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From: Joe.Chamberlain@f302.n141.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain)
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Subject: Re: Wheelchair "wheelies"
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Date: 3 Mar 90 05:05:02 GMT
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 MM> get a little better at it. The tip guards are set to catch me 
 MM> just a couple inches or so beyond the balance point. I'll 
 MM> probably move them up a little more as I get better at it, but 
 MM> I don't think I'll take them off completely until the snow 
 MM> melts and I can go out and practice on the nice soft lawn.  

A friend came back from the Korean war as a paraplegic.  Almost a year
after being shot he was doing wheelies, lost it, and is now a quad.  A
high price to pay, according to him, for showing off.

                                -=joe=-

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