HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dbc@po.cwru.edu (Dean Cookson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: USA to EUROPE bike freight?
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Date: 8 Oct 1992 02:56:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62003.student.cwru.edu

In article <1as8jbINNpc9@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>, egreen@east.sun.com (Ed
Green - Pixel Cruncher) wrote:
> 
> In article 021092142329@b62003.student.cwru.edu, dbc@po.cwru.edu (Dean Cookson) writes:
 
> >Hey, he's leaving!  Cool!
> 
> You know better than that, Dean.  It doesn't matter where you are
> physically, Denizens live in dataspace!

Yeah, but I can hope.  Can't I?
 

| 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  |
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: fist@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Richard Pierson)
Subject: Re: Why Aerostitch instead of leather?
Reply-To: fist@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Richard Pierson)
Organization: Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 11:38:29 GMT

->  Practicality:  This suit has so many pockets I haven't found uses
for
->them all yet.  I keep in my suit:  State map, owner's manual,
->maintenance/gas log, insurance/registration paperwork, swiss army
knife,
->sewing kit, bandaids, spare key, clear-fix, matches, spare earplugs,
house
->keys, wallet and change.  I also keep the open pockets (as opposed to
the
->rest that have flaps) empty so there's space for stuff on the road.

Where do you keep the table you need when you have to empty your
pockets
when looking for that "damn, I know it's here somewhere",widget. :-)
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#include <std.disclaimer> My opinions are my own!!!
I Don't shop in malls, I by my jeans, jackets and ammo
in the same store.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: howland@noc2.arc.nasa.gov (Curtis Howland)
Subject: Re: the r.m meta flame topic
Organization: NASA Science Internet Project Office
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:21:55 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.084230.679@halfdome.sf.ca.us>, bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob pasker) writes:
|> (1) what is countersteering?
|> (2) bmws never die
|> (3) fj's v. bmw
|> (4) shaft or chain?
|> (5) two stroke or four stroke?
|> (6) harleys/japcrap suck
|> (7) is "jap" an insult?
|> (8) valve springs are for losers
|> (9) how to put your bike on the centerstand
|> (10) are helmet laws good?
|> (11) using the back brake
|> (12) the s/n ratio is too high and the dod is responsible for it
|> (13) are .dirt,.harley,.racing groups good?  .tech? .dod?

Yep, I think that about sums it up.

Multi-compuond tyres, anyone?

Curt
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard)
Subject: Re: Pocket size multimeter
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 05:41:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

Personally I think everyone should rush out and buy one of the new Fluke
handheld LCD 'scope DMM's. That way you could strap it on top of the tank and
watch the waveforms of the ignition system while riding down the highway at
DoD minimum speed !!!!! :-)

-- 
=============================================================================
Neal Howard (neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org)        CompuTrac, Inc. (Richardson,TX)
DoD #686   '91 XLH-1200      '70 Kawasaki G4-100cc    '69 Cougar XR7-GT390
	   Ensoniq VFX-SD    Kramer Pacer guitar      '70 429CJ(needs a home)
Disclaimer: The only above mentioned toys I play with on the below mentioned
	    Friday nights are the musical ones 8*}
"how often you get much more drunk than you ought to on a Friday night...
...about once a week" -  Tom Yates
=============================================================================
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: ramarren@apple.com (Godfrey DiGiorgi)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Wanted: BENELLI parts
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:46:52 GMT
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles,ba.motorcycles
Organization: Apple Computer

> A friend of mine just bought a '76(?) Benelli Sei and he's having a 
> bit of trouble finding parts for it. Specifically, he needs a timing
> chain tensioner, timing chain guide, and wiring harness, among other
> things.
> 
> Any suggestions as to sources of parts, including mail-order outfits 
> or individuals who would be willing to ship UPS, will be appreciated. 
> I'll also forward the names of the businesses to the DoD Yellow Pages.

Try Cosmopolitan Motors in Hatboro, PA. Sorry, don't have the phone
offhand.
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From: egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Crosswinds
Date: 15 Oct 1992 15:51:15 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
Distribution: world
Reply-To: egreen@east.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: laser.east.sun.com

In article 4937@prcrs.prc.com, terry@prcrs.prc.com (Terry Cunningham) writes:
>
>or simply preface the subject line with 'TECH' for those who wish to
>persue a purely technical discussion.  The subject line TECH would allow
>for easier filtering for those people uninterested in attack buzzards and
>Spagthorpes.

Never work.

I proposed a HD subject line when the first call for r.m.h came up ages
ago.  The song of the "new newsgroup" siren is just too seductive...

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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: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Almost got run over . . .
Date: 9 Oct 92 04:01:19 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


Hello folks,
   On the way home this evening I was taking things easy because it
had rained a little in the afternoon and the streets were still wet.
On campus near the dorms the car ahead of me turned on its 4-way blinkers
and stopped.  The street was kind of narrow and I didn't know if the
driver would suddenly open her door so I slowed down trying to decide
if I was going to stop or go around when I heard brakes lock up behind me.
Ack!  I kept my feet up and started rolling forward (I still had about 15
or 20 feet between me and the car in front) and looked back to see 
another car sliding on the wet pavement.  No oncoming traffic so I 
ignored the double yellow and swung on around the road blocker.
   It looked like the car that slid had stopped far enough back that 
it would not have hit me, but I got a serious adrenalin rush because
I was spending all my concentration trying to figure out what was
happening up ahead when I heard the unexpected from behind.

--

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* Bill Ranck                                          ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu *
* DoD #496  Bikes past and present: CB175, CB550F, Norton 750, CB350F, XV535  *
*******************************************************************************
From: smm@rodan.UU.NET (Steve Mansfield)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Accident Report
Date: 15 Oct 1992 10:59:49 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA

In article <1992Oct14.150425.20997@i88.isc.com> jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
>What did the police say to the guy?
>
>What?  You didn't wait for them?
>
>Personally, I think I'd have just laid on the ground, cause a huge
>traffic jam, and accepted the ambulance ride to get checked out.
>At least that way you'd have something in writing to explain why you were
>late to work.... :')

It would've been a waste of my time to have to deal with the whole thing,
having to take a sick day, go to traffic court for something that
involved no injuries or damage to the bike.  Didn't even tear my jeans,
so...

Steve Mansfield	    | The system we've learned says we're equal under law
smm@uunet.uu.net    | But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall
1983 Suzuki GS550E  | Let's tip the power balance and tear down the crown
DoD# 1718	    | Educate the masses, we'll burn the White House down.
Queensryche	    -       Speak the Word.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: edw@boi.hp.com (Edward Walsh)
Subject: Re: Homemade Alarm / Kill-Switch
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:17:00 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


Why not substitute a three position switch for your on/off switch, and add
another mercury switch so it could work either on the side- or center-stand.
------------------------------Edward Walsh----Hewlett-Packard Company-------
                              edw@boi.hp.com  Disk Memory Division, MS213
                              (208)323-2174   P.O. Box 39  Boise,Idaho 83707
                              FJ1200'89,XZ550RJ(Vision)'82,DoD#98
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: csl@swl.msd.ray.com (Scott Lilliott)
Subject: Re: counter-steering?
Organization: Raytheon Company, Tewksbury, MA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 11:59:45 GMT

hur@oclc.org (Matt Hur) writes:

>I overheard some bikers at a local shop talking about "counter-steering".
>Can someone tell me what that is?  I just steer my bike by turning the bars.
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>thanks in advance,
>Don Gibb

I doubt it - your bike would be heavily bruised if you did. You actually
"push" on the left handlebar to turn left, push on the right to turn right.
Try it.  Better yet, take an MSF course for a detailed explanation (and 10%
off your insurance!)

... 'course things are different on a shaft-driven bike...

S.

-- 
   #   Scott Lilliott - csl@swl.msd.ray.com                            #
    #   AMA #600897             "If you push something hard enough,   #
     #   DoD #0227               It will fall over."                 #
      #   INOA #8563                       -- Fudd's First Law      #
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From: lotto@linda.harvard.edu (Jerry Lotto)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,rec.motorcycles.harley,tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: New Rider Questions
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:22:57 GMT
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Organization: Chemistry Dept., Harvard University
In-reply-to: serafin@epcot.spdc.ti.com's message of 15 Oct 92 14:28:53 GMT

>>>>> On 15 Oct 92 14:28:53 GMT, serafin@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Mike Serafin) said:
Mike> My wife is just now learning,  I have started to teach her on it,
Mike> yesterday was her first lesson, we have her signed up for the MSF course.
Mike> Advice?

Stop teaching her.  The MSF curriculum is designed to train new riders
in a logical, stepwise fashion.  Let her learn in the course, then
help her to practice her new found skills.  If you MUST get her
started, try to get ahold of the student workbook from the training
site in advance and follow the sequencing.

--
Jerry Lotto <lotto@lhasa.harvard.edu>         MSFCI, HOGSSC, BCSO, AMA, DoD #18
Chemistry Dept., Harvard Univ.  "It's my Harley, and I'll ride if I want to..."
From: kens@hplsla.hp.com (Ken Snyder)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Is anyone out there a bike thief?
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:26:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: hplsla.6130300
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA


 >I think that _you_ somehow left it on park when you left.  The poor
 >fuck saw your tail light on, so he thought maybe you left the bike

> lights on, tried to find the light switch to turn it off to save your
> battery (not knowing there is not switch) and got thumped in the process
> for being a good samaritan.  And so when you got 

  This reminds me of one time my mother went to a shopping mall.  She
came out hours later to find a note under the wiper and a totally dead
car.  Someone had seen the headlights on and, because the car was
locked, popped the hood and removed a battery clamp.  They had left 
detailed instructions on how to re-install the clamp to whomever
returned to the vehicle.  Whatever happened to good samaritans anyway?

Oh well,

Ken `2 wheels good' Snyder
 
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: suminski@polymnie.med.ge.com
Subject: Re: Homemade Alarm / Kill-Switch
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Originator: suminski@polymnie
Keywords: Sparky designs an alarm
Reply-To: suminski@polymnie.med.ge.com (Matt Suminski)
Organization: GE-CGR Medical Systems - Buc, France
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 08:18:40 GMT

From article <22919@galaxy.ucr.edu>, by tgrupe@watnxt11.ucr.edu (Todd E. Grupe):
> 
>      This alarm costs under $10 to make, and incorporates an engine-kill  
> as well as a tilt-sensor.  I swiped the mercury-switch idea from a letter  
[...]
> toggle switch.  Here's the diagram:
> 
>                    toggle
>         ignition   switch           ground
>            {o}         /              _
>             |      ___/_             ___
>             |     [_____]           _____
>             |      I I I              |
>             \------o | |              |
>   -   + -------------o o--------------o######o            /
>   [___]                                      |-----------[|
>  battery                              mercury             \
> 		                       switch           siren  
> 

One comment on this alarm.  Make sure your wire is heavy enough
gauge, and the toggle switch is rated for the huge amperage which
will hit when you flip the switch and connect the + of the 
battery directly to ground.  Also be sure you do this in a well
ventilated area so that any gas fumes won't be lit by the sparks.

Matt






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GE-CGR Medical Systems  | Thought I'd have a little fun,
Buc, France             | The dealer hit 16 with a 5,
mat@polymnie.med.ge.com | Just enough to make 21...
From: zebee@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Zebee Johnstone)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Stupid Questions
Date: 8 Oct 92 01:24:07 GMT
Organization: The University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.itd.adelaide.edu.au

>>6.  What was the ugliest motorcycle ever produced?  (New, not ratted out.)

1964 MV Agusta 650 tourer.

babyshit yellow colour, truly disgusting headlight nacelle, flat sided
boxy tank with grotty rubber knee grips (early Honda was copied from this)
and equally ugly lines at the rear.

DAmn thing is worth about A$60k now...

(How do I know?  local ex speedway driver and bon vivant Kim Bonython
has had one from new.  Still rides it to Classic rallies, just so every
one can say "Geez Kim that bike is UGLY")

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     Zebee Johnstone  DoD #605   | You don't own an Italian motorcycle 
     Adelaide City Council       |  - you merely have the privilege 
    zebee@itd.adelaide.edu.au    |    of paying its bills....
From: john@kennel.FIDONET.ORG (John Hamilton)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Almost had it stolen tonite!
Date: 9 Oct 92 03:02:28 GMT
Organization: Fido's Kennel, Cupertino CA

Wednesday October 07 1992 09:23, Charlie Smith wrote to All:

 CS> Ohio police academy training says "shoot for the center of mass", on the
 CS> theory that in a stress situation you'll be pointed somewhat on target.
 CS> The stop without killing usually results from the firearm being pointed
 CS> only generally in the right direction, not because Matt Dillon *chose*
 CS> to wing them in the right elbow!  A .22 certainly can result in a kill,
 CS> but if you want ot stop them fast I'd choose to blow a bigger hole in
 CS> them in the first place.

I can't quite figure out how to get an ObMoto into this, but vaguely, I am
concerned that the pieces I keep will stop someone breaking into my house or
garage (assuming the dogs don't eat them first) so that I (most important)
and ma moto (second only to my life) are secure.

I have many times read reports of shootings where a police officer put a clip
of 9mm into a drug-user and eventually said perpetrator bled to death, but
not before beating shit out of police officer. Likewise, I KNOW two people
who have been shot (one accidentally, the other isn't saying) by .22 mags
and walked into the emergency room.

If I have to shoot someone with my .357, I will shoot for the center of the
chest, and they won't get back up. Hopefully, that won't ever have to happen.

John

--- GoldED 2.40.P0720+
--  
John Hamilton                  uucp: uts.amdahl.com!kennel!john
DoD #0327   ToT #11            internet: john@f8.n143.z1.fidonet.org
ZX-11 From Hell.               arpa: john@kennel.FIDONET.ORG
She said, "Its either me or that ZX-11!" Too bad, I'll miss her.
From: ray@unisql.UUCP (Ray Shea)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Two Things To Clear Up.
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:37:59 GMT
Reply-To: ray@unisql.UUCP (Ray Shea)
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

In article <4067@cvbnetPrime.COM> tjohnson@atc1.UUCP (Tod J Johnson) writes:
>   A ridier of a JPofS is not intersted in style, integrity, education,
>   world peace, cleanliness, equal rights, life after death, mothers
>   day, small happy animals, abolishing Aparthied, ecomomic recovery,
>   or food on the plate of every man woman and child on the face of Gods
>   great earth. 


Whereas your average Harley rider is a feminist vegetarian bunny-hugger 
Utne-Reading peacenik eco-activist who writes to Mom once a week.




-- 
Ray Shea                       Practice random cruelty 
UniSQL, Inc.                   and senseless acts of violence.
unisql!ray@cs.utexas.edu       
DoD #0372, '88 Hawk NT650
From: Michael.Nelson@f501.n914.z8.rbbs-net.ORG (Michael Nelson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Fog City Fog Shield (tm)--any test subjects?
Date: 11 Oct 92 17:38:50 GMT

Hello Mark!

Saturday October 10 1992 20:03, Mark Bergman wrote to All:

 MB-> Does anyone have experience with this, or should I order one
 MB-> to keep my Deer Whistle and Slick 50 company on the shelf?

    In my experience, they work VERY well.  You can exhale right into your
shield, and the only fogging that happens is in the area of the shield that is
NOT covered by the FCFS.

    The downside?  The FCFS was shaped properly for my SHOEI RF-200's shield,
but on my ARAI Signet and ARAI Quantum shields, the "eyebrow vents" cause you to
have to mount the FCFS a bit lower... and as a result, the adhesive line goes
right through the portion of the ARAI's shield that I look through when I am in
the leaned down, head back position necessitated by my CBR900RR.

    I cannot use the FCFS on my ARAI helmets, and I truly wish I could.

    The only other criticism I have is that on night rides, the FCFS causes more
lighting backscatter and diffusion than the bare shield alone.  It's tolerable
but noticable.

                                    Michael Nelson, DoD #0726
                            (michael.nelson@f501.n914.z8.rbbs-net.org)
                                     (1993 Honda CBR900RR)


 * Origin: SeaHunt BBS, San Francisco (415-431-0473) (FidoNet 8:914/501)
From: bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob pasker)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: saving a battery
Date: 11 Oct 92 16:14:13 PDT
Organization: Disorganized Organization

In article <jb02837@pro-haven.cts.com>, shadow@pro-haven.cts.com (Blaine Hufnagle) writes:
> Well, here's the scoop.  The battery on my Vision is close to death.  It has
> enough voltage present to run the ignition system, or to crank the bike, but
> not both.  I can push-start the bike with little difficulty, but not only
> does it get a little annoying after a while, but it is also embarrassing.
> 
> The clincher is this:  Should I just bite the bullet and buy a new battery or
> is there any way I can save this old one for another couple of weeks until
> the fundage is better equipped to handle the expense of a battery?

anticipating ron miller's answer, i would say go ahead and splurge:
buy your bike a new battery.  it'll keep you from fucking up your
charging system.

-- 
-- bob pasker
-- bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us 
--
From: pdomain@emory.edu (Mike Mitten)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: ignore  -  test
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:33:47 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Laszlo Nemeth (laszlo@piper.cs.colorado.edu) baited:
>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

  HEY!!  Why you . . . pinko commie lovin' . . . spooge-suckin'
poser squid . . . edu-breath . . .llama-infested . . . 
>gurgle< . . . >fume< . . . >skid< . . . Lance Host admirer

  What?  Who?  Really?  Oh.  Fergedit...

Mike Mitten, not speaking for:
Public Domain, Inc.  P.O. Box 8899  Atlanta, GA  30306-0899  (404) 612-7529
pdomain@emory.edu            Irony is the spice of life.            DoD#522
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From: root@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith)
Subject: Re: ok, who's pretending to be STUPID... (
Followup-To: charlie@elektro.cmhnet.com
Summary:  Ed Green screw up
Organization: Why do you suspect that?
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 23:47:22 GMT

In article <1asut0INNpc9@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> egreen@east.sun.com writes:
>In article 718397875@convex.convex.com, daved@convex.com (David Dorfman) writes:
>>In <2580@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> joe@woody.mpd.tandem.com (Joe Senner) writes:
>>
>>What we have here is a failure to communicate. 
>
>No, what we have here is you babbling about something you obviously and
>admittedly know little about.  Not that that stops anybody else here...
>

  ***  about 120 lines of flames and counterflames deleted  ***

>
>The main drawback of the increased popularity of motorcycling is that
>rec.motorcycles SNR is increasing  :^) at an exponential rate.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Bzzzzztt!!  Ed:  do you *really* mean more signal and less noise ???
                 The world wonders.

>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...
>


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
            {  Friends don't let friends ride Japanese bikes  }