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> REUTERS > May 17, 2001 > > Washington, DC > > In a rare move of cooperation between the Executive and Judiciary > Branches of the United States Government, the medical use of Marijuana > was legalized nationwide today by nearly unanimous votes by both houses > of Congress. Then the surprise... the new law was then upheld in an > almost simultaneous decision by the US Supreme Court. The case arose > out of the fate of Senator Bucky Jordan, a Republican Congressman from > Kentucky, who has been fighting terminal cancer for 18 months. Bucky > sought but could not receive relief from the pain and nausea that his > doctors told him Marijuana could give. Congress and the Supreme Court > were swayed by his terrible predicament... thus the unprecedented moves > today. > > Asked if Congress had "bent the rules" for one of their own, the Speaker > of the House was quoted as saying: > > "There was no need to "bend" the rules, the rules were changed by those > who made them...." > > The Senator from Arizona promised a full legislative inquiry... >

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., gyb@s... wrote: > >Here's "my" take on your description of the geometries at work. The > >rake & trail should stay the same in that the spring is contained > > >fork any more than prior to adding the pre load. > > This is true when you measure the fully extended fork, but the > static sag (and the "race" sag) will change due to the added > preload. The front of your bike will ride higher. If you think > about it as a triangle formed by the forks, the vertical line that > goes through the steering head to the ground and the line that > goes from there, horizontally, to the contact patch, you have > extended the fork part. Since the horizontal and vertical lines > are fixed by definition, the only way to keep the triangle is to > extend those imaginary lines and therefore change the angle > at the steering head. So, now you have a larger angle for rake > and a longer trail. All this assumes the rear is fixed, and you > did not change that. If you do, then there is another variable > that affects the angle. Obviously, raising the rear will reduce > it, and quicken the steering. > > >The difference being that as the forks dive it will take a higher > >degree of compression to move them the same distance as > >before. Obviously the ride will feel stiffer but the initial "slop > >dive" should be at least slightly reduced. Anyway, that's what > >I am "hoping" will happen. > > Yes, it will reduce the initial dive, under small forces (equal to > the force required to move the spring the preloaded amount). > But, once the forces are larger than that, it will still dive at the > same rate as before. So you will have a firmer ride, but the > total dive characteristics will not change. You don't get more > resistance to diving by preloading, you just change when it > starts. If that's what you are trying to achieve, then yes, it will > help. If you want more resistance to diving, you have to > change the springs and fork oil. > > Hope this helps, > > Gustavo