[Ducati] NDC: Don't pass at the Gap

[Bruce Bradsby]

I wish that whole "they're gona kill us" thing was branded into  
cagers' pinheads. maybe they'd look out for us more if they thought  
it meant Up Close and Personal Bodily Trauma if they crossed us.

This AM, some idiot yakking on a cellphone glued to her ear blurted  
out from her jambed up lane into the 50mph flow HOV lane  - and then  
stopped while half-blocking my path, and I'm thinking maybe she still  
hadn't SEEN me, so maybe she's going to pull across my lane and over  
to the median to stop. Hard to plan an escape around. Anyway, same  
story, different day, so I'l spare ya the details. Sufice it to say  
that I was adrenalized enough that it was all I could do to not kick  
her mirror off.  Geez, what's a hands free kit cost, $10?!  In this  
great country, you're free to do anything you want until a $5million  
study over ten years finds, shock & horror, that an activity is  
lethal to others as everyone already knew. oh, and then the industry  
lobbyists beat back any attempt to regulate said activity. ok, i feel  
better now! Thanks for listening  :)

Thx also for the 999 PCIII map advice. I was afraid a dyno session  
was in order to do it right. Anybody have any prefs for SF or EastBay  
shops who do good dyno work? Desmoto didn't have a dyno last time I  
checked, and Munroe uses Scuderia West down the street.

-bruce/SF
  '03 999mono
  '02 ST4s Ti
  '95 Cagiva Mito
  '87 BMW K75s


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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 07:07:24 -0400
> From: TheGeek <jsgeek at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ducati] NDC: Don't pass at the Gap
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> I think a large number of non-bikers, when given the option of  
> stopping in a
> crowd of bikers that are stereotyped a "bad boys" (and even though  
> it wasn't
> their fault, logic doesnt win over group rage) would choose the  
> safer route
> of driving away and calling the cops.
> I think the whole 'they're gonna kill us' notion is alot more  
> prevalent than
> you think.
>
> And in your great United States, the bikers would figure out a way  
> to sue
> the vehicle driver for millions just because he was there.
> (Another stereotype that is sometimes true.)
>
> Peter S
>
> On 8/1/06, jules <jules at popmonkey.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> also sprach Garth Williams on Monday, July 31, 2006 6:09 PM:
>>
>>> That video is (most likely) a classic case of target fixation.   
>>> You go
>>> where your eyes do!
>>>
>>
>> is it just me or is anyone else really pissed off that the drivers of
>> that cage minivan suv roadblock or whatever it was don't stop at the
>> scene of the accident?  I don't care how much of an idiot that harley
>> guy was, you still stop, dammit.  and the whole: "they're gonna kill
>> us"...   please!
>>
>> friggin cagers...  I wonder if the police could use that as  
>> evidence of
>> fleeing the site of an accident.
>>
>> --
>> j u l e s @ p o p m o n k e y . c o m
>> http://www.popmonkey.com/jules
>>
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