My father-in-law told me once of an incident that happened to him....
he was bus driver back in the days when town buses had the open platform
at the rear where passengers could jump on and off. He was bringing a
bus back to the main depot from one of the smaller ones, as he was not
in service he was travelling about 40 mph along a long straight road, he
put the indicator on and braked to turn into the depot. There was a
horrible clatter and cyclist and his bike were suddenly right up the
front of the bus next to him in the driver's seat. The poor chap had
been drafting him but couldn't get out of the way when he braked and
'used' the open platform at the rear to get on-board. He apparently
'only' broke his leg and got cuts and bruises.
Drew.
On 15/08/11 15:53, Bob Sullivan wrote:
S, Only problem is his brakes are probably better than yours...
Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Subash<pdml.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
occasioned by drew's OT running post...
did a century ride on the cycle yesterday (about 134 km in a little more
than six hours on an MTB on a regular highway :)). the highlight was
drafting for about 10km behind a petrol tanker truck at about 35km/h.
have seen guys doing it behind faster-moving trucks, but since this was
my first time, chose a not-so-fast truck to draft behind. quite a heady
and addictive feeling... :)
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