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- From: doc@webrider.central.sun.com (Steve Bunis)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.misc
- Subject: Re: dogs & rocks
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 23:33:45 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- References: <1992Dec21.220825.14621@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article 14621@athena.mit.edu, karen@athena.mit.edu (Karen E. Walrath) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec21.143955.9155@bnr.ca> rob@bnr.ca (Robert Perkins) writes:
- > >I'm sure rocks work great, and you can throw them
- > >while riding, but personally I've found a "wrist-rocket" slingshot
- > >with steel ball-bearings to be the best antidote to Georgia hounds
- > >(when I lived in Georgia). For those of you who don't know what
- > >a "wrist-rocket" is, it is a slingshot that uses surgical tubing
- > >for elastic.
- > >
- > >Rob
- > >
- > Sounds neat. How do you make one? Certainly bikies have plenty of
- > used up bearings for ammunition!
- >
- > Karen Walrath
- > MIT
-
- What I want to know is how you shoot it while maintaining speed and
- staying in the road. Riding with no hands is one thing, avoiding
- a dog and shooting at it with the slingshot sounds like a reeeeeeal
- good time.
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- Steve Bunis, Sun Microsystems
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