>I bicycled hardcore for many years, clocking 200-250mi per week. Drafting >trucks was a way of life. Then I had an attitude adjusting experience when >an empty Alpha Beta truck I'd been drafting at about 55 mph, slammed on the >brakes for a red light. Lucky for me I saw the light turn yellow and had >just enough time to plant one hand firmly on the back of his truck and tried >my hardest to keep from loosing the bike from under me while the back of his >truck bounced around. At one point I thought my front wheel had actually >touched the truck. I shook like a leaf on the side of the road for at least >an hour. I don't think I ever drafted or tailgated again. It isn't worth >your life. (Vanagon content below) Don't they have a speed limit for bicycles there? Here it's 24kmh, not that bicyclists are interested in obeying it (or any other road law, for that matter, or "no cycling' signs). -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut |
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