--On Wednesday, February 13, 2002 5:09 PM -0700 Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if there might have been a time where laying down a bike might > of worked. I know, from riding friends bikes in the past, that the > brakes on bikes in the past were less than stellar. Drum brakes were > barely usefull and Harleys, well....I think this is where the idea came > from of laying down the bike. You'd prolly stop faster on the ground > than using the brakes in an emergency situation. (Probably not, but I > could see where one might be mislead to think so.) Oh, and if you're in > the movies, and a semi-truck pulled out in front of you from a cross > street while you're chasing a baddie, you'd have to lay it down get > under the trailer!
I heard tell that some of the 'had to lay 'er down' lore comes from flat trakers (bike racing on dirt tracks). Dunno. I think it is just one of those collective 'wisdom' things that is only reinforced by CHiPS and any other action show/movie with motorcycles in it. Tak ecare, Mike -- Michael Weaver (706)542-6462 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineering Services EITS University of Georgia, Athens Ga. )O( Public PGP key: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~weaver/pgp.html
