HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bigdog!jon (Jon Wright)
Subject: Re: Toronto Bike Show Report, Bra Update
Organization: Banzai Research Institute
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:22:54 GMT

>    There was a delegation there from the Ride for Sight campaign. I got all 
> of the details as far as where to send donations, etc. As fas as I can tell, 
> the bra bidding is still going on, so I'll continue waiting. I'll try to get 
> a photo out in the next few days. I've never scanned anything before so I'll
> need some assistance on getting the best result. We have an HP scan jet,
> legal size, at least two years old, and hooked up to an ordinary PC. How 
> should I get the photo printed? Would a polaroid be ok? How do I get the file
> into the appropriate format and where do I FTP it to?

Again, I have to ask....
Are you scanning it on you or unadorned?  Could raise more money with the  
former....
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: fist@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Richard Pierson)
Subject: Re: relining brakes on old bikes
Reply-To: fist@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Richard Pierson)
Organization: Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 15:50:27 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.033826.11437@ra.msstate.edu>, lgt1@Ra.MsState.Edu
(Larry G. Thorne) writes:
|> Just for everyones info, if your old machine has brake linings which
|> are
|> riveted onto the backing plates, don't buy that high priced liners
|> from
|> your local, (or nonlocal) supplier.  There is this outfit in Cinn.,
|> Ohio
|> by the name of industrial brake and supply, @ 1-800-543-1906...
|> but, anyway they will sell you lining materal (for old pre 70 Beemers
|> it's
|> gotta be 5/32 thick) by the foot CHEEP!... and with a little careful
|> drilling
|> and countersinking, you can make your machine stop twice as better..
|> (since
|> this stuff has a higher friction co-efficient than the old linings
|> ever thought
|> about.. and instead of using the old time copper rivets, use 1/8"
|> aluminum 
|> pop rivets  .. Quick and dirty and it works!! great!!!
|> regards,
|> Craig Vechorik at the "borrowed Email address of lgt1@ra.msstate.edu

If you check out your local phone book (in a town that has
a phone book thicker than 1 1/2 inches) you will find where
the local shops send their brakes to have them relined.
Morristown NJ has one down near the train station behind
the diner and I took the shoes from my 69 waggoneer down
there a few years ago to have them done (W_I_D_E SOB's)
price was comparable but the nice part was having a choice
of liner materials to choose from.
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard)
Subject: Re: To KotL
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:56:56 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <1993Jan11.193056.15988@ncsu.edu> kegunn@eos.ncsu.edu (KAY ELLEN GUNN) writes:
>
>Dear Kotl,
>
>Please issue me a DoD number. I have been reading this group for a month now,
>and I think I am finally ready to be initiated into this estimable group. I
>can flame with the best of you.
>
>Kay Gunn
>'88 Yamaha


Heh, Heh, Heh!!!! B-}

-- 
=============================================================================
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	      doh #0000001200
         "Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps
          we shall learn the truth." -- August Kekule' (1890)
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
Subject: Re: Dealing with the Insurance Scum
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 00:26:38 GMT

In article <24689@galaxy.ucr.edu> tgrupe@watnxt11.ucr.edu
(Todd E. Grupe) writes:
>	I'm not looking for free legal advice (it's already pretty clear  
>I'll have to get a lawyer and take it through the courts), but I'm  
>interested in hearing others' experiences with deadbeat insurance  
>companies.  What gets them off their ass and what doesn't?  I figure as  
>long as they're trying to weasel out, I'll keep making a tremendous pain  
>in the ass of myself to them.  Gotta get your kicks somehow.

If all you want are kicks, go ahead and act like a jerk.

If you want your money, remember that whatever you think of
the company, you're going to have to enlist the cooperation
of a number of individual human beings who work for that
company.

Be reasonable but firm with them.  Don't scream or threaten,
but let them know that you know what you're entitled to
and that you intent to get it.  Lawsuits are expensive for them,
too, and that's your best motivator.  If they know that
you'll be insistent and reasonable, and that you'll sue
them if you have to, they'll probably get down to business.

Hey, it worked for me!
--

    Chuck Karish          karish@mindcraft.com
    (415) 323-9000 x117   karish@pangea.stanford.edu
From: labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: test
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:58:46 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


	I was attempting to get my sig to post....but the damn thing
	won't work....
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: Engine Theory 101
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:10:32 GMT

DoD#663 (howland@noc.arc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: In article <C0HyD2.JBH@world.std.com>, 
: CGKarras@world.std.com (Christopher G Karras) writes:

: |> OK, I'll bite.  Do you REALLY shift from 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 etc. WITHOUT
: |> using the clutch?  Is this thought to be good for the transmission and
: |> good driving practice?

: I found zero-clutch shifting by watching my every
: move while riding, and I noticed that in fast shifts,
: I couldn't possibly be pulling in the clutch enough 
: to dis-engage it. Sure enough, I tried the same shift
: point without touching the lever, and it worked. Some
: careful experimentation led to the conclusion that
: the motorcycle transmission has enough play that the 
: engine can adjust its RPM to the new ratio before all
: the slack is taken up, since the angular momentum is
: so low (being a physically small motor).

: ...or It could just be.... Naaa. Never mind.

: ObGetABikeEd: To operate the clutch is to DIS-engage,
: really. 

: ---


I have been a shiftless clutcher for many a year.  I first acquired the 
technique whilst engaging in the sport of RD multi-gear wheelieing.  The six-
speed gearbox on my RD250DX leant itself readily to this practice and I have 
been an efficianado of this leaning ever since.  I could shift my Fiat 131
Supermirafiori, just about, without the clutch (until my wife stole the gear-
lever!) but car gearboxes don't lend themselves readily to this usage.


Nick (the cursed with a Dunlop back tyre, Biker)   DoD 1069   Sciatica

--

M'Lud.


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 "...And pray that there's intelligent life | Nick Pettefar, Contractor@Large.
 somewhere up in space, 'cos there's bugger | Currently incarcerated at BNR,
 all down here on Earth." - Monty Python    | Maidenhead, UK. '86 K100RS "Kay"
\_____________________________________________________________________________/
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From: bclarke@galaxy.gov.bc.ca
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Personal strobes
Date: 6 Jan 93 08:17:29 -0800
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1993Jan6.031507.26135@serval.net.wsu.edu>, johnsw@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu (William E. Johns) writes:
> I think this item was mentioned before on this net, but I will refresh          
> and remind.  I was wandering through a "Early Winters" catalog for              
> winter 1993.  They showed a small strobe for personal use.  The thing           
> looks to be about the size of a couple of walnuts, uses 2 AAA batteries         
> for a claimed 200 hours of use.  It claims to be weatherproof.  The             
> light source is "super-luminescent LED's that blink 6 times a second."          
> It is claimed that it is visible from 2000 feet.                          
>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
> Does any one use these things?  Any experience to relate?  Any comments?        
> 
> I wonder if they are legal for use on a motorcycle, or on a motorcycle 
> rider?
> ___________________________________________________________________             
> johnsw@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu  prez=BIMC  KotV KotRR                                

I've seen cyclists using these flashing strobes. It's not the level of
brightness but the quick blinking that catches your eye. Very effective.

Personally when I'm out riding under dark conditions I wear a pair of
reflective armbands. They stand out pretty good at night and they don't look
quite as geeky as a reflective vest. (Also smaller, so you can fit a pair in
your pocket.

BC
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: ed@Tekelec.Com (Ed Campbell)
Subject: Re: Test from Antique BMW Rider
Organization: Tekelec Inc
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 21:15:59 GMT

In article <23157@venera.isi.edu> jwills@ISI.EDU (Jerry Wills) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.174923.16873@i88.isc.com> jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
>   >>
>   >>Regards,
>   >>Craig Vechorik
>   >>BMW MOA Ambassador
>   >>BMW Vintage Bulletin Tech Editor
>   >>at a "borrowed Email address of lgt1@ra.msstate.edu
>   >>:
>   >
>   >Welcome Craig!
>   >
>   >I guess real BMW's also have round headlights too?  Enjoyed recent article

       Only if the key goes in the top and has a bakalite handle.


Ed Campbell
     Email ed@Tekelec.com (maybe) 
doh # 000069.000 
      000074  (Panhead displacement)
      3 15/32 (Panhead bore)
'57 FL  (Ol' Beasty)
'76 XLCH (Hoss)
My other car is a '54 Harley Servicar. (Leapin' Lena)

 
#insert std.getas 
    ed geta bike
    ravi geta shift key
    (as required) 
           geta life 
           Getajob
        Etc.
 


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    engine, there aint a Harley, Indian, or Exelcior that can
    touch my Henderson!"
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From: bryanw@hprpcd.rose.hp.com (Bryan C. Wright)
Subject: Re: BMW recall ?
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:21:48 GMT
Organization: HP - Systems Technology Division
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

Rod Cerkoney (rodc@fc.hp.com) wrote:
: 
: Heard from a friend, that Consumer Reports is saying newer BMW's are being
: recalled for front brake problems. I saw the ealier post about 87-88 bikes.
: Anybody know about the newer bikes ~90-92.

My '92 K100RS was recalled.  If I remember correctly, the description of
the recall stated that in areas where the roads are salted (or presumably
any other area where you are likely to come in contact with significant
amounts of salt), corrosion could lead to separation of the brake pads
from the backing.

Perhaps this only applies to bikes with the 4 piston brakes (I think this
would be the new K1100LT, the '92 K100RS, and the K1), or K bikes in
general, or ABS equipped bikes.  If there is any question, I wouldn't
hesitate to ask your local(?) dealer--the way BMW butchered my address,
I'm suprised I received the notice.

: Regards,
: Rod Cerkoney
: '92 R100GS

Bryan Wright
'92 K100RS
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: robinson@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Dear Abby sez "Don't let kids get on motorcycles"
Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:07:56 GMT
Organization: Institute of Cognitive Studies, U.C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: cogsci.berkeley.edu

In article <1993Jan4.100843.5173@cs.cornell.edu> karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) writes:
>Second, her advice is not to the point, since it doesn't say what
>kind of insurance to get.  As far as I can tell, there is no motorcycle
>insurance to cover such an accident.

From my State Farm policy:

 "We will:

  1.  pay damages which an insured becomes legally liable to pay because of:

      a. bodily injury to others, and
      b. damage to or destruction of property including loss of its use,

      caused by accident resulting from the ownership, maintenance or 
      use of your car..."

(car is defined as "a 2-wheel land motor vehicle with wheels in tandem" in
 the attached motorcycle-specific endorsement--they just recycle their
 auto policy for motos.)

So, theoretically, if some inept sociopath blows himself up trying to hot-wire
my motorcycle, State Farm will not only pay him up to $25,000 for medical
care, but will pay the owner of the car it was parked next to for any
incidental damage.

Either that, or it will sic their nasty evil insurance lawyers on the 
aforementioned at no expense to myself.  :-)

(Interestingly enough, the "uninsured motorist" part of the policy applies
 even if I'm nowhere near my motorcycle at the time, e.g. if I get run over
 by a hit and run driver while crossing the street.)

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From: labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Application for DoD Membership
Date: 4 Jan 93 21:33:19 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3



	To: all the wonderful people who sent me the FAQ "after" i said
	I had it....


	Wait till I figure out Cron....


					Ryan

Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
Subject: Re: I hate snow.
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:06:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.135811.8637@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> groh@nu.cs.fsu.edu writes:
>In article <Stafford-040193162527@stafford.winona.msus.edu> Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan4.203814.15439@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>,
>>groh@omicron.cs.fsu.edu (Jim Groh) wrote:
>>> 
>>> [...] what is this snow y'all keep talkin about.  <Sneerrrkkk>
>>
>>I'll tell you if you tell us what a Hurricane is. 
> 
>Ex-National Champs?!? <giggle>

Sigh ... all those weeks my wife spent teaching 3-year-old Jane to say,
"We're number one.  Go Canes!" wasted in one game.

-- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
-- spouse of U. Miami alumna



Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: marcouil@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Luc Marcouiller)
Subject: Visiting BA; others ignore
Reply-To: marcouil@ireq.hydro.qc.ca
Organization: Hydro-Quebec
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:21:16 GMT

Sorry for the wide distribution but ba is not available here!

Having said that, I'm pleased to announce that I will cross the continent
in diagonal to visit the preferred land of computer geeks, finally.  Facts
now: I will attend a training course at SGI head office in Mountain View at
the end of march (21 pm to 29 am).  Of course I would be pleased to meet any
of you riding geeks being one myself (for eight years now; the ride is 86
ZX-900) and would certainly enjoy a ride and a few beers!  I have read the
story of the Texan visitor (very funny) and also a few reference to a joint
where you can listen to celtic bands and drink good beer (can't wait).  As
the tourist I will be the SGI training center suggest a place to crash your
body called Country Inn (Just in front, across 101), what do you think of
this place?  I know, I know I don't have a DoD number yet but if it's com-
pulsory I have been reading that group for about a year now and I know who
is a jerk, who is a squid, who is a poser, who doesn't have a bike, who is
a deadhead, ...

Share and Enjoy

Luc

Obmoto: the ride is in storage undergoing a little refreshing and will be
        fully ready for the nicer weather ahead (now it's skiing time !)
-- 
   Luc Marcouiller,                  Institut de Recherche d'Hydro-Quebec,
   Chercheur                         marcouil@ireq.hydro.qc.ca
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: sdun@isma.demon.co.uk (Stephen Dunne)
Subject: Re: Interesting challenge of helmet law 
Distribution: world
Organization: International Securities Market Association
Reply-To: sdun@isma.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:52:03 +0000

In article <726277011snx@swamp.demon.co.uk> Neil@swamp.demon.co.uk writes:

>
>In article <726096381snz@isma.demon.co.uk> sdun@isma.demon.co.uk writes:
>
>>
>>In article <1992Dec19.235113.26199@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>>
> c150-bt@po.berkeley.edu writes:
>>
>>>You are probably referring to challenges by the Sikh bikers in central
>>>California.  The agricultural valley has many Sikh farmers, and, as you know,
>>>Sikhism requires its adherents to wear uncut hair which they bind up in
>>>a turban.  I can't see a 73-year-old originally from India as a anti-helmet-
>>>law rabble-rouser (like the rest of us :-) ).  But I guess the "uniform law
>>>of the land" principle was upheld.
>>>
>>
>>Hmmm, I think that here in the UK, It *IS* allowable for a Sikh to claim
>>exemption from helmet laws on religious grounds.
>>
>>Not too sure how they'd (the cops, that is) check it out but they must do
>>otherwise all the MAG diehards would be apeing it!!
>>
>>Stephen
>
>
>You have to be a shikh _wearing_a_turban_ at the time you are driving. I
>reckon even most MAG diehards would baulk at wrapping on a turban before
>every ride, even if they did know how :)
>
>Neil
>

Could be an interesting option for MAG merchandising.. a premade slip-on
Turban.. I suppose you should also have a megga beard but that shouldn't
phase 'em :-)

Stephen
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From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Personal strobes
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:39:01 GMT
Organization: Lachman Technology, Incorporated, Naperville, IL

In article <ZOWIE.93Jan6103814@daedalus.stanford.edu> zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest) writes:
>In article <whoop! whoop!> egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green) writes:
>   In article <eeooeeooeeoo>, johnsw@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu writes:
>   >Item No. 6825 for $16.95, order toll free from (800) 458-4438.  It is 
>   >called a "Vistalite See-Me Super Strobe."   
>
>   A strobbing red light will not increase your visibility over
>   the same power light at DC.
>
>Thank you for playing.  For a given time-averaged luminance, a strobe
>light of any color is much more visible than a similar-luminance DC light.
>That's because (A) you can get much higher (momentary) luminance with a 
>strobe, and (B) your visual system percieves rapid changes (light flashing
>lights) differently, and more effectively, than static objects.

No, thank _you_ for playing.  Your first point is null and void,
If you have a gas discharge strobe, yes, you'll get more output because
you're integrating the input power.  With LEDs, you're just switching on
and off, reducing average power.

The few times I've been behind a bicyclist with one of these strobes
at night, I found that a) it was difficult to estimate range, because
the strobe was the _only_ thing he had - no taillight, no reflectors,
no light clothing - and b) because of (a), I tended to fixate on
the cyclist and when I finally saw him, I was driving closer to the
shoulder than I would have been had I not seen him at all.  Please, if
you use one of these things, use it in combination with other
conspicuity (non-tm) devices.
-- 
Jonathan E. Quist                              Lachman Technology, Incorporated
jeq@i88.isc.com  '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094        Naperville, IL
 __       There's nothing quite like the pitter-patter of little feet,
 \/                   followed by the words "Daddy!  Yay!"
From: loki@nazgul.Physics.McGill.CA (Loki Jorgenson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: pegs for Suzuki Intruder
Date: 9 Jan 93 03:34:08 GMT
Organization: Centre for the Physics of Materials


	Does anyone know where I can order a set of pegs and linkages
for a Suzuki Intruder?  The stockers are too far forward and rather
uncomfortable.  Does anyone have any other solutions?

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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
Subject: Re: Lance Holst is a Jerk
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 02:06:28 GMT

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

While preaching against squidliness.
--

    Chuck Karish          karish@mindcraft.com
    (415) 323-9000 x117   karish@pangea.stanford.edu