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  • From: "Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>
  • To: <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] More car shopping
  • Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:03:20 -0500

Maybe some of y'all ought to just give up on wheeled vehicles altogether
and try this motor sport:

http://www.airrace.org/index.php

- Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
> Josep L. Guallar-Esteve
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 9:20 PM
> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] More car shopping
>
>
> On Thursday 19 December 2002 08:0520pm, zman wrote:
> > Well I've roadraced motorcycles, nothing quite like drifting through
> > the turns at 120mph + with your knee on the ground. Now I'm thinking
> > WKA C class superkarts, kinda like shifter Karts on methanol on
> > roadcourses...
>
> going through turns at 120 mph+ with a motocycle? You sound
> as crazy as
> both my dad and my grandpa.
>
> Why going 120 mph+ (!!!)! when you can do it at 100 mph?
>
> I'd say to you as I said to my dad: "I'll never never going
> to lend you
> my motorcycle".
>
> I sayed this after he drove me around town (think Manhattan kind of
> town), at 85 mph, during rush hour. Any my motorcycle has just been
> through a specialy nice paint job. Dad shattered my own record of
> "home-to-bus station" for a wide margin... and mine was
> accomplished at
> 3:00 am, with no traffic!!!
>
> Disclaimer: I must add that both my dad and my grandpa are
> former racing
> pilots, so they know how to drive anything with wheels. And
> even today,
> my dad still goes to G.P. circuits so he can go *really*
> fast. Because
> going 125 mph on regular roads is not fast enough for him.
>
> 120 mph+ .... crazy guys ...
>
>
>
> Salut,
> Josep
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