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- From: jsm@rosencrantz.osf.org (John S. Morris)
- Subject: Re: Squash or slide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.151751.2261@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1992Nov19.233137.24262@serval.net.wsu.edu> <7686@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <1992Nov22.172930.461@rd.hydro.on.ca>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:17:51 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
-
- I crashed a Shadow 700 a few years ago in rain and wet leaves. As I slide
- along the road in slow motion I remember reaching up and hitting the engine
- stop switch. I didn't seem to have anything else to do at the time. 8-(
-
- -John
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