Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:29:04 +0200
Reply-To:     Aristotle Sagan <killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Aristotle Sagan <killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Drafting (was Re: Engine to auto-tranny match and the Indy 500
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
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>
> The one good reason I can see for not drafting was brought home in a
> motorcycle safety training class: you can't see around him to what's
> ahead. Might be a small boulder lying on the road that he's gonna put
> between his wheels and I won't see it until he's over it.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>

I HATE it when a semi runs over one of those Smart cars leaving it to pop
out from under the reaar of the trailer at 70MPH. A vanagon won't clear even
a slightly crushed Smart car so it does have a tendency to get dicey.

That said, when I drove the van on the outer highways arounnd here, it
seemed to me that I could out brake a semi 99 times out of 100. There was
the time the twit in front of me braked as she was going uphill on 580 going
into Oakland just off the 680 interchange in Pleasanton. I was trying to
pass a truck and she hits the brakes just as I slid behind her (trying to
keep MO going) in my 83 AC. Just about turned that bus turtle. I am glad it
was unloaded.

tim (looking at all sorts of strange VWs here in Aachen Germany)

--
Where ever you are, there you be. Unless you're driving my van, in which
case, you ain't got there yet.