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In article <1993Apr14.172716.4301@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>, asalerno@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (antonio.j.salerno..jr) writes: |>  |> I've got a '81 CB400T with Chen-Shing (sp?) tires on it. |> I got it with these tires on it!  The only reason I need new tires  |> is beacuse I hate (and don't feel safe on) these. |>  |> I'd appreciate any recomendations I can get (about NEW tires!). |>  |> Thanks, |> Tony  I'll throw in a vote for a Metzler "economy" tire, the ME77. Good for mid-size older bikes. Rated to 130mph. Wearing well and handles my 12 mile ride(twisties) to work well on the SR500. Costs a bit  more than the Chengs/IRC's etc, but still less than the Sport Metzlers for the newer bikes. Cost from Chaparral is about $60 for the front, and $70 for the rear.
In article <5028@cvbnetPrime.COM>,  rbemben@timewarp.prime.com (Rich Bemben) writes:  |> Never dilly-dally in that rear 1/4 of either side of a cage - when you pass |> make it as POSITIVE as possible and if you can't pass fully, at least make |> sure that if you attempt it you can make the driver aware of you by at least |> getting into his area of vision.  This reads a lot like the philosophies of Musashi, in the Book of Five Rings. Much of the section on the long sword is that of being strong and decisive.  Hmmm. The more things change....  |> Ride with four eyes...  What an awfull thing to call your pillion!  |> Rich  |> "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"  Power corrupts. Check out the explosion that the cryptography policy from the WhiteHouse Friday has caused....
In rec.motorcycles, egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) writes:  > Driving While Impared.  It allows for prosecution of drivers under the > influence of a variety of drugs.  Like non-Sudafed cold medicines?  1/2 :-)
I've seen solar battery boosters, and they seem to come without any guarantee. On the other hand, I've heard that some people use them with success, although I have yet to communicate directly with such a person. Have you tried one? What was your experience? How did you use it (occasional charging, long-term leave-it-for-weeks, etc.)?  	-- Robert Kennedy
In article <1993Apr16.061736.8785@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> robert@Xenon.Stanf ord.EDU (Robert Kennedy) writes: >I've seen solar battery boosters, and they seem to come without any >guarantee. On the other hand, I've heard that some people use them >with success, although I have yet to communicate directly with such a >person. Have you tried one? What was your experience? How did you use >it (occasional charging, long-term leave-it-for-weeks, etc.)? > >    -- Robert Kennedy  I have a cheap solar charger that I keep in my car.  I purchased it via some mail order catalog when the 4 year old battery in my Oldsmobile would run down during Summer when I was riding my bike more than driving my car. Knowing I'd be selling the car in a year or so, I purchased the charger. Believe it or not, the thing worked.  The battery held a charge and energetically started the car, many times after 4 or 5 weeks of just sitting.  Eventually I had to purchase a new battery anyway because the Winter sun wasn't strong enough due to its low angle.  I think I paid $29 or $30 for the charger.  There are more powerful, more expensive ones, but I purchased the cheapest one I could find.  I've never used it on the bike because I have an E-Z Charger on it and keep it plugged in all the time the bike is garaged.
In article <C5wqsr.56L@myrddin.imat.com> nelson@seahunt.imat.com (Michael Nelson) writes: >In article <93Apr20.211127.44984@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes: >> >>My chain is lubed, my wheel is clean, after 1000km. >> > >	Careful... I was similarly impressed with it at first. >	But recently I have started finding RUST spots on the >	chain. > >	I went back to PJ1... at least the sucker never rusted >	when I was using the BlueGoo(tm).  	Spray the chain wax onto the rollers and sideplates occassionally, and rust will not be a problem.  Later,
About a year and half ago when I first started riding, I took a MSF course. I have taken those lessons to heart.  Over the past year I have had only a few  near collisions with traffic morons on four wheels.  Yesterday I got to add another to the list but with this one I felt the most helpless.  I am sitting at a light about 1 - 2 car lengths behind a car, a wise decsion.  Suddenly I  hear screeching tires.  I dart my eyes to my mirrors and realize it's the  moroon flying up right behind me, in my panic I pop my clutch and stall the bike.  Luckily the guy stops a foot behind my rear wheel.
In rec.motorcycles James Leo Belliveau <jbc9+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: ;    I am a serious motorcycle enthusiast without a motorcycle, and to ;put it bluntly, it sucks.  I really would like some advice on what would ;be a good starter bike for me.  I do know one thing however, I need to ;make my first bike a good one, because buying a second any time soon is ;out of the question.  I am specifically interested in racing bikes, (CBR ;600 F2, GSX-R 750).  I know that this may sound kind of crazy ;considering that I've never had a bike before, but I am responsible, a ;fast learner, and in love.    Responsible and in love?  I believe that's a contradiction in terms.  Unless you're really brave (read: "reckless") a 500cc sport bike will go way faster than you dare for at least your first year of riding.  Getting more than that really is overkill, as you'll never even want to use it.  The following bikes can be bought (and repaired!) cheaply, are easy for a novice to manage, and are plenty high performance:     Kawasaki EX-500     Honda VF-500 "Interceptor"     Suzuki GS-550E  The 0-100mph time of the EX-500 at full throttle is "way sooner than you're ready for it".  :-)  With something as small as a 250, you'd probably be wishing for more power pretty quickly (unless it's a TZR or RGV :).  Now, I'm not saying that you're 100% certain to kill yourself immediately with a 600f2 or a GSXR-750.  Plenty of people have started riding on those bikes and done just fine.  What I am saying is that it's a waste of money, and a waste of perfectly good plastic when you drop the thing learning how to balance while stopping. You'll never get the throttle more than half open anyway, so why spend the extra 2000 bucks?
In <3880218@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> gharriso@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Graeme Harrison) writes:  >/ hpcc01:rec.motorcycles / xlyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu /  2:48 pm  Apr 19, 1993 / >Is it possible to do a "wheelie" on a motorcycle with shaft-drive?  >Mike Terry >'82 Virago >---------- >I've seen 'em, but the real question is, can one do a wheelie on a Lead Wing? >If so, how high would the front wheel be off the ground?   >Graeme Harrison     There was a guy around here who would do them on an early pre fairing Wing with a Hannigan. He would get it right up and ride a ways. Pretty intimidating sight.     He was real good. He had to be. I guess you wouldn't get away with chopping the throttle more than once.  __    Jorg Klinger            |       GSXR1100        | If you only new who    Arch. & Eng. Services   |"Lost Horizons"  CR500 | I think I am.     UManitoba, Man. Ca.     |"The Embalmer"   IT175 |           - anonymous
In article <C5K5BM.BtB@ms.uky.edu> cbrooks@ms.uky.edu (Clayton Brooks) writes: >Do any Honda gurus know if I can replace the  >the front sprocket on my 1979 Honda CB750K with a slightly larger one? >(I see this as being preferable to reducing the size of the rear one)  That's a twin-cam, right?  There's a steel guard right next to the sprocket to keep a broken chain from punching a hole in the engine cases, and it's needed.  There's probably not enough room to fit a bigger sprocket.  I'd be inclined to take two teeth off the rear for a 5% ratio change rather than adding one to the front for about 7%.  If you raise the overall gear ratio too much you'll impair the bike's rideability, because the gears will be far enough apart that there will be only one gear that provides adequate response at any given speed.  Honda 750s don't have the widest of power bands. --
In article <1993Apr22.005308.11779@cs.cornell.edu> karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) writes: |In article <gbnvgw@quantum.qnx.com> dagibbs@quantum.qnx.com (David Gibbs) writes: |> |>Yes, even when steering no hands you do something quite similar |>to countersteering.  Basically to turn left, you to a quick wiggle |>of the bike to the right first, causing a counteracting lean to |>occur to the left. | |This sounds suspiciously like black magic to me.  If by "quick wiggle |to the right" you mean that the handlebars turn toward the right |before turning to the left, what is the input to the steering |mechanism that makes this happen in the absence of the old |"shove-shove"?  Well, as many a bored bike tourer can tell you, the way to steer sans hans is to push your body off to the side you want to lean. Say you want to turn left.  You push your body off to the left. To do this, you have to push against something, and the only thing to push against is the ground (through the bike).  Well, the apple guy (Wozniak? or was that Churchill?) says that the  ground will push you right back.  So, you pushed yourself off to  the left by pushing on the ground to the right, and the ground  pushed back toward the left.  Well, that push is on both wheels.   The rear wheel doesn't care (unless you have serious bearing  problems) (except of course on the Spagthorpe Dragonfly, which had the revolutionary countersteering-contra-shaft-drive rear end),  but the front wheel has trail.  If the ground pushes the front wheel  toward the left at the contact patch, the trail will cause the  wheel to turn to the right.  Hey, there we are.  No-hands counter- steering.
In article <C4zKCL.FGC@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,  Eric@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (93CBR900RR) writes: |> Would someone please post the countersteering FAQ... |> 				eric  Like, there's a FAQ for this?
I've recently become father of twins!  I don't think I can afford  to keep 2 bikes and 2 babies.  Both babies are staying, so 1 of  the Harleys is going.  	1988 883 XLHD 	~4000 mi.  (hey, it was my wife's bike :-) 	4speed, chain secondary, laced wheels, buckhorns, 	 tachometer, saddlebags & supports, sissy bar, SE 	 high-flow air cleaner 	dark candy red 	$3700
>lynn@pacesetter.com (Lynn E. Hall) writes: > >>allowed (yes, there is a God). No open containers on the street was the >>signs in the bars. Yeah, RIGHT! The 20 or so cops on hand for the couple of >>thousand of bikers in a 1 block main street were not citing anyone. The >>street was filled with empty cans at least 2 feet deep in the gutter. The >>crowd was raisin' hell - tittie shows everywhere. Can you say PARTY? > > >And still we wonder why they stereotype us... > >-Erc.
In article <JROBBINS.93Apr15103031@kingston.cs.ucla.edu> you rambled on about: )In article <9953@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> small@thunder.seas.ucla.edu (James F. Small) writes: )>   Here's to the 3 asshole scooter owners who TRIPLE PARKED behind my )>    bike today.  ) )Jim calling other prople assholes, what's next?                    ^^^^^^  If you're going to flame, learn to spell.  )Besides, assholeism is endemic to the two-wheeled motoring community.  Why I do believe that Jason, the wise, respected (hahahha), has just made a stereotypical remark.  How unsophisticated of you.  I'm so sorry you had to come out of your ivory tower and stoop (as you would say), to my , obviously, lower level.  Besides, geekism is endemic to the albino-phoosball playing community (and those who drive volvos)   Remember ,send your flames to jrobbins@cs.ucla.edu --  I need what a formal education can not provide.
Nick Pettefar (npet@bnr.ca) wrote: : kevinh, on the Tue, 20 Apr 1993 13:23:01 GMT wibbled:  Jonathan Quist bemoaned:  : : |> Yes, it's a minor blasphemy that U.S. companies would ?? on the likes  of A.M., : : |> Jaguar, or (sob) Lotus.  It's outright sacrilege for RR to have  non-British : : |> ownership.  It's a fundamental thing  Lotus looks set for a management buyout. GM weren't happy that the Elan was  late and too pricey.  If they can write off the Elan development costs the may  be able to sell them for a sensible price.   : : I think there is a legal clause in the RR name, regardless of who owns it : : it must be a British company/owner - i.e. BA can sell the company but not : : the name.  : : kevinh@hasler.ascom.ch  : I don't believe that BA have anything to do with RR.  It's a seperate : company from the RR Aero-Engine company.   It's Vickers who own Rolls Royce cars.   And yes Kevin it is posts, Morgan use a sliding pillar front suspension.  Ob Bike (at long bleeding last): When will that Pettefar bloke get a mail  address so we can bung him on the Ogri list?  dave
mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith) writes: mjs>No No No No!! All I am saying is that you don't even need to tell people mjs>the technique of countersteering, cos they will do it intuitively the first mjs>time they try to go round a corner.  karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) writes: karr>Are you sure?  Remember that you *can* get around corners without karr>countersteering.  In fact, my Experienced Rider Course instructors karr>claimed that they could get on behind a new rider and make the bike karr>turn to whichever side they wanted just by shifting their weight karr>around, even when the operator was trying to turn in the opposite karr>direction.  (I admit I've never actually seen this.)  I've experienced this, back when I was young(er) and (more) foolish...  My first bike used to track extremely true.  Going down the highway, I would set the throttle tension screw up enough to hold the gas steady, slide back on the seat and lean against the backrest, riding without any hands.  If I needed to turn, I'd shift my weight into the turn, and lo and behold, the bike would turn, sans touching the bars! Granted, it wouldn't turn very fast, but it proves that you can turn a bike without countersteering, at least not in terms of the input to the bar normally associated with countersteering.  As I've said, I know many people who think all you do is lean, and any input they're giving to the bar is totally unconscious.  Whereas that may be sufficient to get you down the road under normal circumstances, possibly for years at a stretch, I can't think of anybody who'd argue that this is preferable to properly knowing how to manipulate the bar in a turn, regardless of what you want to call it.  Except maybe for Mr. Sixsmith...  ;^)  Mr. Bill
In a previous article, ba7116326@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg () says:  >hello there >ican anyone who has handson experience on riding the Yamaha v-max, pls kindly >comment on its handling .  You're kidding, right?  This is Flame bait in the extreme.  V-max handling? Har har har har....
In article <1993Apr15.035406.29988@rd.hydro.on.ca> jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine) writes:  impertinent stuff deleted > >Am I showing my Canadian University-ness here, of does anyone else know >what I'm talking about? > >I've        bike                      like       | Jody Levine  DoD #275 kV >     got a       you can        if you      -PF  | Jody.P.Levine@hydro.on.ca >                         ride it                 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada  There you go again, you edu-breath poser! "University-ness" indeed! Leave that stuff to us professionals.
In article <1993Apr21.053721.551@bnr.ca> MBEAVING@BNR.CA writes: >I can't help myself. >I've tried to be rational,  >to look the other way, >but everytime it happens,  >its uncontrollable. > >I hate pre'80s motorcycles. >  crud deleted...  >--  >=================================================== >= The Beav |Mike Beavington| Dod:9733             = >= V65Sabre     mbeaving@bnr.ca                    = >= My employer has no idea what I'm talking about! = >===================================================  You are missing out on a lot of neat old rides. --  ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Tuba" (Irwin)      "I honk therefore I am"     CompuTrac-Richardson,Tx irwin@cmptrc.lonestar.org    DoD #0826          (R75/6)
In article 5967@prcrs.prc.com, terry@prcrs.prc.com (Terry Cunningham) writes: > >I know of no law, either on the books or proposed, that bans motorcycles >from any place that i want to go to.  So you really see no problem with banning them from places to which you don't want to go?  >I have not heard, or discussed with non-motorcycling persons, or read of >any popular movement, either in the country as a whole, or in any of the >states, that is out to 'get' motorcycles.  Talk to somebody in the insurance industry, particularly after a few drinks.  Then talk to my mom (no booze required).  :^)  >One more thing, if the public is misinformed and misunderstands as you >state, what are you and the others posting on this doing to correct the >situation?     Ever heard of the DoD?   :^)  >ever since I hit my teens I have found that there were >terrible wrongs to right, attitudes to adust... [blah, blah, blah]  >Fortunately, I grew up!   :-)  Nah, you just became complacent that so long as your little quarter acre is safe, you get your little tax deduction, and no act of the government intrudes, in too direct and obvious a way, into your little day to day life, you just don't give a shit.
In article <1qf5g8$32l@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) writes: >Dan J. Declerck (declrckd@rtsg.mot.com) wrote: >: In states with No-fault auto-insurance, this applies. You basically insure your >: own vehicle, and the max you can sue for is about $400 (In MI, anyway). >: The point to be made with no-fault, is the fact that it removes the lawyers from the >: system, and lets people get their money faster. The removal of lawyers, reduces the >: clogs on court system, and thus, reduces government burdens, by not requiring so >: many judges.  > >: does it work?? I don't know, ask the people of Michigan.... > >No, ask the people of New Jersey where the "no-fault" hoax has been >going on for years.  Last I heard every state that ever got no-fault >insurance saw an increase in rates.  I know that's what happened in >NJ because I lived there when it changed.  Just one more reason I will >never go back to that state. >-- >******************************************************************************* >* Bill Ranck             (703) 231-9503                     Bill.Ranck@vt.edu * >* Computing Center, Virginia Polytchnic Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, Va.  * >*******************************************************************************
In article <3153@shaman.wv.tek.com> robd@orca.wv.tek.com writes: >In article <13712@news.duke.edu>, infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew  >Infante) writes: >> You really expect a cop to answer these honestly? >>  >> (First you gotta expect a cop to be honest...that's another >> story...) > >Yeah, everybody knows cops always lie...and the people they deal with day in >and day out *ALWAYS* tell the truth..."No sir, occifer sir, I wazznut drinking >tonight, I was just playing around back there..." "No sir, I wasn't speeding, >I was realy only going xxmph, it was that guy next to me...didn't ya see >him?" > >Come on...stereotyping cops is no better than those that stereo type us.  >What say we try to show the same open mind to those around us as we would >ask for ourselves...I know its a stretch...but its worth a try. >  My reason for saying that was 'cause _I_, if _I_ were a cop wouldn't go out of my way to tell people how to break the law.  Would you?  The part about honesty was a joke, sorta.  Obviously, people have had bad experiences with cops lying.  Obviously, nobody's perfect and nobody _always_ tells the truth about everything.  (Or are you God? 1/4 ;)
In article <Stafford-200493102833@stafford.winona.msus.edu> Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.Edu (John Stafford) writes: >In article <10326.97.uupcb@compdyn.questor.org>, >ryan_cousineau@compdyn.questor.org (Ryan Cousineau) wrote: >>  >> NMM>From: nielsmm@imv.aau.dk (Niels Mikkel Michelsen) >> NMM>Subject: How to act in front of traffic jerks >>  >> NMM>The other day, it was raining cats and dogs, therefor I was going only to >> NMM>the speed limit, on nothing more, on my bike. This guy in his BMW was >> NMM>driving 1-2 meters behind me for 7-800 meters and at the next red light I >> NMM>calmly put the bike on its leg, walked back to this car, he rolled down the >> NMM>window, and I told him he was a total idiot (and the reason why). >>  >> NMM>Did I do the right thing? > >	imho, you did the wrong thing.  You could have been shot > or he could have run over your bike or just beat the shit > out of you.  Consider that the person is foolish enough > to drive like a fool and may very well _act_ like one, too. > > Just get the heck away from the idiot. > > IF the driver does something clearly illegal, you _can_ > file a citizens arrest and drag that person into court. > It's a hassle for you but a major hassle for the perp. > >==================================================== >John Stafford   Minnesota State University @ Winona You can't make a Citizens arrest on anything but a felony. .
In article <1993Apr12.132410.19470@wam.umd.edu> buffalo@wam.umd.edu (Duncan D. Sterling) writes: >If anyone thinks that touring on a CB 360 is pushing the envelope, try >a 175 twin.  My local Honda dealer says that my 1969 Honda Dream 175 >was commonly referred to as a "serious touring bike" when it first >came out?!?!?!  (maybe there IS something in the water around here).   What's the problem here?  Back in 1958 I rode a Puch 175 from Paris to Barcelona and back.  That was a two stroke, and back then it was representative of the size of bikes on the road.  A 350 was considered a big bike, and the superbikes of the day were 500cc or 600cc.  Anything bigger was real rare.   Charlie Smith,  DoD #0709,  doh #0000000004,  1KSPT=22.85
mcguire@cs.utexas.edu (Tommy Marcus McGuire) wrote: >  > egreen@east.sun.com writes: > >tjohnson@tazmanian.prime.com (Tod Johnson (617) 275-1800 x2317) writes: > [...] > >>Sure there are horns but my hand is already on the throttle. Should we > >>get into how many feet a bike going 55mph goes in .30 seconds; or > >>how long it would take me to push my horn button?? > [...] > >The answer is 161.33 feet. > [...] >  > Try something like 24.2 feet.  >  > EdGetACalculator  Right. ROM numbers (easy to remember) 100 mph ~= 150 ft/sec.                    tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil