New TUG Editor?

Luck be a Lady

Submitted by John Tipper

Look at the picture above and you can see where this driver broke through the guardrail, on the right side of the culvert, Where the people are standing on the road, pointing...The pick-up was traveling about 75 mph from right to left When it crashed through the guardrail. It flipped end-over-end bounced off and across the culvert outlet, And landed right side up on the left side of the culvert, Facing the opposite direction from which the driver was traveling. The 22-year-old driver and his 18-year-old passenger Were unhurt except for minor cuts and bruises. Just outside Flagstaff , AZ , on U.S.. Hwy 100

Now look at the second picture on the next page

New TUG Editor

Chris Johnson

I was beginning to feel that editing TUG (put the dots in yourself; they are a nuisance to type) was a job for life. When you are in your mid 70’s that is actually an uncertain sentence. However over the last 18 months my wife Mary has been increasingly unwell, and after her recent 3 week stay in hospital I am now a 24/7 carer, which makes biking a bit problematical, even if you don’t think about the consequences of even a minor accident. EAMG is going to have to be put on a back burner for the foreseeable future. No more misremembered rides for the Events Report. No more pictures and, with very little free time left, no more TUG. We need a new Editor. We need one badly.

I would like to paint a rosy picture of the role; the selection of appropriate articles from a profusion of offerings, the ease with which modern software turns your artistic dreams into glorious reality, the chance to bring your touch of creative genius to the membership. I am afraid that it is nothing like that. After six years of using Microsoft Publisher I should be pretty expert with it but it still regularly goes crazy, has sulks, and has a nasty tendency to bite you in the bum when you least expect it. Creative urges give way to a desire not to break something which is more-or-less working and, the biggest demon of all, there is never ever enough content. This is what brings TUG Editors to despair. You bully your friends to generate some. You write stuff yourself. You scour the Internet for anything bike related, and you re-cycle old articles. You are pathetically grateful to advertisers because they use up some space.

It would appear that volunteering as Editor is not a sensible thing to