jrm@mad.cis.ohio-state.edu (John R. Mudd) (05/25/90)
Something tells me that this particular question has landed in Dan's
"Most Frequently Asked ...." survey, so if he'd like to just send me
the answer, I'd be obliged :-).
It looks like I'm in the market for a bike rack for my car. I'd like
one for the top, as opposed to one for the back of the car (my bike
would prefer not to be squished in case I get rear-ended). The car
('89 Olds Calais, 2 dr) has aero style rain gutters, and I'd really
prefer that the roof didn't ever get scratched by the rack. I'd also
like the thing to be lockable, so that no one goes and carts off my
bike.
The main brands seem to be Yakima, Thule, and others. If anybody would
care to express their opinions about their favorite bike racks, or tell
me horror stories about their least favorite rack, I'd be more than happy
to listen, i.e., send me mail. If anyone cares, I can also send out a
summary.
... John
P.S. Start riding Tom, I'll get you to those centuries one way or another :-).rick@goforit.ads.com (Rick Chestek) (05/26/90)
Found on comp.sys.encore, where someone misposted a message:
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jrm@mad.cis.ohio-state.edu (John R. Mudd):
> It looks like I'm in the market for a bike rack for my car.
It's a little-known fact that the Nanobus, in addition to its uses as a
multiprocessing system backplane, has a second function as a bike rack.
The SCC can also be used as a jack, and the various CPU cards are very
handy in winter when you need that little bit of extra traction. Just
goes to show that we really care about our customers and have designed
our components to be useful in as many ways as possible.
But seriously, folks . . . I think there's another newsgroup that would
be more appropriate for this discussion.
For the humor-impaired (they can't help it, folks): :-) :-) :-)
Jeff d'Arcy, Generic Software Engineer - jdarcy@encore.com
Nothing was ever achieved by accepting reality
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(The original poster, John R. Mudd, apparently realized his mistake
immediately after hitting "return", his apology for the misposting
appeared (here) immediately after the misposting, before any other
postings, including the one above.)