Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John Collier noted: Ahh the Isuzu Trooper :-). It has an undocumented safety feature. If you forget that you have bicycles on your roof rack and enter your garage... the roof of the Trooper comes right off! ************************************ I can personally attest to the fact that under the same loading conditions a 1984 Subaru wagon only suffers slight damage to the rain gutters, whereas ultralight carbon seatposts experience rather spectacular brittle failure. My wife witnessed a Range Rover (not sure of exact model or year) loaded with 4 very expensive Italian bikes perform a similiar test. She didn't recall how the car faired, but the bikes were only functional as garden sculpture afterwords. Yakima doesn't make any Leica M roof mounts, but maybe Mr. Collier could rig something up and perform some tests for us. I suspect that the silver chrome lenses will perform a bit better, but that's just a guess. Tom "Oh F***!" Finnegan Seattle - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html