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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...

[Dan Oaks]

Yeh . . .Right! -- bierdo L wrote:

> 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... >

[Greg Paul]

Thanks my friend! You have lifted the cloud from around my head! Greg in Dallas

--- 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