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I study world literature
(I just feed her in it)
In which we meet a dog, and are led by her on a strange journey into foreign lands, including behavioral science, bizarre human inclinations, and many off-leash walks that yield both pleasure and pain
I study world literature
Old & Stale
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Dog Links
- Animal Behavior Answers
- Animal Friends of Barbour County (W.Va.), where the estimable Nelly came from
- Dog owner's group of Prospect Park
- Dog Scouts--way cool!
- Dogs Deserve Better (than being kept on chains)
- Great dog-training podcasts (by Jolanta Benal, aka Juni-and-Izzy's human)
- K9Crazy Playskool (our trainer)
- Karen Pryor Clicker Training
- Kathy Sdao (great mind, great trainer)
- Lee Harrington, writer on dogs and others
- Pat Miller, positive reinforcement trainer
- The best dog magazine ever: The Bark
Blogs of Note
- Ride Like a Girl!
- Motorcycles = poetry: or at least here they do
- La Vida Meccanica
- David Handelman's always interesting . . . stuff
- Nolan Woodbury's fine words on the best motorcycles: the ones that have been around the block
- Adam Novitt's "New England Moto": smart, terrific writing on the deep subject that is the motorcycle
- The Motorcyclist Who Stops at Nothing (the infamous John Ryan)
- lovely: Crazy Atom Orbit
- OMG Bikes: Sweeter than Candy!
- They're even sprawling Down Under--egads!
- In the Pantry, Catherine Pond's delightful musings on home, history, food, and all that's good
- Nose to the Ground, by pet reporter Julia Szabo
- Bravo! Animal Behavior, by Kellie Snider
- The Beastly Life, by Sally Eckhoff
- Your Dream Dog
- The adventures of Brownie Brown, therapy dog
9 comments:
Looking great, M!
It's good to see a success end to a project, eh?
I hope you still get some warmish days to enjoy the lights.
Dazzling, they will definately see you coming.
I'm curious to know if they provide more good, useable light at night, too. I find myself riding in the dark almost every time the bike is out now that the days are shorter.
Yes, exactly my question: Will they increase vision at night? (Since they've been installed, sad to say, I've only been out once, and that was during the day.) The only other person I know who runs these lights also has HID auxiliary lights that would light a football field for night play--so he's not exactly able to say. The Motolights are exclipsed by the sun he carries around with him.
But I'm planning on finding out this weekend, cold or no.
Extra lights are always good. About the ONLY good thing about my GSX250 that I rode in 1985 was the two spotlights attached to crash bars.
Oops (of sorts): I discovered the lights need to be directed a bit upwards--one reason they don't look that much brighter than the headlight in this pic, though they definitely are. I'll need to wait till my Enabler is around again: the guy's so strong I can't undo a bolt he's torqued down.
All good things take a little fine tuning. At least it didn't fall off!
The configuration of your Motolights is perfect.Their low positioning may cause some to say "Here comes Twinkletoes". But they WILL SEE YOU COMING!
I(just this week)read a post on a forum relating to my particular bike, from a fellow rider who while in his car, made a left turn in front of a motorbike. There was still two car lengths between them upon completion of his turn. But he was rather deflated to admit that the single headlight of the approaching bike, from half a block away, had appeared to be a street light;looking to be roughly the same size and color.That was his perception after a quick glance in the darkness. Which is more consideration than we are given, at times.You don't have to be able to land planes with these lights in order for them to save your life.I think I'll be investing in a set of these.
I hear you, Kevin. All I know is what I see--or, rather, don't see at night anymore: I am worse and worse at gauging the speed of oncoming vehicles by their lights. Maybe it is an entirely fictional feeling of improved safety having these lights, but, hey, I'll take it. Conspicuity is a lot, but not everything: would that an orange vest could save one from a diesel spill, say. Then I'd look like a traffic cone going down the road, every day.
There are countless others ( yourself included) who may have forgotten more about motorcycling than I will ever learn. And there is always an answer for every safety concern.But one's confidence and comfort level with assumed risks and the checks and balances for anticipated hazards; these are always personal decisions. Believing as I try to (most of the time)that, "if you're born to drown then you will never be hanged",then it becomes pretty basic.I prepare for and focus on the things that I can control and try not to worry about all the rest.
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