HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jsloan@ncar.ucar.edu (John Sloan)
Subject: Re: mounting speakers...?
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:46:47 GMT

From article <1763@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>, by labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill):
> 	Anyone have any experience mounting speackers on their bikes.

Cycle Sound, and probably others, manufacturers speaker/antenna units
that fit specific fairings, and into which you install your own
auto-type radio. They also make a unit that fits bikes without
fairings, where the speakers sit over the gas tank, and the unit can be
raised to access the gas cap.

There is a company that makes a tankbag equipped with speakers and a
bracket into which you install an auto-radio. Neat idea.

There is another which makes speakers which mount on handlebar
mirror-mounts, into which you can plug a walkperson-type radio. Yamaha
was selling this with their name on it for a while.

Lotso folks here in rec.moto just wire walkhumanoid earphones into
their helmet and use their walkthings.

Unfortunately, moto-mounted radios are notoriously poor in virtually
all performance categories, including reception, sound quality, sound
volume (ability to hear even above modest road noise),
theft-resistence, weather-resistence, etc. The only good thing I've
ever heard was about the audio systems on the Honda Goldwings, and even
there, I doubt they are loud enough to be heard at highway speeds by
the rider (but may be heard at virtually all speeds by the redneck in
the pickup truck with the Easy-Rider Rifle Rack (tm) right beside you,
whose right-rear quarterpanel bears mysterious paint scrapes in several
colors, and who lacks your appreciation for "Bohemian Rhapsody").
That's why the real long-distance folks with the 'Wings go for the
helmet mounted speakers (which are not legal in all states). The
well-dressed 'Winger now has his ears-up virtual audio reality system
tied into the AM/FM radio, cassette deck, CB, radar detector, ham
radio, police scanner, cell phone, and probably CD player. (And
travelling across Kansas, I wish I had all that stuff -- and more --
too.)

--
John Sloan              "Since I've given up hope,       +1 303 497 1243
NCAR/SCD                   I feel much better."      Fax +1 303 497 1137
Boulder CO 80307-3000 USA                           jsloan@ncar.ucar.edu
Logical Disclaimer: belong(opinions,jsloan). belong(opinions,_):-!,fail.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jjb@dtc.hp.com (Jim Brewer)
Subject: Re: ME33A Laser wearing too fast. Why? What is your experience?
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:00:46 GMT
Organization: HP Design Technology Center, Santa Clara, CA

In <mjs.724939112@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk> mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith) writes:
>... - I have the Metzeler pressure leaflet in front of me, and
>for most of the fitments they recommend 36psi. If you're running less than

In article <sreeb.724999452@crash.cts.com> sreeb@crash.cts.com (Ed Beers) writes:
>Where did you get this.  I have been using 26 front, 28 rear on my SR500
>since the owners manual said to.  Do newer tires require heigher pressure?

  Aaarggghhh...  This is one of my buttons.  The owners manual specifies
pressures for OEM tires .. the ones that came on the bike when it was bought
new at the dealership.  If you replace the tires on your bike with anything
different, you should go by the pressures recommend by the _tire_ manufacturer.
All tire manufacturers have recommended pressures for their tires.  If 
the shop or dealer where you buy your tires doesn't have this information,
you're getting your tires at the wrong place.

>I have always left it at Yamaha's recommendation since all the begineers
>literature leaves the impression that to do otherwise is a recipe for
>instant death.

  Yamaha doesn't make tires.  Where did you get this beginner literature?

    
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
Subject: Re: CA bike inspection
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA Ames
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:56:09

"essbaum" == Alexander Essbaum <essbaum@rchland.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

essbaum> involves?  i'm wondering whether my bike (very non-stock FZR
essbaum> with louder-than-stock pipe) would be ok if i moved to CA.

Um, the DMV that handled my 49-state NightHawk just came out,
*closely* inspected the serial numbers, had me run all the lights and
horn, and that was it.  I never even cranked it.
--
             J. Eric Townsend --  jet@nas.nasa.gov -- 415.604.4311
              '92 R100R, DoD# 0378, BMWMOA, AMA, ACLU, EFF, CPSR
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles,misc.forsale
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Radar Gun For Sale
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:38:30 GMT

In article <168C0116FA.C599143@mizzou1.missouri.edu> C599143@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Matthew Q Keeler de la Mancha) writes:
>In article <1gr42uINNomt@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
>kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
	[trolling for taillights]
>>And it DOES work great. I kept bliping a guy in a Caddy for miles after he
>>almost rear-ended me. Every time he got bold enough to hit the gas, I blipped
>>him again. Finally he pulled off the highway and drove on the access road for
>>a while :^)

>You have _got_ to be one of those slugs who gets in the left lane of a two-
>lane highway and goes the same speed as the car to your right for 20 miles
>in front of me...
>:)

I can't speak for Kent, but when I'm in a leisurely mood, or if I've
discovered too late that my left rear tire is underpressure again and
the car wanders all over the road, I do sit in the right lane and drive
at whatever the limit is, and will happily slow down for the jagoffs that
tailgate when the passing lane is clear and attempts to flash them off
with brake lights fail...  So call me a slug.... :')
-- 
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.
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From: laszlo@eclipse.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth)
Subject: Re: Senseless, Childish Brazier Auction
Organization: University of Colorado Boulder, Pizza Disposal Group
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:47:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec25.075618.16415@grebyn.com> rich@grebyn.com (Richard Lawrence) writes:
>In article <1992Dec24.191329.14845@colorado.edu> laszlo@partial.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth) writes:
>>In article <carlp.725220586@frigg> carlp@frigg.isc-br.com (Carl Paukstis) writes:
>>>laszlo@partial.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth) writes:
>>>
>>>>As my esteemed colleage Mr. Tod J. Johnson has upped the bid.
>>>>I will follow through with another bid.
>>>
>>>Since my noted compatriot Mr. Laszxthlo Nemeth has failed to follow
>>>through with another bid as promised, I now bid $31.
>>>
>>
>>ok so i thought i had put in a bid but i forgot.
>>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.
>
>Enough of this penny ante crap. $50. That's right, the big 5-0. Enough

$51 is my current bid. this may change depending on how the interview
goes.......

laz
From: tcora@claudius.pica.army.mil (Tom Coradeschi )
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Ride safe. Ride happy. Ride into the new year...
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:54:22 GMT
Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
Originator: tcora@claudius

I'm outta here for 3 weeks of R&R starting this afternoon. I hope everyone
has a great holiday season! Ride safe, and I'll catch you next year...
-- 
 
                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil
                            Loud Pipes Suck
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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 19:08:11 GMT

In article <1759@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill) writes:
>viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>: In <1723@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill) writes:
>: >		I would like to make a formal request for DoD
>: >		membership....
>: 
>: 	Isn't he cute?  A formal request in *THIS* newsgroup?  Hah!
..
>: >	I've gone fast, I've dragged pegs and I've fallen.
>: >		What else do  I need to do???
>: 
>: 	Reading the FAQ is a start.  A few decent flames might help, and
>: then there is being a regular presence in this group.  You might also

Nah, presence isn't required.

>	well, lets see I've been reading since about last July. I think
>	I've flamed one or two people...(I am generally pretty quiet
>	about such things...I uped the ante to someone about my kilt
>	having more init than his drawers (but I think that got cought

Oh, hell, if the guy rides a motorcycle while wearing a kilt, he ought
to be automatically inducted...

>	by my system administrator...). I was a Physics major but
>	decided I hated lots of Math...                 

That's even better.
-- 
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.
From: xxkozak@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (GEORGE KOZAK)
Subject: Re: Tire gauges (was: Re: ME33A Laser wearing too fast...)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: na
Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:19 EST  

In article <1992Dec28.155914.3898@i88.isc.com>, jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes...
>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...

    Schrader makes an excellent digital gauge.  It comes in two  ranges,
0-50 and 0-100 psi.  It's accurate to +-1% and very rugged.  I use the
low pressure one and it beats the pencil and round gauges for ease of use
and accuracy.  It calibrates itself each time you use it and "beeps" when
the correct pressure is reached.  All this for $32.99.  They also sell 
another model for $29.99 that's 0-100 psi.  
    Call JEG's at 1-800-345-4545 and ask for stock # 726-53001-101 or
-102 for the 50 or 100 psi models respectively.  They're well worth the
money IMHO.

    George Kozak
    Kozak Racing
From: ivan@erich.triumf.ca (Ivan D. Reid)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Neat AGV helmet on TV (I wish... list)
Date: 24 Dec 1992 01:12 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: erich.triumf.ca
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1992Dec23.165423.1345@bnr.uk>,
	 datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) writes...
>In article <31195.89.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
>	 dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)  writes:
>> Active suppression works by introducing an antiwave to the ambient
>>area, canceling the modulation or noise of the incoming sound.  It works
>>to minimize *perceived* sound.
>>                   
> 
>I believe that they use devices like that here, to cut motorway noise down for
>nearby residents.  Also I think someone mentioned about in-car ones.  Stupid/
>ace idea with this gizmo was the ability to supply your own choice of
>substitute sound ie Diablo in a Fiesta.  All internally, of course.
> 
	Hmm, I caught an episode of "Beyond 2000" (up-to-date, not the 5-year
old ones they recycle to Yank PBS TV) while I was home, and they had a story
on an active suppression system one of the Japanese companies (Toyota?) was
introducing to remove "the typical low-frequency drone given out by 4-cylinder
engines" (or words to that effect).  I guess it worked, but I wasn't aware of
the problem in the first place!

Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH.     			ivan@cvax.psi.ch
GSX600F, RG250WD.	SI=2.66     "You Porsche. Me pass!"	DoD #484
	"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.  But all I see is this bloody fog!"
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: water-proofing gloves
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:29:49 GMT

In article <BzGp8E.4u4@javelin.sim.es.com> blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>azw@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Michael Woodward) writes:
>
>>Waste of effort! You can only showerproof them at best. If you want waterproof,
>>go to a climbing shop, get two layer mittens, and put plastic bags between 
>>inner and outer. Then all you sportbikers, riding along in the racing crouch,
>>have to worrry about is the way all the water on your jacket rumns down the
>>sleeves and collects in the gloves.
>
>Tip: Put your sleeves over the gauntlet, instead of the gauntlet over
>the sleeve. At least with snugly closing sleeves like the Aerostich has,
>I've found that water blowing up the sleeve is much less of a problem
>than water dribbling down the sleeve into the glove.
>-- 
>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

Get some Frank Thomas Aqua gloves.  They're leather, tough, warm and 
waterproof.  The original black ones were the best, the more recent ones are
more stylish, use Kevlar but are not so hardwearing.  Great for skiing in too.


Nick (the Waterproofed Biker (I live in England!))  DoD 1069....

M'Lud.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: edw@boi.hp.com (Edward Walsh)
Subject: Re: Strangers on your bike (was: Protection for your bike)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:50:50 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


While I was in the transition between selling one house and buying another, 
I lived in a rental house that didn't have a garage, so I had to store my
bikes outside. There was a period during which I would come home from
work and find the passenger pegs on the other bike flipped down, and other 
small signs of activity. The evidence pointed to kids playing on the bike(s)
              (^^^^^^^^ Clock on the FJ reset, choke knob pulled out, etc.)
There were a couple of obnoxious kids on the block ( examples of
their behavior.... a small fire set in my backyard, a rock thrown through
my bedroom window, smashing it....this in spite of me being generally
friendly to all the kids in the neighborhood). I got one of the kids to
fess up as to the likely perpetrators, and then went to the houses of each
of the parents of each the kids in the neighborhood, explaining graphically
the consequences of a 500+ pound motorcycle falling on your average twirp
(nicely of course). I then always left the bikes under covers when not in use,
even during good weather, and the problem stopped.
I suppose I should count myself lucky. The kids used to take running starts
and run front to back over the top of the car that belonged to the nice old
woman across the street.
------------------------------Edward Walsh----Hewlett-Packard Company-------
                              edw@boi.hp.com  Disk Memory Division, MS213
                              (208)323-2174   P.O. Box 39  Boise,Idaho 83707
                              FJ1200'89,XZ550RJ(Vision)'82,DoD#98
From: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Mack Daddy)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Whoosh -- splat!!
Date: 24 Dec 92 07:33:16 GMT
Organization: The People's Number Four Cat Farm, Berkeley CA, USA

yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin) forwards from:

>In rec.bicycles.tech, les@sail.stanford.edu (Les Earnest) writes:

>|One week ago today, I had a somewhat bizarre conversation with a helmet
>|designer from whom I was seeking information.  I reached him by phone
>|in his laboratory and, after a couple of minutes of discussion, we
>|were interrupted by a loud, sustained sound at his end, followed by
>|an impact.  After the noise subsided, he said "That was great!  We
>|have a new sled that we are using to test helmets."
>|
>|I asked him how it worked and he explained that they put a helmet on a
>|cadaver head with an accelerometer mounted in the center of the brain,
>|then fire it into a wall to see what kind of accelerations they get
>|inside the skull.  They use it to evaluate alternative designs and
>|liner materials.  When I asked if that didn't sometimes damage the
>|heads, he said, "Yea, we've used up four so far today."  After another
>|minute or two of discussion, I let him get back to his fun,
>|recognizing that Christmas had come early for them.
>|
>|Upon further reflection, that does seem like a good application for
>|used heads.  I might even let them have mine when I'm through with it.
>|I figure that I'm hard-headed enough to break their accelerometer,
>|which would be a fun way to finish off.
>|
>|Just another warm-and-fuzzy Christmas story.
-- 
real address: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us
last choice:  lll-winken!catnip.berkeley.ca.us!bandy

"Free at last!  Free at last!  Thank God Almighty I'm free at last!"
 -- M. L. King
From: ant@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Antony Espindola)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Nitrous Oxide?
Date: 21 Dec 92 09:06:47 GMT
Organization: Data and Business Comms, BT Labs, Martlesham, Ipswich, UK.

From article <1992Dec17.165021.16614@twg.com>, by rwalls@twg.com (Roger Walls):
>>In article <BzB0BH.51K@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> crmoorle@napier.uwaterloo.ca writes:
>>>Has anyone out there had any experience with Nitrous Oxide?  
>>
> 
> Although I do not have any experience with nitrous oxide (other than at 
> the dentist), I saw a V-MAX with a NOS system once. The guy said that 
> it was like having an extra half turn on the accelerator. He had to detune
> the V-MAX to make it managable. He also said that he had the same NOS
> system on a 600 (I don't remember the make or model) sport bike and 
> when it kicked in he said it felt like a sledge hammer.
> 

Like they say...

"180mph, 5th gear and still the Nitrous button to press."

Antony.
DoD#1832.
Bah. Humbug.
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: "Official" Squid bike?
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:42:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.185012.4058@znext.cts.com> erika@znext.cts.com (erik astrup) writes:
>	The question is: What is THE poser/squid bike?

If you're saying (poser,squid) bike, rather than (poser bike)/(squid bike),
the answer is simple:  Spagthorpe Afghan

I can't think of any other bike that looks great, handles exceptionally well
on or off road, and has a turret mounted .30 caliber machine gun to boot.
-- 
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.
From: rbemben@timewarp.prime.com (Rich Bemben)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Application for DoD Membership
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:23:15 GMT
Expires: 15 Jan 93 05:00:00 GMT
Organization: Computervision

|In article <1723@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill) writes:
|>
|>		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???

Grovel more - go on that endless quest for the KotL - endure oh so much more
electronic abuse and if you ever FIND the KotL then you'll come to realise 
what rare company you now keep...

And just what do you consider formal?  Were you curtsying in front of your
computer monitor when you posted this?


Rich Bemben - DoD #0044                     rbemben@timewarp.prime.com
1977 750 Triumph Bonneville                 (617) 275-1800 x 4173
"Fear not the evil men do in the name of evil, but heaven protect
 us from the evil men do in the name of good"
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
From: markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer)
Subject: Re: Protection for Your Bike
Originator: markk@sparcplug
Reply-To: markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer)
Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:39:33 GMT

I'd just like to point out that Ed Hackett has weenie news posting
software.  The attribution in Ed's posting is wrong.  I was credited
with Carls posting and he was credited with mine.

In article <5168@equinox.unr.edu>, edh@wheeler (Ed Hackett) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.013449.6804@tcsi.com> markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer) writes:
>>In article <carlp.725675697@frigg>, carlp@frigg (Carl Paukstis) writes:

This is mine:

>>>I grew up in rural Texas near Plano (outside McKinney for the locals).
>>>When we moved into our house in the early 70's the county Sheriff came
>>>by to welcome us to the area.  Among his advice to my Dad was words to
>>>the effect of "If you see anyone prowling around your house and you
>>>shoot them, just drag the body into the garage so we can say he broke
>>>in and there will be no questions asked."

This is Carls:

>>I know this is probably unnecessary, but it's my personal Mission In
>>Life to disabuse gullible netters of this particular notion.
>>This advice is something that is repeated so often, and is so
>>completely and dangerously WRONG, that someone (Clayton?) should have
>>a stock text to use for followup whenever it's posted.

>Well, here in Nevada you have the right to protect your person and
>property.  You can under the law shoot a person committing a felony
>or fleeing the scene of a felony.  They don't need to be in your
>house, or even on your property.
>
>In a recent case here in Reno two people broke into a man's
>apartment while he was in the back room.  He grabbed his rifle and
>confronted them in the front room.  They taunted him and said that
>he wasn't going to do anything.  They then took off across the
>parking lot.  He shot one in the leg as they fled.  The police
>arrested the two a few blocks away.  No charges were brought
>against the man, because what he had done was within the law.
>
>The current judges and DA hold this right to be sacred, and in
>fact, a Nevada citizen has more lattitude in shooting a fleeing
>felon than the police.
>
>Even our normally liberal paper took the attitude that this was
>lawful, but one must be careful that a crime was being committed,
>and that you were prepared for the consequences (possible lawsuits,
>and psyclogically) for your actions.  This of course brought out
>the liberals asking if a TV or VCR was worth someone's life.  One
>Right Thinking individual replied that they had missed the point,
>which was that the would-be criminal must ask him/herself if that
>TV or VCR is worth _their_ life.
>
> Ed Hackett   edh@wheeler.wrc.unr.edu     The Desert Research Institute 
> DoD #0200  WMTC  BMWRA  DIOC             Reno, Nevada   (702) 673-7380   
> KotLS  KtoLE  DotD #0003      Motorcycling is not a life and death matter.
> 900SS  K100RS  501 CAMEL      It's more important than that.    __=o&o>__

--
- )V(ark)<  FZR400 Pilot / ZX900 Payload / RD400 Mechanic  DoD #400
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