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Re: [T3] Got a type 4


<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
>
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