Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2h.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!hou2h!an From: an@hou2h.UUCP (A.NGUYEN) Newsgroups: net.cycle Subject: Motor Vehicle flame Message-ID: <479@hou2h.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 13:06:36 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2h.479 Posted: Tue Jun 5 13:06:36 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 06:44:01 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 17 -- I was down at DMV to get a friend's bike inspected just now. The man said, "Drive up to the yellow line and hit the *REAR* brake hard." I didn't feel like fighting authority today, so I did. Then I asked, "Why the rear? The front brake is so much more powerful." To which he replied, "Well, if you hit the front brake too hard, you're gonna go over the handle bar." AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!! If Motor Vehicle Officialdom still believes in an old wives' tale like that, then it's no wonder that bikers aren't getting quality Rider's Ed. Au