Wilsons Sandbox

Hmmmm... you know when I was in the Marine Corps my T/O weapon was a SMAW (Shoulder-fired Multipurpose Assault Weapon) (tounge-in-cheek aka: Suicidal Maniac's Ass Whupper). It fired an 80mm (or so) rocket out to 250 meters effective range. Makes a BIG hole in whatever you hit and a bunch of little holes in most things you miss. So perhaps one of the fine machinists on the list would like to get some measurements and rig me up a handlebar mounting mechanism. Remember it's a back blast weapon so make sure the butt end is not pointed at the rider. Even a close miss would take out just about any moose I've seen on the Discovery channel. We wouldn't even need to change the designation (Sycle-fired-Moose-Aside-Weapon). Oh yes, the last target I took out was a 5-ton truck. Weighed about, um? 10,000 lbs? Perhaps? Geeze I need to go home... been working for 13 hours now... Just ignore the man behind the curtain please... Jim Jackson II (Do they have moose in South Carolina?) A13 - South Carolina

>LOL!! Good one! >As a Canadian deep in moose country I offer the following info; >Listed dry weight of KLR 650: 337 lbs. >Measured weight of last moose I killed( gutted, skinned, quartered): 578 >lbs. >Do not, I repeat, DO NOT attempt to bash moose on a motorcycle....ever!!! > >Steve Pye >( still enjoying moose steak!) >

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> > -----Original Message----- > From: unixycle > To: DSN_klr650@egroups.com DSN_klr650@egroups.com> > Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 7:00 PM > > >I thought about installing the moose guards on my A13 > >but since most of my riding is in west central FL > >the odds of ever hitting a moose seemed pretty remote. > >Not only this, but you would have to just "graze" the > >moose with your handlebars for the guards to have any > >effect. I though the moose bashplate was pretty stupid > >too. How are you gonna get the moose to crouch down far > >enough to get it with the plate? Are you supposed to ride > >a wheelie directly at the moose and try to BASH it with > >the plate? Maybe the Canadians could help us out here. > >Sorry, couldn't resist. I know you got them installed. > >jimv > >A13 > > LOL!! Good one! > As a Canadian deep in moose country I offer the following info; > Listed dry weight of KLR 650: 337 lbs. > Measured weight of last moose I killed( gutted, skinned, quartered): 578 > lbs. > Do not, I repeat, DO NOT attempt to bash moose on a motorcycle....ever!!! >

Never have killed and disassembled a moose, but I did nearly go heads-up with a 1000+ lb. cow on a highway in Maine some years ago. Even in a full-sized Ford van, it seemed like a poor bet... -Tom '96 KLR 650

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>There's a reason why moose don't move off the highway when you come >screaming at them. They know they're going to win. Deer get >mesmerized by headlights. Moose just don't give a shit. > >I was on a flight over the Primrose Lake Air Weapons range in >northern Alberta one time. We buzzed a moose standing in a slough at >about 450 knots and 100 feet. Looked over my shoulder as we climbed >out, bloody moose didn't even lift his head out of the water. Kept >right on eating. > >Cheers, > >D. >GBG eh14

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> > I thought about installing the moose guards on my A13 > but since most of my riding is in west central FL > the odds of ever hitting a moose seemed pretty remote. > Not only this, but you would have to just "graze" the > moose with your handlebars for the guards to have any > effect.

Yeah, I just put on a Moose shift lever, and I don't see why this would be any easier for a moose to use over the stock one. I mean, a moose already exceeds the weight capacity of the bike, so one stepping on the stock shift lever and breaking it off is a moot point. GPS

> > >I understand the same as what Tom is saying, but I also thought the > >elevation could not be determined without the fourth satellite. My > >eTrex will not confirm *ready to navigate* without four satellites > >being hooked. > > You need four dimensions to get started. There's X, Y, Z and "time". > After you lock in to four satellites, then the need for four drops to > three because the GPS uses its internal clock (just recently > 'corrected') for the time dimension.

Yeah, but to get a fix in 3-D (X,Y,Z), you need to know the distance to yourself from four different points. The time dimension is just used to calculate the sat-to-receiver distances, isn't it? Fer instance, to locate a point on a piece of paper (2-D) in terms of distances from other points, you need three points. The only exception is if the target point and the two "known" points are all on the same line, but that's a pretty rare exception. In the attached figure (sorry for the crappy quality), the target point is at T, and the known points (i.e., sattelites) are K1, K2 and K3. You know from the distance calculations that T is 2 miles from K1, 3 miles from K2, and 4 miles from K3. If you only have the distances from K1 and K2, you get two possible targets, T and the "false T." You need the third distance to determine which of the two targets is the correct one. In 3-D, the distance circles become spheres. The intersection of two spheres is a circle, and adding a third sphere gives you two intersecting circles. You need the fourth sphere (sattelite) to pick which point is the correct one. Three sattelites could give you a position if the receiver assumes you are at sea level (or some arbitrary altitude), but then the three distances would have no coincidental point unless you're really at that altitude, and that would give you the range of error. I don't know what the sattelite altitude is, but if it's, say 300 miles, and the highest point on earth is 31 kft, that's only about 2% of the sat altitude, which ain't too bad. Of course, if the place you want to be is on the trail, and 2% error has you falling down the side of a cliff, well then that's pretty bad. Frankly, I'd be happy to just turn it on and know it works! -- Dr. J. Christopher Krok Project Engineer, Adaptive Wall Wind Tunnel Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology MS 205-45 Phone: 626.395.4794 Pasadena, CA 91125 Fax: 626.449.2677