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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: What's a "stroker"
From: emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 19:42:57 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Robert Smits

dboyd@informix.com (Diana Boyd) writes:

> 
> OK, no funny business here, I really want to know. I have this t-shirt on tod
> that says "Have you hugged your stroker today?" (from S&S cycles) and people 
> are asking me what a stroker is and I'm not quite sure.
> 
> Any bike with performance parts?
> A harley that's been bored out?
> 
> I've heard the expression stroked-out, but it doesn't help me understand.
> 
> Thanks, Diana
> 
> DIANA BOYD	"Walking with the spirit, talking with the spine
> EVO Woman	 Mama sing, open up yourself when worlds align."
> KLR Woman                                            -C. Whitley


An engine that has been 'stroked' has had the length of the piston stroke 
increased, by changing the relationship of the crankshaft pin to the 
centreline of the crankshaft. S&S make some of the better known 'stroker' 
kits for Hardleys. 

Bob.


Robert Smits Ladysmith BC  | I don't wanna pickle,
emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca      | just wanna ride my motorsickle - AG
From: dbidwa@sei.cmu.edu (Daniel Bidwa)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: equal opportunity cheesecake
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:33:30 GMT
Organization: The Software Engineering Institute


John Osborn (osborn@cs.utexas.edu) sez:
|> I've actually been thinking about the possibilities of publishing
|> a gay(*) motorcycling magazine.  Do you think a market for that
|> sort of thing exists?  

Sure, at least in the more prurient sense -- magazines like "Bear" and "Daddy"
often feature "bikers", or at least their take on the image. 
Leather is sexy. :-)

As for a gay motorcycling magazine along the lines of "Motorcycling" or "Cycle
World", I don't think it'd be much differently received than either of those
two. Motorcycling's fairly sex-orientation neutral (although the ads don't
necessarily reflect that). (Gender-neutral; well, that's another story.)

Dan
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: BMW Wobbles
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:03:54 GMT

barry@fsp2.gtri.gatech.edu (Barry B Burnette) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.223834.1179@msus1.msus.edu> pooder@msus1.msus.edu writes:
>>In article <1992Sep9.213434.29063@ctr.columbia.edu>, barry@fsp2.gtri.gatech.edu (Barry B Burnette) writes:
>>> In article <1992Sep5.145129.1136@msus1.msus.edu> stafford@msus1.msus.edu writes:

Lemme see if I can help Barry here.

>>>> My BMW ('81 R100RS) wobbles in moderately hard turns....
        ^^^
>>> Also, an over-tightened, unevenly worn chain will cause the swing arm
                                           ^^^^^
Catch your error yet Barry?

>>I'm glad you got that possibility ruled out, aren't you, John?

> Secondly, if the chain is causing -some- flex,

So Barry, just how many BMWs with chain drive have you seen?

>jerk-off
>mental midgets
>[etc., etc.]

The only thing that's more fun than watching some sucker take the hook,
the line, the sinker, and half the dock, is watching an abusive twit do
it.
-- 
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: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: How long for Dod number?
Date: 10 Sep 92 12:50:55 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: na
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH

mbeaving@bnr.ca (Michael Beavington) writes:

>Take a number and wait. bwah-ha-ha!
>
>I kill me! :-)

Thank God someone did...
-- 
   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
                              DoD # 0698
From: dbc@po.cwru.edu (Dean Cookson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Spagthorpe Lone Wolf?
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Date: 10 Sep 1992 02:26:21 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62003.student.cwru.edu

In article <n8snbam.tcox@netcom.com>, tcox@netcom.com (Thomas Cox) wrote:
> 
> Dean, please, please, please get your .sig down to some reasonable line
> width, like 79 or 80 characters per line, and don't let Em*cs line-wrap
> on you... or whatever it is that's mangling your .sig.  (Sample
> offending line included below.)  Thanks.

Uh, my sig is 76 characters wide, something else must be mangling it.  I'll
look into it.
> 
> I believe you're thinking of the Spagthorpe (not SpagEthorpe, I think)
> "Lone Wolf".  Unless there was a Lone Dog as well.
> 
I believe the Lone Dog was the single cyl. "Thumper"  It was also a solo
seat bike, with the "Milk Bone" driver entertainment system.

> 
> If there is general interest, I can look up the rest of my info on the
> Lone Wolf.

mmmm.  Please do.

> Cheers.
> 	-- Tom

| Dean Cookson / dbc@po.cwru.edu / 216 754-1834| DoD #207  AMA #573534|
| Case Western Reserve U. Computer E. and Sci. | KotNML  /  KotB      |
| "If I was worried about who saw me, I'd never| '81 CB750C           |
| get nekkid at all." -Ed Green, DoD #0111     | '88 Bianchi Limited  |
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: Waving with meaning..?
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:18:49 GMT

smm@rodan.UU.NET (Steve Mansfield) writes:

>"my speedo goes up to 140 for a reason."

>1983 Suzuki GS550E

I'll bite, what's the reason?

:-)
-- 
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
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: myersr@geoduck.nosc.mil
Subject: XR-600 Pilot Jet Adjustment
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:00:28 GMT
X-Posted-From: geoduck.nosc.mil
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Hi, 

I have a 1990 Honda XR-600 (single carb).  My maintenance manual says
to adjust the pilot screw for max idle, then adjust the idle screw to XXXX 
rpm.

From my experience with other motorcycles, there should be a peak in the 
idle rpm when adjusting the pilot screw.  However, with my bike, the idle 
continues to increase as I turn the pilot screw in.  There is no peak -- the 
idle is at max when the pilot screw is turned all the way in.  BTW, I am 
careful not to damage the seat by tightening the pilot screw, but I can't 
vouch for the previous owner.  

When I had the carb disassembled recently,  I noticed that with the pilot 
screw all the way in, there was still a gap between the tip of the pilot screw 
and the edge of the little hole opening into the carb throat (?).  Should this 
opening be closed off, and therefore no idle, when the pilot screw is turned 
all the way in.  I worry about this stuff because my bike doesn't seem to idle 
as smoothly as it should.  Sometimes it just sputters and dies, other times 
it cuts out, but theres sufficient momentum in the engine to get it going again.

Thanks for your help,

Dick Myers (myersr@cod.nosc.mil)
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:39:22 EDT
From: <TLT101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Least Favorite Road Sign
 <1992Sep5.041824.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> <1992Sep5.195039.449@halfdome.sf.ca.us>

In article <1992Sep5.195039.449@halfdome.sf.ca.us>, bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob
pasker) says:
>
>you kids are afraid of "pavement ends", "flooding ahead", "gravel", etc.,
>etc.???
>
>do you bring your mommies with you in case you get too scared?
>
>--
>-- bob pasker
>-- bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us
>--
Well I took my mommy out riding once and she got scared.
My grandmother liked her ride though. Go figure

      Tim Thompson   TLT101@psuvm.psu.edu
      '83 Yamaha Maxim 400
      Net Luker #25
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: hesh@cup.hp.com (Chris Steinbroner)
Subject: Re: Leather pants
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:44:57 GMT
Reply-To: Chris Steinbroner <hesh@cup.hp.com>
Organization: HP-UX Kernel Lab, Cupertino, CA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Phil Stone (phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: Ah, yes.  I see you have opted for maximum protection these days.
: [Ok, that was a cheap shot.  I owe you a Sam Adam's.]

Sam Adams?!  Ed drinks Bud, remember?

-- hesh
From: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi <tcora>)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: test post
Date: 9 Sep 92 13:29:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob pasker) writes:
>
>of course, my favorite question to ask libertarians is, "so, you wouldn't
>mind if i moved in next door and built a thermonuclear [hi boys from NSA!]
                                                                  Huh?^^^

DOE? DNA?

NSA = National Security Agency = Spies, not nukies.
-- 
 
                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: tracy@Unify.Com (Tracy Jeannine Wiseman)
Subject: doesn't everyone have their own definition of BikerBabe?
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 18:37:26 GMT

In article <3537@ra.nrl.navy.mil> weiss writes:
>In article <1992Sep06.023327.28269@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz>, lesley@cavebbs.welly
>gen.nz (Lesley Walker) writes:
>
>>>>>because all the guys think of us as buddies, and therefore don't even
>>>>>consider the idea of forming Relationships with us.
>>>
>>>I certainly WOULD think of having a relationship with a BikerBabe (tm)!
>> 
>>I'm not a Babe.  I'm a person.
>
>A person in need of a sense of humor.
>

I tend to think of the term BikerBabe as genderless, or gender-modifiable.
i.e. to a guy, a BikerBabe is a girl, and to a girl, a BikerBabe is a guy.
I realize there are probably more definitions than these.

Some of the best friends and some of the best more-than-friends I have known 
have been guys that ride.  Sometimes they ride on the back of my bike, 
sometimes they ride their own bike.  Okay, sometimes I would even ride on
the back of their bike.  Yes, I would consider them BikerBabes.  Although 
their talents/interests have certainly not been limited exclusively to 
motorcycles.

Tracy
--
Tracy Wiseman	       #include <stdDisclaimer.h>    internet: tracy@unify.com
Unify Corporation      DoD #555                      uucp:     uunet!unify!tracy
Sacramento, CA, USA    AMA #557891	             voice:    1.916.928.6272

Life is not about reaching the end of the current path, it is the path itself.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Fabulous Harley Babe Bashing etc.
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:37:35 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.170926.15130@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> shz@garage.att.com (Keeper of the 'Tude) writes:
>jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
>>Then again, maybe the common thread is that we're all people willing
>>to think for ourselves, instead of letting Madison Avenue think for us.
>
>Aren't we also the same bunch of fools that drool over things named
>FireBlade, ZZR-*-RRR, xR4Ti, DOHC, 24 Valve (without knowing cylinders
>or displacement), Ninja, Interceptor, etc.?

Speak for yourself.... :')  About the only things I drool over are
a good pot of chilli and my wife, not necessarily in that order, and
only in appropriate circumstances.... 
-- 
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.
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 4 Sep 1992 21:29:11 CDT
From: Ed Dowtort <U10119@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: dunlop 591 vs. metzler 99a perfect ???

>There are old tyres and there are bold tyres and there are plenty of
>old bold tyres - could you possibly mean bald?

arg.  and here i tought i was going to get some useful information!

;-)  actually it would have been useful, if i did not catch myself doing
it again today and realizing it's "bald", not "bold".

>How do tyres lose their hair anyway ?  Too much testosterone in the rider?

Friction!, my man, friction!  same as you'll lose both your hair and skin
if you hit the asphalt.  (may your god forbid it, though)

(hmmm.... btw:  can dave allen still be seen anywhere on the boob-tube?)

too much testosterone will have the greatest affect on the rear tyre's
hair and thread, i would presume....

ed d.  (the kid from chicago (with the red...  ummm.. soon dark jade.. seca))
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: mbeaving@bnr.ca (Michael Beavington)
Subject: Re: Valentine 1 radar detector on a bike?
Reply-To: MBEAVING@BNR.CA
Organization: BNR Ottawa, DMS Software Design
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:16:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.141253.19163@javelin.sim.es.com>, blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers) writes:

|> cover the Ka band: Stalker & photo radar. Stalker probably isn't much
                                ^^^^^

I'm confused.  I thought that photo radar always took 
pictures from the front, in which case they would be 
useless against motorcycles and people from Quebec?


=============================================================================
= The Beav |Mike Beavington|BellNorthernResearch Ottawa,Ont,Canada| Dod:9733=
= Seca 400->Seca 400->RZ350->Seca750->Suzuki550->Seca650turbo->V65Sabre     =
= Who needs parking spaces when there's plenty of sidewalks?                =
=============================================================================
From: ravi@maxine.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan - Mick)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Debbie Does AMA!
Date: 15 Sep 1992 02:56:55 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxine.wpi.edu




	just got this month's issue of american motorcyclist and turned
	to greg harrison's column:

	----- begin quote ----

	All in all, it was just a typical summer day.

	I was just sitting on a motorcycle, with Debbie on the back, and
	we were waiting for the traffic jam ahead to start moving.

	----- end quote -------

	now i would like to know how this happened? is arnie getting a
	little overzealous these days, with donations to AMA??? ;)

	peace,

	- ravi

Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: test (plus important questions)
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:04:51 GMT

shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
>On 4 Sep 92 11:26:09 PDT, bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob pasker) said:
>bob> In article <1885j6INN58@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>, egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) writes:

>> Sounds good to me.  Grammar flames suck.

>bob> the verb "to suck" requires an object, ed.  do you need some
>bob> suggestions?

>Uh, the understood but unstated completion is "dead worms through a
>straw", bob.  (Although "eggs" is another, less common possibility.)

>What were _you_ thinking of?

How about "dead bunnies through a rusty garden hose"?
-- 
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: kens@hplsla.hp.com (Ken Snyder)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:33:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Waving with meaning..?
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles

loki@nazgul.physics.mcgill.ca (Loki Jorgenson) writes:

>  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
> lane highways where a highbeam won't cause people to jump into the
> ditch when it flashes in their face; on the street or a two-way highway,
> a highbeam can be a bit much.

   I've used both hand signals and high/lo flashing to warn oncoming
traffic, and not just bikers.  I started signaling everyone several
years ago when an oncoming trucker flashed his headlights at me up in
Canada.  While I was trying to figure out what he was signalling I
dropped my speed from about 160 to 100kph, rounded a corner and the
radar detector lit up.  Way off the road and up a hill was a dirt
brown Camaro that wouldn't have triggered my cop instinct at all.  He
was in a perfect position such that his radar was blocked completely by
a hill and I got no previous indication.  That friendly trucker saved me
a bunch of bucks and so I return the favor whenever I can.

Ken `2 wheels good' Snyder
From: joe@woody.mpd.tandem.com (Joe Senner)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: The story behind the Motorcycle Song
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:45:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: devnull.2396
Reply-To: joe@mpd.tandem.com
Organization: Tandem Computers Inc., Austin, TX.

]  I took the lady I've been dating for about eighteen months now out on the
]bike for the second time yesterday 

wow! you've had your bike out twice in the last eighteen months? that's 
double the previous eighteen month period!

]  I knew we had a blast, but could even quantify it by the fact that I had
]balled up the rubber on the tire *all* the way to the edges of my brand-new
]180/50ZR SportMax, 

this and the 10 finger shaped holes she put in his pen^H^H^H sides...

]  Heading out to ride down to the beach today (had to login long enough to
]check on things).

have blades will pose? :-)

-- 
Joe Senner                                          joe@zx11.cactus.org
Tandem Computers Inc.                               joe@mpd.tandem.com
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: >wheelies
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:01:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: i88.1992Sep08.170111.13512
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL

In article <viking.715889387@vincent1.iastate.edu> viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>sai@formula1.Corp.Sun.COM (S.Fielding-Isaacs [WWFO Pubs Project Lead]) writes:
>> Your mechanic is quite right. The Yamaha race manuals typically warn
>> against wheelying for just this reason (oil pickup being starved).
>
>	So what's to keep the motor from locking up when climbing a hill?
>Mine's a dry sump so I don't worry too much, but in Colorado or any other
>mountainous state this sounds like a serious flaw.  The oil pump intake
>should work for everything under a 70 degree incline to be safe.

70 degrees?  When's the last time you saw a paved road with a 70 degree
incline?  :')  I don't know what U.S. standards currenlty require, but
I'd be surprised to find roads with a 30 degree incline, with the exception
of short transients (like railroad grade crossings, etc.).  A sustained
wheelie (like the guy in my home town, who was said to have performed a
3 mile long wheelie once) is quite a bit different than a long climb up
a hill.
-- 
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: frankb@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Frank Ball)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:40:07 GMT
Subject: Re: CBR900RR Questions from Prospective Buyer
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles


*I recently took a ride on a friend's CBR600F and had a blast.  It's the first
*time I've riden on a sport bike.  I was gonna buy his for approx $3500.  It's
*two years old with about 5000 miles and looks brand new.  Is this a decent
*price?  More importantly, I started looking at new bikes, namely the CBR900RR.

*CLEAN* used CBR600s are rare.  Most get thrashed by squids.  You know the
background of this bike and know that it is in good shape.  It sounds like
a good price.

* 2.  The dealer was giving me a spiel about running out of 900RRs.  Is this for
*  real or does this guy just want to sell the bike now?

It is the hot new sport bike.  They are probably selling all they can get.
As you noted it is bike of the year in all the rags.

* 4.  What do you tell friends who say you are too old for a sport bike?  I'm
* only 27!  It's not like I'm 90.

If anything you are too YOUNG for a sportbike.  You need some self discipline.
You can't think that it is the bike that will make you fast.  Going fast 
is 95% skill and 5% bike.  You have been riding for 7 years, so you know 
what you are getting into.  Find some new friends.   

* 5.  How will I make it through the winter thinking about this bike every day?

It would help if you bought it.

*6.  Are there training classes available so that I can learn to safely run this
*   bike like it's made to go?  I've been riding for 7 years, but this baby is a
*   little different than my 1985 450 Nighthawk!

CLASS.

Frank Ball   1UR-M          frankb@hpsad.sad.hp.com
Hewlett Packard   	    (707) 794-4168 work  (707) 538-3693 home
1212 Valley House Drive     
Rohnert Park CA 94928-4999  KC6WUG Seca 750 XT350 IT175 DoD#7566 I'm the NRA.
From: marcl@os-d.isc-br.com (H. Marc Lewis)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: '85 Hesketh Vampire for sale
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:37:01 GMT
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, An Olivetti Company

wrs@wslack.UUCP (Bill Slack) writes:

>Yeah, Hodaka had all the good names. Their basic bike was called the Wombat.

Not true.  Their basic bike was called the "Hodaka".  Only after several
years of production of the 90cc, and later 100cc, did they come out with the
Wombat (which I believe was a 250cc).  Soon after that they folded.

FYI -- the original manufacturer was Yamaguchi.  They imported a 55cc
2-stroke single during the original Honda marketing blitz of the early 60's.
The importer, Pabatco I believe, was in Athena, in eastern Oregon.  They
changed the name to Hodaka, bumped the displacement, and went on from there.

--
H. Marc Lewis                 |  Phone: (509) 927-5480
ISC-Bunker Ramo Corp.         |  e-mail: marcl@eagle.ISC-BR.COM
E. 22425 Appleway             |  or:  ...!uunet!isc-br!eagle!marcl
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