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- From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.220906.1844@adobe.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 22:09:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: adobe.1992Nov15.220906.1844
- References: <RTARAZ.92Nov14211852@bigwpi.WPI.EDU>
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- In article <RTARAZ.92Nov14211852@bigwpi.WPI.EDU> rtaraz@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Ramin Taraz) writes:
- }I might want to stop riding my bike. I have always though about the
- }possibility of getting into an accident and losing some body parts,
- }but it is different when you see it happen!
-
- While nothing can prepare you for weirdness like the suicidal guy
- blowing through the STOP sign and broadsiding the biker recently, *you*
- can at least be prepared to SIPDE better than the unfortunate victim
- of the accident you describe. Chances are she either wasn't scanning
- as effectively as possible, or she stayed too far off the front brake
- in the fear of locking it up. 'Least that's what the statistical lies
- say.
-
- You can't prevent cagers from committing idiocy, but you can increase
- your chances of surviving it. Remember that you do have that much
- control, and maybe it'll make your life a bit easier (and safer).
-
- When I was a skydiver I was constantly amazed at the deaths of
- experienced skydivers who just (apparently) didn't pay enough attention
- to what they were doing, and then panicked when things got tight.
- They can't afford to get lax, and neither can we. Keep the concentration
- high, skills honed, and you'll stand a better chance.
-
- And obviously don't do stupid crap. I'll never forget watching a
- video from a helmet-mounted camera taken by a skydiving photographer
- who was being pushed to make too many jumps too fast by the drop zone
- manager. Instead of just telling the manager to piss off and remaining
- safe, this idiot decided to show said manager just how low he could
- open to get on the ground (and thus back up in the air with another
- paying customer) faster. Half the people in a good-sized room watching
- a 25" TV from many feet away involuntarily reared back in their chairs
- (one even fell over) right before the guy opened on the tape. The
- ground rush was very evident. A 3 second opening delay would have
- killed him instantly; a 2 second delay would probably have had him
- opening so low as to be going at horrendous speed under canopy when he
- smacked into the ground going half-vertical/half-horizontal.
-
- Of course, it fits that the idiot (who was fired on the spot, BTW) went
- on to become an F-14 pilot in the Navy....
- --
- Curtis Jackson '91 Black Lab "Studley Doright" '92 Collie/Golden "George"
- cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com USPA #A-10080 (lapsed) DoD #721 '81 Maxim 650
- "They that can give up an essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
- safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1759)
-