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...Flag. Inspired by the Tour de France, bike racing has long been a favorite Vietnamese avocation, and the precautions taken reflected the nation's interest. Highway 1 was swept beforehand by troops of the national police. U.S. Marine checkpoints were ordered to flash word ahead as the cyclists hove into view. When the arrangements were complete, the entrants gathered on Danang's waterfront. With the starting gun, they pumped briskly off, preceded by a jeepload of tour officials clearing puzzled drivers off the highway with a red flag and siren...
...soon moved to Viet Nam, turned freelancer, and has been covering the war ever since-except for a few brief vacations like the one to Singapore, where he began a motorbike ride back to Saigon through Laos, Cambodia and the Viet Cong. He soon totaled himself and the bike, and was forced to reach Saigon by safer means...
...motorcycles than with eliminating the real cause of the problem, the Average Joe Driver, who never sees anything smaller than a Chrysler and blithely turns left in front of motorcycles with a devil-may-care attitude engendered by the two tons of steel between him and that 300-lb. bike...
...what does society think of the recommended leathers and big bikes that can be seen? Ha! If you can avoid the never-even-saw-'em-CRASH! drivers, the fuzz locks you up as a menace to society. Admittedly, the Bermuda shorts set on their Japanese toys aren't too bright, but it still comes down to one thing: on a bike you have to expect every jerk on the road...
...After reading your article, my parents offered to buy me a car in return for the surrender of my bike. I have chosen to reduce the probability of dying on the roads by four-fifths, and to join the ranks of the merry millions who consider it good sport to pick off the two-wheeled buffs. I sleep a little better each night knowing that I'm now doing the gunning...