ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) (01/17/86)
>Let me think, isn't Joan Clayworth the person that brought us the >backwards motorcycle?! *** You bet. >I hear that she is now proposing roll bars and seatbelts!!:-) >Anybody for airbags!!???!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! *** This is not funny. Her organization came up with a prototype motorcycle that had roll bar and seat belts shortly after the fiasco with the backwards bike. There was a picture of it in a 1978 copy of Cycle. A really great feature was the rider position, which was more than a foot lower than a normal motorcycle, thereby neatly removing the biker's vision advantage. Clayworth's team had actually done tests with airbags on motorcycles, but discovered that their test dummies typically did a 1 1/2 gainer over the top of the bike in a head-on, missing the bag completely. This woman scares me. Ron PS: To the original author: Sorry about the junk I sent you. Either rn or I got confused. PPS: Notice that the followup line has been changed to net.cycle. This discussion doesn't belong here. -- -- Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.) ihnp4!pesnta!fai!ronc Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: "If you are seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it."