🚀 go-pugleaf

>
> >the cost
> >of gasoline keeps rising and lowering, people
> >in California have to pay double for power,
>
> Their own damn fault for tolerating all those envirowackos that made
> it difficult to build a new power plant.  Couldn't happen to a nicer
> bunch.  They should suffer this for a summer to help change their
> minds about the policy of routinely attempting to stop progress.
>

Damn tree-hugging hippies.

> >and Ford won't admit that it is really their design
> >fault - not Firestones.
>
> Design, and stupidly telling people that the proper inflation level
> was 26 psi (if I remember right.)  It should be able to lose a wheel
> and still not roll over...
>

I think it was Car & Driver TV that did a test on this. They rigged an
Explorer with a set of Firestones with a quick release valve that would let
the air out of a tire almost instantly to simulate a blowout.  They started
the test at 20 mph deflating the tire again and again in 10 mph increments
all the way up to 70mph, the driver in the car didn't even need to touch the
steering wheel.  Each time the Explorer continued tracking straight on down
the road.  So obviously the cause of the rollovers is inexperienced drivers
panicking and swerving when they get a blowout. But if the media reported
the truth on this, they wouldn't get the ratings.

> >What's next?
>
> An asteroid the size of North Carolina on a collision course for
> earth?  Wouldn't have anything at all to worry about after that hit!
>
That reminds me, I really should get a cover for my bike. <G>

-Wolf
01 SV650