[Ducati] Re: Stoplight

[Bruce Bellm]

My '70 Elan S4 was exactly like that. I loved that car except when it 
constantly had all the little things go wrong. Terrible time for any British 
machine.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris P" <cplasch at eskimo.com>
To: "Ducati Owners Group" <ducati at ducati.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Ducati] Re: Stoplight
> I loved those Lotuses. I could get 40mpg at 100mph. How cool is that?
> The cops didn't like it so much, but I thought it was cool. Then, I'm 
> easily
> impressed.
>
> Cheers!
> ChrisP
> '93 900SS
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ducatisti" <ducatisti at emptytank.org>
> To: "Ducati Owners Group" <ducati at ducati.net>
> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 20:35
> Subject: Re: [Ducati] Re: Stoplight
>
>
> Best of luck to her, Peter. I experienced a similar situation with a
> taxi doing roughly 70mph with a driver who never applied the brakes.
> Fortunately, I walked away unscathed although it folded my rear bumper
> to somewhere beneath the rear axle - nothing was in front of me and
> thankfully no cross traffic.
>
> To those that don't understand the distance: One of my cages is low
> enough that I *have* to stop a full car length back in order to still be
> able to see an SUV driver's rear view mirror. The roof is roughly 46" (a
> few inches higher than the top of a superbike's screen) and my line of
> sight is is roughly 35" (below the top of a superbike's tank). Of
> course, if I'm in front of you, there's no worry that I'll be leaving
> the stop more quickly; if you're in a car that can keep up, you'd
> already understand why I'm so far back. I can easily vanish from sight
> pulling too close to an F250 or Excursion. Imagine yourself sitting in
> the middle of the street on a couple of phone books while behind an SUV.
>
> cody
>
> Peter Bonner wrote:
>> My darling bride Sharon was rearended at a stoplight in Dec. by a car
>> doing
>> nearly 50 perhaps.
>>
>> Peter
>
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