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From: elef@smarmy.Corp.Sun.COM (elaine 'BEANO' leffler)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: BOOTS!
Date: 31 Aug 1992 04:36:00 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
Distribution: ba
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Keywords: ME NEED BOOTS!


someone asks:

>|> 	What kind of boots do you wear and WHERE did you get them?  I dunno
>|> about the big ass shitkicker cowboy boots.  I'm heading over to road rider
>|> later this week to look there.  I've checked a few of the places in SC and

helimot in san jose, on 13th street (i don't have the number handy) has
an excellent selection of high quality road-race boots and other
accessories.  i bought my beau a pair of styl martin 'lawsons' there
about a year ago and they're holding up really well.  the prices aren't
cheap - i think the pair i bought was about $180 or so, but they've been
crash-tested and held out well.  BONUS:  they actually have WOMEN's 
sizes in said roadrace boots (although the selction is somewhat smaller).

also, check out their stock of held gloves...

elef
From: ian@lassen.wpd.sgi.com (Ian Clements)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: a mission honda/yamaha testemonial
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:18:57 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA


 Ya know, a few more shops could take the hint from these guys.
Seems all anyone wants to do anymore is take your money.

 Shops aren't what they used to be.
--

--
Ian Clements, 			| 
ian@sgi.com, 415/390-3410 	| Towards the beans! Towards the beans!
From: batman@batcave.EBay.Sun.COM (Karl Elvis MacRae - Ministry of Silly Walks)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: For Sale; 1981 Yamaha 850 Special
Date: 4 Sep 1992 19:15:52 GMT
Organization: Tattooed Love Boys
Distribution: ba
Reply-To: batman@batcave.EBay.Sun.COM (Karl Elvis MacRae - Ministry of Silly Walks)
NNTP-Posting-Host: batcave.ebay.sun.com


	Posted for a friend...


-----------------------------------------------

        -1981 Yamaha 850 Special

        -29k Miles

        -New tires

        -Lovingly maintained; excellent condition

        -$1200 b/o
 
                              
                Call Lex at 408-453-3504
 
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From: sidney@genghis.borland.com (Sidney Markowitz)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Looking for non-anal-retentive moto examiner
Date: 30 Aug 92 07:25:58 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Borland International
Originator: sidney@genghis.borland.com

cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>Anybody recommend a DMV location that is fairly reasonable about the
>skills test? I'm not looking for a rubber stamp, just an examiner who
>is reasonable.

I took mine in Santa Cruz (Capitola, actually), and that's not where
you want to take it, given your criteria. But from comparing notes
with other people I would suggest Los Gatos as one of the easiest
places to test.

However, if you haven't taken the Rider Safety Course yet, that's
probably the best way to prepare for your skills test. I was all set
to borrow a scooter for my test, since I didn't think there was any
way I would get my bike (600cc) around that circle. After the two days
of the course, I had pretty much no problem, even testing in Santa
Cruz. And I feel a whole lot safer riding on the road.

Call 1-800-CC-RIDER from a touch tone phone to find the course
location nearest you. They provide the motorcycles for the course. Oh,
and I heard after I took the course that if you join the Honda Riders
Club (which doesn't require you to own a Honda!) for $35/yr, one of
the benefits is that you get the $135 Rider Safety Course for free
(but I haven't confirmed that).

 -- sidney markowitz <sidney@borland.com>
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
From: wolff@crc.ricoh.com (Gregory J. Wolff)
Subject: Re: Looking for non-anal-retentive moto examiner
Reply-To: wolff@crc.ricoh.com (Gregory J. Wolff)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 00:59:11 GMT


These articles remind me of taking my first motorcycle driving test.  
I didn't pass, because I stopped ON the white line instead of BEHIND the 
white line.  I remember thinking the test was dumb and the tester was
nitpicking.  Of course then I went out and dumped my bike in a gravel 
driveway at about 0 mph.  

I eventually did pass on my next try, and since then, I've put on a few
houndred thousand more miles, and now find the riding skills tests pretty
trivial.  
Looking back on it though, I find it hard to believe that I survived 
those first few months of riding.  

Not everyone is that lucky (about 90% of all motorcycle accidents
happen to riders in their first year).

So, I would encourage all new riders (even if you did manage to 
pass the test) to take a MSF (Motorcycle Safety Foundation) course.

Would you ride on the back with someone who can't pass a simple driving
skills test?

--
Greg
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
From: phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Phil Stone)
Subject: Re: Looking for non-anal-retentive moto examiner
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr, Calif.
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:46:20 GMT

In article <356@biosys.apldbio.COM> denis@apldbio.com (Denis Concordel) writes:
>This is amazing how many people here b... about the motorcycle drivers test.
>One think I will agree on is that you are lucky if you survive your first
>few months riding your motorcycle after the trainning most riders get here.

[description of gnarly French license test omitted]

>Denis Concordel

Wow.  Now that's a TEST.  Almost sounds like something I'd pay to
do; it sounds like fun.

I'll add my Cal. test anecdote here.  I took my test in San Francisco
at the Fell St. DMV.  The inspector gave me instructions about going
through the circle at low speed, then the cones, then doing the silly
shift-into-second gear thing (wow, that was *hard*).  I executed all
perfectly, naturally :-), and came back to the inspector glowing 
with pride, expecting to be bathed in her admiration.

She had been chatting with her coworker the entire time.  She
looked up at me, and said "Oh, you're done?  OK, let's go inside."

I wish I had pulled a wheelie during the upshift test.


 Phil Stone         (phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov | ...ames!eos!phil)
 '83 R80ST               DoD #95              "Motorcycles OK"
From: woycik@vargas.pa.dec.com (Tommy Woycik)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Where do I buy a CBR900RR?
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:26:40 GMT
Reply-To: woycik@vargas.pa.dec.com (Tommy Woycik)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

So where is the best place in the Bay Area to buy
a CBR900RR?  The only place I've gone is Peninsula
Honda, and they want $8300 for one.

I want a reasonable price, and good service afterwards.

Thanx,
        Tommy
From: cpaull@arctic.mips.com (Christopher Paull)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: where to go for yamaha service
Date: 3 Sep 1992 22:38:57 GMT
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: cpaull@arctic.mips.com (Christopher Paull)
NNTP-Posting-Host: arctic.mips.com

In article <txd.715532991@Able.MKT.3Com.Com>, txd@ESD.3Com.COM (Tom Dietrich) writes:
|> pmercer@apple.com (Paul Mercer) writes:
|> 
|> >In article <la9thqINNgfh@spim.mips.com>, jackc@vermont.mips.com (Jack
|> >Choquette) wrote:
|> 
|> Well, I haven't really taken the yamaha in fo rservice , but Grand
|> Prix on El Camino near San Tomas found a really strange problem on my
|> Concours, and was very straight forward in his explanation and
|> suggested solution. I've dealt with Pete, the service manager, and
|> he's as good as they get. IMHO.
|> 
|> By the way, they are a Yamaha shop too.
|> 
Regarding Grand Prix,  I had a not so good experience with them.  About
3 years ago, when I had the Radian, I took it in for a valve adjustment.  The
service manager, (Greg, I think)  was a nice guy, and seemed to know what he was
talking about.  The problem was that within 2 months of the valve adjustment
the bike began leaking oil from the valve cover gasket.  

I also have a friend with a Kawasaki Specter 1100 who had the same complaint.


-- 
Chris Paull -- cpaull@mips.com 
USPS: Silicon Graphics, 930 Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
PHONE: (408)-524-8132  VOICE: "Yo, Chris!"    -- Standard Disclaimer --
"Mere words do not suffice, to understand you must experience."
From: wgale@starchild.Eng.Sun.COM (Wendy Gale)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: BOOTS!
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:07:04 GMT
Reply-To: wgale@starchild.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: starchild

You might try a surplus store. my favorite is the mountain view.
there is one on bascom near the pruneyard and one on el camino
in mt. view. also stevens creek surplus but they are a bit higher in
price.

wendy
From: elef@smarmy.Corp.Sun.COM (elaine 'BEANO' leffler)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Looking for non-anal-retentive moto examiner
Date: 28 Aug 1992 17:16:46 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: elef@smarmy.Corp.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: smarmy.corp.sun.com

In article 92Aug28010022@sluggo.Eng.Sun.COM, kessler@sluggo.Eng.Sun.COM (Tom Virtual Bob Kessler) writes:
>
>DMV guy) Uh, Ok Tom, how about weaving between these funny dots and
>         trying to go around the circle with the front wheel in between
>	 the lines.  Don't worry too much about putting your foot down,
>	 or going the wrong way, or getting a little outside of the circle
>	 cuz it's only a few points off for that stuff.

as opposed to the first person who tested ME at the mtn view dmv:

"you must do this entire test at NO FASTER THAN a brisk walking speed.  if
you touch either foot down, you *instantly* fail and will have to return another
day to re-take the test".

maybe i walk more briskly than she does:  in any case, i set a foot down and
was booted out for another day.

the instructions seem to be subject to the whims of the test evaluators.

>DMV guy)  Well the was pretty good, end of the circle get's kinda close to
>          the fence doesn't it.  hah, hah, yup, we like to throw a few

HAW, HAW, HAW.  i'm the person who RAN INTO the damned fence while
practicing.  those dmv designers are real pranksters....

>	 shift up at least 2 gears in the straight part.  Now here's the 
>	 tricky part, you're supposed to come a complete stop in the circle 
>	 without breaking before you get to the funny dots here.  Don't

and here i discover yet another street skill i NEVER KNEW i needed - what the
heck is the point of making you stop WITHOUT using your brakes?  

and why couldn't *I* have gotten ray as a tester?  the second time i took my
test the person was much more relaxed, the instructions were clearer, and
we all went away happy.

never mind me, anyway - i'm just mad because the license plates i wanted
for my bike are taken - i know someone out there with a hurricane has
NOTAGUY, but i was bummed to find out NOTABOY was ALSO taken.  sigh.

beanO
From: leighann@sybase.com (Leigh Ann Hussey)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Looking for non-anal-retentive moto examiner
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:38:53 GMT
Organization: Deliberations of Disaster

Well, I took my test at the Oakland DMV on Claremont.  Got a guy with a
Czech accent whose name actually was "Czech" or something like that.

Him: ride at a walking pace, inside the circle there.

I ride inside the circle.

Him: Actually, you need to stay inside the outer circle, but outside the
inner circle.

At this point, my composure was totally blown.  I put my foot down twice
more in the course of the test, and knocked one of the cones.  But some
good angel was whispering to him, or maybe he'd had a good lay the night
before and a good breakfast that morning, because he said,

"The first time you put your foot down, I should have failed you.  But
I'll pass you.  Take this to the window..."

Maybe he just liked my looks or something...

Amazing.  The signature on my license is a bit wobbly, and my picture is
a little frazzled, but hey, it says "CLASS: C M1" on it!!


Cheers,
	- Leigh Ann


Leigh Ann Hussey 		leighann@sybase.com
DoD#5913	AMA#624549      AWRRA#23
"And they ride, and they ride/ And the White Hounds run beside/ And they'll
seize the night and shake it by the throat."
From: bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (bob pasker)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Where can I buy a good leather/aerostitch jacket
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:37:25 GMT
Organization: Disorganized Organization

In article <1992Aug26.150206.25269@tcsi.com>, vijay@phaedrus.tcs.com (Vijay Manwani) writes:
> I am looking to buy a riding jacket (and pants) around San Francisco or Berkeley.
> Any suggestions on
> 1.	Where to buy one ?
> 2. 	What to buy ?
> 3. 	Is it better to mail order one ?

if you don't care about giving your business to local dealers and you
are going to buy a national brand, like hein gerick (sp?), then mail
order will get you a better price, but you have to shop around (see
the DoD yellow pages, ftp'able from cerritos.edu in [anonymous.dod]). 

otherwise, you can get local or custom work from places like "just
leathers" in san jose. i myself wear a jacket made by "rad" leather on
haight street in sf. 

a third alternative is to mail-order a langlitz jacket.  the waiting
time, however, is about 6 months.  laurie's should be here in
october!!! 

buy what fits, feels heavy, and looks maaaaaaaaaaaahvelous.  be
careful about split-hide pants, though.  my hein gerick pants have
seems near the knee, both of which split and exposed my tender young
skin to what is now called pasker memorial road. ymmv. 

-- 
-- bob pasker
-- bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us 
--
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
From: gwu@nujoizey.tcs.com (George Wu)
Subject: Re: tires (was Re: misc. ramblings)
Organization: Teknekron Communications Systems Inc.
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 00:52:52 GMT

In article <qybnfjm.blave@netcom.com>, blave@netcom.com (David W. Blevins) writes:
> I'm probably going to go
> for Metzler (sp?) ME33 front/ME99 rear.  Any naysayers?

     That's what I run on my SRX 250.  Being a little thumper, it's a
pretty light bike, so wear's been very good.  After 4500 miles, the rear
shows slightly more wear in the center than on the outsides.  I think I
should be able to get 15K miles out of these tires!!!!

     The ME33 Laser front eliminated a tendency to follow rain grooves,
a pleasant suprise on my part.  Too bad the slightly larger than stock
sizes also added a bit of head shake.

     On the other hand, I want more traction.  Mind you, I ride rather
aggressively when I can.  I used to scrape the pegs from time to time.
Now I can only do so while drifting into the corner.  Any throttle at
all spins the rear if I'm leaned that far over.  I blame my recent low
side in part on the lack of traction: broke the rear loose rather
suddenly in a corner.  (Driver error accounts for alot of the blame too.)
At least breakaway is normally predictable on these tires.

     I haven't ridden enough in rain to evaluate the wet performance.  One
time I did enter a turn too fast for the wet pavement conditions, and after
an initial adjustment, the tires did stay put so I could make it through
the turn.

							George


----
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Teknekron Communications Systems, Inc. | (510) 649-3700
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704  | Never be the first to believe . . .
From: kempson@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Kempson)
Newsgroups: ucb.icsi,ucb.cs.msgs,ba.seminars,ucb.seminars
Subject: 9/2/92 Mark Seligman Talk at ICSI
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:02:10 GMT
Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
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Originator: kempson@icsia


              The International Computer Science Institute
                     is pleased to present a talk:

                Wednesday, September 2, 1992  3:00 p.m.

                             MARK SELIGMAN
                      ATR Institute International
                       seligman@atr-la.atr.co.jp

                ``Generating Discourse from  Networks
                   Using an Inheritance-Based Grammar''

           The talk will have two parts: a brief  presentation  of
      dissertation  work,  and  an  informal discussion of machine
      translation  research  at  ATR  Institute  International  in
      Japan.

           The dissertation presents two separable designs: First,
      I  describe  an  inheritance-based  grammar which represents
      both syntactic and semantic  structures  as  frames.  (In  a
      departure  from  previous  designs, mapping structures which
      mediate between syntactic and semantic structures are frames
      as   well.)   While  stressing  representational  neutrality
      between text analysis and generation, I focus on the latter.
      The  approach to sentence generation features the merging of
      structures via inheritance and the  tracking  of  expressive
      choices using ``multiple  worlds''.  Second,  I  propose new
      semantic/pragmatic  representations   for   paragraph-length
      discourses,  and  expression  procedures  based  upon  them.
      Discourse relations are to be discovered  via  judgments  of
      synonymy,   and   are  arranged  in  lattices  (rather  than
      exclusively in hierarchies). A small set of network  traver-
      sal  strategies permits repeated application of the sentence
      grammar to generate paragraphs  expressing  the  whole  net.
      (These  include  a ``bottom-up'' generative  strategy, in in
      which  completed  fragments  are  incorporated  into  larger
      structures in  progress.) A facility for expressing ``situa-
      tional formulas'' adds a pragmatic component to  the system.
      Several variants are generated for two attested discourses.

           The MT work  involves  Japanese-English  and  Japanese-
      German  speech-to-speech  translation in a unification-based
      semantic transfer system.


        This talk will be held in the Main Lecture Hall at ICSI.
          1947 Center Street, Sixth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
       (On Center between Milvia and Martin Luther King Jr. Way)

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From: burgess@csl.sri.com (Judith Burgess)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars
Subject: CSL Seminar Sept. 9
Date: 27 Aug 92 21:47:26 GMT
Reply-To: Judith Burgess <burgess@csl.sri.com>
Organization: Gated to News by csl.sri.com

CSL SEMINAR

	THE PROOF OF THE CHURCH-ROSSER THEOREM IN A LOGICAL FRAMEWORK

				Frank Pfenning
			  School of Computer Science
			  Carnegie Mellon University

                        4:00 Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1992
                   SRI International, Bldg E, Room EJ 228

We sketch the LF Logical Framework and its realization within the Elf
programming language.  We then show how to employ Elf to represent (1) the
untyped lambda calculus, (2) its reduction relations, and (3) the proof of the
Church-Rosser theorem for beta-reduction.  This is one example of a general
methodology for implementing language (1), semantics (2), and meta-theory (3)
employing a logical framework.  We will compare this to more traditional
approaches and discuss opportunities and limitations of currently available
techniques.

NOTE FOR VISITORS TO SRI:

Please arrive at least 10 minutes early in order to sign in and be shown to
the conference room.  SRI is located at 333 Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park.
Visitors may park in the visitors lot in front of Building A or E, and should
sign in at the lobby of Building E and wait to be escorted to the meeting
room.

IMPORTANT: Attendance is open, but visitors from certain countries
designated by the US government must make arrangements in advance.  If
you have not already made such arrangements before your arrival,
admission to the seminar will be denied. If you believe you may be
from one of these countries and if you wish to make arrangements to
attend, please call Judith Burgess at (415) 859-5924 at least two days in
advance.
From: kempson@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Kempson)
Newsgroups: ucb.icsi,ucb.cs.msgs,ba.seminars,ucb.seminars
Subject: 8/31/92 Michael Rabin Talk at ICSI
Date: 25 Aug 1992 22:24:36 GMT
Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
NNTP-Posting-Host: icsia.icsi.berkeley.edu
Originator: kempson@icsia


        The International Computer Science Institute
               is pleased to present a talk:

             Monday, August 31, 1992  3:00 p.m.

                      MICHAEL O. RABIN
                     Harvard University
                     Hebrew University
                            ICSI
                  rabin@icsi.berkeley.edu

        ``Clock Construction and PRAM Simulation
                  in Asynchronous Systems''

     We consider the question of simulating  synchronous  n-
processor  PRAM  computations,  on  asynchronous n-processor
shared memory systems. A  major  step  is  the  construction
within the asynchronous system, of a shared phase clock. The
clock is the basic tool for synchronization in the asynchro-
nous environment. The clock construction is very robust, can
operate in a system with no atomicity assumptions concerning
read  and write operations, and in the presence of a dynamic
scheduler.  The  behavior  of  the  clock  is  correct  with
overwhelming  probability  1-2^(-n).  We show how to harness
this clock to drive a PRAM  simulation  on  an  asynchronous
system. The resulting simulation scheme is highly efficient.
Implications to neural nets and applications  to  data  pro-
cessing will be discussed.


  This talk will be held in the Main Lecture Hall at ICSI.
    1947 Center Street, Sixth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
 (On Center between Milvia and Martin Luther King Jr. Way)

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