Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!klmartin From: klmartin@watmath.UUCP (K.L. Martin, Hardware) Newsgroups: net.cycle Subject: Re: Horror Story. Message-ID: <15530@watmath.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 09:50:35 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.15530 Posted: Tue Jul 2 09:50:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 06:20:41 EDT References: <358@philabs.UUCP> <28300018@ISM780.UUCP> Reply-To: klmartin@watmath.UUCP (K.L. Martin, Hardware) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 24 Summary: I have installed a set of DRIVING LAMPS I call my Nerd-Busters. When comming up upon some brain dead individual sitting behind the wheel of an overbearing rust bucket, first note the angle of his tyres!!!! i.e. if this idiot happens to be rear-ended where will the laws of physics force him to go! Then try to see if he/she is looking in your direction, this in no way implies that they see you. Then for good measure hit the 2000 candle-power driving lamps. The triangle of light comming at them is more noticable. At highway speeds the horn on most bikes are useless but use it anyway(every bit helps). This nerd-buster has saved my kester a few times I never use them as driving lamps and have them angled up slightly so they are more noticable, very effectice in the daytime except when the sun is directly behind you. In this case slow down and expect the worst you are driving like the old "Hun in the sun" out of the first world war. The worst reason to give up biking is because of an accident, one person in our local club crashed his piper cub airplane and was back in the air 3/4 of an hour later. He said that if he had not climbed right back into another airplane he never would have flown again, he was so scared that the person he was with had to land the plane because he was shaking so much (adrenalin). If after getting back on a cycle you feel ill at ease then give it up, you will only hurt yourself further. We all have our little horror stories and have lived to tell the tales but don't let the memory ruin the joy of cycling. --Kim.