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From: phil@mp-dixie.UUCP (Phil Glatz)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Use your nose!
Message-ID: <136@mp-dixie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Apr-86 09:27:57 EST
Article-I.D.: mp-dixie.136
Posted: Thu Apr 17 09:27:57 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Apr-86 13:28:12 EST
Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA
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Keywords: safety

Sometimes just using your head isn't enough - my nose saved me the other
day from what could have been a nasty situation.  I was riding home down
the freeway when I started noticing a smell like rubber or plastic burning.
I thought it must have been my saddlebags rubbing against the tailpipes.
I couldn't see any trouble, though.  I kept smelling it for a few minutes
and was about to pull off to check things when BOOM!... A bus a few hundred 
yards ahead blew a recap.  There was rubber and smoke all over the place.  I
guess I'm lucky I wasn't so close to it - it caused considerable grief to
the car drivers ahead of me.
Moral:
	1 - Be aware of early warning signs of bad recaps.
	2 - Don't tailgate busses or big rigs.

-- 
phil
... Phil Glatz, MicroPro Product Development
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