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| From | Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: YASID: Spider Robinson story |
| Date | 2018-05-22 01:23 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <fmhutdFdq6pU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote: >On Mon, 21 May 2018 19:17:58 -0600, Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> wrote: > >> Later in the series I think that it was retconned that the brakes were >> sabotaged and it wasn't his fault after all. > >If I recall correctly, the time-traveller discovered that it was the >front brakes that had failed, and the narrator had serviced the rear >brakes. > >Actually, all those years he should have realized that if the back >brakes had failed, the front brakes would have stopped the car just >fine. In 1985 a "cable chain" disintegrated and tore open the brake line to a front wheel. I drove the rest of the way for my highway trip carefully, with half my brakes. I'm not sure when "dual-diagonal" became the standard, but my US-branded Japanese microcar had it in 1980. >I learned this by finding myself parked sideways in the road. Front >and back brakes applied equally, the front of the bike stopped, the >back kept going. According to witnesses, I lifted the back wheel then went over sideways. I lost thirty seconds or so and have to rely on witnesses on what happened between having to brake suddenly and breaking three ribs. Back brakes cannot be applied "equally" if the wheel isn't on the ground. -- We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current.
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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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