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From: carlp@frigg.isc-br.com (Carl Paukstis)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Re; Nat'l Health Plan (Was: Re: Lance
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:25:43 GMT
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, An Olivetti Company

mayer@sono.uucp (Ron Mayer) writes:


>In article <1k3jipINN1n6@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) writes:

>>The problem is that today, free market forces do NOT dictate those
>>salaries.  Health care consumers do not directly pay for the

>economics, but intuitively it would seem that in a free market,
>consumers would pay whatever they thought their insurance was worth;
>and insurance companies would pay doctor's salaries according to what
>their clients were willing to pay.

Wouldn't THAT be nice - unfortunately, that ain't the way things are.

>                                                     Similarly, if my
>insurance company pays for heart-lung-transplants for 90 year old 3
>pack a day smokers; and I think they are charging me too much because
>of it; I'll change insurance companies.  
>paying for the motorcycle parts and lung transplant; I still excercize
>free market power by choosing to pay the motorcycle dealer or
>insurance company.

Oh?  Tell your employer that it must change carriers?  Good luck.  If
you pay for your own insurance, you're in the tiny minority in today's
USA - mostly it's employer-provided (perhaps with some fee-sharing).

>due to a monopoly of either doctors or insurance companies (or
>something preventing informed choices selecting either).  There seem

BINGO!  Monopolies of both doctors and insurance companies, not to
mention extensive suppression of information necessary for informed
choice.  E.g. 1: all sorts of "alternative" medicines are not allowed
to be advertised as having health benefits, nor even have possible
benefits mentioned in the labeling.  E.g.2: Doctors are not generally
allowed to advertise by their union (AMA).  E.g.3: AMA conspires with
state governments to limit the numbers and specialties of doctors in
certain areas, via licensing exams and practice-practice (residency,
internship) programs which bear little relationship to training and
more to tests of endurance and determination.  E.g.4: Your own
example: you don't need somebody with an MD to check your eyesight,
but they're REQUIRED BY LAW in most places to be "supervised" by a
"licensed" MD.  This is unconscionable restraint of trade, but that's
OK because it's done by the government.

And let's not even mention "state insurance commissions".

--
Carl Paukstis, RRR&RSG  S.I. 2.27     | "If we were directed from Washington 
 Olivetti North America / Spokane, WA |  when to sow and when to reap, we would 
 Mail: carlp@mail.spk.olivetti.com    |  soon want for bread."
   or: ...uunet!oliveb!isc-br!carlp   |     - Thomas Jefferson
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: tony@morgan.demon.co.uk (Tony Kidson)
Subject: Re: Riding suits for less $$ than Aero$tich?? 
Distribution: world
Organization: Not much.
Reply-To: tony@morgan.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:30:16 +0000


In article <C1H9Ht.6Ds@rice.edu> stiv@stat.rice.edu writes:

>Are there any decent lower cost riding suits available?  The espoused
>one, Melinda, is seriously considering getting a bike as daily
>transport, and would like protection against road rash.  Ideally, it
>would be light weight/well vented (this is Texas), and easy to put on
>and take off.  She'd be riding mostly around town (Austin) so
>competition weight leathers are (at present) not really required.

Well, I guess that Texas or no, you should still consider leather. Its the 
only thing to really protect your hide and we wouldn't want the pretty li'l 
filly gettin' all marked up now would we? Mighty decorative too a nice skin 
tight one piece leather oversuit. Just one zip and she can peel it off for 
the delight of all the good ol' boys down there. She can o' course always 
wear somethin' kinda purdy underneath. Sure hope this helps now.


Tony

+-----------------+-------------------------------+--------------------------+
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| Morgan Towers,  |Warmer with a 670 MB Hard Disk.| E-Mail                   |
| Morgan Road,    |It  resides at Morgan Towers in| tony@morgan.demon.co.uk  |
| Bromley,        |Beautiful  Down Town  Bromley. | tny@cix.compulink.co.uk  |
| England BR1 3QE |Honda ST1100  ==*==  DoD# 0801 | 100024.301@compuserve.com|
+=================+===============================+==========================+
From: moseley@u.washington.edu (Steve L. Moseley)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: gel-cell batteries Re: rec.motorcycles FAQ of 93.01.01 (Part 4 of 5)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:32:00 GMT
Organization: Microbial Pathogenesis and Motorcycle Maintenance
NNTP-Posting-Host: microb0.biostat.washington.edu

In article <1303@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com
> meb4593@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Michael Bain) writes:

>bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (THIS SIDE DOWN) writes:
>-dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
>-
>--Q:  The battery in my ZX-10 died.  I can get a generic replacement for
>--    $43 or a no-maintenance "gel-cell" battery for $82.  Is the gel-cell
>--    worth it?
>-
>-My first question would be "how often do you drop your motorcycle or
>-operate it leaned so far over that the electolyte spills out of the top
>-of the battery?" -- the big advantage to gel-cells it that they may be

>No matter how far it is leaned over whilst riding, the forces acting on
>the electrolyte will still remain perpendicular to the battery.  (In
>other words none should spill out).

Unless of course the rider is "hanging off" which would result in non-
perpendicular forces on the electrolyte. Also, how about side car rigs with 
restricted lean angles?


>Anybody hear about Boeing Test Pilot Tex Johnston doing a barrel roll
>over Lake Washington in the first Boeing 707 (Dash 80) in 1957 in front
>of a bunch of astonished airline execs and a pissed-off Boeing Prez?  I
>know, who cares, but he had to perform that as a 1 G maneuver. 
>Otherwise, the fuel pickups would have sucked air.  That was some good
>flying. 

I guess Tex wasn't hanging off during the maneuver.

>-- 
>Michael "Chuck" Bain                       meb4593@icdfs.ca.boeing.com  
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                     "Semi-Loud Pipes Save Lives"

Missed you at the Vancouver show this year. We did Afghan this time.

Steve
__________________________________________________________________________
Steve L. Moseley                                  moseley@u.washington.edu
Microbiology SC-42                                Phone: (206) 543-2820
University of Washington                          FAX:   (206) 543-8297
Seattle, WA 98195
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: cookson@mbunix.mitre.org (Cookson)
Subject: Re:      AAA and motorcycles...NOT!!!
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:05:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.173715.13397@fuug.fi> an4929@anon.penet.fi (gonzo) writes:
>To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi.
>Due to the double-blind system, any replies to this message will be anonymized,
>and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned.

Now, I know that we in the DoD have a somewhat deserved reputation for
being scum sucking swine, but do you really need an anonymous gateway to
post here??


-- 
| Dean Cookson / dcookson@mitre.org / 617 271-2714    | DoD #207  AMA #573534 |
| The MITRE Corp. Burlington Rd., Bedford, Ma. 01730  | KotNML  /  KotB       |
| "If I was worried about who saw me, I'd never get   | '92 VFR750F           |
| nekkid at all." -Ed Green, DoD #0111                | '88 Bianchi Limited   |
From: bclarke@galaxy.gov.bc.ca
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Health Care, lawyers, Nick yelling, etc.
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:26:16 GMT
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

> LISTEN!  YOU SHIT-FOR-BRAINS LITTLE DWEEB!  NEXT TIME YOU GET TURNED AWAY FROM
 { much "fecal matter" deleted}
> Nick (the British Biker)   DoD 1069   Concise Oxford  

Geez, just a tad upset? 
-- 
Bruce Clarke       B.C. Environment
                   e-mail: bclarke@galaxy.gov.bc.ca
From: egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Bike to bike communication
Date: 26 Jan 1993 15:33:35 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
Distribution: world
Reply-To: egreen@East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: laser.east.sun.com

In article 231@pages.com, bigdog!jon (Jon Wright) writes:
>I know that Calif. Superbike School uses nifty bike communicators that do what  
>the original poster wanted.  Anybody attending care to comment?

I never attended, so I'm qualified.

CSS removed the communicators after one season.  They found them to be
ineffective teaching aids, which doesn't necessarily mean they won't
work well for other communications.

They had the stupidest lightning-bolt antennea you could imagine.

---
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...

Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: fischer@netmbx.netmbx.de (Axel Fischer)
Subject: Highways/Backroads with no speed limit
Organization: netmbx, Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:47:21 GMT

Hi,

are there any highways/backroads/whatever somewhere in the USA that don't
have a speed limit? Thus I can go as fast as I can.

Somewhere in Utah, Nevada, or whereever?

-Axel
-- 
fischer@netmbx.de                                                   DoD #0228
From: tjohnson@anyway.prime.com (Tod Johnson (617) 275-1800 x2317)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Backed into
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:41:25 GMT
Reply-To: tjohnson@anyway.UUCP (Tod Johnson (617) 275-1800 x2317)
Organization: Prime Computervision, Bedford MA

In article <1993Jan20.203212.28173@cheshire.oxy.edu> pursell@cheshire.oxy.edu (William Robert Pursell) writes:
>
>  Yesterday a guy backed into me.  My front fender was mangled and
>  the front tire was flattened.  Anyway, I took the fender off and
>  the tire holds air OK, but the steering isn't quite straight
> (bars angles slightly to the right when riding in a straight line)
>  Any suggestions on straightening the steering head, and what I
>  can do to get the Partiot offensive line to protect the quarterback? 
>
>-Bill Pursell

Bill;

	First let me take this opportunity to congratulate you on your
new head coaching/general manager position with the New England Patriots.
I think I speak for all Patriot fans when I say "Bill; welcome. How are
you? How about a nice hot bowl of Chowder?"

	Now to the issue at hand. You've damaged a fine motorcycle. A 
GXS850 or something. These are outstanding machines for sure. My ex-fiance;
who met a tragic death when she repeatedly fell on an ice pick (god rest
her soul); had the same problem with her handle bars. Myself and a group 
of my lawyers got together and came up with a solution. We considered the
fine workmanship the Japanese put into these machines, along with the
top quality materials and engineering involved with the steering mechanism.
We carefully considered the value of the bike, and of course the safety
factor involved (as it was in fact my fiances (RIP) bike). Taking all this
into consideration, we pounded the shit out of handle bars with a large
hammer until they were as close to straight as we could get them. 

Hope this helps;

Tod J. Johnson
DoD #883
"Go Slow, Take Geritol"
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: bobwhite@beta.lanl.gov (James R. White)
Subject: Re: What metzeler recommends for tire pressures
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:53:22 GMT

> Anyone got a 1-800 number for Metzeler?

No, but their tech support number is  206-348-4000

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 Los Alamos National Laboratory  ||  Phone (505)-667-3853 (Work)
 N-6 / MS K555                   ||  Phone (505)-662-7554 (Home)
 Los Alamos, NM  87545  USA      ||  FAX   (505)-665-7429
 1987 1100cc Yamaha Virago pilot ||  DoD #290 - VOC #3739 - NfH #0000000001
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: silomaa@ntc01.tele.nokia.fi
Subject: need info on 1100 VIRAGO YAMAHA
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:43:49 GMT

It is V-Tvin Custom type, secondary with cardan.
I'm interested in GOOD and BAD thigs of this thing.

I have driven once this bike. It was lazy. Workin properly in 
2-4k area. Over those rpms it became more lazy the higher it run.

Is this right? Was the motor broken or not properly adjusted?

The bike interests me because of size/price value.

Thank YOU for advance.
-- 
*  Silomaa Esa    *  TEASE IS A TEASE, NO MATTER HOW SMALL IT IS,
*  FINLAND/EUROPE *         AND I'M ONE IF NOTHING ELSE.
From: dlady@galoob.cs.utk.edu (Don Lady)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: REQ: Who Am I?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:33:33 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: na
Reply-To: dlady@galoob.cs.utk.edu (Don Lady)
NNTP-Posting-Host: galoob.cs.utk.edu

In article <1993Jan21.193848.3172@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan21.184628.6135@crd.ge.com> sprattli@azores.crd.ge.com (Rod Sprattling) writes:
|> >Quite some time ago I joined the DoD, but have
|> >been away from rec.motorcycles for a while
|> >and have lost my membership number.  Who's the
|> >O-fishal Keeper of the Membership Roster?
|> >
|> >Rod
|> >---
|> >Roderick Sprattling		| 
|> >sprattli@azores.crd.ge.com	| Where there's a will, there's a lawyer.
|> 
|> Read the Fag Newbie.
|>  
|> Just Kiddin.
|> Your DoD# is 0132
|>  
|> The Kotl is Scott Pace and don't call her Shirley.
|>  
|> ================================================================================
|>  Steatopygias's 'R' Us.          doh#0000000005 That ain't no Hottentot.
|>  Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. AMA#669373 DoD#564. There ain't no more.
|> ================================================================================
No, His number is really 113. I know it is. Just ask me. It's 113.

-- 
Don (dlady@cs.utk.edu) Lady
AMA #162364    DoD #803
Suzuki GS850GX, GS750EN  Yamaha DT175E for the cowtrails!
Honda TR200 (used to be the ex's)

Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: kilborn@iastate.edu (Scott E Kilborn)
Subject: need plans for voice communications
Summary: voice commnication on bike
Keywords: voice, helmets
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:07:58 GMT

Does anyone out there know where I can get plans for a circuit
to communicate between two people on a bike?

I want a mike and headphones on both of my full-face helmets (i.e. - 2 way)
I would think it would be pretty simple, but I am not far enough through
my electronics training to come up with something like this.

Hopefully, this would fit in a walkman sized radio case.

I just need a schematic, as I will be able to do everything else.

Thanks in advance.

-Scott Kilborn (kilborn@iastate.edu)

-p.s. please e-mail to above address if possible.


Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: arnie@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Arnie Skurow)
Subject: Re: Need info on HOG, BMWMOA, COG
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:24:33 GMT

In article <C16Gq5.Fqx@unix.amherst.edu> nrmendel@unix.amherst.edu (Nathaniel M
endell) writes:
>Anyone out there have mailing addresses and phone numbers for these groups?
>A response ASAP would be greatly appreciated.
>

H.O.G.  1-800-CLUB-HOG

BMW MOA 1-314-537-5511

Arnie
From: ivan@erich.triumf.ca (Ivan D. Reid)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Rebore?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 08:22 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: erich.triumf.ca
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <cobra.1.727703353@gribb.hsr.no>, cobra@gribb.hsr.no (Berg, Pl Steinar      7-95) writes...
>I just holed the piston in my '84 Suzuki RG250. I took off the cylinder head 
>and the offending cylinder. The piston had a .5cm hole in it and the 
>cylinder had a lot of scratches inside. Now i think i'll have it rebored.
>Any ideas about how the piston got holed? And where the H*ll did the missing 
>piece of the piston go?
> 
	Too hot a spark plug and/or running for too long at very high revs.
Or possibly bad petrol, as detonation can cause piston problems.  Was the
hole burned, or had bits of metal flaked off the underside of the piston?
The bits of metal probably went out the exhaust port after grinding around a
bit.  Pray they didn't mess up seals or bearings.

Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH.     			ivan@cvax.psi.ch
GSX600F, RG250WD.	SI=2.66     "You Porsche. Me pass!"	DoD #484
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: an4929@anon.penet.fi (gonzo)
Subject:      AAA and motorcycles...NOT!!!
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: rec.motorcycles
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:01:56 GMT

I had always suspected that AAA would not deal with motorcycles, but
recently, when a friend had his car towed, AAA asked him if he wanted
a towtruck or a flatbed (it seems that at least in some sections of
the country, you can request this).  Well, I've had my bike towed
before on a flatbed (although it looks pretty lonely up there by
itself, all sick and not working well), so I decided to give them a
call.  I got a lecture for five minutes by the person manning the
emergency phone saying that the second A in AAA stands for
automobile.  My conversation went basically like this:

operator:  Triple A emergency road services, may I help you.
me:  yes, hello, do you by tow motorcycles?
operator:   No sir, we do not.  We do not tow motorcycles.  If you
            were to read your tripel A by-laws, you would realize that
            we do not tow motorcycles.  No, we do not tow
            motorcycles.  We can not tow motorcycles, we work with
            four wheeled vehicles only.
(It was at this point that I wanted to call a friend with an ATV and
really piss her off.  She did say four wheeled vehicles).

Anyway, the next towing service I called was an AAA affiliated tower
that used a flatbed.  I didn't use him, because he was too expensive,
but please, tell me why AAA will not let me use their membership that
I paid for, for towing, when the place I called was AAA affiliated.
Is there any sort of AAA for motorcycles (you know, cheap or free
towing, help on the road, gas if you run out, etc, etc, etc)?





Peace, love, and tomatoes,

Bill

"I believe in a long, prolonged period of derangement", followed by a
long, hot bath, plenty of starchy foods, and some rest.
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From: charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: lane splitting/sharing poll
Date: 28 Jan 93 00:57:57 GMT
Organization: Why do you suspect that?

In article <1993Jan26.104009.27426@adobe.com> cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.132234.20235@bnr.uk> npet@bnr.ca (Neil Harrington) writes:
>}Cor!  What a WIMP!
>
>I'll bet you wouldn't say that if I was standing in front of you
>wearing the Lone Bra of the Apocalypse.
>
>"What's wrong, Nick? You look all sick-like, like you've been
> visited by Lord Spagthorpe's ghost himself."
>
>"Nah, it was just that butt-ugly bearded Yank with the bra."
>-- 
>Curtis Jackson			'91 Black Lab/Blue Heeler "Studley Doright"
>cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com	'92 Collie/Golden "George"
>DoD #721	KotB		'91 Hawk GT	'81 Maxim 650
>"I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead." -- J. Buffett

Hey Curtis -

When are you gonna post a .gif of you wearing the bra <??>

Charlie Smith, DoD 0709   doh 0000000004
From: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Abscess makes the fart go HONDA)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: homebrew truck ramps?
Date: 22 Jan 93 06:09:44 GMT
Organization: The People's Number Four Cat Farm, Berkeley CA, USA

Has anyone here homebrewed a ramp that they can easily carry in their
truck that lets them ride/walk a bike up into the back of their
pickup?  I can put my bike in the back if I have another strong
adult, but it's a bit much to manage myself.
-- 
real address: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us
last choice:  lll-winken!catnip.berkeley.ca.us!bandy

"Free at last!  Free at last!  Thank God Almighty I'm free at last!"
 -- M. L. King
From: egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Blue Ridge Parkway
Date: 21 Jan 1993 20:40:58 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
Distribution: world
Reply-To: egreen@East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: laser.east.sun.com

In article 1jme9tINN52i@seven-up.East.Sun.COM, egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) writes:
>
>The Blue Ridge Parkway begins, in the south, on the eastern side of the
>Great Smokey Mountain National Park (slightly south of the line between
>Knoxville, Tennessee, and Asheville, North Carolina).  It runs NNE
>along the western North Carolina border, into Virginia, where it
>continues on a NNE route, a few miles west of I-81.  
                                        ^^^^
EAST of I-81, of course.  Changing coasts got my directions all mixed
up.

---
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...