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- From: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears)
- Subject: Re: Squash or slide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.202012.5001@news.columbia.edu>
- Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News)
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- Reply-To: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <1992Nov19.233137.24262@serval.net.wsu.edu> <7686@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <1992Nov22.172930.461@rd.hydro.on.ca>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:20:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.172930.461@rd.hydro.on.ca> jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine) writes:
- >What I want to know is, how many people have actually managed to hit the kill
- >switch during a crash? In my low-speed low-side I wound up standing over the
- >bike (in recently scratched leathers) still holding the clutch lever, and
- >the engine was still running! It would have been a pain to get it into neutral
- >so I just shut it off.
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- My Dad claims to have hit the kill switch as he went down at about
- fifteen miles per... Of course, I assume it's easier at that speed
- than higher speeds (where you don't want anything with the word
- "kill" crossing your mind :-()
-
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- "Don't believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear." - Lou Reed
- Sea-Bass Sears --> scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu --> DoD#516 <-- |Stanley, ID.|
- '79 Yamaha XS750F -- '85 Toyota 4Runner -- Perception Corsica | NYC, NY. |
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