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STOP FOR A COP AND STAY ALIVE

Did you see the recent Clint Eastwood film The Mule? If you did you will, I suspect, remember the scene where the police pull over an innocent driver under the impression that he is the mule of the title. This bloke has done nothing wrong, but he is so scared of the cops – he even says something like, ‘this is the most terrifying thing that is ever going to happen to me’ – that he nearly pees his pants. Hyperbole, right? Exaggeration. Done for dramatic effect.

Well, maybe. And maybe not.

Andy Goldfine from Aerostich in the US sent me a batch of little books that the company has published and sells for five or ten bucks each. There’s one about riding a Zero electric bike over winter, one with stories about Interstate 94, one called Lightweight –Unsupported Motorcycle Travel for Terminal Cases. That one is particularly good, with reams of information in 

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