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<x-charset iso-8859-1>Call CPS... making that child do all the work. :-) Hey, you could just keep her in the back of the T3 all of the time, that way if it breaks... JK. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Merritt" <gregm@vwtype3.org> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [T3] Got a type 4 > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Shad Laws wrote: > > > It doesn't take all that much horsepower to keep a car moving. It just > > Right -- for a typical car, to just push the air out of the way > and to overcome internal friction of moving parts, I recall that you only > need about 12hp to go steadily down the road at 50 or 55mph. > > My seven-year-old daughter rides a trailer bike connected to my > bike, and it's got its own drive train. All together, with the bike(s), > ourselves, backpacks, locks, pump, lunches, jackets, etc., we're around > 300pounds; my chain broke one afternoon, and she had no trouble pushing us > steadily down the road to a bike store. Not terribly fast, but it sure > beat walking! > > -Greg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ > </x-charset>