From: dc-cycles-digest-request@XXXXXX (The dc-cycles list administrator) To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX Errors-To: dc-cycles-digest-request@XXXXXX Subject: dc-cycles digest for 03/28/06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ __ /-----\ __ 'dc-cycles' is an unmoderated email discussion list (__\/ _____ \/__) about motorcycling in the Washington D.C. area. =( \___/ )= \ ___ / An archive of the dc-cycles list is available at: | / _ \ | http://www.dc-cycles.org/ \ || || / \|| ||/ Subscribe/unsubscribe requests should be sent to: \| |/ dc-cycles-digest-request@XXXXXX |_| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX cc: b_thom@XXXXXX Content-ID: <7830.1143519595.1@XXXXXX> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:19:55 -0500 From: Harry Mantakos Subject: [dc-cycles] old bikes (fwd from non-lister) A forward from a non-lister, ensure that 'b_thom@XXXXXX' is cc'ed on responses. -harry ------- Forwarded Message To: harry@XXXXXX Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:52:14 -0500 Subject: RE: old bikes From: b_thom@XXXXXX Alexandria's special pickup is coming. I've got some beat up bikes I'm thinking of deaccessioning, as the museums say. I'd rather see them go to a good home. Any ideas who in the DC-northern VA area is interested in the things? I mean high school vo-tech courses. It makes no sense for an individual to work on these things, but the kids could use them for a learning project. ... ------- End of Forwarded Message _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:16:13 -0500 From: skip To: Harry Mantakos CC: dc-cycles@XXXXXX, b_thom@XXXXXX Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] old bikes (fwd from non-lister) what do you have? I know folks that might be interested in some "museum pieces" --skip Harry Mantakos wrote: > > A forward from a non-lister, ensure that 'b_thom@XXXXXX' > is cc'ed on responses. > -harry > > ------- Forwarded Message > > To: harry@XXXXXX > Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:52:14 -0500 > Subject: RE: old bikes > From: b_thom@XXXXXX > > Alexandria's special pickup is coming. I've got some beat up bikes I'm > thinking of deaccessioning, as the museums say. I'd rather see them go to > a good home. Any ideas who in the DC-northern VA area is interested in > the things? I mean high school vo-tech courses. It makes no sense for an > individual to work on these things, but the kids could use them for a > learning project. > > ... > ------- End of Forwarded Message _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) X-IronPortListener: NIH_Relay X-SBRS: None X-IronPort-AV: i="4.03,139,1141621200"; d="scan'208"; a="157094114:sNHT870514628" Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:45:01 -0500 To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX From: Erick Singley Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] old bikes (fwd from non-lister) Any CB-750s in that pile? ;) Who knows what my 74' Honda may need... (a muffler that fits my 4-in-1 pipe for one...) >what do you have? I know folks that might be interested in some "museum >pieces" > >--skip > >Harry Mantakos wrote: >> >> A forward from a non-lister, ensure that 'b_thom@XXXXXX' >> is cc'ed on responses. >> -harry >> >> ------- Forwarded Message >> >> To: harry@XXXXXX >> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:52:14 -0500 >> Subject: RE: old bikes >> From: b_thom@XXXXXX >> >> Alexandria's special pickup is coming. I've got some beat up bikes I'm >> thinking of deaccessioning, as the museums say. I'd rather see them go to >> a good home. Any ideas who in the DC-northern VA area is interested in >> the things? I mean high school vo-tech courses. It makes no sense for an >> individual to work on these things, but the kids could use them for a >> learning project. >> >> ... >> ------- End of Forwarded Message _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:10:11 -0500 From: "Cedric Bernescut" To: Subject: [dc-cycles] Trip to the Hospital I was spending a few days in sunny Spain; a buddy works in PR for one of the huge Euro telecoms and he got me a VIP pass for the Jerez race. Saturday they had a number of media events including rolling tour of the track for VIP's, I got to borrow an RCV211 test mule and rolled out onto pit lane right as free practice was ending. Trying desperately not to embarrass myself in front of everyone, I eased out of the pit lane and stalled it. A push and I was red-faced but soon back in business. Suddenly I was the last in the group and having to work hard just to keep the others in site, After about 4 or 5 turns, the nervousness disappeared and I started to find my rhythm. I was really getting into a groove, the RCV was screaming, soon it was just Randy Mamola on the two-seat Ducati and I. Banging it through the gears at the end of the main straight I missed my braking marker in all the excitement and I overreacted, grabbing too much front brake. A yellow flash with a "46" on it went by on the inside but the rear end stepped out and tapped the overloaded front on the RCV sending me to the tarmac. The scenery changed and all I remember was sky, asphalt, sky, asphalt, gravel and a marshall grabbing my arm saying "It's time to go to the hospital!" I responded "What for?" A voice says "Because the baby's coming, NOW!" I lift my head off the pillow and the clock radio says 2:00 am, my wife is holding her stomach and breathing like my friend Justin with a new Snap-On catalog. Suddenly the champagne and endorsement contracts will have to wait as I'm packing a 4 year old into a car seat, racing down the street during prime drunk-driver interdiction season and praying we make it in time. 1 hour later I am holding the most gorgeous little person in my arms and my wife is resting as comfortably as one can after the equivalent of squeezing a piston through an intake valve. A short time later we were transferred to a private room on the seventh floor and by the light of the window little Kayla witnessed her first dawn. Somewhere off in the distance an inline four bounced off it's rev limiter as if to say "Welcome, little Kayla." Cedric Bernescut CBR600F4 Inspirational Thought for the Day: http://tinyurl.com/zbgs _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:23:37 -0800 (PST) From: "James O'Connor" Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] Trip to the Hospital To: Cedric Bernescut , dc-cycles@XXXXXX CONGRATULATIONS!!! - Jimmy --- Cedric Bernescut wrote: 1 hour later I am holding the most gorgeous > little > person in my arms and my wife is resting as comfortably as one can __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) From: "Perry Coleman" To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX Subject: RE: [dc-cycles] Trip to the Hospital Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:55:15 -0500 Congratulations! Great story, too! My favorite description of the act is "Pushing something the size of a watermelon through a hole the size of a lemon". ;^) Perry >From: "Cedric Bernescut" >To: >Subject: [dc-cycles] Trip to the Hospital >Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:10:11 -0500 >[snip] >... 1 hour later I am holding the most gorgeous little >person in my arms and my wife is resting as comfortably as one can after >the equivalent of squeezing a piston through an intake valve. A short >time later we were transferred to a private room on the seventh floor >and by the light of the window little Kayla witnessed her first dawn. >Somewhere off in the distance an inline four bounced off it's rev >limiter as if to say "Welcome, little Kayla." > >Cedric Bernescut >CBR600F4 > >Inspirational Thought for the Day: > >http://tinyurl.com/zbgs > >