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- Subject: Re: 90/130W H4 QI headlight bulbs wanted
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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 10 Jan 93 18:52:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- Organization: The Courts of Chaos * 501-985-0059 * Public Access Usenet
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- -> If you had ever talked to someone who has been in a motorcycle
- -> accident when a car pulled out in front of him, you would not be
- -> saying this. The frontal projection of a motorcycle that is
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- I've BEEN in such crash. From the motorcycle end. You have NO idea
- what you're talking about.
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- -> I watched a TV special once, and they said that in this type of
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- Yeah. Boy, that ought to be the cat's ass for accuracy. Was it
- "McGyver" or "Renegade"?
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- -> And although I occasionally ride a motorcycle and hence like to think
- -> I am more aware of the problem, I confess to pulling out in front of
- -> a Harley (with his lights on and flickering) in the above described
- -> situation. Luckily I caught sight of him and stopped after pulling
- -> forward about 6 feet, and he swerved, which narrowly avoided the
- -> accident.
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- Perhaps you'd be better off piloting a set of Reeboks.
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- -> only that, but after he was thrown into the street in a crumpled ball
- -> (luckily he was wearing a helmet), he noticed that the driver
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- Why? Did he land on his head?
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- -> motorcycles MORE visible. What they arrived at was a device
- -> called a "Q-switch", which you may have seen on some motorcycles. It
- -> repeatedly switches the headlight between low and high beam, causing
- -> a flashing sensation, to make it even more visible,
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- They're illegal here, but some people use them anyway. And whether on
- two wheels or four, there's that nearly irrepressible urge to put a
- couple of rounds from my .357 into the light and the idiot behind it.
- Pissing off people who can kill you isn't very bright. Of course, if it
- was "McGyver"....
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- can you help me...help me get out of this place?...slow sedation...
- ain't my style, ain't my pace...giving me a number...NINE, SEVEN, EIGHT
- (Nazareth) XJ900 TURBO at 15psi DoD# 978 KotFAQ
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