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From: jerem@tekgvs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Motorcycle correspondence
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Date: Sun, 10-Aug-86 00:02:54 EDT
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Reply-To: jerem@tekgvs.UUCP (Jere Marrs)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: Nothing on Helmets, politics


	I missed the races at Laguna Seca this year, but I did attend the
BMWMOA National Rally at the Laguna Seca Raceway which occurred about two
weeks later. It was an outstanding event with 3357 people attending on about
2700 motorcycles. There were extensive vendor booths and a large truck from
BMW of North America containing the new BMWs, both the K-models (75 & 100)
and the boxers (800cc).

	On Saturday afternoon, the track was opened for a 'parade lap' for
all of the 'cyclists that signed a liability waiver. Almost everyone took
advantage of this offer and rode around - _slowly_. I was most interested
to see what it was like (albeit slowly) so that I could imagine what Randy
Mamola and Eddy Lawson, et al., went through as they whiz around that track.
The corkscrew is aptly named. You come up the hill, going over the top your
front end gets light, and then you have to lean into a curve in the opposite
direction, and then through a series of zig-zags. It was fun, but I will never
understand how they can do it that fast.

	On riding back to Portland, I got talked into riding up the Sacramento
Valley instead of up the coast to Eureka & Crescent City. I have never exper-
ienced such hot temperatures! It was my first trip up that way and likely to
be my last. It was well over 100 in Red Bluff and Redding (as it normally is).
The only redeeming factor in that route is the view of Mt. Shasta. California
just _loves_ to put those _da***d grooves on the pavement just as you've
laid over into a curve. It's so nice and cool up the coast.

	Well, I hope this is a change from the flood of political articles.
Send your money to the AMA Government Relations dept.

				Jere M. Marrs
				Tektronix, Inc.
				Beaverton, Oregon
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