Re: Send the man your loveOn Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:17:13 -0700, Mike Baxter <mgb***@comcast,net >
wrote:
>Free = expensive
>
>Free street motorcycle = expensive safety gear
>Free helmet cam = expensive battery to make it useful
>Free Haro bicycle = expensive trip to ER and loss of work
>
>Be very careful around things that you aquire free.
>
>
>Well, that sucks for Fred. I personally stay off of bicycles. My
>last ride on a mountain bike had me on the ground with the wind
>knocked out of me taking painfull short breaths. Did you know that
>when attacking a steep down hill with a small bermed right hand turn
>on a mountain bike is very much like on a motorcycle with exception of
>having no way to power the bike mid turn. I came in hot, hard on the
>brakes. I release the brakes, and initiate the turn. Right about the
>time I would use the motorcycles power to shoot me in the right
>direction, the bike decided that it wanted to go off-trail. I
>high-sided as the back wheel came over the berm. I landed hard and
>decided right then and there that I need a motor or I will die.
Thanks Mike, you're right.
Fred Bradford - CrashTestDummy
fjbradfordREMOVE@tx.rr,com