On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 4:10:12 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 11:57:52 AM UTC-8, sms wrote:
On 11/19/2015 11:42 AM, James wrote:
On 20/11/15 00:38, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 8:49:31 PM UTC-8, sms wrote:
On 11/18/2015 2:42 PM, jbeattie wrote:

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Dynos are fine for nice dry nights. Contrary to what SMS says,
they are perfect for MUPs except for the beam cut-off, because my
MUPs go up and down.

LOL, yeah except for the beam shape, and except for the fact that
on MUPs you often have twisty and hilly sections where you're
riding at slow speeds and you have the least amount of light when
you most need it, dynos are perfect for MUPs.

To be fair, my dyno light is pretty bright at a walking pace. I have
no problem with the amount of light it produces when riding MUPs,
it's the beam cut-off on undulating path, which also makes it hard to
see walkers. If I were riding the Springwater Corridor -- which is
flat and straight -- a dyno would be just fine.


The same "problem" exists for motor vehicles travelling on steep
undulating and winding roads.

I regularly travel a road that has successive short hills where you go
up and down at about 17% gradient. High beams, low beams, fog light
beams and I suspect Barry beams if you had them on a car, do not show
the road ahead for any appreciable distance as they do when the road is
mostly flat.

I deal with it by driving slower.

Parts of CA 17 are like that. If only everyone would deal with it by
driving slower.
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28416215/crashes-highway-17-at-highest-level-decade.

I spent my youth shoveling people and parts of people off that highway when I was an ambulance driver in the '70s -- before and after installation of the barrier walls. My last ambulance call before "retiring" was on that highway -- a guy in a VW bus plowed into the back a loaded gas tanker that was crawling up the grade. The VW bus driver came flying around an uphill corner not expecting to see a nearly-parked truck on the other side. After seeing the dented tank on the rear trailer, my first thought was f*** this! $3.00 hr is not enough to get blown-up over. I'll skip the gruesome details about the van driver. My favorite call involved me running for the shoulder adjacent to Big Moody, pushing a stretcher with a patient, trying to avoid being hit by the cars that were running into the cars we had just emptied of casualties. It was like a giant exercise in kinetic energy -- cars spinning all over the place. CHP had failed to close off the highway up stream, or people were somehow squeezing by.

-- Jay Beattie.

know Schumann ? also ambulance personnel

https://www.google.com/#q=roger+schumann+kayak

was Brown governor ? sounds suspicious......