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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: net.cycle,net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: The Backwards Bike
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Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 15:53:03 EST
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>Let me think, isn't Joan Clayworth the person that brought us the 
>backwards motorcycle?!
***

You bet.

>I hear that she is now proposing roll bars and seatbelts!!:-)
>Anybody for airbags!!???!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
***

This is not funny.  Her organization came up with a prototype
motorcycle that had roll bar and seat belts shortly after the
fiasco with the backwards bike.  There was a picture of it in
a 1978 copy of Cycle.  A really great feature was the rider
position, which was more than a foot lower than a normal motorcycle,
thereby neatly removing the biker's vision advantage.

Clayworth's team had actually done tests with airbags on motorcycles,
but discovered that their test dummies typically did a 1 1/2 gainer
over the top of the bike in a head-on, missing the bag completely.

This woman scares me.

				Ron

PS: To the original author:  Sorry about the junk I sent you.
Either rn or I got confused.

PPS:  Notice that the followup line has been changed to net.cycle.
This discussion doesn't belong here.
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		Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
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Oliver's law of assumed responsibility:
	"If you are seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it."