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- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!quadsys!roland
- From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
- Subject: Re: Passenger Clothing (how fascist are YOU?)
- Message-ID: <BxrrC5.Bqv@quadsys.com>
- Organization: QUAD Systems
- References: <BxMpCx.Ez4@news.iastate.edu> <1992Nov13.031330.16775@news.columbia.edu> <BxoCHE.IyL@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:00:05 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- >> I know this is all a rationalization on the fingerless gloves. I still
- >> claim to myself that if I hit the asphalt at high speed I'll be able
- >> to get myself *off* my ass and onto the leather parts of my chaps.
- >
- > Your kidding right?
- > While your skidding along on a giant 20 grit beltsander at say 50+mph
- >and still stunned from hitting the ground you plan to carefully place
- >your palms on the concrete and without burning your fingers off deftly
- >place your bodyweight onto the leather part of your chaps?
- >
- > Would that be your knees?
- >
- > Sebastian "The Human Cannonball" Sears?
- >
- > Stop rationalizing and get some leather over that skin.
-
- I've seen a couple of guys 'trying to get up' after crashing on the track.
- The problem is that after crashing at 120mph you tend to be a bit disoriented
- (never mind that the only thought racing thru your brain is 'SHIT'). The brain
- tries to compensate for the fast moving scenery and tends to tell you you're
- at rest when you're still going 30mph. Trying to get up at that point is
- a mistake and will only result in you putting on a 2-step performance for
- the pit crews - and possible broken bones.
-
- Having crashed on the track and on the street, I have never been able to
- rationally analyze my precarious situation while in progress. After the
- initial response (see above) all I can manage is 'stay down - stay down - ...'
- and I don't think I'm much of a performer.
-
- --
-
- Roland Besserer
- QUAD Systems
- roland@quadsys.com
-