HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: terry@prcrs.prc.com (Terry Cunningham)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: ATTN: M. Golding, T. Cunningham, M. Weaver, Polo Shirts
Keywords: Only two more Polo related posts to go
Date: 31 Aug 92 01:11:46 GMT
Organization: PRC Realty Systems, McLean, VA

In article <1992Aug27.185755.26270@news.columbia.edu>, twang@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Tony Wang) writes:
> Martin and Terence : Your shirts finally arrived and have been sent
> out 2nd Day Priority mail.
> 

The shirts came Saturday and look GREAT!
I have been wearing them all weekend, they definately draw some attention.

Thanks for all your efforts, Tony.


Terry

-- 
 | Terry Cunningham terry@rsi.prc.com | "Let me take my chances on the wall  |
 | DoD# 541   'Debaucher of Donuts'   |  of death"       Richard Thompson    |
From: cdw2t@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Clifford David Weston)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Earplugs
Date: 31 Aug 92 04:14:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <1992Aug31.020900.26184@wam.umd.edu> kkw@wam.umd.edu (Katarina Wong O'Gara) writes:

>Mack's ("pillow soft") silicone earplugs, available at Rite Aid, work
>pretty darn well.  They're cheap ($1.50 buys two reusable pairs) and
>they block out wind and road noise better than the normal foam type.
>On the downside, they are fiddly to get in right.  I spent con-
>siderable time playing with them to get the right seal.

i got whatever peoples drug/pharmor had: three pairs of foam plugs and a dandy
little case to put a pair into (has a loop in the cap for hooking it to
something, too).  they worked great on the trip to pittsburgh and back; i left
them out for the first hour or so, and the difference was incredible.

as if there's any trick to putting them in: after you squish 'em up and stick
'em in (your *ears*), hold them there for a good minute.  they seem slow
to expand, but if i held them in place for a minute, they were much
more sound-absorbing and immobile.


cliff weston
dod# 0598

i love the fiamms.
the fiamms are my friends.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: websterm@uproar.enet.dec.com (Mike Webster)
Subject: Re: 2-stroke problem
Reply-To: Mike.Webster@ime.mts.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:13:59 GMT



 Following on from the usefull reply ;-)

 I had same problem once (RD350) it passed all the checks on
 spark, compression etc. Carbs OK. Eventually found a cracked
 reed valve on one side. Easy to repair just took a long time 
 to find.

 Good luck.

 Mike Webster London UK.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: randy@ninja.megatek.uucp (Randy Davis)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on VMAX
Reply-To: megatek!randy@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:25:13 GMT

In article <c_bngnk.rudi@netcom.com> rudi@netcom.com (Rudolf Usselmann) writes:
|However, I'm missing one little thing here about the VMAX:
|One of my reasons getting a VMAX instead of a say Z-11 was
|that I thought I could take my SO withme for a ride (in a more
|or less comfertable matter [maybe I get a backrest]).

  Ahhh...  I would bet that your SO would be more comfortable on the V-Max,
and it has PLENTY of power with which to ride comfortably in even aggressive
riding conditions with a passenger.  Note, I've never ridden on the back
of either the ZX-11 or the V-Max, but am extrapolating (opinion-wise) from
what I've heard from people that have.  Again, my opinion on this may be
worth what you paid for it - anybody have actual experience riding passenger
on both?

Randy Davis                             UUCP: randy@megatek.com
("mean and nasty") ZX-11 #00072 Pilot         megatek!randy@uunet.uu.net
DoD #0013                                     ucsd!megatek!randy
From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: new bike .vs. vasectomy
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:06:24 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <793@zx11.UUCP> joe@zx11.cactus.org writes:
>aki@atlas.worldbank.org (aki) writes:

About a guy who took the money his woman gave him for a vasectomy and
bought a motorcycle -- lots of righteous agreement from guys who most
definitely would not a _woman_ for chrissakes! tell them what to do, e.g:

>]this guy to go out on his own and get his wanker cut while she stayed at
>]home and watched soap operas...I tend to agree...

>noone wondered why she didn't get her tubes shut down if she was so intent
>on sterilizing someone? while admitting ignorance in abundance, isn't it a
>simple matter to do a non-permanent "clamp" of the female's tubes? I don't
>think the same is true for males, but I certainly can't say I've been checking
>into it.

Any operation involving the female's tubes is an abdominal operation,
a relatively serious op which, while routine, has a number of
unpleasant hazards associated with it.  Any operation involving the
male's tubes is much easier, more trivial, and much less risky, since
the tubes are conveniently available in the scrotum. If the patient
wishes, both operations can be performed in a reversible manner,
though reversibility cannot be guaranteed. It is more likely to
succeed in the case of the male.

How on earth could you possibly imagine that an operation on the
scrotum was more serious and less easily made reversible than an
operation which involves opening the abdomen? Of course, silly me, I
forgot we were talking about a _woman's_ abdomen as opposed to a
_man's_ scrotum :-)

By the sound of it, I think she should have saved her money and
removed the guy's testicles herself with a pair of bricks. All these
teenage he-man posters with their indignation protecting their
privates seem to have forgotten that this guy actually accepted the
money, i.e., some kind of negotiation was involved, in which he
swindled her.

-- 
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: markk@tcsi.tcs.com (Mark Kromer)
Subject: Re: Oil & speed
Originator: markk@rigel
Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:47:56 GMT

blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers) writes:

>mvij@ocf.berkeley.edu (Pendragon) writes:
>>When I changed the old oil on my bike to Golden Spectro, it seemed to
>>accelerate and rev faster.
>>When I changed it to cager oil three days ago (Castrol GTX), it
>>seemed to slow down again.

>When I switched to Mobil-1 synthetic on my FJ1200 I didn't gain a
>hundred horsepower or 50 mpg. The first-shift-of-the-morning lunge was
>reduced some, but that was the only difference in performance I could
>feel.

Before I rebuilt the bottom end in my RD 400 it had some serious
shifting problems: hard shifting, frequent missed shifts, and
occational hung gears.  As a stop gap, I switched to Golden Spectro
synthetic oil.  There was a significent reduction in the effort
required at the shift lever, the frequency of missed shifts reduced to
about 1/3 as often as before and it never hung in a gear for the
several months I used it.

The stuff is slippery, folks.

--
)V(ark)<               markk@tcs.com                   DoD #400
1988 FZR400            1985 ZX900 Ninja             1977 RD400D
From: steve@bucolix.ncsu.edu (Steve Garnier)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Foul Language (Was: riding clothes choices)
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:51:43 GMT
Reply-To: steve@bucolix.ece.ncsu.edu (Steve Garnier)
Organization: North Carolina State University

In article <1992Sep3.160544.574@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> 
dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small) writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.142858.13224@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> 
>shz@garage.att.com (Keeper of the 'Tude) writes:
>>Jorg K(?) writes:
>>>Suck me off Cock Breath.
>>I use this type of language just as much as the next person (just ask
>>the cager that filed the abusive language complaint against me) but
>>*THIS HAS NO PLACE IN A WIDELY DISTRIBUTED NEWSGROUP*!!!
>Now is this flame bait or what?

Absolutely.  Probably one of the most disgusting things about Jorg's
phrase is that he used *horrible* punctuation.  Now I wonder if Jorg's
boss is going to get a nasty note from Michael.

:-)

Steve Garnier - DoD #00000005 - '79 XS1100SF w/ 157K+ miles and *climbing*
KotF (Flame),  KotAM (Anecdotal Motorcycle),  The Daemon's Byte
       Contrary to popular belief, I am not the Devil's advocate...
                  ...but I am his speech writer.
From: weiss@ra.nrl.navy.mil
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: tachometer isn't working
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:33:40 GMT
Reply-To: weiss
Distribution: rec.motorcycles
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory-on-the-Potomac, Washington, DC, US of A
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

In article <Sep.3.23.47.14.1992.28287@spade.rutgers.edu>, cadet@spade.rutgers.edu (Uniquely TiJean) writes...
>I was just riding my bike and I noticed that the rpm stayed at 0. 
>I wonder what it could be. Also, my speedometer doesn't seem to 
>go higher than 60 mph. Is it a broken cable?

Check the following:

1.  Cable (lubricate if necessary)
2.  Drive mechanism on the wheel hub to which the cable connects. (if it's 
broken, just get a replacement from a junkyard - what I did)
3.  The tachometer/speedometer mechanism (unlikely source)

_____________________________________________________________________________
Warren W. Weiss      VMI '87
AMA# 409056
				"Think for yourself and question authority"
Ride: '85 Suzuki GS700+
							Unknown
"Deus Ex Machina"
_____________________________________________________________________________
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: BMW R100RS - Raise handlebar one inch
Date: 1 Sep 92 14:07:21 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Jeff Achenbach (achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com) wrote:
: In article <1992Aug31.193349.21762@microunity.com> ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray) writes:
: >In article <1992Aug31.015943.25770@wam.umd.edu> kkw@wam.umd.edu (Katarina Wong O'Gara) writes:
: >>In article <1992Aug30.192940.1077@msus1.msus.edu> stafford@msus1.msus.edu writes:
: >>>
: >>>	I need to raise the handelbar on a R100RS ('81) by
                           ~~~~~~~~~~
: >>>	about an inch.
: >>[stuff deleted]
: >
: >Another thing to try is R90S bars.  They're just a tad wider, but

I tried Handelbars, they served good German lager but played loud classical 
music all the time.

I also tried R90S bars, they were wider but packed out and full of German 
bikers.

I'll be alright once I've reached PUBerty.......



There is no .sig

This is not a SIG
From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: I have my DOD number!!!
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:22:39 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH

daver@world.std.com (daver) writes:

>Fucking pathetic excuse for
>a Denizen.

Isn't "pathetic excuse" and "Denizen" redundant?
-- 
   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
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: I have my DOD number!!!
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:58:45 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Jonathan E. Quist (jeq@i88.isc.com) wrote:
: In article <1992Aug31.155521.25564@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ksmith@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Kevin Smith) writes:
: >In article 20962@news.nd.edu, Richard.A.Swift.1@nd.edu (Richard A. Swift) writes:
: >>
: >>I proudly proclaim myself Denizen of Doom number 555. Long Live the DOD!!!
: >
: >_What_ a dick.
: 
: Yeah, and by calling himself 555, he's trying to make us think
: he's an old timer.
: 
: 
: 
: (2 marks to anyone who both understood that _and_ thought it was funny.)
: -- 
: Jonathan E. Quist                              INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation

The people who didn't get that probably think that 741 is made by Boeing!!!  (
or should that be Boing as in boing, boing...crash!?)


Nick (Biker with a pain in all the diodes down his left side)   DoD 1069

M'LED.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: ian@lassen.wpd.sgi.com (Ian Clements)
Subject: Re: California only: Fiamm dealer
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 20:56:54 GMT

In <3yan_!d.blave@netcom.com> blave@netcom.com (David W. Blevins) writes:

>I found a good selection of Fiamms at the local Kragen Auto Store (on
>Campbell Ave. for those who are truly local).  They had Super Louds
>and Euro Super Louds, with the Super Louds sold singly and in pairs ($10.99
>and $24.99, respectively).  The pair comes with the red cosmetic covers...
>Having bought a pair (High/Low tones), I don't know whether there's enough
>room inside the front fairing of my '87 CBR1000 to mount both of them, so
>I may have one up for sale soon...

 Well, there was no room in the front of my Katana.  I looked long and
hard and finally put both horns under one of the back fairing pieces. 
Before you say "but you can't hear it from there"; honk the horn.  It's
every bit as loud.
--

--
Ian Clements, 			| 
ian@sgi.com, 415/390-3410 	| Towards the beans! Towards the beans!
From: chapman@cs.cornell.edu (Richard Chapman)
Subject: '80 GS550E weird idle situation
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:20:21 GMT

I need a little help. I just bought an '80 GS550E (wish I still had
the '81 GS650E I sold back in May instead, but that is a long story)
and it exhibits a behavior that is mildly annoying now, and which I
would like to fix before it gets cold. I have to give the bike way
more choke to get it to start than I think I should. Within seconds of
starting, it revs way up (~4000-5000rpm), and I turn the choke down,
but there is only a very fine line between having it rev way high and having
it cut off. Eventually it gets warm, I turn the choke off, and things are
fine. I can stop and restart the bike while warm as much as I like, but
if I let it sit long enough to get cold I have to use the choke again, 
maybe 3/4 of the way out.

On the 650E, I never had to give it choke when it was this warm
(70's-80's Fahrenheit). I once had a Kawasaki KZ305 that did what the
550E is doing, and I never found the problem. On that bike I pulled
the carbs, checked idle jets, which were perfectly clean, looked
for air leaks around the intake manifold (needing too much choke means
it is too lean, right?), made sure the air filter fitted well, changed
plugs (just on principle). When the temp got down to the 40's, the
Kawasaki wouldn't start at all. 

I plan on doing basically the same to the Suzuki, but would appreciate
any suggestions. Thanks a bunch,
Richard Chapman DoD #245
From: bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob pasker)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: real chamois anyone ? (was Re: GPNDG:  Random thoughts)
Date: 4 Sep 92 04:24:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Disorganized Organization

In article <1992Sep3.201700.15188@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, cdw2t@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Clifford David Weston) writes:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |       Cliff Weston                     '92 Seca II (Tem)                 |
> |       DoD# 0598                         [insert witty disclaimer here]   |
> |                                                                          |
> |  you act like a dick.  jokes are fine, but you have to make some sort    |
> |    of motorcycle-related contribution in order to get away with it.      |
> |                     -- DoD# (withheld), referring to me                  |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

i believe the number is 57.

-- 
-- bob pasker
-- bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us 
--
From: martin@adpgate.UUCP (Martin Golding)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Harley women (tm)
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:16:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: adpplz.1525
Organization: ADP Dealer Services R&D, Portland, OR

karen@angelo.amd.com (Karen Black) writes:

: There is a field event called "bite the weenie"; the rider rides under
: a hot dog hanging from a string, and his passenger is supposed to grab
: it with her teeth.  The more she bites, the higher the score. 

I had to check this last night, it was too unbelievable. Too far out.
The rot spreads! it must be catching...

In my latest magazine from the BMWMOA, the _conservative_ BMW rider's club
(BMWRA is liberal, WMTC is libertarian) are pictures of a weenie bite
competition purported to be at a BMW club meet.

On the bright side, the team on the boxer was doing great, and the driver
on the K bike had obviously gotten lost on his way to the weenie. :-Pthpth.


          Martin Golding             |  Work to ride,
DoD #236  BMWMOA #55952  WMTC #0002  |   ride to work.
[motcsd!]mcspdx!adpgate!martin
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: BMW R100RS - Raise handlebar one inch
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 18:45:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep01.140721.12931@bnr.uk> datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) writes:
>Jeff Achenbach (achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com) wrote:
>: In article <1992Aug31.193349.21762@microunity.com> ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray) writes:
>: >In article <1992Aug31.015943.25770@wam.umd.edu> kkw@wam.umd.edu (Katarina Wong O'Gara) writes:
>: >>In article <1992Aug30.192940.1077@msus1.msus.edu> stafford@msus1.msus.edu writes:
>: >>>
>: >>>	I need to raise the handelbar on a R100RS ('81) by
>                           ~~~~~~~~~~
>: >>>	about an inch.
>: >>[stuff deleted]
>: >
>: >Another thing to try is R90S bars.  They're just a tad wider, but
>
>I tried Handelbars, they served good German lager but played loud classical 
>music all the time.

Enemy target bearing 100 range 81.

>I also tried R90S bars, they were wider but packed out and full of German 
>bikers.

Locking on....  We've got tone!

>I'll be alright once I've reached PUBerty.......


That's affirmed.  Fire at will.


>There is no .sig
>
>This is not a SIG

Got 'im, skipper.

----
I liked Nick.
Nick was my friend.
----
-- 
Jonathan E. Quist                              INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
jeq@i88.isc.com  '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094        Naperville, IL
        There are many things a person should experience in a lifetime.
       Among them are an infant's first cry, and an infant's first laugh.
From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Flat tire :  What do you do ?
Date: 31 Aug 92 03:26:44 GMT
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853

I actually met a BMW rider who carried a spare tire.

In fact it was a spare *wheel* with a tire mounted on it.
It was carried on the rear of his sidecar.  He had an older
model BMW (R60/2 or something like that) which used the same
wheel design in both front and rear, so the one spare wheel
really could be used to replace any other wheel on the rig.

-- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
-- '80 BMW R65   BMWMOA #36829   DoD #0969   NRA #CDF6091M
From: bradl@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Lance Holstein)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: R100GS Starter/Back From Portland/R65 Info
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:01:35 GMT
Reply-To: bradl@tekig5.pen.tek.com
Organization: Pokey Folk on Parade

In article <1992Sep1.193511.11216@HQ.Ileaf.COM> grw@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Gary Wasserman) writes:
>
>BACK FROM PORTLAND
>------------------
[gracious Thank-You's deleted]
>
>Mr. La Broad's GB500 was as clean as the day he bought it.  The way he

Oh, thanks a lot. That's a scurrilous lie! There was a squashed bug on
the headlight. And the bike was positively covered with, um, mercury
vapor from synching the car...er, never mind.

>led the ride it makes you wonder what the rest of us needed all those
>extraneous moving parts in our bikes for.  Balance, probably.

And now I'm unbalanced, too. Sheesh.

And while I'm at it, I should point out that local denizens offered so
many bikes for Gary (yes, he's that entertaining a guest) that we
practically had to have a lottery to pick one. 


I love the GB.
The GB is my friend.

--
Bradlee T. LaBroad                             read & write & ride & juggle
 bradl@tekig5.pen.tek.com                        It's a tough job but 
   GB_500 DoD#389                                somebody gets to do it.
From: robd@shotgun.wv.tek.com
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Counter shafting a steer
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:48:10 GMT
Reply-To: robd@orca.wv.tek.com
Organization: Not Bloody Likely, Inc.


Out around Saragosa, we used to counter shaft our steers all the time. Helped
keep 'em upright when the young punks'd come round "cow tipping"...

Wha'? My dyslexia is showing? Uh...never mind....

ObMC?: Ever heard of a temperature sensitive battery? Starting a couple months
ago, when cold starting my R65, the battery "acts" dead. Barely engages
starter. But wait till everything is up to mid-day temp, and she cranks like
a son-of-a-gun. This caused a bit of public humiliation at the GPNDG when I
was forced to bum a hunk of zip cord off of Jon M and borrow a mess of 
electrons from Bill Johns PD...most un-Denizen like behavior. So...I hate to
replace a batt that seems ok after noon, but bunko at 7:30am, the appointed
time to depart for that earthly veil of tears called a job. Ideas?
Opinion?(ohmygawd..I can't believe I said that...)

          +====================================================+
          | Robert Dixon, Reliability Engineering Proj. Leader |
          |         email - robd@shotgun.WV.TEK.COM            |
	  |              DoD #0176  AMA #(classified)          |
	  |             "I ride, therefore I am"               |
          +====================================================+
From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: carrying moolah on long trips
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:57:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

parker@gdls.UUCP (The Dougster) writes:
: It started me wondering, though, what are safe ways of carrying
: large amounts of money (or just guaranteeing access to a large supply
: of funds) over long periods of time while on a bike, away from home,
: and maybe out of the country?
:
   As our friend Carl Mauldin would say, "American Express travelers checks,
don't leave home without them . . ."  Although, I have found that a supply
of regular old US dollars is handy sometimes.  Get a money belt and carry
some emergency money there.  Put the traveler's checks in your wallet and
keep a record of the numbers in you luggage.
 
: I'd thought about putting two thousand dollars credit on my plastic and
: then using that, but there's got to be other ways...
:
   This is a good idea also.  I have found that I get pretty good exchange
rates when taking cash advances in foreign countries using ATMs.  And, you
get local currency.  This way you just take small amounts of cash out at
a time from an ATM and don't risk losing too much.  Keep a spare credit
card in your luggage also.  If you lose your wallet you have something to
use that way.
 
--

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* Bill Ranck     DoD #496  ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu                            *
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