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From: aft@pucc-h (Klosky)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: tales, trails...
Message-ID: <642@pucc-h>
Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 17:43:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  6 17:43:04 1984
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The Blue Ridge Parkway is an excellent road, if you want
to spend your whole life trying to see around a row
of twelve motorized hovels.  

Terrible tale:  Went to look at a used kamakazie h-1 two-smoke
500cc triple.  $500, cheap.  Shifted from second to third on test ride
at about twenty-five, causing chain to ride over front sprocket,
breaking chain.  Chain causes sprocket cover to break.  Chain
catches chain alignment adjustor bolt, breaking bolt. Rear wheel
shifts, locking against third pipe.  Bike comes to screeching
halt now that tire is locked up. 

    The rider was not home when I came to look at the bike,
and his woman had lent me the keys.  I walked back to their
house, and called the ubiquitous "friend with a pickup," 
and recovered the broken sled.  Imagine how happy the owner
must have been when he got home...