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- Subject: Re: Squash or slide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.155906.24080@bnr.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:59:06 GMT
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- Andrew Michael Woodward (azw@aber.ac.uk) wrote:
- :
- : OK folks, so whats the net wisdom (!) here? Do you slide and wear yourself away
- : in a short red stain; or tuck up an roll to avoid the rash, travel further
- : and end up under an oncoming cage as a hedgehog impersonator?
- :
- : For uneducated colonial irrigants, hedgehogs are spiny flat animals whose
- : natural habitat is dark roads.
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- I thought they were ball shaped. Oh, I see, after they've been car'd.
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- It all depend on the situation, doesn't it. If it was a wet road, I'd sooner
- take my chance with a slide. On a dry road, the roll is bound to win you far
- more points for style, grace and survivability. I slid once but i was wearing
- a well-greased belstaff and got away fairly lightly for a 50MPH endo. Wife
- broke her little finger. I wonder what she was doing to do that??? Strange
- creatures, wives....
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- Nick (the Divorced Biker) MAG 73516 DoD 1069 Decree Absolute
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- M'Lud.
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