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Race Safety-Nomex, etc

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aeronca65t

aeronca65t

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<span style="font-size: 11pt">The racing season <span style="font-style: italic">is/will be </span>kicking off for many of us soon so let's be safe!

This came from Bob Girvin from our VRG newletter:

https://www.circletrack.com/safety/index.html

In particular, you may want to read the section on care of Nomex, but it's all good stuff.
Circle Track is (in my opinion) the *best* nuts and bolts magazine for car racers (even if you're not a roundy-round racer).</span>



<span style="font-size: 8pt">By the way, if you are a bicycle nut, this is *that* Bob Girvin.</span>
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]By the way, if you are a bicycle nut, this is *that* Bob Girvin.[/size] [/QUOTE]

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I always thought Bob was simply a quiet, unassuming Allard driver and did not know he was famous in a different right! As they used to say in the old Superman comics: "Beneath that mild-mannered exterior is..."

https://www.completesite.com/mbhof/page.cfm?memberid=168&pageid=6
 
Yeah, I didn't know either for a while.

I have an engineering colleague at the college.

He's a car nut but he's *really* a bicyle nut (he rides 50+ miles almost every day).

He was checking out some of my web pages one day when he saw Bob's name mentioned. He told me the whole story about Bob.

"<span style="font-style: italic">Quiet, unassuming Allard driver</span>" seems like an oxymoron! :jester:
 
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