Re: Where are the SuSE 9.2 Professional CD ISOs?

imotgm wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:19:04 +0100, David Wright wrote:
>
>
>> I was alongside his rear wheel when he started moving in a full-lock
>> right hand turn at full acceleration! He hadn't even bothered looking.
>
> Same thing here, other side of the road.
>>
>> I decided the least painful solution was to try and match as much of the
>> turn as I could to lessen the impact. No way I could have stopped, and no
>> way at 15mph and on a bike I could match his turning circle.
>
> I have to ask. You say "I decided" as if there was time to decide, which
> sounds like what happened to me. Did you have that time compression
> feeling, where every thing seems to go into slow motion, and you actually
> seem to have time to consider options, make decisions, and then, finally,
> act on them?
>
<snip>

Yes, although it wasn't total slow motion, it felt more like my thinking
sped up whilst everything else remained normal.

I thought pretty much:
1) Brake - no chance he'll catch the front wheel, knock the bike over and
I'll probably go underneath
2) Accelerate - no chance his moving across my path was too quick
3) Turn and accelerate - no chance, he'd still clip the back of the bike if
I managed it, and then I'd be catapulted into oncoming traffic...
4) Turn with him and use the back brake - best alternative in a no-win
situation.

Although it wasn't so much "normal" thinking, more "Brake?" visual image of
me trapped under bike, "Accelerate?" , visual image of bike being hit in
the rear square on and me being catapulted off etc.

Dave
.

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