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- From: bobby@dc.dk (Bobby Billingsley)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX
- Message-ID: <i3423.722074281@newsie>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 08:11:21 GMT
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- Sender: i3423@newsie.dc.dk (Bobby Billingsley)
- Organization: Datacentralen A/S
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- alanf@eng.tridom.com (Alan Fleming) writes:
- >>
- >*I* know someone that lost a leg on a bike. ......
-
- My driving instructor (cage) lost his left leg a few years prior to my
- meeting him. He was hit from the side by a cage while riding his MC. Didn't
- deter him from going on to be a driving instructor, replacing his bike
- with a sidecar job (due to his losing his leg, he wasn't allowed to ride
- a solo bike) and carrying on to be a driving instructor for lorry-
- drivers! Of course, the agency who had rebuilt his cage for him (microswitch
- in gear lever to activate clutch + other extras for the legless) were
- a bit concerned about rebuilding a lorry for him to be able to use, but
- they managed.
-
- Strikes me as a bit of the old Douglas Bader stuff. So what?.
-
- If you're afraid of heights, you stay near the ground. If you're afraid
- of anything, you avoid it - or minimize the risk factor. End of problem.
-
- Of course, if you start ignoring the risks/danger/whatever, you're bound
- to either wake up one morning with your mind in a *bad* state, or "just"
- make a small mistake with large consequenses.
-
- Since any form of transport other than Mother Natures original intent is
- bound to be more risky, why not stick with crawling/walking? If we could
- just get *everybody* to do this, then no-one would get hurt in traffic!
- Yeah that's it, lets ban all forms of transportation except our own two
- feet! Think of it: no insurance fees, no helmet laws, no pollution, no
- senseless cagers, no squids, no .......... damn, no *fun*, no convenience,
- no thrills.....on second thought let's just "be careful out there", OK?
-
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