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- From: vlj@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Victor Johnson)
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:30:22 GMT
- Subject: Re: Squash or slide?
- Message-ID: <9901083@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Dances with Hawks
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- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- References: <1992Nov18.112304.10192@aber.ac.uk>
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- In rec.motorcycles, azw@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Michael Woodward) writes:
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- >
- >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.
-
- My preference is along the lies of:
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- E) None of the above.
-
- I always:
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- 1. Perform evasive maneuver to avoid going down.
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- 2. Wear Aerostitch to mitigate roadrash once down. A slide is better
- than a roll since extremeties tend to fly out and get snapped in
- two when tumbling.
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- Cheers,
- Victor "Dances with Cordura" Johnson
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