Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:19:03 -0700
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Seems kinda 'spensive for this gadget
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Yes, you can cross foot -- for a while. Try pressing on the accelerator
pedal with your left foot for, oh I don't know, two hours. Lemme know how
that works out.
It's fine for a jaunt around town, but definitely stresses the old ankle
and lower back being twisted around like that for a longer period of time.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
Bend, OR
KG6RCR
On 8/18/2009 1:48 PM Don Hanson wrote:
> can't you just "Cross-foot" your van? Drive with the left foot?
>
> I knew a guy with a broken leg (cast to above the knee) and a Harley
> with a 'suicide clutch"...He reached down and worked the foot clutch
> with his hand!...He also had a hand shifter on the other side from the
> foot clutch...so he was a busy biker coming to a stopsign..Really kinda
> dumb, the whole program on that bike...
> He actually broke the foot because the 'hard-tail' Harley bounced over a
> river-rock and his apehanger bars and extended fork precluded him
> keeping control...so he hit a fence post...Coming into the driveway of a
> big Sunday keg party barbie...He didn't look so cool as we splinted him
> up..but he thought he was gonna look way cool when he started down that
> driveway...until that river rock...
> Don Hanson
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Rocket J Squirrel
> <camping.elliott@gmail.com <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 8/18/2009 9:26 AM Jake de Villiers wrote:
>
> Prolly 'product liability' costs in your fair nation.
>
>
> Yeah? What's a similar gadget cost in your fair nation?
>
>
> If you'd lost that foot for good it would seem like a bargain.
>
>
> You're not wrong!
>
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
> <camping.elliott@gmail.com <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>
> <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com
> <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
> With my right foot out of commission for a while, I am
> looking at items
> like Item #104, the Left Foot Gas Pedal, at
>
> http://www.handicapsinc.com/shoppingcart/agora.cgi?product=Accessories
>
> But $280 seems spendy for what appears to be a fairly
> uncomplicated
> thing.
> Of course, all the parts are probably made in small
> quantities, but
> still
> . . .
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
>
> --
> Beverley Anne de Villiers April 20, 1930 - July 4, 2009
>
> Jake
>
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>
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