Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ingres!jdi
From: jdi@ingres.ARPA (John D. Irwin)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Screeeech.....
Message-ID: <158@ingres.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 00:43:42 EST
Article-I.D.: ingres.158
Posted: Wed Dec  4 00:43:42 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 08:04:11 EST
Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: jdi%ingres@ucbvax.ARPA (John D. Irwin)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 49

I've owned an 82 Yamaha Vision for six months, and am very happy with it,
except for a few small problems.  Actually the big problem isn't really a
problem at all, in the sense that the bike meets spec.

---  WARNING -- Reader's digest type story follows :-)  ---

So anyway, I was driving down highway 101, about 15 miles south of San Fran-
cisco doing about 50mph in the fast lane.  Traffic was medium (cars closely
spaced).

Rule #1:  Do not, NOT, NOT follow cars as closely as cars follow cars.

Getting back to the story, the person in front of me decided to play
"Death Race 2000" on the highway.  He hit his brakes so hard I saw the
tires loose traction.  So anyway, here I am barrelling towards this maniac
and NO-WAY am I going to be able to stop short of hitting him.  So I give
it a try anyway (I mean, what else is there to do? :-) and actually end up
going only about 10mph when I hit him.  Well, that was enough to cause me
to start to lose control of the bike, but it didn't really matter because the
person behind me hit me anyway.  (Which was probably a good thing, because she
stopped a LOT quicker than the person BEHIND her, who smashed her radiator
and the rear end of the car behind me very well).  Oh, the person who tried to
kill me didn't stop to see if he succeeded.

It's a very interesting feeling lying on a superslab thinking "Gee, I'm not
dead!"  (I was wearing my helmet, of course, but you probably know how much
that helps your mood when you see a crash coming only seconds away)

--- End of story ---

Getting back to the point, I wondered if anyone else out there who has a Vision
has (heard of/actually done) adding another disc brake to the front wheel.
This was done in the 83 Vision, which tells me it's probably a pretty good
idea.  But if it's going to cost me a whole new brake system...



Oh, one more thing.  The car that hit me from behind was a rental, so the
rental company is supposedly responsible for the damage their car did to my
bike (which was pretty considerable, but fortunately almost nothing down
in the 'guts' was hurt).  However, when I call them they all reply in the
'huh?' tone I'm sure you've all heard.  "Oh, gee, I think I'm supposed to
transfer you to Mr. XXX, please hold on................................"
Is there a fast way to make them notice me, or am I going to have to get a
lawyer and threaten to sue?

--
John D. Irwin
jdi%ingres@ucbvax.UNIVERSE