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From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
Subject: Re: Motorcyclist Hits Bicyclist on Skyline Blvd. (10/4/92, 1: 30p)
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:10:49 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.060434.29943@netcom.com> tomk@netcom.com
(Thomas H. Kunich) writes:
>I guess I ought to say it -- There aren't a lot of places that you can
>ride a motorcycle for fun anymore and Skyline is one of the few places 
>left. Would it be too much trouble for us bicyclists to leave them alone?

There are plenty of places to ride besides Skyline, both for
bicyclists and for motorcyclists.  People who ride such that
they can't coexist with other legitimate highway users are
screwing up.  This includes motorcyclists who ride
at their skill limits such that they need the whole road
and bicyclists who wander all over the roadway when they
reach their limits of endurance.

Motorcyclists who ride really fast on Skyline are being
stupid as well as inconsiderate.  Skyline, 84, and 1
are the only good riding roads on the Peninsula that
are consistently patrolled by the CHP and the San Mateo
County Sheriff.
--

    Chuck Karish          karish@mindcraft.com
    (415) 323-9000 x117   karish@forel.stanford.edu
From: jamesf@public.BTR.COM (James G. Franklin  jamesf@btr.com)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Bikes 'n Gadgetry
Date: 8 Oct 92 05:03:36 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. For info contact: info@BTR.COM

In article <24173@sybase.sybase.com> thorick@sybase.com (Thorick Chow) writes:
>
>so here's the scene... I'm buzzing merrily along on my KZ440
>east on 80, coming down that hill between Napa and where 680 meets 80...
>One of those HUGE semi trucks is coming up behind me in the slow 
>lane..  no problem I thinks I'll just change lanes and the truck'll
>go zooming past (it was growing big awfully fast, and a KZ440

You mean you were going to move over to the left to let the truck by?
Why? Bad boy! Don't do that! What if the truck, at the last minute, decided to
switch left one lane to pass you , as is the "rule"? If you didn't get
flattened, there'd be one adrenalized truck driver, if not a truck that
was all over the road trying to avoid you. Perhaps you could flash a brake 
light or something, if you were afraid the driver didn't see you.

>So Left hand zips down to the petcock and switches to reserve in
>what must've been barely a second or two since the first sputter
>of the engine...   I regain speed and beat it to the next lane
>over...  WHOOSH....  damn....

It's times like this I wish gravity were a bit stronger...

>-thorick 'the defeated'...

Yea, I get indecisive about gadgets like that. You want to not need them, 
but find yourself liking their presence.

jim

-- 
*   Jim Franklin * jamesf@btr.com OR {decwrl,mips,fernwood}!btr!jamesf      *
* 1987 Cagiva Alazzurra 650 (so sweet)                                      *
* Triumph 650 (slalom champ) |    If you think education is expensive,      * 
* DoD #469          KotP(un) |              try ignorance.                  *
From: whc00@ccc.amdahl.com (Hugh Curley)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Wanted: Honda V65
Date: 10 Oct 92 17:48:21 GMT
Reply-To: whc00@juts.ccc.amdahl.com ()
Distribution: ba
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

I am looking for a Honda 1100cc Magna or Sabre, with about 15,000 miles
or less, never been down and is in good, clean condition.

If you know of one for sale, please mail me at:
             WHC00@Amail.amdahl.com
From: 928s4@leland.Stanford.EDU (Benjamin Sloss)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Anyone have the AFM results?
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:10:47 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA


  Subject says it all - this past weekend WAS the last race of the season,
right?  I'm especially interested in the 400cc class, but if someone
could post the whole results, that would be great.

Thanks!
-- 
Ben Sloss        Email: ben@osc.versant.com   Work: (415) 329-7500 x172
Quote:          "It's all fun and games until someone gets paid."
Transportation: '83 CB650SC (straight roads) '93 CBR 900RR   (twisty roads)
		'91 XR 250L (dirty    roads) '87 Mustang 5.0 (wet    roads)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Insurance for my new ride
From: sidney@genghis.borland.com (Sidney Markowitz)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:53:25 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Borland International
Originator: sidney@genghis.borland.com

State Farm had the cheapest rates I found, and told me that state law
now prevents an insurance company from requiring you to have auto
insurance with them in order to get motorcycle insurance. So I didn't
have to switch auto insurance companies to get low motorcycle
insurance rates, which would have been true a couple of years ago when
I first looked into it.

 -- sidney <sidney@borland.com>


Xref: sparky ba.motorcycles:611 rec.motorcycles:36336
From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles,rec.motorcycles
Subject: Got my moto endorsement and...
Date: 15 Oct 92 03:50:06 GMT
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated

since it is now legal for me to carry passengers, I had to give my old
helmet to my lovely wife and celebrate by getting an Aria Quantum with
an extra (dark tint) shield. I wanted the Shoei X8 or RF200 for the
super-easy shield change, but they both hurt my cheekbones and forehead
something fierce and the Arai fits like a dream. I think the rotatable
intake/exhaust vent and the pull-out chin windguard are kinda silly,
but it does feel great and even El Klutzo here managed to change the
shield the first time in about 1.5 minutes before enhancing the Road
Rider salesdweeb's explanation with actual RTFM.

Looking forward to my first *legal* freeway commute with the stealth helmet,
-- 
Curtis Jackson	'91 Black Lab "Studley Doright"   '92 Collie/Shepherd "George"
cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com	USPA #A-10080 (lapsed)	DoD #721 '81 Maxim 650
  "They that can give up an essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
   safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1759)
From: hollasch@kpc.com (Steve Hollasch)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Used parts?
Summary: Plea to respond publicly, not via e-mail
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:50:28 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc.

dlong@cse.ucsc.edu (Dean R. E. Long) writes:
| I'm thinking about getting a used motor/head for my bike.  Are there
| any junkyards that have bikes as well as cars, or just bikes?  Please
| email.

    No, please respond to the net.  I (and I'm sure others) would be
interested in experiences with different local salvage yards.

______________________________________________________________________________
Steve Hollasch                                   Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc.
hollasch@kpc.com                                 Santa Clara, California
From: brianm@sco.com (Brian Moffet)
Subject: Re: Bikes 'n Gadgetry
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:35:12 GMT

jamesf@public.BTR.COM (James G. Franklin  jamesf@btr.com) writes:

>It's times like this I wish gravity were a bit stronger...

Gravity!  My bike has a fuel pump due to the bottom of the tank being
lower than the float bowls.  Going on reserve is an interesting sensation
to say the least, I've learned about how many miles I go (142 or so)
with my daily commute before I need reserve.  Then I keep a really sensitive
6th sense on it.

brian moffet
--
"Face it, Chuck.  Taken as an aggregate, the human race is a stupid, sorry lot."
                           -- Jonathan Quist

brianm@sco.com  or uunet!sco!brianm                    Speaking for Myself
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.motorcycles
From: tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H. Kunich)
Subject: Re: Motorcyclist Hits Bicyclist on Skyline Blvd. (10/4/92, 1:30p)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 06:04:34 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.165417@gracie.IntelliCorp.COM> treitel@gracie.IntelliCorp.COM (Richard Treitel) writes:
>
>Not that I can detect.  *Sigh* I don't get up to Skyline very often
>(not on my bicycle, anyway), but in the 13 years I've ridden around
>Santa Clara/San Mateo counties, all the motorcycles that have passed
>me have done so very safely.  Four- and six- wheeled vehicles are
>sometimes not so courteous.

I guess I ought to say it -- There aren't a lot of places that you can
ride a motorcycle for fun anymore and Skyline is one of the few places 
left. Would it be too much trouble for us bicyclists to leave them alone?

Yeh, there is the occassional jerk motorcyclist, but certainly they are
fewer than auto drivers of the non-sapient form. They really ought to 
have their places to ride too. Just like we want Old LaHonda Rd and
Stagecoach Rd. without 100 mph loonies, they want Skyline without
the 15 mph lunch bunch.

The object here is to co-exist.

Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
From: pat@wrs.com (Patrick Boylan)
Subject: M/C parking at Oakland Colisseum?
Reply-To: pat@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems, Alameda CA
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:09:00 GMT

Anyone know if/where there is motorcycle parking at the 
Oakland Colisseum?

Thanks,
Patrick
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
From: gwu@nujoizey.tcs.com (George Wu)
Subject: Re: some questions...
Organization: Teknekron Communications Systems Inc.
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:10:24 GMT

In article <JET.92Oct14142856@boxer.nas.nasa.gov>, jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
> "gwu" == George Wu <gwu@nujoizey.tcs.com> writes:
> gwu>      I see such exhausts all the time.  It's illegal, but since
> gwu> there's no emissions inspection for bikes in California, there's
> gwu> essentially no enforcement.  A cop probably could issue a fix-it

> If this is true, then why are two-strokes illegal?  Why are there
> California *and* 49-state models of many new(er) motorcycles?

     I always figured it was because motorcycle manufactuers do have to
meet California emissions requirements.  The California Air Resources
Board or some other state agency checks vehicle manufactuers.  After-
market pipe makers are technically speaking, selling their wares for off
street use only, but there just happens to be no enforcement.

     Heck, I'm no lawyer.  Best to check it yourself or take your
chances.

							George


----
George J Wu, Software Engineer         | gwu@tcs.com or uunet!tcs!gwu
Teknekron Communications Systems, Inc. | (510) 649-3700
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704  | Never be the first to believe . . .
From: pubtemp2@skribe.EBay.Sun.COM (reid ewing)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: local earplug sources
Date: 15 Oct 1992 15:52:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Federal, Milpitas, CA.
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: skribe.ebay.sun.com
Keywords: earplugs

About a year ago I bought a package of earplugs and now I
cannot remember where I found them.  The plugs are a
somewhat high density (for earplugs) foam that is red
with a smooth surface.  One end is bullet shaped and
the other end flares out.  Anyone know where in the
Bay Area I can find these?  So far my local chain
drug stores, cycle shops, gun stores don't have them.
Where did I find these things last year??

Thanks,

Reid
From: kmac@cisco.com (Karl MacRae)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Good M/C accessory shop in Menlo Park area?
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:52:12 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: cisco Systems, Menlo Park, California, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: regal.cisco.com


	Is there a good M/C accessory shop in the Menlo Park/Palo Alto
	area? I need to buy a tank bag, and I don't want to go all
	the way over to Santa Clara... On the other hand, I don't 
	want to spend TONS of money by buying one from a dealership....


			Thanks-


	-Karl



Karl Elvis MacRae	Software Release Support	Cisco Systems
kmac@cisco.com -or- batman@cisco.com     415-688-8231   DoD# 1999  FJ1200
			"Mmmmmm! These are Yummy!"
					-Young Indiana Jones
From: mwallis@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Michael Wallis)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Watch for 3ADA259
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:26:34 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Transact Software, Inc., Los Altos, CA

karen@angelo.amd.com (Karen Black) writes:

>Motorcyclists in the south bay:  watch for a blue or brown midsize
>sedan, 3ADA259.  He was behind me at the Shoreline ramp to 101S,
>then passed me and pulled in ahead.  I then got a face(shield) full
>of water.  I passed him and took the 237 exit.  He came back and
>passed me again, pulled in front, and again I got spattered.  He then
>took the northbound Lawrence Expwy exit.

Have you reported it to the police? This kind of thing can get someone killed.

-- 
______________________________________________________________________________
Michael Wallis						mwallis@transact.com
Transact Software, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA	(Windows Development For HealthCare)
From: wgale@starchild.Eng.Sun.COM (Wendy Gale)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Shop Recommendations
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:12:33 GMT
Reply-To: wgale@starchild.Eng.Sun.COM
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: starchild


I am considering an 81 Yamaha 750 with 12,000 original miles (this might be my 
first bike) and would like to take it into a shop to have it checked out before 
I buy it. Can anyone recommend a reputable/knowledgable shop in the San Jose or Milpitas area for this kind of thing. 

thanks
wendy
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
From: gwu@nujoizey.tcs.com (George Wu)
Subject: Re: Insurance for my new ride
Organization: Teknekron Communications Systems Inc.
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:16:13 GMT

-
     Silly me, I forgot about the ca.driving FAQ.  Have a look.  I
once collected a bunch of net opinions about motorcycle insurance
and the author of the ca.driving FAQ incorporated them into his
regular posting.  (Sorry, I then deleted the responses.)

						George

----
George J Wu, Software Engineer         | gwu@tcs.com or uunet!tcs!gwu
Teknekron Communications Systems, Inc. | (510) 649-3700
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704  | Never be the first to believe . . .
From: ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray)
Newsgroups: ba.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Where to find XYZ in the Bay Arya?
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:25:58 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering Inc.

In article <1992Oct12.185409.28982@adobe.com> cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>OK, I've been living here for four years but I've only been riding a
>bike for six months, so I need a couple of recommendations. I live in
>west San Jose, and work in Mountain View.
>
>1) I am helmet-shopping. I would like to look at the Arai line, the
>Shoei X8, and the BMW 3-series (the one that jaws open in the front
>so you can take it on and off without removing sunglasses). Before
>I just start cold-calling Cycle Salvage and Road Rider and Grand
>Prix and... I'd like to get recommendations for places that carry
>any of these helmets and on their pricing.

My favorite accessory places:

Zoom  for tires, parts & mechanical stuff.  I found what must have been the
  last woman's Hein Gericke Pilot jacket in the country there a couple
  months ago.
Road Rider  for helmets and leathers.  Especially leathers.  Boots too.
Santa Clara Cycle Salvage for used parts.
Cal BMW for BMW parts.   They've offered to loan me parts to keep my
  bike going, and let me borrow accessories so I could try them before
  buying.  Their accessory prices aren't as outrageous as you'd
  expect, either.


>2) I would like to get the most recent issues of several of the
>cycle mags to check out the prices and accessories advertised there.
>I have found it difficult (after an admittedly cursory search) to find
>these mags. Any suggestions on bookstores that carry a wide selection?

On the peninsula, try Kepplers and Printer's Ink.  Printer's carries
some foreign (british mainly) motorcycle rags, so you can read about
all the cool stuff that we never can buy, or the GP scene, or all
about classic bikes.


--
  Eric Murray                                             ericm@microunity.com
    This package contains one (1) Usenet news posting.  Do not eat.
Newsgroups: ba.seminars
Subject: NEC VR4000 RISC CPU
From: haider@netcom.com (Jamal Haider)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 02:06:06 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

Newsgroups: all
Subject: NEC Vr-4000 RISC seminar
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
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Keywords:RISC 


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From: km@aton.Eng.Sun.COM (Kevin Marshall)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars
Subject: Presentations with Pizazz!
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:09:39 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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From: paf@aleph.UUCP (Paul Fronberg)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars
Subject: No SVNet meeting in October - still looking for new home
Keywords: SVNET, unix
Date: 10 Oct 92 12:21:00 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Aleph Software Consulting, Inc.



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                          October, 1992


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Topic:  No Meeting in October !!!

      Due to changes in programs at Apple, their auditorium will no longer
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When: October

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      As noted above, SVNet will no longer be meeting at the Apple
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