From: owner-dr-digest@lists.xmission.com (dr-digest) To: dr-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: dr-digest V1 #128 Reply-To: dr-digest Sender: owner-dr-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-dr-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk dr-digest Tuesday, May 2 2000 Volume 01 : Number 128 Re: (dr) DRz skid plates? (dr) GPS accuracy increases RE: (dr) Greetings again RE: (dr) Greetings from Sunny Hampshire, UK ! (dr) Too much oil -- doh !!!!!!!! (dr) Blackened DR 350 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 14:23:43 -0400 From: al.roof.for.nc.trails@juno.com Subject: Re: (dr) DRz skid plates? On Mon, 1 May 2000 13:32:49 -0400 Mike Ballou writes: > > Does anyone know who makes a good skid plate for the DRZ? > Thanks, > Mike Hey Mike, Contact Drew Smith's Works Enduro Rider. They have a new DR-Z skid plate with integral case guards. Drew helped Suzuki develop the DR-Z (and the old PEs, Honda XRs, and the '90 Suzuki DR 350s) so he should know what's best. Work Enduro Rider 1 Jenny Jump Avenue Great Meadows, NJ 07838 908-637-6840 Be sure and tell them I sent you! Al Roof Promoter - The Honda Hoot Carolina Dual Sport Adventure Founder & President - The Blue Ridge Pathfinders Motorcycle Club ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. - - to unsubscribe to dr, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe dr" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:47:32 -0700 From: Tom Myers Subject: (dr) GPS accuracy increases Hello GPS afficianados, In case you haven't heard, TONITE the US government is turning off the "SA" selactive availability error. Typically this error was induced into the soignal to prevent terrorists (or whatever) from using our satellites. With this goverment-induced error, GPS accuracy has been about 200-300 feet. Tonite, the government will remove the error. Our Garmin rep estimates (and this is a guess) that accuracy of handheld Garmin GPS units will be about 20-30 feet. We will put more informatiopn on http://www.cycoactive.com/gps as soon as we get it Enjoy! Tom - -------------------------------------- Remarks of Dr. D. James Baker Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration On the Decision to Discontinue GPS Selective Availability May 1, 2000 Dr. Lane, on behalf of the Commerce Department, the Interagency GPS Executive Board, and the millions of GPS users around the world, I commend the President for taking this important step today -- a full six years ahead of schedule. Thanks in no small part to the President's policy, the U.S. Global Positioning System continues to be THE global standard for satellite-based navigation, positioning, and timing. The U.S. policy of free access to both the signal and the receiver design specifications has enabled users worldwide to embrace GPS and develop hundreds of applications and devices that no one dreamed of a few years ago. For example, farmers are using GPS to map fields and tailor applications of seed and chemicals, minimizing costs and contaminant run-off. Oil companies in Britain, Finland, and elsewhere are using GPS to identify drilling sites in the middle of the sea. And just a few months ago, a Japanese company unveiled a Dick Tracy-style wristwatch with a fully functional GPS receiver built in. Overall, the global market for GPS goods and services is booming, with sales to exceed $8 billion this year and $16 billion by 2003. Today's action will accelerate this growth by eliminating a significant impediment to the adoption and use of GPS. Within my agency alone, there will be significant benefits, including improved fisheries border enforcement; more effective search and rescue and hazardous spill response operations; streamlined weather satellite data processing; and better electronic navigational charting for ships. At other government agencies, the higher accuracy will improve responses to emergency calls from cell phones equipped with GPS for "E911" capability. Natural resource management agencies and emergency relief organizations will be able to map and manage floodplains, levees, wetlands, forests -- even individual trees -- using basic GPS without costly, labor-intensive GPS augmentations. The same is true for the management of highways and waterways by state and federal authorities. NASA will have more precise control over satellite orbits, improving scientific results. And International Space Station operations will be simplified, enhancing astronaut safety. Outside the government, businesses and individuals will enjoy an even greater range of benefits. More telecommunications firms will use highly precise GPS time - now even MORE precise - for synchronizing phone and data networks. Taxicabs, buses, commercial trucks, and railroads will improve as individual vehicles are tracked and routed more efficiently. Recreational hikers, boaters, and pilots will see an immediate improvement in the accuracy of basic GPS receivers, resulting in better situational awareness and increased safety. All of these benefits will come without any receiver upgrades or fees whatsoever. And now the really good news: today's action is only the tip of the iceberg for civilian GPS improvements. It's the first step in a long term GPS enhancement program that will add more civil capabilities to GPS every few years: a second civilian signal by 2003; a third civilian signal by 2005; nationwide and regional augmentation systems for safer land, air, and sea travel; and next-generation capabilities being dreamed up as we speak as part of the "GPS III" program. At this time, we will be happy to take questions from the audience. INTERAGENCY GPS EXECUTIVE BOARD IGEB Executive Secretariat 4805 Herbert C. Hoover Building Washington, D.C. 20230 Phone: (202) 482-5809 Fax: (202) 501-4178 ExecSec@igeb.gov - -- +------------------------------------+ | CycoActive Products tel (206) 323-2349 | 701 34th Ave fax (206) 325-6016 | Seattle, WA 98122 USA | webpage: http://www.cycoactive.com | e-mail: TomMyers@cycoactive.com +------------------------------------+ - - to unsubscribe to dr, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe dr" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:48:39 +0100 From: andy.doyle@bt.com Subject: RE: (dr) Greetings again Mikko, That's a lot of meat to run into! Did it wreck the bike? What do reindeerburgers taste like? I had a problem with clutch cables snapping at the engine end. It was due to the slot in the lever being slightly 'V' shaped and cutting into the cable inner. File it out flat and stick a dollup of grease round it. Cheers Andy - - to unsubscribe to dr, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe dr" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:45:28 +0100 From: andy.doyle@bt.com Subject: RE: (dr) Greetings from Sunny Hampshire, UK ! Iain/Bill I got the front mudguard I use from a breakers yard. I think it's from an XT660, but I'm not sure. It's held to the fork sliders by 2 car exhaust clamps, makes a BIG difference in stability in the wind and keeps all the shite off you when it's wet. Try riding deep mud and it clogs up very quickly. It just depends what you use your bike for, I guess. It suits me. The screen is called a Deflector from M&P http://www.mandp.co.uk/default.htm Into headwinds, rain and cold days it is well worthwhile. I take it off in the summer, but it's on the bars from Nov - April. Might not look too cool but it works! Also fits quite neatly behind the lip of the headlight assembly. I wear a street full-face rather than motox, mainly coz it's warmer and keeps more flies out of my face. I also use a 2-way radio riding with my mates, and it gives more sound protection to the mike. Andy > Andy, > > I'd love to hear more about the low front mudguard and windscreen. I > typically stay below 65 because of the wind. Do you use a street helmet > too. I'm using an MX style and I wonder if a full face street type > wouldn't > be better. > > Bill Mitchell > Raleigh, NC > - - to unsubscribe to dr, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe dr" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 13:39:34 +0100 From: "Colin Parkes" Subject: (dr) Too much oil -- doh !!!!!!!! This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BFB43B.DA31A520 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Folks,,, my '92 DR350 has been leaking oil, so, the other day, in a rush to get = in to work, I poured some in without measuring it... Got down the road a few miles before a huge cloud of smoke erupted from = the tailpipe.... I drained some oil when I got into work, but since then the bike is well = down on power. (I know this because I can't wheelie it anymore !!!!). What is the likely cause of this ???? Do I need to clean my carb/jets ??? The bike doesn't appear to be smoking anymore.... Please take mercy on a very in-experienced home mechanic !!!!!! cheers, Col - ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BFB43B.DA31A520 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi Folks,,,
 
my '92 DR350 has been leaking oil, so, the other = day, in a=20 rush to get in to work, I poured some in without measuring = it...
Got down the road a few miles before a huge cloud of = smoke=20 erupted from the tailpipe....
 
I drained some oil when I got into work, but since = then the=20 bike is well down on power.
(I know this because I can't wheelie it anymore=20 !!!!).
 
What is the likely cause of this ????
Do I need to clean my carb/jets ???
 
The bike doesn't appear to be smoking = anymore....
 
Please take mercy on a very in-experienced home = mechanic=20 !!!!!!
 
cheers,
 
Col
- ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BFB43B.DA31A520-- - - to unsubscribe to dr, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe dr" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 13:17:20 -0400 From: Don Forgays Subject: (dr) Blackened DR 350 A few months ago, (possibly from this list), I saw pictures of a DR350 all done up in black. I think that it looked great! My question is: does anyone on the list know of someone who might carry the black plastic replacement pieces available in the US, for mail order shipping? I have a friend with a paint shop, so I can get the frame and tank done there. What I am looking for are the front fender, front fairing-(around headlight), both side fairings, and the rear fender, (preferably one with a straighter cut). I am capable of minor modifications if need be, but would prefer something close to factory fit. Any ideas? Don F. 95 DR 350SE Burlington, VT. - - to unsubscribe to dr, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe dr" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ End of dr-digest V1 #128 ************************ - To unsubscribe to $LIST, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe $LIST" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.