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From: grego@athena.UUCP (Grego Sanguinetti)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: The Backwards Bike
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 02:02:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 02:02:32 1986
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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.

 not to mention lost leverage.

> 
> 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

Oh gawd, and here I thought I was kidding!? Oh please save us NO
on second thought don't save us, please let us crash in piece!
Me thinks Joan Claybrook and the gang at NHSTA need airbags! Think
of the elevation they could achieve. Think of the elevation they
need!?

	  grego@tek

	  the puns expressed herein are better than those of my employer