Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: RE: Deep Forest Campout

Author: Lannis

Date: Jul 19, 2005, 9:41 PM

Post ID: 1719178637




Greg Field wrote:
 
Joe:

It's a joke.

All these wankers around here put on those Sigma bike computers and
then trot them out as proof of how fast their bikes are.

....... That's when I looked at my Sigma. It said, "max speed 141.7
mph." I know there's no way in hell it'll go that fast, but if they can
trot out their Sigmas, so can I.

GF

Greg -

Man, am I relieved to hear you drop the other shoe!! I'd been worrying
about that all day.

You sounded dead serious that your breathed-on Loop could go 141 MPH,
and (though far be it from me to doubt the word of the guy who "wrote
the book) I KNEW that that was B.S., and was praying that you didn't
actually believe it. I'm really glad Joe J. asked you nicely about it!!

Now that THAT's out, I want to ask about this business of sliding
Eldorados at speed on pavement on wet moss on roads. I can understand a
GP racer exploring the limits of traction on a clean racetrack on hot
race tires. But how do you dare do that on an unknown road, with
unknown traction, and unknown road conditions? Once you're sliding,
it's only the grace of God that the moss doesn't extend another 12
inches and you're flat on your ass on the pavement no matter how good
you are. Throwing sparks from footboards and saddlebags on wet roads
sounds like madness, no way to take a chance on ending a perfectly good
rally....

You writer guys, is this like alliteration or simile or hyperbole or
some other rhetorical mechanism.....?

Lannis

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