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  YASID: Spider Robinson story Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-21 14:03 -0500
    Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-21 19:06 +0000
      Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-21 12:29 -0700
    Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-05-21 19:29 +0000
    Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-21 17:01 -0500
      Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 05:07 -0700
        Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-05-22 16:32 +0000
    Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-05-21 19:17 -0600
      Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2018-05-21 23:42 -0300
        Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-05-22 01:23 -0600
        Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-22 09:41 -0700
          Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 12:27 -0500
            Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-22 10:44 -0700
              Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 14:58 -0500
                Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-22 15:10 -0700
                Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-05-22 22:59 -0600
                  Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 12:43 -0500
                    Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2018-05-24 05:22 -0700
              Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story peterwezeman@hotmail.com - 2018-05-23 18:55 -0700
          Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-22 12:30 -0700
            Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Joe Bernstein <Kdeurama@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 19:47 +0000
              Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 13:36 -0700
                Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-24 01:55 -0700
                  Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-24 05:04 -0700
                    Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-24 18:53 -0700
                      Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-24 19:55 -0700
                        Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-24 20:06 -0700
                        Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-25 04:46 -0700
                          Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-25 05:34 -0700
              Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 13:38 -0700
              Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-23 13:48 -0700
                Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-05-23 21:13 -0600
              Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 21:43 -0400
              Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-05-23 21:08 -0600
          Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Steve Dodds <sdodds@nova-optical.com> - 2018-05-22 13:48 -0600
          Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story news{@bestley.co.uk (Mark Bestley) - 2018-05-26 17:39 +0100
            Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-26 13:41 -0700
              Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-05-26 17:25 -0400
                Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-05-26 15:21 -0700
                  Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-05-26 18:32 -0400
                    Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-26 16:53 -0700
                      Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-05-26 20:11 -0700
                        Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-27 05:00 -0700
                    Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-05-27 13:41 +0000
                    Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-27 11:26 -0700

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#492570

On Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 6:32:25 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2018 15:21:07 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> >On 5/26/2018 2:25 PM, J. Clarke wrote:

> >That's what I learned for motorcycles as well.

> >I bought a new bicycle in the last year that has front & rear disc 
> >brakes.  I'm not healthy or strong enough to get up to (relatively) high 
> >speeds on it and I'm old and cautious enough to have not yet gotten into 
> >an emergency braking situation, so applying both at the same time early 
> >enough seems to be working just fine for me.
> 

Isn't that the velocipedal equivalent of the "balding dentist
on a brand new Harley?" :)

I've never ridden a bicycle with disc brakes.  Mine's a
20-year-old hybrid with caliper brakes.

> I got a bicycle a while back and rode it around the block and it
> scared the crap out of me for some reason.  Never rode it again.
> Trans-Labrador on a Suzuki no problem (well, 10 years ago no problem,
> I don't think I'm in shape for that anymore) but around the block on a
> bicycle, terrifying.

I have to safety check mine and test ride it this weekend.

Kevin R

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#492572

On 5/26/2018 4:53 PM, Kevrob wrote:
> On Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 6:32:25 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 May 2018 15:21:07 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
>> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/26/2018 2:25 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
> 
>>> That's what I learned for motorcycles as well.
> 
>>> I bought a new bicycle in the last year that has front & rear disc
>>> brakes.  I'm not healthy or strong enough to get up to (relatively) high
>>> speeds on it and I'm old and cautious enough to have not yet gotten into
>>> an emergency braking situation, so applying both at the same time early
>>> enough seems to be working just fine for me.
>>
> 
> Isn't that the velocipedal equivalent of the "balding dentist
> on a brand new Harley?" :)
> 
Hee.  Not quite, I'm supposed to get more exercise and I don't know of 
any doctors that would prescribe a motorcycle for that.  :P

> I've never ridden a bicycle with disc brakes.  Mine's a
> 20-year-old hybrid with caliper brakes.
> 
>> I got a bicycle a while back and rode it around the block and it
>> scared the crap out of me for some reason.  Never rode it again.
>> Trans-Labrador on a Suzuki no problem (well, 10 years ago no problem,
>> I don't think I'm in shape for that anymore) but around the block on a
>> bicycle, terrifying.
> 
> I have to safety check mine and test ride it this weekend.
> 
> Kevin R
> 


-- 
Inquiring minds want to know while minds with a self-preservation 
instinct are running screaming.

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#492578

On Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 11:11:23 PM UTC-4, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 5/26/2018 4:53 PM, Kevrob wrote:
> > On Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 6:32:25 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote:
> >> On Sat, 26 May 2018 15:21:07 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
> >> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 5/26/2018 2:25 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
> > 
> >>> That's what I learned for motorcycles as well.
> > 
> >>> I bought a new bicycle in the last year that has front & rear disc
> >>> brakes.  I'm not healthy or strong enough to get up to (relatively) high
> >>> speeds on it and I'm old and cautious enough to have not yet gotten into
> >>> an emergency braking situation, so applying both at the same time early
> >>> enough seems to be working just fine for me.
> >>
> > 
> > Isn't that the velocipedal equivalent of the "balding dentist
> > on a brand new Harley?" :)
> > 
> Hee.  Not quite, I'm supposed to get more exercise and I don't know of 
> any doctors that would prescribe a motorcycle for that.  :P
> 

Good for you, then.  I'm supposed to get off my fundament and
burn some calories, too.  My MD approves of the bike, or walking.
Key word, "low impact."

Kevin R

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#492581

J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:

<snip>

> I got a bicycle a while back and rode it around the block and it
> scared the crap out of me for some reason.  Never rode it again.
> Trans-Labrador on a Suzuki no problem (well, 10 years ago no problem,
> I don't think I'm in shape for that anymore) but around the block on a
> bicycle, terrifying.

"The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" is the title of a story within the story of
_The Man in the High Castle_ (PKD). Germany and Japan win WWII in the 
PKD. And "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy"'s the title of a subversive 
alternate history story where the Allies win WWII.
    "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" originates with Eccl 12:5. That 
Biblical verse pertains to a man's second childhood, an experience which
is terrifying.
    There's a mountain on the other side of a highway from a pond near
my back yard. In warm weather, it's a common for me to pedal a bicycle 
up and down the mountain. It works best for me to use the rear brake as 
my primary brake because the thought of leading with the front brake on 
the way down is just too terrifying.

✍

Thank you,

-- 
Don

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#492595

On Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 9:39:47 AM UTC-4, D B Davis wrote:
> J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > I got a bicycle a while back and rode it around the block and it
> > scared the crap out of me for some reason.  Never rode it again.
> > Trans-Labrador on a Suzuki no problem (well, 10 years ago no problem,
> > I don't think I'm in shape for that anymore) but around the block on a
> > bicycle, terrifying.
> 
> "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" is the title of a story within the story of
> _The Man in the High Castle_ (PKD). Germany and Japan win WWI in the 
> PKD. And "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy"'s the title of a subversive 
> alternate history story where the Allies win WWII.
>     "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" originates with Eccl 12:5. That 
> Biblical verse pertains to a man's second childhood, an experience which
> is terrifying.
>     There's a mountain on the other side of a highway from a pond near
> my back yard. In warm weather, it's a common for me to pedal a bicycle 
> up and down the mountain. It works best for me to use the rear brake as 
> my primary brake because the thought of leading with the front brake on 
> the way down is just too terrifying.
>

Practice "modulating" your front brake on a less steep descent,
or on the flat.  The superior stopping power of the front brake is 
actually safer, once you have learned how to use it.

http://www.bikexprt.com/streetsmarts/usa/chapter6a.htm

I'm assuming your route up and down the mountain is on a paved 
road.  Riding on a trail, relying on the back brake primarily
would be called for.

https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/ride-downhill.html

Kevin R

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