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cooper@mprgate.mpr.ca (Greg Cooper) writes:  > In article <1qeftj$d0i@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>, egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green -  > >In article sda@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu, ai598@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Sturde > >> > >>	Only exceptional ones like me. Average ones like you can barely fart > >>by themselves. > > > >Fuck you very much, Mike. > > >  > Gentlemen _please_.  > --    Greg's obviously confused. There aren't many (any) gentlemen on this  newsgroup. Well, maybe. One or two.
In article <1qt0jo$2fj@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) writes: | |Hey!  I wasn't picking on Morgan.  They use old technology.  That's all |I said.  There's nothing wrong with using old technology.  People still |use shovels to dig holes   Well, you really can't dig a hole with a stock Shovel; you at least need some performance mods like stroking and cams.  Besides, it's REAL bad on the rear tire.
I'm not sure on the older bikes, but the Yamaha Virago 535 has spec'd seat height of 27.6 in. and the Honda Shadow 27.2 in.
karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) wrote: >  > mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith) writes: > > > >Did anyone see the TV ad for the new BMW boxer on U.K. television > >at the weekend?? >  > Not me--since I have no reception and no cable, I'm not likely to see > any ads.  And if I did they'd most likely be have been taped in the US > anyway.  Yeh. Be tough to pick up UK Telly in your situation:-}  No signs of Type 259 ads in TV in the states yet, but I don't watch much, so I'm not in a real position to comment.  BUT! I got my invite to the dealer introduction "On the deck out back". RSVP is on the way!!!!!!                    tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
Old Nick (the little devil!) wibbles:- % % Tsk, tsk, tsk.  Another newbie bites the dust, eh?  They'll learn. %    Newbie?  Eh?  Slap yer' credentials  on the table, Pete.  That'll  show    him!  % % I'm terribly sorry. %    And so you damned well should  be...  young whipper-snapper!  It's  wet    kippers at ten paces if there's any repeat of this sort of thing!     Now, in keeping with the  grand tradition of wreck.moto, let's  mutate!    Take your partners by the hand...     On Tuesday morning I spent a couple of hours (when I -should- have been    working) with a  torch, brazing bits  of scrap metal  over the  biggest    holes in  Yamadog's exhaust  pipes (s'mazin'  what you  can do  with  a    couple of AA  cells and a  three-volt bulb!).   I stuck some  "gun-gum"    into the smaller holes and bunged the pipes back onto the bike.     So, last night  I'm on the  way home  when lo' an'  bloody behold,  the    sodding thing starts  blowing again.   I check  it out and  the gas  is    escaping from around  the clamp holding  the number two  pipe into  the    port.  As far as I can see (it being somewhat "hole of Calcutta" at the    time!), the nuts are still there  (stop that bloody sniggering, you  at    the back!), but the pipe is a bit loose.     This morning  I go  out to  the bike  and pull  out the  socket-set  to    tighten up me' nuts (somebody give that  spotty kid at the back a  good    slap  round  the  back  of  the  head!),  and  lo'  an'  bloody  behold    a-bloody-gen, I find that the outer skin of the pipe has separated from    the inner sleeve right at the clamp-mating bevel.  So, I stuff in a bit    of baked-beanz can and a bit more of Mr Holts' very best "gun-gum"  and    come to work (late again!) so that I  can ask of the oracle...  Will  a    brazed joint hold that close to the exhaust port?  Anybody tried it?     Oh, and if anybody can tell me  what the differences are between a  205    and a  207  brazing  rod (made  by  "Gaz"  [Yup!   the  camping  folks.    Surprised the marmalade outa' me, too!] in that place just off the Isle    of Wight) I'd be eternally  grateful (twenty-sodding-quid for two  rods    and I don't even know what I'm buying.  Bloody kanji!).  --     ------------------------------------------------------------------------   | John Little  - gaijin@Japan.Sun.COM  - Sun Microsystems. Atsugi, Japan |
In article <1992Jun25.132424.20760@prl.philips.nl>, mcardle@prl.philips.nl (Owen McArdle) writes... >In article <ranck.253@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu> ranck@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) writes: >--In article <1992Jun23.214330.18592@bcrka451.bnr.ca> whitton@bnr.ca (Mark Whitton) writes: >-- >-->It turns out that the trailer lights were not hooked up >-->to the truck.   >-- >--Yep, basic rule: *Never* expect or believe turn signals completely. >--Around here, and many other places, people just don't signal at all. >--And, sometimes the signals aren't working.  Sometimes they get left on. >  >	The scary bit about this is the is the non-availability of rear- >lights at all. Now living in the Netherlands I've learned that the only >reliable indicators are those red ones which go on at both sides at once - >some people call them brake lights. Once they light up, expect ANYTHING >to occur in front of you :-). (It's not just the Dutch though) >  >	However I never realised how much I relied on this until I got  >caught a few times behind someone whose lights didn't work AT ALL. Once  >I'd sussed it out it wasn't so bad (knowing it is half the battle), but  >it's a great way to find out that you've been following someone too  >closely :-). Now I try to check for lights all the time, 'cos that split  >second can make all the difference (though it shouldn't be necessary, I  >know), >  >Owen. 	What used to peeve me in Canada was the cars with bloody _red_ rear indicators.  You'd see a single red light come on and think, "Now, is he stopping but one brake-lamp is not working, or does he have those dumb bloody _red_ rear indicators?"  This being Survival 101, you have to assume he's braking and take the appropriate actions, until such time as the light goes out and on again, after which you can be reasonably certain it's a bloody _red_ rear indicator.
>In article <1993Apr20.195116.123380@locus.com> dana@lando.la.locus.com (Dana H. Myers) writes: >>In article <C5qqxp.IE1@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com> hartzler@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Jerry Hartzler - CATS) writes: >>>In article <1993Apr15.192558.3314@icomsim.com> mmanning@icomsim.com (Michael Manning) writes: >>> >>>>duck. Squids don't wave, or return waves ever, even to each >>>       ^^^^^^ >>>    excuse me for being an ignoramus, but what are these. >> >> >>Squids are everybody but me and you.  Chris Behanna is especially a squid.  A squid is the guy I saw back in December on cool 40 degree morning on my way to work. He was wearing knee-length pants, light jacket, no gloves, though he was going considerably slower than DoD nominal.
In article <1993Apr14.234835.1@cua.edu> 84wendel@cua.edu writes: >Has anyone ever heard of a rider giving a big dog such as a great dane a ride  >on the back of his bike.  My dog would love it if I could ever make it work. >	Thanks >			84wendel@cua.edu >  On the back might be tricky, but here in Boulder, there is a guy  that can always be seen with his Golden Retriever in the sidecar. Of course, the dog is always wearing WWII style goggles (no joke)
In article <1993Apr19.155551.227@cs.cornell.edu> karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) writes: >In article <mjs.735230272@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk> mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith) writes: >> >>No No No No!! All I am saying is that you don't even need to tell people the  >>technique of countersteering, cos they will do it intuitively the first >>time they try to go round a corner.  Some will, and others will steer with their tuchuses. I don't know how much the teaching of countersteering in the beginner course really helps the tuchus steerers. I was one, I guess that I always steered a bicycle that way, and I only got the hang of countersteering in normal riding *after* the course. I could do the countersteering swerves in the course no problem, but I only started using it in my normal riding when I decided that my turning at speed (off-ramps and the like) was a lot more difficult that it should have been. I knew how it works (although that's currently up for debate) definitely knew *that* it works, as I could do it in swerves, but only figured it out later in my normal riding. Just a data point. I think that it's not a bad idea to bring the idea up, but it's best to let everyone tuchus-steer for the first lesson or two, so they can learn to shift gears before they have to worry about proper handlebar technique.  >countersteering.  In fact, my Experienced Rider Course instructors >claimed that they could get on behind a new rider and make the bike >turn to whichever side they wanted just by shifting their weight >around, even when the operator was trying to turn in the opposite >direction.  (I admit I've never actually seen this.)  I have. In our beginner course we had passenger training. Sometime during the lesson the instructor would hop on the back of the bike, and the student would take him for a ride. If the student did not give the instructor the "you are a sack of potatoes" passenger speech, the instructor would steer the bike and make a general nuisance of himself. It was amusing to watch, I'm just happy that it didn't happen to me.
In a previous article, deb90@ccc.amdahl.com (David E Ben-Jamin) says:  > >I am a single, white female in 40s, looking for a >man with a motorcycle to share fun >trips from 1 to 6 days (or more). > >I have a Honda Magna 700 and riding is my LIFE but >it's hard to find people to ride with.  > >This is my son's account, so please respond to this >address for more info. >(phone number, etc.) > >Thanks! > >--  > > >I don't need a .sig. > You don't mention your riding area.  If you're in the Eastern part of Ontario Canada, I may be able to help.  I love 1 day runs and more.  More info needed.
joe@rider.cactus.org (Joe Senner) writes: >I know there's already a bmw mailing list, but since it's an R bike  >only list (and limited to the R80* R100* bikes as well I believe)  the list as chartered is geared toward R100/R80 GS/PD/ST riders, emphasizing the off road bikes, but there are numerous people on the list with other BMW twins as well, as well as the usual contingent of aspirants.  most all boxer talk is welcome.  the main list has about 50 subscribers; there is also a digest version which has about 10.  we run about 10 to 12 messges to day, mostly technical with little chatter and no flames.  subscriptions can be had via e-mail. in the text of a message, send the command:  SUBSCRIBE   to bmw-gs-request@halfdome.sf.ca.us for the main list and bmw-gs-digest-request@haldfome.sf.ca.us for the digest version.  your "from" address will be used to determine where you will receive the mail.    it would be a shame to split boxer riders between different lists unless, of course, the existing list failed to meet the readers' needs. --  -- bob pasker -- rbp@netcom.com
I'm looking for a 1990-91 Kawasaki ZX-6 engine.  Just the engine, no intake, exhaust, ignition, etc.  Preferably in the central texas area, but we haven't had much luck around here so we'll take whatever we can get.  Please reply via mail or call (512) 471-5399 if you have one (or more...  really need a spare).  Thanx
In article <mjs.735489679@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk> mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith) writes: >lemay@netcom.com (Laura Lemay) writes: > >[lotsa stuff deleted...] > >>- Switch your hands to the guardrail to stretch your shoulders, but be  >>  sure and squeeze your thighs while you're doing it so your rider knows you're >>  still there. :)  The guard rail isn't as safe as holding onto your rider. > >Hmmmm - why does everyone on that side of the Pond seem to want >pillions to hang on to the rider rather than the grabrail?   Because I'm a guy and most of my pillions are female.   Also, the other reasons, like having an idea where you passengers weight is, it being a more comfortable position for the passenger, and it being a more stable configuration all come into it as well.  Holding the grab rail is a great idea only for braking, when you don't want the pillion to slide forward into you, otherwise I don't find it works well.
In article <1qjtr9$llb@news.ysu.edu> ak296@yfn.ysu.edu (John R. Daker) writes: > >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....  Zero to very fast very quickly... lastest rumor is 115 hp at the rear wheel, handles like a dream in a straight line to 80-100, and then gets a tad upset according to a review in Cycle World... cornering, er well, you can't have  everything... Seriously, handling is probably as good as the big standards of the early 80's but not compareable to whats state of the art these days.  All this gleemed from reviews and discussions with owners. I too lust after this bike.
In article <wrs.4180@wslack.UUCP>, wrs@wslack.UUCP (Bill Slack) writes: |>  |> Various posts about shafties can't do wheelies: |>  |> >: > No Mike.  It is imposible due to the shaft effect.  The centripital effects |> >: > of the rotating shaft counteract any tendency for the front wheel to lift |> >: > off the ground |> > |> >Good point John...a buddy of mine told me that same thing when I had my |> >BMW R80GS; I dumped the clutch at 5,000rpm (hey, ito nly revved to 7 or so) and |> >you know what? He was right! |>  |> Uh, folks, the shaft doesn't have diddleysquatpoop to do with it. I can get |> the front wheel off the ground on my /5, ferchrissake!  you may have been able to bounce the front up but not actually do a "wheelie". see the shaft effect unloads the rear susspension and effectivly loads the front. this is why a shaft bike should accelerate if it starts scraping in a corner......
In <ramarren-150493134758@kops.apple.com> ramarren@apple.com (Godfrey DiGiorgi) writes:  >>Can someone tell me what a deltabox frame is, and what relation that has, >>if any, to the frame on my Hawk GT?  That way, next time some guy comes up >>to me in some parking lot and sez "hey, dude, nice bike, is that a deltabox >>frame on there?" I can say something besides "duh, er, huh?"     I beleive it's called the "Dentabox" frame.   Nothing some putty and paint won't fix.  __    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
If anyone has the current Moto Guzzi National Owners Club address please e-mail it to me. Thanks in advance! T.K.
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.  Hah.  Newbie bait.  Everyone knows the first motorcycle wasn't built until 1893 - there _were_ no pre-'80's motorcycles!  >At first I thought it was a phase.  I though I would >get used to them.  It didn't happen.  I tried gazing >at CB750s and 900 customs, but each time I sadistically >pictured them being hurled off of large precipice >(I also picture a swarm of german tourists cheering and >taking holiday snaps, but I can't figure that part out).  You've been watching too much Northern Exposure.  >What am I to do?  Everytime I read a .sig containing  >some spoked wheel wonder, I shudder and feel pity that >the poor soul has suffered enough.  Why?  Because our wheels are repairable?  > I imagine the owner >scrapping out his (or her) living in a discarded Maytag >refridgerator box, tucked in next to their CX500.  Humph.  Obviously, more bait.  Everyone knows you don't discard Maytag boxes.  Even after they've become uninhabitable, they're make a great poor boy's mechanic's creeper.  CX500?  Whazzat?  >I'm hoping for some deliverance.  Okay.  Let's hear you squeal like a pig.  > I had in the past loathed >the Milwaukee machine, but I can actually begin to understand >some of the preaching.  There must be hope.   Beware fanatical preaching, lest the residents of Waco, Texas set up a huge salad bar in your honor...
My previous posting on dog attacks must have generated some bad karma or something. I've weathered attempted dog attacks before using the approved method: Slow down to screw up dog's triangulation of target, then take off and laugh at the dog, now far behind you. This time, it didn't work because I didn't have time. Riding up the hill leading to my house, I encountered a liver-and-white Springer Spaniel (no relation to the Springer Softail, or the Springer Spagthorpe, a close relation to the Spagthorpe Viking). Actually, the dog encountered me with intent to harm.  But I digress: I was riding near the (unpainted) centerline of the roughly 30-foot wide road, doing between forty and sixty clicks (30 mph for the velocity-impaired). The dog shot at me from behind bushes on the left side of the road at an impossibly high speed. I later learned he had been accelerating from the front porch, about thirty feet away, heading down the very gently sloped approach to the side of the road. I saw the dog, and before you could say SIPDE, he was on me. Boom! I took the dog in the left leg, and from the marks on the bike my leg was driven up the side of the bike with considerable force, making permanent marks on the plastic parts of the bike, and cracking one panel. I think I saw the dog spin around when I looked back, but my memory of this moment is hazy.  I next turned around, and picked the most likely looking house. The apologetic woman explained that the dog was not seriously hurt (cut mouth) and hoped I was not hurt either. I could feel the pain in my shin, and expected a cool purple welt to form soon. Sadly, it has not. So I'm left with a tender shin, and no cool battle scars!  Interestingly, the one thing that never happened was that the bike never moved off course. The not inconsiderable impact did not push the bike off course, nor did it cause me to put the bike out of control from some gut reaction to the sudden impact. Delayed pain may have helped me here, as I didn't feel a sudden sharp pain that I can remember.  What worries me about the accident is this: I don't think I could have prevented it except by traveling much slower than I was. This is not necessarily an unreasonable suggestion for a residential area, but I was riding around the speed limit. I worry about what would have happened if it had been a car instead of a dog, but I console myself with the thought that it would take a truly insane BDI cager to whip out of a blind driveway at 15-30 mph. For that matter, how many driveways are long enough for a car to hit 30 mph by the end?  I eagerly await comment.  Ryan Cousinetc.|1982 Yamaha Vision XZ550 -Black Pig of Inverness|Live to Ride KotRB          |1958 AJS 500 C/S -King Rat                      |to Work to DoD# 0863      |I'd be a squid if I could afford the bike...    |Flame to ryan.cousineau@compdyn.questor.org  |   Vancouver, BC, Canada   |Live . . .    * SLMR 2.1a * "He's hurt." "Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor -- oh, right."
I just mailed this:  I noticed a 2-3in long cut in the tread of the rear tire on my VFR. The cut is only about as deep as the tread block, and looks like it only scratched the rubber at the base, but the weird thing is, it's way over on the edge where I haven't scuffed the tire in yet. My questions are: 1. How dangerous is this, should I replace the tire right away? and 2. If I should, since the cut is on the unscuffed portion and the tire only has about 330 mi on it, what do you think my chances of getting it replaced under warranty are?  To the nedod mailing list, and Jack Tavares suggested I check out how old the tire is as one tactic for getting it replaced.  Does anyone have the file on how to read the date codes handy?  Thanks, Dean
Hello Folks,  I'm very happy with my "new" R80GS.  My range is 238 miles on 4.8 gallons... that's 50 mpg!!  Surprisingly, the bike is a real cruiser.  I was expecting something rough.   She's a sweet backroad honey.  And I can go pretty much anyplace I'd take my mountain bike.  As far as shaft effect, it's more a  torque effect from the crankshaft in my opinion.  Rev it sitting still (when the driveshaft is not moving) and the bike twists a bit.  Maybe I don't ride her fast enough to get a shaft effect, but in my opinion a little buffeting by wind is of far greater consequence.  Okay, here are  my questions:  1) Any recommendations for a home-made fairing?  I'd like to keep the wind off my chest, and perhaps my helmet, for comfort at highway speeds (70 mph), yet don't want to (a) screw up the stability or (b) block my vision too much for trail riding.  Anybody have luck with two-piece  detachible fairings?  I'd like to make it myself out of plexiglas.  2) I run two lights, the standard headlamp plus a sidelamp mounted on the crash bar.  The illumination's excellent that way, with a full beam coming out from the level of the motor (left side); the lamp beam is linear so that you get a bright streak of illumination from left to right, and it  really picks up the periphery (deer lurking, etc.)  Combined with the  headlamp on high you can see like day.  But I've heard that BMW alternators don't crank out too much.  Do I need to shut down the sidelamp when I'm puttering around in the dirt at low RPM?    3) This is embarassing: I'm having trouble starting the bike first thing in the morning.  I invariably flood the carbs, then go in and read a section of the paper, and then she starts right up.  Is this a Zen thing?   4) The Hayne's manual says do not under any circumstances use gasoline with alcohol additives... Yeah, right.  What do you folks due to keep the engine and carbs from being eaten by ethanol and methanol?  Any  particular brands of gas that are best?  Additives?  Thanks,
I was just wondering what kind (brand, name, etc...) would be best on this  bike.... thanks for your advice....
In article <1993Apr22.155542.12457@siemens.co.at>, mxcrew@mx2306.gud.siemens.co.at (The MX-Crew) wrote: >  > Sorry for my stupid question :->, but what do you "americans" mean with > "shaft-drives". My dictionary knows only strange meanings like: >    Schaft, Stiel, Pfeil, Strahl, Welle, Deichsel, Schacht. ------------  Shaft: Bamboozle, beat, beguile, burn (or flame), deceive, hoax,        hoodwink.  Drive: Campaign, crusade, push.  So, 'shaft drive' may be a campaign to decieve or a crusade of beguile, efforts where are true to the spirit of this list.  Wheel: revolution, swing  Crusaders of beguile are innefective in revolutions and they cannot swing, either, therefore shaft drives cannot do wheelies.
I am looking at the honda shadow 11000 and the intruder 800 or 1400? what have you heard about these bikes?