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From: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Screeeech..... (and James Bond)
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Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 09:53:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 19 09:53:57 1985
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In article <620002@rocksvax.FUN> dave@rocksvax.FUN (Dave Sewhuk) writes:
>
>I can't believe that crash bars will cause you to slide any further anyways.
>Without them the side of your engine get scraped down, with side bars
>they get scraped down by the asphalt.  Besides without them part of what
>gets scraped is your leg!!  The equivalent 'braking' surface can't be
>all that much different. If the engine dug into the road that hard I would
>think that there would be a tendency to roll the whole works over.
>Besides I would rather loose that kinetic energy slowly than suddenly!!
>
>Dave
>
>arpa: Sewhuk.HENR@Xerox.ARPA
>uucp: {ihnp4,rochester,amd,sunybcs}!rocksvax!dave
>ns: "Sewhuk:HENR801C:Xerox".ns@Xerox.ARPA

As a side note, why not rubber coat or attach outward facing rubber
plates to the crash bars? This should make them a better braking
surface than the engine cases. I have never seen crash bars so
constructed. Has anybody seen anything like it?

Bob Weiler