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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 21 Apr 2010 09:09
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember wessie <putmynamehere(a)tesco.net>
saying something like:

>It would be simple to fit a ripcord kill switch like a jetski has

Don't moto-x bikes have that anyway?
From: J�r�my on 21 Apr 2010 10:03
wessie <putmynamehere(a)tesco.net> wrote in
news:Xns9D6189915CAA8wtymmmsas(a)81.169.183.62:

>> Does every one of those runs finish with a wrecked engine? Or don't
>> bike engines suffer from water ingestion the way heavier engines do?
>> Or do they cleverly hit the kill switch just before the air intake
>> goes in?
>>
> It would be simple to fit a ripcord kill switch like a jetski has

But the rider goes in, in most cases, along with the bike.

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Jeremy
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From: J�r�my on 21 Apr 2010 10:04
"Krusty" <dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote in news:hqml8s$fgb$1
@news.eternal-september.org:

> Don't think it's too much of a problem with a single cylinder engine as
> it hasn't got the other cylinders forcing the piston up, so it just
> stalls.

Good point.

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Jeremy
R1200RT
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 21 Apr 2010 16:37
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:04:05 +0000 (UTC), Krusty <dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid>
wrote in <hqk57l$i1h$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>:
> http://video.uk.msn.com/watch/video/motorbike-doing-insane-tricks-on-wat
> er-mtv-nitro-circus/fkh5hw19

Pah! Kenny Roberts did that when RD400s were new.

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From: Thomas on 21 Apr 2010 20:12
On Apr 20, 5:04 am, "Krusty" <dontwant...(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote:
> http://video.uk.msn.com/watch/video/motorbike-doing-insane-tricks-on-wat
> er-mtv-nitro-circus/fkh5hw19

I thought it was going to be that vid of the guy riding all the way
across a pond that was only 3" deep. Mo bettuh.



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