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From: crsg9887@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chad R. Sandstrom)
Subject: Re: to call a Harley... MINE!!
Keywords: harley davidson
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:29:22 GMT

jeff@microunity.com (Jeff Kaskey) writes:

>In article <1992Apr13.193404.22914@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> crsg9887@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chad R. Sandstrom) writes:
>>
>>  !!YaaHoo!!
>>
>>  I'm in the market for a Harley Davidson MC
>>
>CONGRATS!

>Before you start, there are some questions you should address:

> - Will this be your first bike?
        no, owned a '65 Triumph 500cc for three years & 10k miles

> - Will this be your only bike or will it share the stable?
        yes	

> - What can you spend?
        <$6000

> - What kind of riding do you do or expect to do?
        80% short tours. 10% commute. 10% long tours (all with that GRIN)    

>General notes:  [appreciated and deleted]

>So, answer the first questions and we can start getting more specific!
  i have done so

>-jeff
 thanks jeff

 chad sandstrom
From: psmith@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (paul.m.smith)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Lester Wheels/tubeless tires
Keywords: tires, wheels, bmw
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:31:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T - Denver, CO

In article <491@kluge.fiu.edu> berkt@scs.fiu.edu (Toby Berk) writes:
>My wife recently bought a used '78 BMW R80 that came with Lester cast wheels
>and tubes in the tires.  The dealer tells me that we can mount tubless tires
>on the Lesters (after adding valve stems, of course), but I'm a suspicious 
>type.
>Does anyone know if this is OK to do?  If so, is there any risk in removing
>the tubes and remounting the same tires tubeless?  (I'm trying to avoid
>carrying two spare tubes this summer)

I have the same question about Honda Comstar wheels.  I have a '78 CB750F
with tube-type tires on Comstar wheels.  The wheels are not marked as
accepting tubeless tires, but the '78 CX500 had identical-appearing
wheels, and used tubeless tires.  Ditto for the '79 CBX.  I'm sure that
the rim is not too porous, but is there a difference in the bead area?
Are there other considerations?  I've considered trying tubeless tires
for years, but have always ended up playing it safe, and using tubes.
-- 

				Paul Smith
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: the meaning of volvo (was: Re: Just got my CBR600F2...)
From: rbp@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Bob Pasker)
Date: 16 Apr 92 09:39:58 PDT
Organization: San Francisco State U. -- Dept. of History
Keywords: squid

In article <1992Apr16.043210.14359@serval.net.wsu.edu> bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (William E. Johns;S23015) writes:
>In article <1992Apr14.042818.17929@seas.gwu.edu> declan@seas.gwu.edu (Declan McCullagh) writes:
>>Perhaps it's the allure of high-performance Volvo
>>competition driving that does it...
>As KotV, and recognizing this as amaturish flame bait, I can only warn
>you to tread carefully.

my latin-english dictionary says:

	volvo, volvi, volutum. v.a. to roll, to turn about or around,
	to tumble; fig. to toss, to consider, to ponder.

there are certainly some volvos that i consider it would be worthwhile
to roll and tumble.


-- 
-- bob pasker 
-- rbp@sutro.sfsu.edu 
-- not speaking for: San Francisco State -- Dept. of History
From: warkenti@CAE.Mitel.Com (BJ Warkentin)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: What do we call Harleys?
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:30:49 GMT
	<1992Apr8.220654.28814@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Organization: MITEL, Kanata, Ontario, Canada
In-reply-to: rxm8@po.CWRU.Edu's message of 8 Apr 92 22:06:54 GMT

Ron Moritz writes:

   In a previous article, space@bwdlh522.bnr.ca (Scott Pace) says:
   >Japanese bikes are called "rice burners", Italian bikes are called "pasta
   >burners", so what do we call American bikes (Harleys)?
   >
   >Some possibilities:
   >
   >  - oil burners, burger burners, money burners, wallet burners
   >
   >Any one else have any suggestions?

   How about:
   - Quality
   - Assembled in America
   - Good % of components imported
   - Outsell imports
   - As nasty as you wanna be

I wanta play, pick me, pick me, I know, puhhhhleasssse (thank you)

- Quality - not bad, about the same as most Japanese bikes
- Assembled in America - Yup, just like the nice bikes in Honda's
factory (Does any other manufacturer have an American plant????)
- Good % of components imported - As good as Honda's
- Outsell imports - in a particular market (cruisers and big touring
rigs) - don't sell much in the sport and dirt markets
- Expensive in a cc for cc, feature for feature comparison
- Bloody expensive to insure
- Poor selection available at most dealers
- Fairly mediocre performance compared to state of the art as shipped
- Cruiser like handling (not surprising for a cruiser like bike)
- Approximately 183 bazillion customizing and accessory bits available
- Bike of choice of most "biker gangs" in North America
- Non evolving since the evo engine with the exception of a new frame
design recently

Comments????????? Anyone else wanna play?

BJ...warkenti@CAE.Mitel.Com    |   XJ650K and DoD#0255
Kanata, Ontario, Canada        |   I want a new toy...
I really didn't mean it quite that way, or did I :->
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,rec.bicycles
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Motorcyclists and Bicyclists
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:42:57 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.125819.5636@watserv1.waterloo.edu> praetzel@babbage.waterloo.edu (Eric Praetzel) writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.212019.23085@cs.ucla.edu> coleman@rocky.cs.ucla.edu (Mike Coleman) writes:
>>On a motorcycle, your main advantage is hard acceleration and deceleration on
>>straightaways.  If you hit something though, you're more likely to be
>>traveling at a speed which is going to make a mess of you.
>
>Are you sure?  I have road rash from 20 mph slides that is much worse than
>what friends of mine have from 60+ mph spills wearing leather.  Of course

This is comparing apples and oranges, unless you were wearing protective
clothing.  (I don't see to many bicyclists in full leather, do you? :')

>if you are going to hit something stationary then I would rather be doing 20.

Which is the main point - injuries from a slide will be painful, if
you are unprotected, but are more likely to be survivable than hitting
something like another vehicle, a fence post, or the broad side of a barn.

>  Currently I have some great scars on my legs, R arm, R shoulder, R hip,
>and back (sliding, twisting dive roll).  Collar bones are commonly broken
>(cyclists) and the way I have hit some trees I am amazed that I have not
>fractured my hip yet.  There is also a bone in the hand which I have broken
>a few times (silly me for putting my hands out) but it does not stop me from
>doing much of anything.  So whats it like for motorcyclists?

No offense intended, but if I had that many injuries on either a motorcycle
or a bicycle, I'd stop riding entirely.  In 25 years of bicycling, I can
only recall one minor injury; in a couple years of motorcycling, I injured
my pride once by dropping Gleep in a parking lot.
-- 
Jonathan E. Quist                              INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
jeq@i88.isc.com                                        Naperville, IL
'71 CL450-K4 "Gleep"  - "Worth the Obsession"
DoD #094        "I'm not mad; just terribly, terribly hurt."  HDM #007
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,rec.sport.basketball.college,talk.politics.guns,soc.motss
From: edh@wheeler.unr.edu (Ed Hackett)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: An apology, and a change of .sig
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:22:31 GMT
Reply-To: edh@wheeler.unr.edu (Ed Hackett)
Organization: Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada

In article <9389@wrgate.wr.tek.com> chrisp@tatanka.wr.tek.com (Chris Perez) writes:

>Go ahead.  Spill it on the net.  The story isn't finished yet.  This
>oughta be fun... (It's really quite simple.  It's a story about greed,
>corruption, and lotsa fun with someone else's mistress)

That's right Martin,  I want to hear about this too.  Oh, and one
more thing, what's that name White Lady?  Obviously you haven't had
a chance to get fully aquainted with your new bike.  BMW R bikes
may be called ladies, but never a Ducati.  Hawkeye's description
of Major Houlihan is more like it... Sultry bitches with fire in
their eyes.  Wild passionate women, yes but never "ladies". :-)




 Ed Hackett                  The Desert Research Institute 
 edh@wheeler.wrc.unr.edu     Reno, Nevada   (702) 673-7380   
 DoD #200 WMTC BMWRA DIOC   I'm not really a chemist, I'm just one of
 DUCATI 900SS  BMW K100RS    them motorsicle sonsabitches.   __=o&o>__
Organization: Senior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
From: kpm@druco.ATT.COM (Kevin Malloy (DoD #106))
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Bike Covers?
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:49:59 GMT
Reply-To: kpm@druco.ATT.COM (Kevin Malloy)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Cheyenne

In article <9900780@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> ron@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ron Miller) writes:
>Re- bike covers
>
>If you really love your bike, you'll put it into storage in one of those
>U-Stow-It places.

NoNOnoNoNOnoNonOno

My bikes live outside 'cause I don't have a garage.  The nearest storage area
is at least a mile away, and I don't want to have to drive (or, heaven forbid,
walk) to the garage to get my bike.  (I ride year round -- if it is going to
be warm (>30F), no snow, and there's no ice on the road, I ride.)

The bikes live under rain covers, the kind that breathe and won't balloon up 
when it gets windy (as it occasionally does out here in Colorado).  I do shovel 
the snow around them and off of them, and, I have to admit, the cover on the 
K75 has a huge BMW logo on it (which may not be a great idea since I live in 
an, er, inner city neighborhood).

And I _really love my bikes_ (but the Nighthawk is 4-sale)...

					Cheers,
  					    Kevin

Kevin Malloy  kpm@druco.att.com  AT&T Bell Labs, Denver  (303) 538-3511
633 E. 11th Ave.		  1983 Honda CB650SC Nighthawk (4-sale)
Denver, CO  80203					 1991 BMW K75RT
(303) 830-2937						       DoD #106
From: jamesf@public.BTR.COM (James G. Franklin  jamesf@btr.com)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: BICYCLE CRASH
Date: 10 Apr 92 06:27:21 GMT
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. Contact: Customer Service cs@BTR.COM

>In article 0FB169C0@FHYDRA.FYSEL.UNIT.NO, dahls@fhydra.dnet.unit.no (Joern Yngve Dahl-Stamnes) writes:
>>Are bikers required to look back one or twice a minute just to check if there
>>is more than 5 cars lined up behind him? I don't think this is very safe
>>from a bikers point of view.
>
If you're *not* scanning your mirrors at least this often, you'll never
see that (insert your favroite expletive here) in their red convertible
Mercedes, except as you bounce off the hood...
Unless, of course, you're going so fast that you *know* nothing is catching
up to you ;-) 

Jim

-- 
*   Jim Franklin * jamesf@btr.com OR {decwrl,mips,fernwood}!btr!jamesf      *
* Yamama 650 Maxim           | "It's not how fast you go on the fast parts, *  
* Triumph 650 (slalom champ) |  it's how fast you go on the slow parts."    * 
* DoD #469          KotP(un) |                           - Dilip Ballamore  *  
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: cookson@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Dean Cookson)
Subject: Re: DoD ACHIEVES $5,000 PLAQUE AT AMA HERITAGE MUSEUM
X-Post-Machine: victoria.scl.cwru.edu
Organization: Smith Undergrad Lab, CWRU, Cleve. OH
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 23:18:22 GMT

In article <CMM.0.90.2.702675732.arnie@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Arnie Skurow <arnie@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>With the check for $534 that I send the AMA Heritage Museum within the 
>next day or so, WE/YOU DoDers have achieved contributions of ~$5,500+
>dollars to the AMA Heritage Museum.
>
>[Stuff deleted]
>Thank you, thank you, thank you.
>
>Arnie Skurow

No Arnie.  Thank YOU.

Dean
--
| Dean Cookson / DoD #207        / "You don't make beer, you get everything  |
| Case Western Reserve University   / together as best you can, and let the  |
| Dept. of Computer E. and Science     / beer make itself"  -- Fritz Maytag  |
| Cleveland, Oh. 44106 / (216) 754-1834   / '81 CB750C / '88 Bianchi Limited |
From: ron@sputnik.mit.edu (Ron Spangler)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Carbureter overflow ...
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:46:04 GMT
Reply-To: ron@sputnik.mit.edu (Ron Spangler)
Organization: M.I.T.

Help.

I just tore my carbureters apart, cleaned and reassambled them.  For the
first time.  (No, there were no parts left over!)  My bike ('78 KZ400)
seems to run just fine now, except that while it's running fuel drips
from the overflow tube coming out of the float bowl of one of the carbs.
It drips at a pretty good clip.  You might even call it a stream.

In the infinite wisdom of the net, is there anybody who can help me
diagnose the problem?  If so, please e-mail stuff to me.

Thank you,
Ron Spangler
From: carlp@frigg.isc-br.com (Carl Paukstis,LL2-2B,5439,)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Electronic countermeasures
Keywords: help
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:26:27 GMT
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, An Olivetti Company

In article <1992Apr12.161202.5075@serval.net.wsu.edu> bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (William E. Johns) writes:
>My idea is that it should be possible to make a small black-box device  
>that will take a signal from the ear jack on my Solo, or indeed any   
>radar detector that uses a standard ear-phone device, and create a nice
>unambiguous signal for me to pick up while riding.  This signal will
>most likely be a sound.  My idea is to make a little black-box with a 
>wire coming out of it that will permit me to plug my Solo into it.  I   

Bill, have you considered one of those small electronic black-box devices 
known as "speakers"?  I believe a relatively-obscure technophile company
called "Radio Shack" has been known to carry them.  They're even
reputed to have "battery-powered" ones, which require very little
input signal to produce a fair bit of output.  Next time you're in
Spokane, phone me for directions.  I can probably refer you to a
manual which will tell you how to wire them.

I'd include a smiley, but I know you're not humor-impaired.
Seriously, any of the portable, crappy-sounding battery-powered
speakers intended for Walkmans or Discmans will probably be just the
ticket for your radar detector, and will almost certainly come
complete with a matching earphone plug.  $15.95, plug-and-go.

>ps. I have no idea why this came out double-spaced--I am learning a
>    new editor %-)

Yeah, it looked double-spaced here, too.  The lines all seemed to be
80 characters long (exactly - padded with spaces).
--
Carl Paukstis, Software Generalist |   INSIST on your constitutional rights!
 ISC-Bunker Ramo / Spokane, WA     |   DoD #0432 "I'm the NRA" (and the NAR)
 Phone: +1 509 927-5439            | Be polite! I own a Harley and a Colt
 Mail: carlp@frigg.isc-br.com      |   My employer accepts no responsibility...
From: jamesf@public.BTR.COM (James G. Franklin  jamesf@btr.com)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Any Interest in DoD Caps?
Date: 16 Apr 92 06:08:34 GMT
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. Contact: Customer Service cs@BTR.COM

In article <1992Apr14.202245.13948@colorado.edu> laszlo@eclipse.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth) writes:
>Only if they are the kind that hold beer (you know the
>ones that people have at football games) with straws

Oh. Caps for your *head*. I though he meant caps to hold beer also, but hold
it in bottles. Would make a nice addition to the DoD labels I'm trying to
get printed for the homebrew. Oh well.

Jim

-- 
*   Jim Franklin * jamesf@btr.com OR {decwrl,mips,fernwood}!btr!jamesf      *
* Yamama 650 Maxim           | "It's not how fast you go on the fast parts, *  
* Triumph 650 (slalom champ) |  it's how fast you go on the slow parts."    * 
* DoD #469          KotP(un) |                           - Dilip Ballamore  *
From: txd@ESD.3Com.COM (Tom Dietrich)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: O.K., HOW ABOUT DOD MOUSE
Date: 17 Apr 92 14:35:55 GMT

ralph@swmerc.rain.com (Ralph Merwin) writes:

>In article <1992Apr16.221540.18258@ncar.ucar.edu> jsloan@ncar.ucar.edu (John Sloan) writes:
>>
>>What nonsense. Every REALLY old hacker KNOWS that REAL MEN use, real
>>MANLY men, men who lost their hearing while slaving over hot ASR-33s,
>>the kind of men who say to hell with the operating system (such as it
>>was), just move directly to and from the control and status registers
>>in the I/O space, the kind of men who see meaning in ASCII throwup.
>>
>>Those kind of men use TECO.
>>
>>AND WE LIKED IT!

>And it shows :-)

>***REALLY*** old hackers know who hand entered the 1k bootloader (on
>the front panel switches, in binary), so they could load the 4k loader
>from paper tape, so they could load your beloved TECO from disk...

>And the creme de la creme of the ***REALLY Old Hackers*** knew the 1k
>bootloader by heart, and could also hand edit the paper tape loader to
>patch around bad cells in core memory, and could patch programs in-core
>to keep some mere user from jumping thru registers...

Yea, and the good 'ole flexowriter... a Royal typewriter with a paper
tape punch grafted on... Yea *I* remember writing diags for the ole
UNIVAC beastie... I also remember why I decided that hardware was more
my speed too! YUCK!


>AND WE LIKED IT!

*NOT*!


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'72 74cid  Sportster.....Sporty                  DoD # 055
 ^^^The resurrection begins!^^^                 AMA #524245
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From: tcora@pica.army.mil (Tom Coradeschi (FSE) <tcora>)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: jeff's condition
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:20:51 GMT
Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

jld@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Deeney) writes:
>
>It's been said, "If it weren't for bad taste, I'd have no taste at all".
>
>It was fun while it lasted,  in a  strange,  twisted  sort of way.  If you
[...]
>this point.
>
>To those who haven't  had the  opportunity  to flame me yet, don't  forget
>that I had accomplices.  The DoD code of Honor forbids me from telling you
>who they  are, but it {Ron}  shouldn't  be too  {Miller}  hard to  deduce.
>While most of the {Victor}  players  were on-site at HP, there  {Alex} was
>also some very convincing {Matthews}  assistance from off-site.  The whole
>plot became a little murky when Mark Bradley  stumbled  onto our setup and
>created  his own fable.  From what I heard, Mark  managed to shear his own
>flock of followers, convinced that the worst had happened to him.

Mr Subliminal strikes again!

[...]
>Please don't  construe  this message as an apology.  We all know that this
>is against  the rules for a DoD  sanctioned  event.  Nevertheless,  I feel
>that I owe  those who  swallowed  this  story a beer.  For  Chuck, a whole
>six-pack of imports is in order.  I'll see you at the FEED this summer, or
>I will be in the Bay Area in April if anyone is interested  in  collecting
>(probably the 25th).

Hey! What's this "Sanctioning" rot?
-- 
 
                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil
                     I own two bikes, brand unimportant.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: aggarwal@tigger.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal)
Subject: Re: chain vs belt vs shaft drive
Originator: aggarwal@nisc.jvnc.net
Organization: JvNCnet
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:17:05 GMT

>belt, shaft) are, but I'd like to get some information on what
>people _think_ of each of them.  For example, which do you 
>prefer, what's the necessary maintainence, etc.  Chain and shaft

Even I would be interested in this- please post to the group.

	-vikas
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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: The Amazing $70 leather jacket
Summary: Now there's no excuse
Keywords: JCWitney, cheap, steerhide
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 04:11:39 GMT

	There was a discussion on here a while back where a
few people indicated they would supply helmets and leather to
passengers.  Noble people, to be sure, since last I checked
a new jacket ran a couple hundred dollars, and so did a good
helmet.  Well, it doesn't have to:

	JC Whitney, that bastion of warehouse wonders, has
two steerhide jackets listed in their latest motorcycle
catalog.  Here's the speil:

		Genuine Steerhide Leather Jackets
			for motorcyclists

* traditional styling assures bold, distinctive looks... years
	of comfortable wear

* black-dyed steerhide has a slightly deeper, natural grain and
	is slightly stiffer than cowhide

[I'll post the salient points of the rest]
  
Reinforced seams and stress points, black lining diamond-quilted
to polyester fill -- provides insulation plus ease of movement.
Countoured sides, bi-swing action back, enlongated lower back panel,
full leather belt, nickel-plated roller buckle.  Extra-long sleeves,
snap-down lapels, oversize collar and epaulettes.   3 zippered
front pockets, full-zipper front, zippered sleeves that are lined.

Size  Stk Number   Price
40    06ax5050U    69.99
42    06ax5051B    69.99
44    06ax5052P    69.99
46    06ax5053Y    69.99
48    06ax5054W    79.99
50    06ax5055T    79.99

	Measure your chest size (these are men's jackets), add one
because the ad states they are designed to fit snugly, and talk
to the nice operator.

	Why would I order a jacket from J.C. Whitney?  For $70, if
I like it it's a steal, and if I don't it's no big deal to send it
back.  Besides, even if it's not a great jacket it has to be better
than giving a passenger an old denim jacket, right?

	Anyway, I ordered one.  The sale price is good until June,
so I'll let you know what I think of it if there is any interest.

<Daniel R. Sorenson   Dod #1066  |If Iowa State University agreed with me >
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu <- work |I'd make $90K/yr.  They don't, I don't. >
<viking@iastate.edu      <- play |"I am *not* goofing off.  I am driving  >
< myself mercilessly in the pursuit of relaxation." -- T. Weeds           >


Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: gwu@nujoizey.tcs.com (George Wu)
Subject: Re: Who's ever had equipment stolen?
Organization: Teknekron Communications Systems Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:45:24 GMT

-
     I just met a friend of a friend last weekend.  He lives and parks
by Lake Merrit, in Oakland CA.  So far, he's had his turn signals and
mirrors swiped twice in six months, and his side covers too.  The real
pisser was the battery, which is fully exposed with the side covers gone.
It's an oddball size, and takes three weeks for the shop to get, not to
mention the bucks.  Grrr...

							George