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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
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 09:50:35 1985
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Reply-To: klmartin@watmath.UUCP (K.L. Martin, Hardware)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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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.