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Re: brakes

To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: brakes
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:34:04 +0100
In article <008701c0b6c4$c6e1b5a0$bc97a4d8@vafred>, Fred Thomas
<vafred@erols.com> writes
>
>Craig, you can think 10 years all you want, one day when you need your
>brakes and they go right to the floor because of a groove in the M/C and
>someone maybe even you are killed or injured then how much have you saved, I
>cannot understand thinking like this on somthing as lifesaving as brakes,
>there are no shortcuts in the braking system.  "FT"

Here's a powerful quotation on the subject from Spider Robinson's
"Callahan's Crazy Crosstime Bar":

"I used to have a wife and daughter before I decided to install my own
brakes.   I saved thirty dollars, easy..."

ATB
Mike
-- 
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea,"
to be published by Greenhill Books on 28th March, 2001:
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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