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From: marauder@fluke.UUCP (Bill Landsborough)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Crunched my new bike.
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Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 10:39:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  6 10:39:21 1986
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Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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Well I thought that I would be talking about how nice my new Kawasaki
Concours is at this time but instead I'm telling how I was run into.
I was coming home last nite from the Kawasaki dealers with my new
taller windshield bungied on the seat and was making a right turn at a
light.  I had stopped and was starting to go when a fast car was
approaching the intersection from the left.  I stopped again and this
guy in a small pickup slammed into the back of me throwing me off the
bike and into the intersection.  I was not hurt (helmet, leather
jacket, gloves, and boots) but the plastic on the rear and left side
of the bike was munched pretty bad.

The lesson I have learned from this is not to start and then stop
again in a turn in heavy traffic.  Once you have committed, the
vehicle behind you considers you gone and looks for the next vehicle
to make a decision about.

Oh well, I got to ride 176 miles on it.... I think that it was nice.

			Bill Landsborough

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"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not 
arrogant or rude... Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things."   1 Corinthians 13:4-7