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In article <1993Apr15.221024.5926@rtsg.mot.com> svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda) writes: >In article <1993Apr15.214910.5676@rtsg.mot.com> declrckd@rtsg.mot.com (Dan J. Declerck) writes: >|In article <1993Apr15.003749.15710@rtsg.mot.com> svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda) writes: >|>In article <1993Apr14.220252.14731@rtsg.mot.com> declrckd@rtsg.mot.com (Dan J. Declerck) writes: >|>| >|>|The difference of opinion, and difference in motorcycling between the sport-bike >|>|riders and the cruiser-bike riders.  >|> >|>That difference is only in the minds of certain closed-minded individuals.  I >|>have had the very best motorcycling times with riders of "cruiser"  >|>bikes (hi Don, Eddie!), yet I ride anything but. >| >|Continuously, on this forum, and on the street, you find quite a difference >|between the opinions of what motorcycling is to different individuals. > >Yes, yes, yes.  Motorcycling is slightly different to each and every one of us.  This >is the nature of people, and one of the beauties of the sport.   > >|Cruiser-bike riders have a different view of motorcycling than those of sport bike riders >|(what they like and dislike about motorcycling). This is not closed-minded.  > >And what view exactly is it that every single rider of cruiser bikes holds, a veiw >that, of course, no sport-bike rider could possibly hold?  Please quantify your >generalization for us.  Careful, now, you're trying to pigeonhole a WHOLE bunch >of people. > That plastic bodywork is useless. That torque, and an upright riding position is better than a slightly or radically forward riding position combined with a high-rpm low torque motor.  To a cruiser-motorcyclist, chrome has some importance. To sport-bike motorcyclists chrome has very little impact on buying choice.  Unless motivated solely by price, these are the criteria each rider uses to select the vehicle of choice.   To ignore these, as well as other criteria, would be insensitive. In other words, no one motorcycle can fufill the requirements that a sport-bike rider and a cruiser rider may have.(sometimes it's hard for *any* motorcycle to fufill a person's requirements)    You're fishing for flames, Dave.  This difference of opinion is analogous to the difference between Sports-car owners, and luxury-car owners.   This is a moot conversation.   --  => Dan DeClerck                        | EMAIL: declrckd@rtsg.mot.com     <= => Motorola Cellular APD               |                                  <= =>"Friends don't let friends wear neon"| Phone: (708) 632-4596            <=
>In article <93Apr20.211127.44984@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes: > > >>   I bought it, I tried it: >> >>   It is, truly, the miracle spooge. >> >>   My chain is lubed, my wheel is clean, after 1000km. >> >  I would like to offocially nominate Maxima Chain Wax as another Official (tm) DoD product of choice.
Wm. L. Ranck (ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu) wrote: :    I hate to admit this, and I'm still mentally kicking myself for it. : I rode the brand new K75RT home last Friday night.  100 miles in rain : and darkness.  No problems.  Got it home and put it on the center stand. :    The next day I pushed it off the center stand in preparation for going : over to a friend's house to pose.  You guessed it.  It got away from me : and landed on its right side.   :    Scratched the lower fairing, cracked the right mirror, and cracked the : upper fairing.   :    *DAMN* am I stupid!  It's going to cost me ~$200 to get the local : body shop to fix it.  And that is after I take the fairing off for them. : Still, that's probably cheaper than the mirror alone if I bought a  : replacement from BMW.  You got off cheap.  My sister's ex-boyfriend was such an incessant pain in the ass about wanting to ride my bikes (no way, Jose) that I finally took him to Lindner's BMW in New Canaan, CT last fall where I had seen a nice, used K100RS in perfect condition.  After telling everyone in the shop his Norton war stories from fifteen years ago, signing the liability waiver, and getting his pre-flight, off he went...  Well, not quite.  I walked out of a pizza shop up the street, feeling good about myself (made my sister's boyfriend happy and got the persistent wanker off my ass for good), heard the horrendous racket of an engine tortured to its red line and then a crash.  I saw people running towards the obvious source of the disturbance... Jeff laying under the BMW with the rear wheel spinning wildly and someone groping for the kill switch.  I stared in disbelief with a slice hanging out of my mouth as Matty, the shop manager, slid up beside me and asked, "Friend of yours, Steve?".  "Shit, Matty, it could have been worse.  That could been my FLHS!"  Jeff hadn't made it 10 inches.  Witnesses said he lifted his feet before letting out the clutch and gravity got the best of him. Jeff claimed that the clutch didn't engage.  Matty was quick. While Jeff was still stuttering in embarrassed shock he managed to snatch Jeff's credit card for a quick imprint and signature.  Twenty minutes later, when Jeff's color had paled to a flush, Matty presented him with an estimate of $580 for a busted right mirror and a hairline crack in the fairing.  That was for fixing the crack and masking the damaged area, not a new fairing.  Or he could buy the bike.  I'm not sure what happened later as my sister split up with Jeff shortly afterwards (to hook up with another piece of work) except that Matty told me he ran the charge through in December and that it went uncontested.
WARNING WARNING MAY CAUSE UNPLEASANTNESS!  In article <C61r0B.C7@world.std.com> daved@world.std.com (Dave T Dorfman) writes: > I was enjoying lunch this saturday at foodies in Milford NH with an assortment >of other nedod folks when Dean Cookson ( yes he has not left the  >country, yet) mentioned that the wiring diagram of the VFR750  >shows that  the light switch is a three position switch.  > >high beam >low beam >Both beams > > >Well the actual ergonomics of the switch make it appear to be a >2 position switch, but sure enough as Deam expected , when >you balance the toggle switch in the center position both the high >and low beams go on. > >This provides a very nice light coverage of the >road. > >This is true for the St11 and the VFR750 and I would expect for any  >other late model Honda with the standard two position light switch. >  It's a "make before break" type of switch.  If not required, it ought to be for high-low beams.    There might be a wee problem with this.  If you use both filaments at the same time, the bulb is tossing out a great deal more heat than normal. Possibly enough to shorten it's life span.  My Honda CRX cage [a cage that really wanted to be a bike] had wimpy stock lights.  So we used to run around with both beams on.  Made a mucho big difference - until both low beam filaments died nearly simultaneously!  This was two weeks after finding out how nice it was to use both beams.  I replaced the lights with quartz-halogen lights and that ended the problem.
In article <cassidy.51.0@elan.rowan.edu> cassidy@elan.rowan.edu (Kyle Cassidy) writes: >In article <csundh30.735325668@ursa> csundh30@ursa.calvin.edu (Charles Sundheim) writes: >> >>I am assembling info for a Film Criticism class final project. >> >man, every time this thread comes up, i start jumping up and down screaming ' >EASY WHEELS! EASY WHEELS!' but to date, it seems like _i'm_ the only one who' >s ever seen this. it's absolutely hysterical. basic plot is this: > >reporter searching for a ring of babysnatchers is blow off the road by a ( >very hot) gang of babe bikers in leather. he is rescued from his wrecked car  >in the desert by a xtian gospal biker band lead by an ex viet-nam vet with a  >steel plate in his head that gives him visions from time to time. they soon  >discover that the gang 'o babes is kidnapping children to be raised by  >wolves (the reasoning behind this is complex), and they set out to stop them  >and restore justice and order to the world. > >it is one of the 5 funniest movies i have ever seen in my life. > >-- >kyle cassidy >cassidy@rowan.edu	"fire all of your guns at once!" >DoD #760  I actually saw this movie about three months ago, but it wasn't called EASY WHEELS.  It was something else that escapes me at the moment but I did rent it from Blockbuster Video and it was a hoot, in the same class as Plan 9 From Outer Space.
In article <Clarke.5.734991574@bdrc.bd.com>, Clarke@bdrc.bd.com (Richard Clarke) writes: |> final trajectory. Too bad it didn't notice the car approaching at 50+mph      .... |> from the other direction. |>  |> I got a closeup view of the our poor canine friend's noggin careening off  |> the front bumper, smacking the asphalt, and getting runover by the front  |> tire. It managed a pretty good yelp, just before impact. (peripheral  |> imminent doom?) I guess the driver didn't see me or they probably would have  |> swerved into my lane. The squeegeed pup actually got up and headed back  |> home, but I haven't seen it since.  |>   Same thing to me.  Everyday the same dog would chase my bicycle. The owners thought it was cute.  Even after I got the moto, the stupid dog would do the same thing.  Then one day, I was coming home in the opposite lane...the fluff with teeth ran to get me and played momentum sharing with a 73 Dodge pick. The owners tried to blame me for driving down street when I did. I lived in a wierd town.
(note: this is not about the L.A. or NY Times)  A few times a year, a funny thing happens: the bike engine runs perfectly.  Completely smooth.  Not that it runs poorly normally, but on these days, it is exceptional.  My theory is that the air density and moisture content of the air are such that I get complete combustion.  Needless to say, it puts me in a great mood.  The mood lasted for about 20 miles.  Heading north on the 405 freeway, about a mile or two south of the 10, my throttle stopped responding.... and I was between lanes.  Nothing to do but make  my way over 4 lanes to the shoulder... initially by gliding, then by pushing.  At least traffic was heavy enough so that cars did not mind stopping for me.  Turned out to be a screw unscrewed inside my Mikuni HS40  carb.  I keep hearing that one should keep all of the screws tight on a bike, but I never thought that I had to do that on the screws inside of a carb.  At least it was roadside fixable and I was on my way in hardly any time. ____________________________________________________________________________    Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired  -- R. Geis
In three years of riding in the cities of San Jose, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale I never came into any conflict with the local police over my lane splitting habits (all three of these cities were listed earlier as being anti-splitting in one way or another).  I can't say whether this was due to luck, police kindness, or there not actually being any ordinances against it in these cities, so I continue.....
In article <1993Apr14.143716.18174@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> na4@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >Hi folks!		 > >Recently saw one post about KREME being a *bad idea*, but that was only	 >one man's opinion.  	 > >Any one else have any experience with the stuff?	 > >  On my 59 sporty I had some pinhole leaks open up on the back seam.  I kreme it about a year ago and have had no problems at all.  Be real careful as the cleaning part of the solution is hell on paint.   -Jim
Now the bike is off warranty, I finally replaced the stock items on my Softail Custom with the title ones. Installation was pretty easy in both cases, even for a fairly non-mechanical chemist type dude like me!  I discovered the limitations of my tool collection, but had fun buying and making the requisite tools!  MC Ignitions Power Arc II Single Fire Ignition: easy to install, but read the wiring diagram carefully!  Setting the static timing was a piece of cake.  Once installed, I have found easier starting, smoother idle, and more power, plus a more satisfying (to me) bass note in the exhaust register...a lovely whompa-whompa-whompa idle  :-) The folks at MC Ignitions were great in answering my dumb questions on the phone..... a very helpful bunch of guys with a great product.  S&S Super E Carb: installation easy, once I hacked down an Allen wrench to a small anough reach to get at the intake manifold bolts. Tunes like a dream, just like they say!  The stock carb (non-adjustable) was so lean that it was gasping and spluttering for gas sometimes, and even backfiring into the intake manifold. The Super E is terrific, no hesitation in any gear, and my plugs are a lovely tan color with no need to rejet from the factory settings!  I know this may not seem like much to you grizzled veteran wrenchers out there, but I had my bike in so many pieces this weekend I began to get worried. But it all went back together again, and runs like a dream, so I am feeling pretty happy.  Now all I have to do is install my BUB pipes and try to pass the NH Noise Gestapo Test!
In article <1r941o$3tu@menudo.uh.edu> inde7wv@Rosie.UH.EDU writes:  >bike.  Luckily the guy stops a foot behind my rear wheel. > >I understand why you theoretically stop so far behind a car but can you >really in actuality avoid such an incident?  Suggestions? >  Anybody who drove into somebody like that in this country would hopefully  lose their licence.  However, the avoidance is simple.  Don't stop behind the  cage. stop beside it, or better still, in front of it, so that it acts as a  buffer.   Tony
In article <1993Apr22.204012.29920@asl.dl.nec.com> drinckes@tssc.wlg.nec.co.jp writes: |Course, the only people who seem to be acting smug now probably have chain |final drive (which, as we all know, is less efficient and has higher |maintenance) and probably didn't know the answer at the start of the thread.    When did *you* go out and change the laws of physics? :-)  According to some numbers I used to see bandied around, shaft drive is on the order of 95-97% efficient, while chain drive is closer to 99%...   Seems to me that this makes *chain* drive more efficient, hmmmmm???    And granted, shaft has a lot less maintenance, which is fine, if you don't mind less performance... :-) :-)  Randy Davis                            Email: randy@megatek.com ZX-11 #00072 Pilot                            {uunet!ucsd}!megatek!randy DoD #0013
> akelley@oracle.uucp (Alyn Kelley) writes:  >But as he drove past me, he actually turned all the way around in his >car seat to see if I had noticed.  I nodded to him, and smiled. >I can't for the life of me figure out why he was so friendly.  It's the DoD license plate frame; cops really like 'em.  Either that, or he mistook you for one of his friends, possibly an off-duty cop.  -Dave  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 	"I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle"  						- Arnold Schwarzenegger, T2
In article <1993Apr15.123539.2228@news.columbia.edu> rdc8@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Robert D Castro) writes: >Hello all, > >On my bike I have hazard lights (both front and back turn signals >flash).  Since I live in NJ and commute to NYC there are a number of >tolls one must pay on route.  Just before arriving at a toll booth I >switch the hazards on.  I do thisto warn other motorists that I will >be taking longer than the 2 1/2 seconds to make the transaction. >Taking gloves off, getting money out of coin changer/pocket, making >transaction, putting gloves back on takes a little more time than the >average cager takes to make the same transaction of paying the toll. >I also notice that when I do this cagers tend to get the message and >usually go to another booth. > >My question, is this a good/bad thing to do?  	This sounds like a VERY good thing to do.  >Any others tend to do the same?  	I will now, whenever I don't have my handy-dandy automatic coin fetcher/toll payer (Annette :-) with me.  	Thanks for the tip.  Later,
Anyone around here read this yet? Does Anita have a number?  >>   Title: Software measurement for DoD systems : recommendations for initial  >>          core measures / Anita D. Carleton, ... [et al.]. >> Subject: Software engineering.; Computer programming management. >>  Author: Carleton, Anita D. >>  Author: Carnegie-Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute. >>    Publ: Pittsburgh, Pa. : Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering  >>          Institute, 1992. 53 p.   Tony
In article <speedy.156@engr.latech.edu> speedy@engr.latech.edu (Speedy Mercer) writes:  >I am confused (like THAT'S a surprise!), someone asked ME for a copy of the  >FAQ via E-Mail.  As I am not the KotFAQ, I was wondering what the proper  >responce is?  You should post his/her email request, with proper attributes, of course, to the newsgroup.  The request then becomes a matter of rec.moto public record and warrants the ceremonial gang-FAQing.  Glad to help, Ride safe, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |        Cliff Weston           DoD# 0598          '92 Seca II (Tem)       | |                                                                          | |               This bike is in excellent condition.                       | |               I've done all the work on it myself.                       | |                                                                          | |                     -- Glen "CRASH" Stone                                |
I'm looking to buy a used motorcycle helmet.  I'm interested in a full  face shield, but not necessarily a helmet with the piece around the chin.   Please email me directly.      Janice Kendall    kendall@adobe.com    ...!{decwrl|sun}!adobe!kendall
According to BBC Radio this morning, UK, Denmark, Portugal & a few others have vetoed a proposal to limit EC-sold bikes to 100 BHP.  The reason is that such a limit is not supported by accident statistics - a rare example of governmental wisdom.  The limit has a five year moratorium on it, and "specialist" manufacturers will be exempt anyway.  Any suspicion that this is a crafty trick to restrict that end of the market in Europe to Triumph, Norton (who? :-)), BMW, Cagiva & Ducati is the sort of dangerous rubbish which stalls GATT talks.  You heard it here first.
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? >  > NMM>Yours Truly : >  > NMM>                                  Niels Mikkel >  > Well, sounds great to me! When I have a real BDI cager tailgating me, > I've found that an effective strategy is to flash my brake light by > pumping the pedal. You will, obviously need a bit of free play in your > brake pedal to do this. It seems that even the most brain dead idiot can > usually discern that a flashing red light directly in front of > him/her/it may mean that something is wrong.  Sometimes yes, sometimes no. BDI cagers usually move back then. Hyperagressive assholes just move closer. (Something about testosterone-stimulated behavior, I think.) It's kinda like waving a red flag at a bull. All in all, if you can't move over and let the jerk by, it's better than nothing...                    tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
In article L2A@well.sf.ca.us, pstone@well.sf.ca.us (Philip K. Stone) writes: > >Hey Ed, how do you explain the fact that you pull on a horse's reins >left to go left?  :-)  Or am I confusing two threads here?  Three, actually.  I believe I discussed countersteering a horse before.  Basically, there are two ways to steer a horse, plow-rein and neck-rein.  Plow-reining steers him by keeping the reins separate, and you pull in the direction you wish to go.  Neck-reining steers a horse by holding the reins together in one hand, and pulling against the horse's neck in the direction you wish to go.  When training a plow-steering horse to neck-rein, one technique is to cross the reins under his necks.  Thus, when neck-reining to the left, the right rein pulls against the right side of the neck, but the left side of the bit (which the horse is used to from his plow-reining days).  Are you sorry you asked yet?
In rec.motorcycles egreen@east.sun.com writes: ;Revving the throttle requires either [dis]engaging the clutch,  ;or accelerating.    Not if it's a Harley.
In rec.motorcycles, rdc8@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Robert D Castro) writes:  > When/How do you decide that it is too windy to ride?    When the bugs are splatting on the side of my helmet instead   of the faceshield.  When semis are on their side in the downwind   ditch.  When I can't see the road for all the tumbleweeds rolling   past.  When the airborne sand/gravel is sandblasting my paint job.   When all of the above is happening at once in the middle of Wonderful   Wyldoming.    Well, it *WAS* gusting to 87 mph.    Cheers,   VLJ
From what I've seen in my 17 years as an MOA member, most of the folks in the RA are also in the MOA... I guess it's called covering all the bases to get some idea of what is really happening.. How else does one think the RA gets all the juicey news about what's happen' inside the  MOA?
I first heard it about academic politics but the same thought seems to apply to the BMWMOA  "The politics is so dirty because the stakes are so small."  Who cares? I get my dues-worth from the ads and occasional technical articles in the "News". I skip the generally drab articles about someone's trek across Iowa. If some folks get thrilled by the power of the BMWMOA, they deserve whatever thrills their sad lives provide.  BTW, I voted for new blood just to keep things stirred up.
In article <1993Apr19.164842.18206@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>   xlyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: > Is it possible to do a "wheelie" on a motorcycle with shaft-drive? >  > Mike Terry > '82 Virago  	Yep! I did one yesterday on my shaftie Vision... I should mention   that I had a pillon that helped rotate the bike over :-) . The wheelie was   the result of a necessarily agressive acceleration manouver through an   intersection (damn San Antonio cagers tend to be REALLY bad drivers).    	However, I have done one by myself, it just takes a lot of   pre-clutch dump rev action.
In article <211353@mavenry.altcit.eskimo.com>, maven@mavenry.altcit.eskimo.com (Norman Hamer) writes: |>   |>  Grf. Dropped my Shoei RF-200 off the seat of my bike while trying to |> rock  |> it onto it's centerstand, chipped the heck out of the paint on it... |>   |>  So I cheerfully spent $.59 on a bottle of testor's model paint and  |> repainted the scratches and chips for 20 minutes. |>   |>  The question for the day is re: passenger helmets, if you don't know |> for  |> certain who's gonna ride with you (like say you meet them at a .... |> church  |> meeting, yeah, that's the ticket)... What are some guidelines? Should |> I just  |> pick up another shoei in my size to have a backup helmet (XL), or |> should I  |> maybe get an inexpensive one of a smaller size to accomodate my |> likely  |> passenger?      My rule of thumb is "Don't give rides to people that wear a bigger helmet than you", unless your taste runs that way, or they are family.friends. Gee,  reminds me of a *dancer* in Hull, just over the river  from Ottowa, that I saw a few years ago, for her I would a bought a bigger helmet (or even her own bike) or anything  else she wanted ;->