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    Good tips for riding motor bicycles

    This is a scan from a 1917 motor-bicycle riding guide (2nd page is the one of (more) interest). Seems even back then women, buses & things wanting to commit suicide were hazardous to bikers

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    A lot of that sounds very familiar, dunnit?
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    Quote Originally Posted by slofox View Post
    A lot of that sounds very familiar, dunnit?
    I knew you where old

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    got watch for those traction engines! And I must remember not to let the pillions ride on the handle bars so they can't topple over under the headlamp.

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    Are we supposed to toot the horn just before we overtake?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1billyboy View Post
    I knew you where old
    That's WERE, sonny, WERE, not WHERE...

    Quote Originally Posted by oneofsix View Post
    got watch for those traction engines!
    Yeah - I met three of them this morning. All with their radars on...Bastards!

    Quote Originally Posted by steve_t View Post
    Are we supposed to toot the horn just before we overtake?
    No point. Since I travel in excess of the speed of sound, I'm past before they hear the horn...
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