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From: vix@well.UUCP (Paul Andrew Vixie)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: intimidating images
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 16:37:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 16:37:09 1986
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Time to add my story...

I rode a Honda 550 for several years (got a BMW R100 now though!), and during
those years I first added then later removed a complex array of saddlebags,
racks, backrests and bumpers.

The day I removed it all, i.e., went back to a "stock" rear-end, five (5.0)
people tried to kill me on the San Francisco Bay Bridge (which I had commuted
daily for a year).  No change in my driving habits; people just zoomed up
from behind me and changed lanes at the last minute, or crossed behind me
with only inches to spare...

This continued (at a lesser pace: I was learning (again) how to drive so as
not to give people the opportunity to take my life) for a week.  Finally I
put the junk back on.  The nastiness ceased immediately.

Sooooo, "get a big bike, or make your small one look bigger with some luggage".

	Paul Vixie
	{dual hplabs lll-crg}!well!vix