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Subject: Re: Tire pressures at maximum? 
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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:10:19 +0000


In article <1993Jan1.204902.25383@bnr.ca> space@bcarh2b1 writes:

>There have been some articles on tire pressures over the past little while,
>and this has brought a question to mind.
>
>Some people seem to advocate running their tires at pressures near the
>maximum specified by the manufacturer (such pressure usually found on the
>sidewall).
>
>I have also heard of the 10% rule (hot press. == cold press. + 10%).
>

This can only be an approximation based on the change of temperature and will 
depend on the ambient temperature when you inflate them. If we assume that 
you inflate them at 300 Kelvin then for the pressure to rise 10%, the 
temperature would have to rise to 330 Kelvin. That's quite hot for a tyre on 
a road-going 'bike



Tony

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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: boo@athena.mit.edu (Christopher J Foley)
Subject: EX500 aftermarket fairings? anyone?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 08:19:16 GMT

Hey,
my bike got knocked over in a fraternity party brawl. Honest!
and I can fix everything myself except the front fairing, which is in bad
shape. don't feel like paying $425.00 for a new one, either.
who sells aftermarket fairings for the EX? 
I know Maier sells them for every sport bike but the EX, it seems.


Kid Oreo

'89 kawasaki EX500

'86 Charvel Spectrum
From: gnome@pd.org (Mike Mitten)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Bike fires
Date: 28 Dec 92 19:42:16 GMT
Organization: The Laughing Gnome Software Farm, Atlanta, GA, USA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Andrew Michael Woodward (azw@aber.ac.uk) wrote:
>Why is the P.Q. (pedant quotient) of this group so astronomical? Oh, yes, I 
>forgot - its full of academics and clerks.
>
>Who the hell cares what its called or what its molecular structure is?
>JUST DONT TOUCH IT unless you have a fetish about stumps.

Yeah, cut it out, y'all.  If I was actually interested in learning
something, I'd get a television.

  -Mike

Mike Mitten - gnome@pd.org - ...!emory!pd.org!gnome - AMA#675197 - DoD#522
Irony is the spice of life.     '90 Bianchi Backstreet  '82 Suzuki GS850GL
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: howland@noc2.arc.nasa.gov (Curt Howland)
Subject: Stupid people kno no bounds....
Organization: NASA Science Internet Project Office
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:33:33 GMT


I wonder if any of these people had taken an MSF course?

The left turn, if this person didn't see a cop-car with 
lights and siren, a bike is a lost cause.

For y'all's edification:

Article: 816 of clari.local.california.briefs
Subject: Briefs California (Dec 27 12 am PST)

	-27-
	(LOS ANGELES)- Two people were killed and a Los Angeles County
Sheriff's deputy was seriously injured in a traffic collision near Los
Angeles Saturday afternoon.
	Sheriff's deputies said a man and ... a woman died shortly after they
tried to make a U-turn in front of the patrol car. The deputy was
responding to a call of a burglary in progress when his patrol car
collided with the couple's car.The deputy was treated for cuts...
whiplash and pain to his head...back and knees and released from the
hospital later Saturday. 
	-27-
	(LOS ANGELES)- A Michigan woman died Saturday...hours after her car
was hit by a sports car driven by a teenager who had just gotten his
driver's license.
	The woman...who was visiting friends and relatives in Southern
California...died of injuries suffered when the teen's sports car veered
over double yellow lines and smashed head on into two cars Christmas
night. The 16-year-old boy had just gotten his driver's license within
the past week. Six people, including the teenager, also suffered major
injuries in the accident.
From: ramarren@apple.com (Godfrey DiGiorgi)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: ME33A Laser wearing too fast. Why? What is your experience?
Date: 27 Dec 92 19:03:29 GMT
Followup-To: rec.motorcycles
Organization: Apple Computer

26F/28R seems very low. The Metzeler tires I've used always seemed to be 
much happier with a bit more pressure. Your SR500 is a little bit lighter 
than my bikes have been, but I'd start with 30F/34R and examine the tires
for wear mark changes.

The low pressures might be causing them to overheat a little through
flexing.
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From: labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Application for DoD Membership
Date: 29 Dec 92 17:54:28 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


		I would like to make a formal request for DoD
		membership....

					Ryan...

	I've gone fast, I've dragged pegs and I've fallen.
		What else do  I need to do???
From: bclarke@galaxy.gov.bc.ca
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: I hate snow.
Date: 29 Dec 92 14:53:21 -0800
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

I hate snow. It's been 5 whole days since I've been able to ride.

I REALLY, really, hate snow...
8(

Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,rec.autos.tech
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Tire gauges (was: Re: ME33A Laser wearing too fast...)
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:59:14 GMT

NOTE: This article has been cross-posted between rec.motorcycles and
rec.autos.tech, with North American distribution.  If your response
pertains to only one group or local distribution, please edit the appropriate
header line before posting a followup.

In article <23005@drutx.ATT.COM> car377@druhi.ATT.COM (RogersC) writes:
>Any bike's tire pressure (measured with an *accurate* gauge) after the tire

Any suggestions where to get an accurate gauge?  Everything I see for sale
retail is the same old junk.  In theory, all but the cheapest rod-type
gauges (is there a name for these?) should be relatively accurate,
since they depend only on the geometry of the thing.  My wife, unfortunately,
insists she can only read dial-type gauges; those I've seen have been
pretty cheesy, and I don't want to spend $20 for a good one unless it can
handle glove-box temperature extremes without dying...
-- 
Jonathan E. Quist                              INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
jeq@i88.isc.com  '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094        Naperville, IL
                Celebrate the winter holiday of your choice by
                  offering your hand to someone who needs it.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Big Wives and Tire Info Numbers (was Goldwings are interesting)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:06:43 GMT

avery@netcom.com (Avery Ray Colter) writes:

>I see these stickers on the frames of like, "max capacity, X lbs", where
>X seems to be something between 350 and 400. In others' experience, is
>this number a hard-and-fast kind of thing? If I wind up with a lady in
>the supersize range, should I despair of ever taking her riding? Are there
>any mods that can be done to crank up X?

	While I can't really help you, I can advise against letting
anybody over 200lbs sit on a fiberglass seat.  You will not only be
purchasing a new seat or repairing the old one, but everybody will laugh
at you when you explain just how that seat was broken.

< Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
<  ISU only censors what I read, not what I say.  Don't blame them.  >
<  "Are you *SURE* he's worth a Harley-Davidson?" -- my grandmother  >
< to my girlfriend, about me.  "I'd better not say" -- my girlfriend >
From: ai598@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Sturdevant)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Brakelight checkers (Was Re: Radar Gun For Sale)
Date: 22 Dec 1992 00:33:09 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ai598@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Sturdevant)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) says:


>Been deluged with requests for plans for a brake light checker. I don't think
>this would be a wise move on my part, however let me clarify things a bit.
>First, I don't have any schematics as I really didn't design anything.
>

So all the stupid 'Mericans want devices to impede the flow of traffic in some
way, eh? Isn't being a left lane bandit enough for them? 

I catch anybody pulling this trick while I'm around, they'll find themselves
in the presence of a free flow vigilante.

Assholes.


-- 
Go fast. Take chances.

	Mike S.
From: jchavez@td2cad.intel.com (Joas Chavez)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: WANTED: Bike Leather Jacket
Date: 31 Dec 92 18:35:40 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA

Hello Everyone;

	I am looking for a Authentic California Highway Patrol Bike
Jacket.  Does anyone knows where can I find one?  Please send me an
E-Mail I am really deperate looking for one...  Thank You very much in
ADVANCE..,       


Happy New Year to All!      jojo
From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: winter dead bike
Date: 23 Dec 92 14:41:15 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

campbejr@ucbeh.san.uc.edu wrote:
: I have an '81 Suzuki GS550. The bike has been sitting since Oct. in a garage.

<long tale of woe deleted>
 
: could the fuel have turned to gunk after a couple of months or what?  If anyone
: has any ideas on how to get this Suzuki back on the road let me know, and also
: what should I do differently for storage
:
You probably have bad gas^H^H^H fuel.  Drain the tank and the carbs and put in
some nice fresh gasoline.  Put in a new set of plugs while you're at it.
Oh, maybe before you go to all that trouble you should check to make sure
you have some spark, I suppose the ignition system could have suffered from
moisture or something, but I'm betting on the fuel being bad.
Good luck.

PS: to prevent this in the future try to buy a name brand gasoline   
--

*******************************************************************************
* Bill Ranck                                          ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu *
* Computing Center at Virginia Tech, not Vermont ----------------------^^     *
*******************************************************************************
From: achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Jeff Achenbach)
Subject: Re: relining brakes on old bikes
Organization: TI Semiconductor Process and Design Center
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:31:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.033826.11437@ra.msstate.edu> lgt1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Larry G. Thorne) writes:
>Just for everyones info, if your old machine has brake linings which are
>riveted onto the backing plates, don't buy that high priced liners from
>your local, (or nonlocal) supplier.  There is this outfit in Cinn., Ohio
>by the name of industrial brake and supply, @ 1-800-543-1906...
>but, anyway they will sell you lining materal (for old pre 70 Beemers it's
>gotta be 5/32 thick) by the foot CHEEP!... and with a little careful drilling
>and countersinking, you can make your machine stop twice as better.. (since
>this stuff has a higher friction co-efficient than the old linings ever thought
>about.. and instead of using the old time copper rivets, use 1/8" aluminum 
>pop rivets  .. Quick and dirty and it works!! great!!!
>regards,

How many miles/hard stops have you made with the aluminum rivets? I've 
always used the copper on brake linings, but I've used the aluminum for
riveting patches on rusty cars. The aluminum rivets are awfully easy to
cut. I'd be a little concerned about them being cut by the shoe.

Jeff Achenbach
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: bigdog!jon (Jon Wright)
Subject: Re: *BAD* Bike Purchase Attempt Experience in California!
Organization: Banzai Research Institute
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:12:31 GMT

Curtis Jackson writes
  misc. sales bullshit scenario common in most dealerships  

> C: "You get in there and tell your manager that if he doesn't honor our
> verbal agreement, not only will I walk with my money, but I will publicize
> this on a large computer network and in as many places as I can find. This
> will not only cost him a deal, it will cost him as much negative publicity
> as I can muster. Arguing over price is one thing, but we had a deal and
> you are reneging on it."

Dude, you should've reported his ass to the Better Biz folks (not that'd do any  
good) and THEN took it to the local prosecutor.  I had an experience similar to  
this and I thought I was had.  The prosecutor actually shut the SOB's ass down,  
although not just on my complaint.  Definitely illegal activity and easy to  
prove with hidden cameras (also bad karma).
You should also make good on your threat to publicize his tactics (you already  
have the right thing going by putting it up here).  Best places:
   local TV station -- sometimes receptive if it fits their investigative unit.   
Some stations have 800 numbers specifically set up to handle/arbitrate stuff  
like this.
   local newspaper -- opinion columns and letters to the editor (probably not  
very receptive).
   moto club newsletters -- in general VERY receptive and appreciate the  
warnings if the story doesn't look like a revenge article.
   competing dealerships, especially those that support their customers with  
newsletters -- risky, but only do it with reputable dealers, otherwise you are  
a pawn in their game, too.

Send the dude anonymous clippings when they get published.  Be an activist (but  
don't get caught).  What he's doing is not just inconvenient, it's wrong.

> And I left. Unfortunately, I'd let the little shit get my blood
> boiling, so I had to have a rapid mental margarita while gearing up
> before entering lunch rush traffic to avoid killing myself in an
> ever-so-squidly fashion.

Smart move, both times.  When you leave, you just voted with your dollars.  The  
sales geek MAY get educated or he'll get tossed.  Good answer either way.  And  
you didn't pay bodily for his mistake by squidding out (never squid uselessly).

> I'm going to go look at the Hawk GT again. Enough people love it
> that maybe it's not so bad *riding* it as it is just sitting on
> it with feet on the floor. Time to put it up on center stand and
> give that a try.

I think you'll appreciate having a bike that could become a classic or notable.   
It's a less-expensive bike with way-cool technology and good manners.
From: azw@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Michael Woodward)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: OK, what should I get for the twisties?
Date: 23 Dec 92 13:50:59 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Horse linament
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Application for DoD Membership
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:39:28 GMT

In article <1767@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill) writes:
>
>
>	Please No more FAQs...I am getting my mail reader filled...well

Hey, what a super idea!  Why didn't I think of it?


-- 
Jonathan E. Quist                              Lachman Technology, Incorporated
jeq@i88.isc.com  '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094        Naperville, IL
          There's nothing quite like the pitter-patter of little feet,
                      followed by the words "Daddy!  Yay!"
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: rbp@netcom.com (Bob Pasker)
Subject: Re: ...oh those vile and evil deeds...
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:17:38 GMT

chris, i bet dollars to donuts that it was martin who signed you up.


-- 
-- 
-- bob pasker
-- rbp@netcom.com
--
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: lotto@laura.harvard.edu (Jerry Lotto)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Front Tire Off Ground
Date: 25 Dec 92 12:52:22 GMT
Organization: Chemistry Dept., Harvard University
In-reply-to: vlj@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM's message of 24 Dec 92 19:33:29 GMT

>>>>> On 24 Dec 92 19:33:29 GMT, vlj@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Victor Johnson) said:
Vic>   Extract ye typical scissor jack from thy typical import cage and use
Vic>   thusly to support engine block a few inches afore of the center stand.

WHAT center stand?
--
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: azw@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Michael Woodward)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Learner Help
Date: 24 Dec 92 10:37:27 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth


The crucial thing is to get something which will keep up with the rest of the 
traffic, so you dont get killed. My old CG125 did 63mph top whack and wasnt
up to the job. Get something with a 70mph+ top speed so it will cruise at
55-60 and keep the reps in Sierras and gapheads in Volvos off your tail.
Cars in front of you are missable. Those coming up faster from behind have 
you completely at thier mercy (!).

The sencond most crucial thing is that it must be easy to pass the test on.
This puts out the silly race-replicas, cos their steering lock is so
crap you'll have the devils own job steering it thru the silly cones without
falling off!.

Also there is no point paying insurance for a restricted 125, when you can get
a 100 which is just as fast (slow!) and costs only 1/2 as much to insure.

I've looked at the options very carefully, cos when my current contract
runs out, and I am back on the dole for a few years (decades?) I plan to
get rid of the GS500 and get somthing small and cheap to run.

I reckon your best bet (I shall get one of these next) is the Yamaha 
RXS100. Does 70-80 flat out, dpepnding on your weight and how well you
look after it. This is all the speed you need in the REAL world. (Forget
the ravings of r.m. fantasists with Kamikaze FZXRC 1700 D.O.A.'s). I will
do between 70 and 100 mpg depending on how you ride it. It is reliable and
should go 40000 miles on the first engine. It is easy to pass tests on,
and for proper riders who ride all year round , rather than these pansy 
Americans, it it light enough to be slid around with gay abandon (I'd better
rephrase that) on ice and wet leaves. Oh, yes, its easy and cheap to maintain.
You can also go green-roading on these and earn the hatred of Paris-Dakar 
posers stuck up to the axles in mud and unable to lift the monsters out!
It really pisses them off when you cruise smugly by on a tiny roadbike!

When you get your test, dont bother with anything bigger than 250, theyre
just an expensive way to wank your ego. Theyre also lethal in winter.

There, that should generate some Xmas hatemail.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Jeff Achenbach)
Subject: Re: Strangers on your bike (was: Protection for your bike)
Organization: TI Semiconductor Process and Design Center
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:16:59 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.201726.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> mullignj@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
>
>Are there any people out there who have had this happen to them on
>more than one occasion, and if so what is your reaction?  Polite, "Please
>get of my motorcycle." or an angry, "what the fuck do you think you're
>doing?"
>

Several times. The most recent incident was when my wife and I met a 
friend of hers at a bar one night. Her friend had another friend, whom 
I did not know, with her. When we left, she just hopped on my bike without
asking. Now, this was not a complete stranger, but I still got pissed.
My response was something like "get the fuck off!" Now, I might add this
gal was rather good looking. No difference. I don't care who you are, don't
fuck with my bikes, my wife, daughter, dog, or any other family members
unless you're ready to hurt or be hurt.

Jeff Achenbach
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: laszlo@partial.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth)
Subject: Re: Senseless, Childish Brazier Auction
Organization: University of Colorado Boulder, Pizza Disposal Group
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:48:44 GMT

In article <carlp.725232248@frigg> carlp@frigg.isc-br.com (Carl Paukstis) writes:
>laszlo@partial.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth) threatens:
>
>>my bid is now at $32 and if i get this job i am interviewing
>>for i will be able to out bid all of you.
>
>You need MORE money?  You, a "six-figure system administrator"?

$34
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: buffalo@wam.umd.edu (Duncan D. Sterling)
Subject: Re: Goldwings are darned interesting
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:10:38 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.220649.14716@news.mentorg.com> mikej@mikej.mentorg.com (Mike Johnson) writes:
>John Roberst wants to know if "you need a traveling AND a local bike to be a 
>complete rec.moto stud muffin."
>
>
>So as you see, a Wing well ridden can be used for those short trips to the
>liquor store for more Scotch or on The Grand Tour you have been planning and
>which got you started thinking in this direction in the first place.
>
>
>MikeJ.
>mikej@wv.mentorg.com

I agree fully with one exception:  if you have friends on sport bikes who
like to blast down back roads at mach 5, it's kind of hard to keep up on
a 'wing, even if you scrape the floorboards in the turns.  This can get
old for the people you're riding with as well as you.  I ride my '82
GL 1100 Interstate on all occasions except the one noted above.  I have
an old Suzuki Water Buffalo I use for the back roads.

Goldwings are great bikes.  If you can buy one, do.  You won't regret it.

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Duncan Sterling          buffalo@wam.umd.edu   GT750L, KH500A8, CA175K3
University of Maryland    "Yeeehaaa!" - Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove"   
College Park, Md.         "2 strokes are quicker than 4" - anonymous 
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: avery@netcom.com (Avery Ray Colter)
Subject: Re: Big Wives and Tire Info Numbers (was Goldwings are interesting)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:44:46 GMT

viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:

>	While I can't really help you, I can advise against letting
>anybody over 200lbs sit on a fiberglass seat.  You will not only be
>purchasing a new seat or repairing the old one, but everybody will laugh
>at you when you explain just how that seat was broken.

Well, like I haven't put up with THAT kind of shit all my life.....

Do plusher seats like Corbins mitigate this any?

-- 
Avery Ray Colter ("Elfcat") - 	avery@netcom.netcom.com  (IP 192.100.81.100)
(510) 656-1902                  '92 Honda Nighthawk 250, DoD #44444, AMA 656940
"Those who know don't talk; those who talk don't know" - TTC 56, Onngh Yanngh
From: ellert@ds2.uh.cwru.edu (Ed Ellert)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Radar Gun For Sale
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:11:45 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: ds2.uh.cwru.edu

neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard) writes:

>[stuff deleted]

>> Methinks usenet is weird, since the original
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>  Methinks usenet is fast becoming the "CB radio of the '90's"

Frightening!  Aside from the official DoD black leather pocket
protectors, we'll all be tooling around concentrating on
wreck.motorcycles on our cellular terminals.

Ed Ellert
DoD #1110
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles