Blackbird gotchas?

Well, of course: it's a Kawasaki.

 

Try item no: 150114143743

 

you're not trying to claim that having posted since the middle of 2002
makes you *not* a newbie, are you?

 

Shut it, newbie.

 

although I'm fairly[1] sure I was posting before then[2], the earliest
post I can find using Googles less than helpful new interface from
myself is October 1996, so fair comment.

[1] the threads I can find don't seem to be "new to the group" posts,
and I'm 99% sure I posted to ukrm in July 1996, just after passing my
bike test.
[2] the first 8-10 years or so before this that I was using the 'net
was mostly mailing lists, Archie/Gopher/Veronica and IRC.

 

I saw a white one in the dealer last weekend and thought it was
utterly horrid.

 

To a degree, because forks have been improved so much.

But that doesn't alter the fact that it could make a quick-steering
machine *too* quick-steering. See below.

Yes, this is certainly true, and I can't think of a decent race bike
that doesn't use telescopic forks these days. But bear in mind you're
talking about bikes that are likely to be used by experts (definitely
will be, if we're talking racers), whereas my original posit was that
the vast majority of riders out there *don't* have that degree of
skill (cue another 'crap Sunday riders' thread?) and for these people,
on certain bikes, linked brakes are a good thing.

 

I suspect I go back to about '98 in my former 'Snipper' incarnation, but a
lot of people seem to have used that one and I can't find much in Google -
so I've no idea. (How about 30+ bikes in 40+ years of biking, then - does
that help?)

And what about my 'Mime vs. Uuencode' query...??

 

Gravity isn't bad, for a freebie. Thunderbird has Usenet capability
built in and various add-ons are available that probably make it
eminently usable and is in any event a spiffing mail client in its own
right.

OE is from M$ and is therefore automatically shite.

Personally I feel that Turnpike 5 is still so far ahead of the game as a
news client that I paid for it.

If you are happy with the look and feel of the OE/Gravity/Agent style
then Turnpike 6 would be a better choice again but alas not free.
Although I think they do a 14 day trial which would be worth a looksee.

74 is considered the norm but there are many purists who feel 72 is
better.

 

Ah. ISWYM.

It's my personal view (from the sort of riding I do, and

Six or seven years ago it would have been bought by 'your' type of
rider. Nowadays, I think it's bought by 'mine'.

(I like the concept of the Gentleman's Express, but find the 'Bird
just too bland. A ZZR1400, OTOH, I think I might like immensely.)

 

I think MS products are brilliant and if I get to meet Bill Gates I
would deem it a great honour to shake his hand*.....

Thanks for the tip, I'll have a think about that...

Yes, same here - I have it filed under '**** Nose'....

OK, I've changed it to 72 - I don't want anyone to think I'm not
*pure*....



*You never know - I wouldn't be surprised if he drops in here from time
to time...??

(Thursdays??)

 

<TOG@toil>; <>;

When the BB came out I thought it was the D's Bs but I'm not bothered
these days...

This one do yer?

http://img.rian.ru/images/4187/73/41877371.jpg

 

GTR1400.

 

From memory my first postings to usenet were via Almac BBS back around
1991/2. I can't remember what alias I was using because it was tied it
to my BBS login and I don't remember that 15 years later.

And then I discovered the joys of linux in about 93/94 and started
running inn (and later leafnode) over dial-up (using Demon as they were
the only UK ISP who had a FAQ on how to get SLIP/PPP working on linux
and a helpdesk that didn't put the phone down on you when you said you
didn't have Windows - how the times have changed..).

I think I've only been posting to UKRM since about 1998 but it's
difficult to tell becuase I used X-No-Archive all the time back then
and all the archives actually honoured it.

Phil.

 

What about it? Both encode an 8-bit data stream so it can pass over a
7-bit data channel and both are decodable by just about any modern
GUI-based newsreader[1].

And both are a bad bad idea on a text-only newsgroup like UKRM. Stick
to plain ACSII.

Phil.

[1] Unike what I'm using which is neither modern nor GUI-based. But it
is quick and I can log onto it from wherever I am. SLRN rulez.

 

Set to "Plain Text"

Phil

 

he's a reasonable a-two-a times!

 

Ah! An answer!!

OK, thanks for that - both Mail and News are (and always have been) set
to Plain Text.

My first computer was an 'IBM PC' (256K RAM) in the mid 80s I believe
and then a Compaq portable (like a suitcase - the bottom was the
keyboard). There was a card with it which said summat like 'You may be
wondering how these things work - you've got two ways to go: 1) bust
your arse to find out about it all, 2) just *use* the scogging things
and go out and have some fun...'

Guess what....??

That said, the last thing I did before I retired was to look after 130
machines and 4 networks in a secondary school and I have built the last
few of my own computers (including this one) myself - I deem it more
useful to be able to change a bike tyre, but I wouldn't even attempt
that now.....

 

Or manage to post without inserting three times as many blank lines as
lines of text.

 

If it makes you happy, but I hope you are not too seriously
disconvenienced if I tell you I couldn't really give a little
short-throw, jerky ****...

Singulary?