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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Experiences with laptops on bicycle
Summary: Balance
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.004308.21397@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 25 Apr 91 00:43:08 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.005508.6780@massey.ac.nz>
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1991Apr24.005508.6780@massey.ac.nz> D.U.Pfeiffer@massey.ac.nz (D.U. Pfeiffer) writes:
>A little bit of extra weight on your back is actually quite good exercise!

Also destabilizing and pretty dangerous.  That is why you seldom see
experienced touring cyclists with backpacks.  I sometimes carry a small
computer with me (R/S M100 or M200), but always in a pannier.
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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