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Re: Wheels & Tires for Midget

To: EMILY COWEN <ecowen@cln.etc.bc.ca>
Subject: Re: Wheels & Tires for Midget
From: Mike Cook <mpcook@highaltitude.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 08:52:25 -0600
At 06:52 PM 6/23/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Mike Cook!!
>
>On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Mike Cook wrote:
>
>> a Midget, however, I have an AWD Subaru to drive Sept - May).
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^
>Sounds like eastern Canada...
> 
>> I had the Midget out yesterday in 90 deg. weather and it ran cool all the
>> way up the mountain (3000 feet in 15 miles).
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Yer gonna kill that poor little thing!!  Not only is it a tough climb,
>but the air's a lot less dense than sea level.  How do the SU's handle
>the altitude changes??

It seems to run just fine, which suprised me, and it does about the same at
either altitude.

>TTUL8r, Kirk Cowen   (who once hit a bee while doing over 60 on a 500
>                      Twin Suzuke m/c sans windscreen... ouch) 

I once hit a bee at 60 on a 650 BSA Lightning and yes, it did sting me, but
no, I dodn't drop the bike.

-- Mike



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Mike Cook from 8350 feet up in the Rockies
1960 MGA                                1970-1973
1961 MG Midget                  1973-1975
1968 BSA 650 Lightning          1976-1978       
1979 MG Midget                  1997-
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