Have a small sign painted on the wind screen, PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH
It will help
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Wennerberg" <jon@infodestruction.com>
To: <Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net>
Cc: "Landspeed" <Land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: Dear Abby: Salt Etiquette?
> On Jan 17, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net wrote:
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> I am wrong to still be embarrassed by this? BJ
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> I'll vote on the side of -- my bikes are race bikes and if you need
> to appreciate them by touching, well ASK me and then go ahead. If
> you touch first -- I might request that you not, but I sure as heck
> won't go off the deep end and shout and scream. Many's the time that
> I've put a kid on the seat for a photo.
>
> There's one part of the bikes that I really don't want you to touch,
> though -- the windscreen. The plastic scratches SO easily, smudges
> so quickly -- please don't be putting your handprint all over where
> I'm going to be trying to look through at a buck-ninety in just a few
> minutes! Don't do me the "favor" of wiping off the salt flecks --
> I've got polish and soft cloths and water for that.
>
> Now comes the hard-to-say part -- I've had a starter, at the line,
> rest his hand on the windshield time and time again. Geez, what to
> do -- I don't want to scold Jim or Wes or Bill or Al or Monte -- they
> might get huffy and make me wait before my run. But maybe we could
> ask them, say, at the driver meeting -- to not touch the windscreen.
>
> Jon Wennerberg
> Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
> Marquette, Michigan
> (that's 'way up north)
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