RE: Helmet / motorcycle license
-Original Message- From: Michel Bijl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 1:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Helmet In '84, I spent one year in your beautiful country, (Carmel IN) At that time I noticed that drivers education is, compared to dutch standards, at an horrible level. I'm not saying this to insult you but it seems to me that geting a licence is far too easy over there... I'll vouch for that. I finally got around to getting my Colorado motorcycle license last year after getting my Aussie one more than 20 years ago. I actually took it on the GTS. After a simple multiple choice test I was taken to a paved area marked out for the testing. The tester explained that I was allowed up to "5 points" off which equated roughly to a few mistakes and a poor result in the brake test. When the tester saw the GTS he said it was going to be really tough to do the drills on such a big machine. The slow speed zigzag through the cones was tough but to his amazement I squeezed through without touching any. But you should have seen the look on his face when I didn't even reach the measuring marks in the brake test. He said he'd never seen anyone brake near that good. (I couldn't bring myself to tell him about the ABS of course!) After a couple more maneuvering tests I had my license. I was flabbergasted that I wasn't even required to ride on an actual road or even at any speed above 20 mph!!! Cheers Joe.
Good tickets (was Re: Laguna Seca Link)
Brandon, It's been a few years since I was able to go to Laguna Seca (BMW pre-GTS days actually), but the good seats were at that time the general admission tickets. I don't know about you, but the last thing I want is to be stuck in one particular seat in a grandstand that can see (sort of) the start and finish. Walk around. Stand up near the corkscrew. Cross the bridge over turn 9 and watch from over there. Go up on the grassy hillside that gives you a view of the drop after turn 9 until past the start/finish, and a lot of other things like turn 4, etc. When the spirit moves you, go to a different point on the track. Road America, Laguna Seca.I've not been there but it seems true of Road Atlanta also...are tracks to WANDER, not to sit in a grandstand. Remember, grandstands are for NASCAR weenies!! (Oo, time for the Nomex, here it comes!!) Phil P.S. Has the rule changed at Laguna Seca to limit one's walking around? On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Brandon wrote: Great. All the good tickets are sold. Oh well, I probably couldn't have afforded them anyway. (OK, so I'm just cheap!) So, what are the general admission tickets like? (Like, where do get to sit? Can you see anything or just hear them go by? Shade? I haven't been in years and when I did go, my company was buying and we got all the good stuff. Seeing how I don't work there anymore, I might get to go, albeit 3rd class. :^P Brandon
numering systems
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Hawkins, Kevin L, SITS wrote: BTW - I believe I'M SA#1. OhI thought it was Pearsal the Greatbut maybe he's #2? Phil SA#yet undesignated
Re: Good tickets (was Re: Laguna Seca Link)
NASCAR weenies eh Why I otta.. Don't forget there are two races on the schedule where they do turn RIGHT, Sears Point and Watkins Glen. However, I will agree that most of the best racing to be seen is not from the Grandstands. S/A #10 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon, It's been a few years since I was able to go to Laguna Seca (BMW pre-GTS days actually), but the good seats were at that time the general admission tickets. I don't know about you, but the last thing I want is to be stuck in one particular seat in a grandstand that can see (sort of) the start and finish. Walk around. Stand up near the corkscrew. Cross the bridge over turn 9 and watch from over there. Go up on the grassy hillside that gives you a view of the drop after turn 9 until past the start/finish, and a lot of other things like turn 4, etc. When the spirit moves you, go to a different point on the track. Road America, Laguna Seca.I've not been there but it seems true of Road Atlanta also...are tracks to WANDER, not to sit in a grandstand. Remember, grandstands are for NASCAR weenies!! (Oo, time for the Nomex, here it comes!!) Phil P.S. Has the rule changed at Laguna Seca to limit one's walking around? On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Brandon wrote: Great. All the good tickets are sold. Oh well, I probably couldn't have afforded them anyway. (OK, so I'm just cheap!) So, what are the general admission tickets like? (Like, where do get to sit? Can you see anything or just hear them go by? Shade? I haven't been in years and when I did go, my company was buying and we got all the good stuff. Seeing how I don't work there anymore, I might get to go, albeit 3rd class. :^P Brandon
RE: Helmet / motorcycle license
You should see the California test. It would be more pertinent to a circus admittance test than a real life motorcycle license. It would have been actually easier. That stupid turning in circle in a radius that's smaller than the turning radius of the GTS didn't prove anything except that I could turn in a spot cover in water without wetting my feet. Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Loss, Joe Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 8:08 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: RE: Helmet / motorcycle license -Original Message- From: Michel Bijl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 1:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Helmet In '84, I spent one year in your beautiful country, (Carmel IN) At that time I noticed that drivers education is, compared to dutch standards, at an horrible level. I'm not saying this to insult you but it seems to me that geting a licence is far too easy over there... I'll vouch for that. I finally got around to getting my Colorado motorcycle license last year after getting my Aussie one more than 20 years ago. I actually took it on the GTS. After a simple multiple choice test I was taken to a paved area marked out for the testing. The tester explained that I was allowed up to "5 points" off which equated roughly to a few mistakes and a poor result in the brake test. When the tester saw the GTS he said it was going to be really tough to do the drills on such a big machine. The slow speed zigzag through the cones was tough but to his amazement I squeezed through without touching any. But you should have seen the look on his face when I didn't even reach the measuring marks in the brake test. He said he'd never seen anyone brake near that good. (I couldn't bring myself to tell him about the ABS of course!) After a couple more maneuvering tests I had my license. I was flabbergasted that I wasn't even required to ride on an actual road or even at any speed above 20 mph!!! Cheers Joe.
Re: Helmet / motorcycle license
- Original Message - From: Loss, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 5:07 PM Subject: RE: Helmet / motorcycle license -Original Message- From: Michel Bijl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 1:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Helmet In '84, I spent one year in your beautiful country, (Carmel IN) At that time I noticed that drivers education is, compared to dutch standards, at an horrible level. I'm not saying this to insult you but it seems to me that geting a licence is far too easy over there... I'll vouch for that. I finally got around to getting my Colorado motorcycle license last year after getting my Aussie one more than 20 years ago. I actually took it on the GTS. After a simple multiple choice test I was taken to a paved area marked out for the testing. The tester explained that I was allowed up to "5 points" off which equated roughly to a few mistakes and a poor result in the brake test. When the tester saw the GTS he said it was going to be really tough to do the drills on such a big machine. The slow speed zigzag through the cones was tough but to his amazement I squeezed through without touching any. But you should have seen the look on his face when I didn't even reach the measuring marks in the brake test. He said he'd never seen anyone brake near that good. (I couldn't bring myself to tell him about the ABS of course!) After a couple more maneuvering tests I had my license. I was flabbergasted that I wasn't even required to ride on an actual road or even at any speed above 20 mph!!! Cheers Joe. I rest my case Michel
Re: 93 GTS For Sale
Hi all, Should you happen to be selling a bike that is posted on the website, I am forwarding the responses directly to you. SO... When you reply, please do not hit the reply button. Please use the address header contained within the message from the original sender to use as the return address. Otherwise, it simply comes back to the 'alternate' webbased mail provider that I set up to avoid spam to your email box. Should dialog continue after that point, then you will be in the position of dealing directly with each other. (And, I don't have to know how much you end up selling your bike for.) :^0 Thanks, Brandon
oil changing
I changed my oil tonight and have a question to propose to the group. If you tilt the GTS over (leaning on one leg of the center stand) while draining the oil you will get considerably more (a 1/2 pint) oil to drain out than if you just let the bike sit on the center stand. Do you think this extra drainage is necessary or is it over kill? Why isn't there a drain on the bottom of the sump? to get all the oil sludge out? Jason cog #62
