slip by  :-)

Roar Larsen    DoD# 463
Trondheim, Norway   '85 FJ 1100
From: Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Motorcycles prohibited (Was: Least Favorite Road Sign)
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:28:49 GMT
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Organization: MSUS

In article <5252@gdls.UUCP>, parker@gdls.UUCP (The Dougster) wrote:
> 
> In article <71.2AB16DA7@kennel.FIDONET.ORG>, john@kennel.FIDONET.ORG (John Hamilton) writes:
> > 
> [NJ Turnpike horror story deleted] :-)
> > 
> > New Jersey people..... is the Turnpike ok for mc traffic now? I thought they
> > changed it not long after I was chased off, but I've never been back to try.
> > 
> 
> On my way to the Finger Lakes Rally in NY, I tried going through the
> international tunnel between Detroit and Windsor. The friendly attendant
> greeted me with "We don't allow motorcycles. You're going to have to use
> the [Ambassador] bridge."
> 
> Why not allow motorcycles? I don't have a clue.
> 

If that road is an interstate, then there is nothing to keep you
from riding a motorcycle there.  Except local ignorance, nazis,
etc.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (William E. Johns;S23015)
Subject: Re: Vandals strike! (was Re: whee!
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 19:15:06 GMT

In article <1hgwZg#4QjgD9=aal@broue.rot.qc.ca> aal@broue.rot.qc.ca (Alain Hebert) writes:
>jet@win30.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>: thieves, some screws had been lostened.)
>
>	You might be able to fit a Cobra Alarm System with two micro "Sirene"
>	(Speaker, sort of) and a little shock sensor...  I've done it on my old
>	VMax '87 (They have a tendency to stole a lot of them in Montreal during
>	summer...) and the package fit easily under the back seat but with one
>	micro speaker inside the front light...  It make enought noise to wake
>	you up (not nice...) and make the theifs goes ballistic from the
>	surprise!  I sure know because one morning I seat on my bike try to
>	start it (I've add a relay on the ignition wire, it cut the juice when
>	the alarm is activated) after a couple of try I was thinking that the
>	damn battery was dead again and get up a little rought.  The last pose
>	was me sitting on the pavement with a heart beat way up!
>
>	Have fun (Nobody knows where the archived copy of the FAQ reside?)

This is not a very nice thing to do to somebody.  Then again, bike thieves
are not very nice people.  So how did you wire this thing up?

Ride with a charge,

Bill
________________________________________________________________________
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If you walk, just walk.
If you sit, just sit.
If you ride, just ride.

Above all, don't wobble.
                             Zen saying (slightly modified)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: tgent@dale.ksc.nasa.gov (Tom Gent)
Subject: Re: HELP!  FJ starting problems
Summary: Check compression!
Organization: NASA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:53:39 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.131627.15215@ugle.unit.no> Roar.Larsen@termo.unit.no (Roar Larsen) writes:
>
> (stuff deleted)
>
>In short: I have an 85 Yamaha FJ 1100 with 50000 km on the clock
>(31000 miles), and the bike has become _damned_ hard to start!!
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> (stuff Deleted)
>
>... The battery and starter cranks the engine round just fine ...
>...  unless it has been raining (humid air) ... temperature is low -
> then it is almost impossible to start. ...
> ... Rolling down-hill also helps ...
>The key point seems to be
>that the engine needs to be cranked over for a much longer period
>(about 30-40 seconds ?) than the battery or a short hill is able
>to do, in order to start. During the cranking-over it often
>backfires as well. 
>
>  (much stuff deleted)
>
>Roar Larsen           DoD# 463
>Trondheim, Norway    85 FJ 1100

I had a friend with a 600 Ninja with ~30K miles with the same symptoms.
Much experimenting with carbs and ignition proved useless, finally he
had the compression checked and found the exhaust valves were badly burned.
After rebuilding, it started fine.

Your battery can't be very good if it only cranks the engine for 30
seconds!

1)  check battery voltage *while cranking*. should be >8 volts IMO.
2)  check compression.

By the way, did you pull the head when you rethreaded those plugs?


Tom Gent
tom-gent@kssib.ksc.nasa.gov   89 ZX-10, 84 Sabre, no DoD#, no apologies.
From: dmatejka@netcom.com (Daniel Matejka)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Car driver with a Clue!
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:15:42 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services

In article <1992Sep10.193132.7692@javelin.sim.es.com> blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>I hope you didn't pass him. Putting yourself in front of him would be
>putting yourself right in his blind spot! Then again, it sounds like his
>blind spot measured about 360 degrees. :-)

  You know, I hadn't thought of that.  The only safe place in the world
to be is somewhere behind this guy.  I wonder which direction he's
headed in now, and whether he's reached an ocean yet.

  Say, how is it that a thread about a chance discovery of a clued
driver ended up being perverted into Yet Another Clueless Driver Discussion?
Who started this thing, anyway?
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: crpresto@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Charlie Preston)
Subject: Re: Off-Road courses
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 16:04:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Illinois State University

The Motorcycle Safety Project at Northern Illinois University offers classes
in Northern IL and sometimes in Michigan. For details call 815-753-1683 or
800-892-9607 (IL only).  I believe they require you to use their bikes.

Chas
From: dbc@po.cwru.edu (Dean Cookson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: TEST/IGNORE
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Date: 7 Sep 1992 17:48:13 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62003.student.cwru.edu

In article <1992Sep7.071226.3271@ncsu.edu>, jrwaters@eos.ncsu.edu (JACK
ROGERS WATERS) wrote:
> 
> In article <dbc-060992214726@b62003.student.cwru.edu> dbc@po.cwru.edu (Dean Cookson) writes:
> >In article <1992Sep4.183203.25410@webo.dg.com>, x1sdup@esparc19.webo.dg.com
> >(Stephen Dupre) wrote:
> >> 
> >> Just adjusting some environment variables...
> >
> >setenv LANCE_HOLST	jerk
> >
> How idiotic.  That's the default value.
> 
:-)
> 
> Jack Waters II


| Dean Cookson / dbc@po.cwru.edu / 216 754-1834     | DoD #207  AMA
#573534|
| Case Western Reserve U. Computer E. and Sci. dept.| KotNML  /  KotB     
|
| "If I was worried about who saw me, I'd never get | '81 CB750C          
|
| nekkid at all." -Ed Green, DoD #0111              | '88 Bianchi Limited 
|
From: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi <tcora>)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Waving with meaning..?
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:01:14 GMT
Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

loki@nazgul.physics.mcgill.ca (Loki Jorgenson) writes:
>>Roar.Larsen@termo.unit.no (Roar Larsen) writes:
>>: According to this system, a wave with the hand _above_ the handlebars
>>: means just a friendly acknowledgement of fellow bikers, while a wave
>>: with the hand _below_ the handlebars means: "Danger - drive legally!!"
>>: This of course is interpreted as meaning dangerous road conditions 
>>: coming up, or some kind of police activity...:-) 
>
>	Hand waves?  How about highbeams?
>
>	I always thought hand signals were to difficult to notice.
>Following the cager tradition, I always do a little headlamp modulation
>by hand (high-low-high-low-high-low) at oncoming 'cyclists to warn of law
>enforcement (or bad conditions).  At night, this is best on split

Law enforcement (or bad conditions)?

Isn't that a redundancy?
-- 
 
                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil
From: pooder@msus1.msus.edu
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: key fobs
Date: 6 Sep 92 16:25:07 -0600
Organization: Minnesota State University System

In article <7907@public.BTR.COM>, jamesf@public.BTR.COM (James G. Franklin  jamesf@btr.com) writes:
> In article <SHAFER.92Sep4112237@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov> shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
>>On 4 Sep 92 09:26:31 PDT, bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob pasker) said:
>>
>>bob> In article <9209041535.AA17918@nettlerash.berkeley.edu>, XP2729@LSUVM.BITNET (Terry Baldridge) writes:
>>bob> this is the *first* dod item that i'm willing to come out in public 
>>bob> and say *YES*.  (those letters were in caps, btw).
>>
> I'd actively like one. Having been fobless (never saw one I didn't think
> was dumb) for most of my life, (don't get this confused with jobless, an
> affliction also present, although only recently and temporarily) I would
> say DoD fobs would be A Good Thing (tm).
> 
> jim
> 
> -- 
> *   Jim Franklin * jamesf@btr.com OR {decwrl,mips,fernwood}!btr!jamesf      *
> *   (insert new bike here)   | Nothing hurts like the loss one feels when   *
> * Triumph 650 (slalom champ) | they lose their first love, get fired from   * 
> * DoD #469          KotP(un) | their first job, or sell their first bike.   * 


Me, too (fobless, not jobless).  I've been looking for a BMW one in black 
leather, but so far, I haven't found one.  a DoD fob (in black leather, of
course) would be just the ticket.
 
Don, Harvey ('72 CB500), and Gretchen ('86 K75) - Rochester, MN
From: parker@gdls.UUCP (The Dougster)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: More ascii hand signals
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:42:52 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, MI

Last year, riding in a group for the first time, leading the pack. I thought
we needed route 33, or was it 38? I looked back to my friend John, who
had his map in his tank bag and tried to signal him "33 or 38?" Three is
easy, but how do you signal an eight with one hand?

To answer my question and educate y`all :-), here's my contribution to
freeway communication at DoD speed without intercoms. Brought to you
by the American Sign Language:

      |      ||     |||    ||||    ||||
  /||||   /||||   /||||   /||||  \ ||||
  \   /   \   /   \   /   \   /   \   /

    1       2       3       4       5

   |||     ||      |
 \ ||||  \ ||||  \ ||||  \ ||||   /||||
  \   /   \   /   \   /   \   /   \   /

    6       7       8       9       10 (or in this case, 0)

Douglas
--
Reply-To: gdls!parker@ilium.troy.msen.com
DoD #1961    BMWMOA    Renting N56136
--
A dress is nothing but pants with one pantleg.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)
Subject: Re: Fabulous Harley Babe Bashing etc.
Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal.
	<1992Sep10.003334.5396@colorado.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:13:52 GMT

On Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:33:34 GMT, laszlo@eclipse.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth) said:

Laszlo> nashville opry land hotel for usenix 600+ miles of super slab
Laszlo> at high speed (yes dod nominal was achived) wearing full racing
Laszlo> leathers, helmet, combat boots, and guantlets in 90+ degrees. 

What did you think of the country jazz harpist in the red sequined
suit with the pink spotlight?

I liked the way they glassed in their courtyard and air conditioned
it, managing to recreate San Diego.  (Although I've never seen a
country jazz harpist etc. in San Diego.)

I'm constantly amazed at how many bugs there are in climates more
humid than the desert southwest.  I can go months without smashing
enough bugs to impair vision here in the Mojave; I went from Nashville
to Memphis and had to scrap the miserable little carcasses off in
order to read the street signs.  

--
Mary Shafer  DoD #0362 KotFR NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov                    Of course I don't speak for NASA
 "There's no kill like a guns kill." LCDR "Hoser" Satrapa, gunnery instructor
                       "A kill is a kill."  Anonymous

Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: druth@erg.sri.com (Doug Ruth)
Subject: Questions About Parabellum Windshield for BMW R100GS
Originator: druth@boa.erg.sri.com
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 17:47:43 GMT

I posted this a week ago but haven't got a response yet, so here goes
again...

Several weeks ago someone posted a message saying they had recently
installed a Parabellum windshield on their BMW R100GS.  I seem to
recall they also said it was a medium and that they feel its too tall.

I'm contemplating installing one on my R100GS/PD and would be
interested in some more information:

    1) How's the workmanship?
    2) How does it mount? Does it use the stock windshield mounting
       points?
    3) Any vibration at speed?
    4) Why too tall? Because you have too look through it?
    5) What size did you have and how tall are you?
    6) Do they make tinted or smoke windshields, or only clear?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
-- Doug Ruth         | druth@erg.sri.com  | SRI International
-- '91 BMW R100GS/PD | Work:(415)859-3860 | 333 Ravenswood Ave.
-- AMA #: 197665     | Home:(415)962-9808 | Menlo Park, CA 94025
-- 
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: DoD Iron-on Transfers -- interest?
Summary: I gotta do something in this class!
Keywords: required, donation, money
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:05:34 GMT

	Alright, here's the deal.  I've got this silly printing class,
and one requirement is to make something like 1000 copies of some
image on an offset press.  A little daydreaming brought about the idea
of 4-color (red, yellow, green, white) iron-on transfers of the
legendary DoD logo as seen on the patches, Zippo's, and soon-to-be-
released key fobs.  I figure it will cost me around a hundred bux to
get all the material (out of pocket, not including standard lab fees,
time, effort, screwed-up print runs, etc...).  If there is an interest
as noted by my mail box, I'll start contacting ink suppliers.  If
I get only 20 or so, I might just silkscreen them and wear the shirts
myself, or perhaps just print Christmas cards with an Ariel on them.
I can print them in just black for some trivial amount, like $0.50
per item if our ink supply is any good.  If that's preferred, let me
know.  I'll take no profit (just perhaps five transfers), but all of
the proceeds will go to the museum as is tradition.

	If I'm doing a 4-color print, I can get by with doing fewer
than 1000 of them.  As for price, I don't know yet.  Figure three
dollars just in case when you decide if you'll want one.  One other
thing: I'm not exactly excited about taking several hundred dollars
into my bank account and netting nothing just in case the IRS or
the student loan office gets nosy.  Also, I'm rather pathetic when
it comes to figuring out exact monetary costs.  I'd like to just
send them to Arnie with a bill of my costs and let him determine
final price to sell them.  Would you prefer an arrangement like that
(Arnie's acceptance implied, though it could be anybody), or would you
rather I just handled it myself?

	If ya gotta do something, ya might as well do something ya like.

<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"I see angels on Ariels in leather and>
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | chrome, Swooping down from heaven to >
<viking@iastate.edu      | carry me home."   ---    R. Thompson >
<ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee.>
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: KZ400 Good, Bad or Ugly?
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:25:08 GMT

mjc5@po.CWRU.Edu (Michael J. Cavotta) writes:
>	I'm looking into buying a KZ400 as a runabout, and I'm just 

I'll vote for "Ugly".

>	Original paint (an interesting burnt orange)

Yep, that's the one.
-- 
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: rbemben@timewarp.prime.com (Rich Bemben)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: moped vs moto
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:28:00 GMT
Expires: 30 Sep 92 05:00:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Computervision Corp., Bedford, Ma.

In article <BuBorI.En7@cup.hp.com> Chris Steinbroner <hesh@cup.hp.com> writes:
>get a life, ed.  a scooter (not moped) is a MOTORCYCLE.  since you
>have NOTHING, ed, you are lower than these scooter riders that you
>so cheerfully denegrate.

...Ed lurches - staggers away drunkenly with a dazed look on his face, 
holding his crotch.

Will he be able to recover and deliver a counter blow that will preserve
his motorcycle-manhood?  Tune in at 11:00 for further updates.

(Geez Hesh - you'll stoop to anything to make a point; I'd hate to get
caught in a dark debating room with you...)


Rich Bemben - DoD #0044                     rbemben@timewarp.prime.com
Back in the saddle - BONNE'S ALIVE          (617) 275-1800 x 4173
The street giveth and the street taketh away - Catmother
*********************************************************************
From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Countersteering a shafty
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:48:26 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1564@adpplz.UUCP> martin@adpgate.UUCP (Martin Golding) writes:
>cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:

>> A natural experiment here is ski-bikes which steer by means of a front
>> ski. No rotating wheel, and cornering behaviour just like a bicycle.

>But are they stable (they remain upright when moving at speed with
>no rider)? And are you claiming that they countersteer?

Not only do I claim it, but someone who's tried it reported that they
did, here on rec.moto, some weeks ago.

>> Now, if gyroscopic effects add the _major_ component to stability, why
>> can't you ride a bike backwards?

>You're misunderstanding my claim. I'm not suggesting that the motorcycle
>is mysteriously held up by the spinning wheels, but that the gyroscopic
>effects on the front wheel are a part of the feedback mechanism that keeps
>two-wheeled vehicles upright independently of the operator.

No, I didn't misunderstand you. What I'm suggesting is that while
there are small helpful gyroscopic effects in the motorcycle, which
are taken account of by its geometry, and so it will become less
stable when those gyroscopic effects are reomved, yet these gyroscopic
effects are not _essential_ to a bike's stability, and a bike can be
made to steer just fine without these effects, and will still display
all the usual effects, such as counter-steering.

By the way, any net-fizzisist who has ridden a chopper care to comment
on what happens to the gyroscopic effects when the largely vertical
forks of the common bike are replaced by the largely horizontal forks
of the extreme chopper?  And to the steering stability in general?
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: mbeaving@bnr.ca (Michael Beavington)
Subject: Re: East Coast DOD Spring Fling
Reply-To: MBEAVING@BNR.CA
Organization: BNR Ottawa, DMS Software Design
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:29:51 GMT

In article <4983@balrog.ctron.com>, tavares@danville (Jack Tavares) writes:
|> 
|> I have been watching the discussion going back and forth about having
|> a New England area get together for the r.m crowd. Well I am in favor,
|> and if available, will travel anywhere within NH/VT/ME/MA  to attend.
|> 
|> But that is not what this post is about. This post is about a New England/
|> Eastern Province Spring Bash!
|> 

Sounds like a good time.  Its onyl 6 hours from Ottawa (that's
4 hours at DoD minimum speed).  I'd probably go, but it is hard
to book so far in advance!


=============================================================================
= The Beav |Mike Beavington|BellNorthernResearch Ottawa,Ont,Canada| Dod:9733=
= Seca 400->Seca 400->RZ350->Seca750->Suzuki550->Seca650turbo->V65Sabre     =
= (-> 1994 FJR1000 ????)               mbeaving@bnr.ca                      =
= Who needs parking spaces when there's plenty of sidewalks?                =
=============================================================================
From: sievertl@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Lisa Sieverts)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:38:12 GMT
Subject: Re: I didn't do it.
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles

There are, you know, pictures.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: Warm hands (Was: Leather pants)
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:26:27 GMT

behanna@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna) writes:

>	I want these myself.  For curiosity's sake (and my battery's too!),
>how much power does electric clothing draw?  I need to have enough reserve for
>two electric vests, plus lights, plus ignition, plus keep the battery charged,
>or else I have to leave my sweetie at home, and I don't want to do that (1, 2,
>3, "awwwwww" :-).

Let's see here, groping through the wreckage that some call a desk...
Ah, there it is. 

Widder Lectric-Heat
Mark 1 vest	36W	Bare bones compact model
Ventura Vest	36W	(Size 36-40)	Deluxe w/heated collar
Ventura Vest	45W	(Size 42-48)	"
Ventura Vest	54W	(Size XXL)	"
Gloves		20W
Chaps		36W

Of course if you have the thermostat, they don't draw current all the
time, so that may help battery life. You can save a few bucks buying
them through Competition Accessories instead of direct from Widder.

My only regret is that I rode for more than 10 years without them.
-- 
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