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<DIV><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3><FONT size=2>(BORROWED FROM The American Motorcyclist Magazine</FONT>)<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></B></DIV>
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<DIV><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">NEVER TOUCH THE FRONT BRAKE (On pavement)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>you might get thrown over the handlebars.</SPAN></U></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> FALSE<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because you are moving forward, most of your braking power comes from the front wheel.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></DIV>
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<DIV><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">NEVER TOUCH THE FRONT BRAKE (In<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dirt)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>FALSE<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></U></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">In dirt, the front brake is even more effective than the rear which can break loose and slide easily,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>particularly in corners.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></DIV>
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<DIV><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">THE SAFEST PLACE ON THE ROAD IS IN THE LEFT WHEEL TRACK.</SPAN></U></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well sometimes this is true…and it’s not a bad default position,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>all else being equal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But smart riders think in terms of maximizing the cushion of space between them and potential dangers on the road.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></DIV>
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<DIV><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">“I HAD TO LAY IT DOWN”</SPAN></U></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>FALSE<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Often uttered by riders who are justifying a crash,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>this statement is frequently passed off as an inability to assess a bad traffic situation and deal with it appropriately by bailing off the bike.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The truts is that the vast majority of such crashes (and some would say <I>all<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></I>of them) could have been avoided by more following distance, swerving, hard braking, or scanning far enough ahead to avoid the problem in the first place.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></DIV>
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<P style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">STEVE McQUEEN DID HIS FAMOUS JUMP WITH A BMW IN “THE GREAT ESCAPE</SPAN></U></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>False,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>on two counts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First, it wasn’t Steve McQueen who did that iconic Jump over barbed wire at the border, but the late Hall of Famer and Stuntman Bud Ekins.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Second,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was a Triumph…. painted to look like the
other German BMW’s used in the movie.<U> <o:p></o:p></U></SPAN></B></DIV></DIV><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=1 face=Tahoma><STRONG>John Del Santo</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><STRONG><EM> </EM></STRONG><FONT color=#0080ff size=1>At Intersections, and </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0080ff size=1> In Your Blind Spots,</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=1> <FONT color=#00407f>"Check Twice for Motorcycles". </FONT></FONT><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#00407f> </FONT></EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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