X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from rome.boulder.noaa.gov ([140.172.10.146] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.12) with ESMTP id 2336107 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:23:58 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=140.172.10.146; envelope-from=William.P.Dube@noaa.gov Received: from [140.172.241.126] (mungo.al.noaa.gov [140.172.241.126]) by email.boulder.noaa.gov (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.01 (built Aug 26 2004)) with ESMTPSA id <0JOJ007991UXNZ@email.boulder.noaa.gov> for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:23:21 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:20:41 -0600 From: Bill Dube Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: I'm OK, Really (was: Bill Dube Incident) In-reply-to: To: Rotary motors in aircraft Reply-to: William.P.Dube@noaa.gov Message-id: <46EED389.5000109@noaa.gov> Organization: NOAA Aeronomy Lab MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) References: The front suspension only weighs 14 lbs. It would collapse if braced against a wall. Result would have been similar. Might have climbed the wall and landed on top of me. (Over 2500 ft-lbs of torque on the rear tire.) The best way is confine operation of the bike to the drag strip. Bill Dube' George Lendich wrote: > Bill, > Yep same what happened to me - almost had it stopped! > BTW never depend on the front brake for wheel spins - always use a > wall to rest the front wheel, but I guess you know that now! > George ( down under) > >> I'm fine, really. >> >> They edited the video, chose the pictures, and wrote the commentary to >> "enhance" the drama. >> >> I _almost_ had it stopped. I needed about another 10 feet or so (where I >> personally stopped.) >> >> Bill D. >> >> -- >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ >> Archive and UnSub: >> http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.16/1005 - Release Date: >> 13/09/2007 11:45 AM >> > > > -- > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > Archive and UnSub: > http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html >