David, at 07:00 on Tue, Jun 07 1994, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

DD> Sudden stops can be a little trying though.  The secret to 
DD> continued use of a motorcycle is to avoid sudden stops.

BG> So you're basically saying that the safest bikes have no brakes 
BG> at all?  ;-)

DD> Not so, just brakes that slow you down at a more gradual rate 
DD> than an immovable object (or handling that allows you to miss 
DD> the object without slowing).

Quite so.  In fact, my rib cage still occasionally hurts from dropping the
750/4 on Taffy's farm last January, simply because the front brake locked
up on the wet grass and threw me to the ground.  My fault entirely (of
course), I thought I was riding a Harley and used the front brake
accordingly. ;-)

Regards, Bill

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