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17-01.-2005, 10:31 PM
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Re: Maps and. And things
Dave Larrington wrote:
> However, when reclined at one's ease inna-tricycular-stylee, errant gusts > of wind - either from windmills or one's own movement through the air - tend > to cause the thing to blow up into one's face. Ah. This is why many experienced walkers have abandoned the popular strangulation method of dangling the things around one's neck (plus, of course, because it makes you look like a berk). The case itself is still a Wondrous Thing, though, easily the best I've seen of its type. If you can arrange for a pocket to pop it in where you can grab it and replace it (holster on the back of the seat, perhaps, or mesh pocket on the top of an accessible pannier) then you'll still be able to grab it and crash amusingly while looking at where you're meant to be going in the next hour rather than where you actually /are/ going right now. > b) otherwise carry maps and route sheets such that they may be easily > consulted on the move Get a Streamer or Zipper etc. and tape the map to the inside? Though I suspect the angle of dangle may make this a Bit Bloody Awkward to read the map. Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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17-01.-2005, 11:07 PM
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Re: Maps and. And things
Peter Clinch wrote:
> Ah. This is why many experienced walkers have abandoned the > popular strangulation method of dangling the things around one's > neck (plus, of course, because it makes you look like a berk). Which reminds me of the days when my mate Steve got his Triumph Bonneville 650. Under the illusion that he was Peter Fonda he had fitted it with huge ape hanger handlebars and was determined to be the personification of cool. The cool image was dented slightly when he stopped outside the motor bike shop in Bounces Road, Edmonton for a new, or at least less rusty, headlight surround, and couldn't lift it onto its centre stand. He was stuck and had to enlist the help of the small knot of Hells Angels hanging around outside. But I digress. He'd also got himself an iron cross on a chain, which was the de rigeur hard man biker accessory in those days. He was going north along the A10 at about 60 mph when the iron cross suddenly flew into the air stream. It spun wildly round and round until Steve was nearly throttled. At this point, unable to spin further, it began flailing madly, beating him about the face. It nearly had his eye out. -- Dave... |
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