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From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: %$*#^$! Tailgaters
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:21:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbfsb.1992Aug14.182130.15267
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Aug14.153146.16745@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> hamm@weejordy.physics.mun.ca (Craig Hamm) writes:
>
>	Last night while happily riding down the road, this cager comes up
>	behind me.  Not just behind me, but practically up my arse.  Me not
>	liking this, I decide to turn my head and give him an eeeeeevil stare at
>	the red light.  I said NOTHING, just looked, and then looked at the
>	10 nanometres spacing between our machines, and looked back at him.
>	This ASSHOLE gives me the finger, and says fuck off!!!  
>	I replied: 'Just keep back!' His girlfriend
>	was beside him, and my theory is that he has a psychological
>	problem with the size of his penis.  He thinks such displays ASSHOLE-
>	NESS will increase the size of said organ, and win him favour with his 
>	girlfriend.  
>
>	I felt like starting to put the sidestand down at the light, and make
>	like I was going to approach the cage.  But, better judgement
>	prevailed (arghh), and when the light went green, I left him 
>	far-away-ville.  I suppose if I was in the states, I could've just
>	shot him?  
>
>	What would YOU do ?

Well craig funny you should ask,
He was trying to impress his girlfriend and make you mad. This is
where you turn the tables. Look back and extend both arms, fingers open,
palms facing the offender. Now start making repeated grasping/kneading
motions with your hands. The manly offender has now caused an affront
to his girlfriend(she will dump him very shortly). He will be flabbergasted
as you now repeat the far-away-ville manuever. He will be pissed, look
like a fool and in the market for a new love interest.
You will have the piece of mind of knowing you ruined his life.
P.S. Try to yield the passing lane a little more often.
Empathy, that's the key.

 
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From: keith@ctms.gwinnett.com (Keith Warren)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: DoD Battle Hymn........ VOTING TIME EXTENDED.... inquire within:
Keywords: vote vote vote
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:04:36 GMT
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Organization: Consolidated Traffic Management Services

Because our feed site for the net was down for a couple of days I am going
to extend the voting period until monday 08/24/92 on the following:

Hear Ye Hear Ye..... The final vote is out for ballot.. Please vote NOW
or forever hold your peace. The final cut has been made and only songs
that had at least 1 positive Hell Yes by 08/20/92 have been submitted to
ballot !
Remember:only 1 vote song per netter allowed all previous votes are counted
but may not be duplicated by the original voter

Remember to send (E-mail only)   VOTES  (FOR ONLY) 
on current nominations to:       ^^^^^

keith@ctms.gwinnett.com

                                                             HELL 
GROUP             SONG TITLE                NOMINATION BY    YES   
=====             ==== =====                ========== ==    ==== 
Ozzy Ozborne      Crazy Train               Gregory Bean      1

Motorcycle        Love and Rockets          Lazlo Nemeth      1 

Born To Be Wild   Steppenwolf               Dean Cookson      2    

Bat Out of Hell   Meatloaf                  Nick Pettefar     1

The Motorcycle/   Arlo Guthrie              Ed Green          3
Pickle Song

Rolland the       Warren Zevon              Jonathan Quist    1
Thompson Gunner

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 Personal Proprietary Opinion      74 Kawa F11 Enduro      75 CB360T
From: dhoffman@SFSUVAX1.SFSU.EDU (Robert D. Hoffman)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: test (ignore)
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:40:40 GMT

testing

rb
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: darell@island.island.COM (Darell Dickey)
Subject: Wanted: Parts for CB750 four
Organization: Island Graphics Corp.
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:04:34 GMT

I'm looking for *stock* parts for my 

**** 1975 Honda CB750 four ****

If you have any of these lying around, please
give me a call:

- Turn signals
- Exhaust
- Center stand

Call Matt at (415) 459-6288.

 
Please do not reply to this email account
unless you just want me to forward your name
and number on to Matt.  Thanks.
-- 
*        Darell Dickey                DoD #0655
*      (darell@island.com)              DR350S
*
* "I meant what I said, I probably just didn't say it right."
Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:58:27 -0400 
From: "Peter A. Simon" <ps3p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Hard-soled shoes/boots



There's them that say thou shalt wear hard-soled footwear when riding. 
Why?  Boots.  Why?  It seems to me that if I hit something hard enough
to matter a mere 3/16" of leather isn't going to make the slightest bit
of difference.

I am asking because my girlfriend is learning how to ride and while I'm
just an over-the-hill, old fart whose anyday is coming soon anyway so I
don't give a shit for a foot more or less she might want to keep her
appendages and has a right to good, knowledgeable information (something
I am woefully short of).

Thanks.

-peter

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*                             WATCH BACK!                           *
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* DoD #10o00                 Suzuki LS650H         NAUI INST. #1434 *
*                             (for sale)                            *
*                             Honda CM400                           *
*                           (for sale, too)                         *
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From: laurie@halfdome.sf.ca.us (Laurie Abbott)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: RE Mr. Small
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:50:26 PDT
Organization: DFWM, Inc

In article <BtA8y9.7pM@wpi.WPI.EDU>, mick@maxine.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan) writes:
  [about mary s.]

> 	(and her inference powers) by making an equally idiotic post and
> 	inference. now you can be selective in what you view as idiotic,
> 	but i would rather attribute credibitlity to a person who admits
> 	to stupidity in an analogy while making a point, rather than
> 	someone who apparently in all earnestness holds the view that
> 	posts from educational institutions can as a whole be classified
> 	as worthless (note that this is my inference about her views
> 	based on her post).

tell you what, ravi, when you can infer how to make a big piece of
black metal go faster than anybody thinks it can at close to the edge
of the atmosphere, get back to us.  i'm sure you will eventually
develop intelligence, but until then, don't embarrass yourself by
measuring it against mary's. 
 
-- laurie
____________________________________________________________________
"Never underestimate the ability of a man to underestimate the abil-
ity of a woman."                                   --V.I. Warshawski

laurie@halfdome.sf.ca.us                                   DoD #0023
From: steveh@thor.isc-br.com (Steve Hendricks)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Goof2 Stolen at Gunpoint
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:14:37 GMT
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, An Olivetti Company

In article <16oqlbINNqd@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> egreen@East.Sun.COM writes:
>In article 10043@isc-br.isc-br.com, steveh@thor.isc-br.com (Steve Hendricks) writes:
>>Perhaps, however, a case does exist where a thief SUCCESSFULLY sued 
>>the owner of a vehicle when the thief was injured.  Can anyone 
>>provide documentation of such a case?  
>
>Not specifically, however, a recent case in this general category is
>the cabbie in San Francisco who cornered a mugger with his cab.  He
>stopped short of harming him, gave him warning that he would hit him,
>and proceeded to do so when the guy tried to run away.  A liberal jury
>(as if San Francisco could field any other kind) convicted him and
>awarded the mugger some $20K.

No cigar since the case does not meet the requirements.  However, I'll
agree that vigilantes are sometimes successfully prosecuted when they
exercise _deadly_ force against those they have determined have 
transgressed in some fashion but are not immediate threats to the
vigilante. Since the common term for this activity is "lynching," 
I have some trouble viewing such prosecutions as a miscarriage of 
justice.

>
>I agree that the likelyhood of a thief succussfully sueing the owner of
>a vehicle is farily low, unless the vehicle has been modified in any
>way.  Nevertheless, rigging your bike to self-destruct or fail in some
>critical way DOES open you up to severe liability.

If by this you mean that you can't rig the bike to explode by remote
control, I'll agree that prosecution is possible.  Sorry, but the law
does indeed distinguish between the seriousness of property theft and
homicide.  And it does prohibit citizens from exacting punishment 
without trial.  This is _not_, by the way, a "liberal" point of view.

>
>It probably also depends heavily on where you live.  CO authorities
>would probably award medals to vigilanties that MA authorities would
>send to jail.

And in southern California a shopkeeper is given probation for killing
a child she believed had stolen a container of orange juice.  Fine
example of justice, eh?
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From: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Does It Exist? (Jawa?)
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:29:45 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University

In article <14AUG199213014547@mpx1.lampf.lanl.gov> wbetts@mpx1.lampf.lanl.gov (Betts, Wayne J.) writes:
>Can anybody tell me if there has ever been a motorcycle company or model called
>a Jawa or Java, or anything similar?  I think maybe it is (or was)
>Czechoslovakian.  Any details would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Wayne Betts

Yep, The Jawa was (is?) a low height, single cylinder 250cc bike. It was
quite heavy too.  They were made till very recently in India under the
name Yezdi.  One neato feature was the kick-starter that also doubled
as a shifter (if you can visualize that!). The gear shift went 3-2-N-1
that is, you pulled up on the lever to shift to 1 and then pushed down
to shift up (to a higher gear).  Talk about minimalist bike, all it
had was a speedometer.  I never had the pleasure of owning one but I
did get to ride a friends' (hope that 'strophe's ok) bike. It's 
fast (for Indian roads) though I don't have any numbers.

-harsh
(harsh@eceris.ece.ncsu.edu)
From: egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Helmets and Motorcycle Fatalities
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:46:41 GMT
Reply-To: egreen@East.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
NNTP-Posting-Host: laser.east.sun.com

In article 25243@javelin.sim.es.com, blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers) writes:
>
>So Ed, howcome you're driving a pickup when you don't have a bike to go
>in the back? :-)

I *only* ride the truck once a year, and *only* to carry beer to the
Joust or the RCR.

---
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  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: cdw2t@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Clifford David Weston)
Subject: Re: Gun control in California
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:06:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.163110.18846@gtephx.UUCP> forda@gtephx.UUCP (Andrew Ford @ AGCS, Phoenix, Arizona) writes:

>And what of the adverse effects of heat?  On a hot day, a helmet makes
>you sweat a lot more: one of the earliest symptoms of heat exhaustion
>and dehydration is an increased reaction time (I've been there a 
>couple of times: you get to feeling real tired, your peripheral vision
>starts to fade, you get dizzy/light-headed, thinking becomes a little
>more difficult, then you feel like you're gonna puke -- it's time to 
>get cooled down *quick*!)

stepping out of the physiology lab and into the real world: with the
median/average/nominal biker being a bit more aware of riding needs
(skills, alertness, staying within capabilities), i find it hard to
believe that he could ride in blisteringly hot climates without realizing
the threat of dehydration exists.  the gang of us riding to the rcr stopped
about every hour for smokes/beverages, and it was a rainy 70 degrees during
the trip down.

>I was wearing a helmet when I got T-boned by a full size Chevy
>pickup: the helmet was the only thing I had on that did not
>get torn up (it never even touched the ground).  I'm sure 
>someone out there is thinking that I was lucky -- WRONG, I
>took specific action to keep my head off the pavement (rolled
>onto my back and tucked my chin onto my chest).

and what aerobatics did you skillfully employ to keep your head from
impacting the ground while travelling from bike to pavement?  maybe
*that* was the lucky part, conveniently overlooked.

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|       Cliff Weston                     '92 Seca II (Tem)                 |
|       DoD# 0598                         [insert witty disclaimer here]   |
|                                                                          |
|          i feel sorry for old people with brittle bones --               |
|                 especially when they get in my way.                      |
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: aibd@cix.compulink.co.uk (I S M A Ltd)
Subject: Cheap MailOrder tyres in the USA
Reply-To: aibd@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:05:00 +0000

A mate is heading over to LA for a three week fly-drive holiday and I'd like to arrange for them to pick up a new pair of tyres for me. I'm particularly looking for Avon AM22/23s (Any prices anyone for 120/70 & 140/80s ??)

Can anyone recommend (with non-800 phone numbers) any cheap priced mail-order
tyre vendors on the west coast ??

Many thanks in advance

Stephen Dunne
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: wbetts@mpx0.lampf.lanl.gov (Betts, Wayne J.)
Subject: Re: GSA1100 info needed
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: LAMPF Data Analysis Center, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 06:16:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug16.000219.4694@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Terry.Baldridge@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Terry Baldridge) writes...
#need mentioning?   Wayne^H^H^H^H^HBlaine, do you have a 40 meg

How did I get involved in this?  

Wayne^H^H^H^H^HBetts  

Is it OK to give your debauched doughtnuts to cops?
Organization: Senior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:17:15 -0400 
From: Mark Joseph Andy <ma1w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Kevin
Distribution: rec

Howdy,

rkou@skat.ucs (Roger H. Kou) writes:
> I don't think I have done anything that are either stupid or uncalled for.
> If you recall, all I did was posting a question regarding Honda Helix/Elite.
> What Mr. Small did, IMHO, was overboard. But of course, _adults_ somehow
> have a different view of things. :-) I hope I will never be like you or
> Mary.

Your post asking a question regarding scooters was fine.  You should
have expected some flames since this is a motorcycle forum, but
perhaps you didn't know that.  Since then you have been taken over by
The_Major_Asshole_From_Hell (aka Tod Johnson :-).  I too wish that you
would stop posting all the whiny shit that you recently have been.

Just IMHO,

Mark

| Mark J. Andy			WERA NV #813		AMA #700560	|
| ma1w+@cmu.edu			KotR			DoD #813	|
| Co-founder/Rider, Team RISC and Two Geeks Racing			|
| '82 Seca 650 (street), '85 RZ350 (track), '87 KDX200 (the humbler)	|
| I want RZ350 parts like steering damper, fork brace, SS lines, etc... |
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: wfl@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (william.f.lipscomb)
Subject: Re: Speaking of Fiamms...
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:08:41 GMT
Summary: Cadillac Horns 
Keywords: Horns

With all this talk of horns, I was wondering.  Could I mount a horn from an old
Cadillac or Lincoln on my bike?  They seem to be much louder than a bike horn
and would run on normal 12V.  Maybe they could be chrome plated to look nice?
It may be easier to find room for these than long air horn types...........

Bill 


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From: rkou@corvus.ucs (Roger H. Kou)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Perhaps, I have overestimated Mr. Small's intelligence
Date: 16 Aug 1992 13:25:11 -0700
Organization: USC Computing Services, Los Angeles
Distribution: rec
NNTP-Posting-Host: corvus.usc.edu


or perhaps, I am wrong. maybe it's that good buddy of his in UofV.

Anyhow, I think he was trying to blackmailing me. 

clever...but Jimmy boy you got to learn to get rid of the ref. id
on your msg :-)

>References: <1992Aug7.022422.9878@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
						  ^^^

humm, is the following a blackmail or ?!? a poor one at that.

money money money money Mo'money Mo'money Mo'money

Jimmy boy I am going to get you.

I love Mr. Small.
He is my friend, eh, in court.

-RK

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Subject: I'm a loser


Date: 13 Aug 92 14:08:17 GMT



Organization: LOSERS R US



 

 

 

I just wanted to tell the world, that I am a pathetic loser.  Cliff was

right, My mother was an uptight bitch, that's why she had me.

 

Oh, by the way, could someone tell me where I left my hamsters and duct-tape?
From: shoun@netcom.com (Lissa Shoun)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Posted for Anonymous
Keywords: Humor????
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:57:50 GMT
Organization: KGB

In article <BsL1G6.906@solbourne.com> 
markb@solbourne.com (Mark W. Bradley) writes:  [for an anonymous individual]

...[a bunch of stuff about a bunch of bikers including...]

>0298:Lissa Shoun:CA:shoun@netcom.com:REALLY is a snitch, or a spy for Russia}i


So, now I'm curious. Who are you Anonymous? And why so you write
so much poetry? You can email me privately to let me know your name.
I promise that I won't tell anyone else. REALLY.

Lissa
shoun@netcom.com

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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: fester@etorofu.island.COM ()
Subject: Re: Helmets and Motorcycle Fatalities
Originator: fester@etorofu
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:20:57 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.232013.7959@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> cdw2t@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Clifford David Weston) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.181613.19053@colorado.edu> laszlo@eclipse.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug13.014537.17002@nas.nasa.gov>, ciotti@wk42.nas.nasa.gov (Robert B. Ciotti) writes:
>     [stats for ca moto deaths deleted]

>>I should have to say this but i will: half as many riders.
>>anyone know how many new bikes are being registered this year compaired
>>to last year. also how many used bikes are being re-registered.
>>also has anyone been paying any attention to the used bike market
>>between the 2 years?

>perhaps of more use would ne the *accident* stats for the same period.  if
>the %age of deaths remained constant, the helmet law is a flop; it's just
>fewer riders (or better ones :-).  if accidents stayed at last year's level
>and fatalities decreased, you'll never get them to acknowledge anything but
>that it's because of the law.

I believe accidents were down even more than deaths. We had a run of unusually
wet weather in the most "motorcycle intensive" areas, so ridership was down.
Final results were something like 40% reduction in deaths, 43% reduction in
accidents.

In short, so far, no conclusion is really valid. Deaths went down, but accidents
went down further. At this point, you might jump in and say "Helmets cause more
dangerous accidents" (as some have claimed). Yet conditions for driving in that
period were at their worst, and I imagine accidents are in general more severe
during such times (no data one way or the other, though. Just MHO). 

My PERSONAL opinion: the law will have very little effect. Most riders in my
experience wore their helmets in the first place. Now, cutting down ACCIDENT
RATES, through continued education would have an effect. They could take a
mere 20% of the "millions of dollars" they imagine themselves to be saving
and invest that in motorcycle training and everyone would benefit. Actually,
I'd like to see similar programs for automobiles. 

Of course, THAT would presuppose that our exhalted, elected officials had the
brains, fortitude, courage of their convictions, etc, to even get a G*DD*MNED
budget passed. An altogether unwarranted supposition, it seems.

Mike

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