Yes, you can cross foot -- for a while. Try pressing on the accelerator
pedal with your left foot for, oh I don't know, two hours. Lemme know how
that works out.

It's fine for a jaunt around town, but definitely stresses the old ankle
and lower back being twisted around like that for a longer period of time.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
Bend, OR
KG6RCR

On 8/18/2009 1:48 PM Don Hanson wrote:

> can't you just "Cross-foot" your van?  Drive with the left foot?
>
>  I knew a guy  with a broken leg (cast to above the knee)  and a Harley
> with a 'suicide clutch"...He reached down and worked the foot clutch
> with his hand!...He also had a hand shifter on the other side from the
> foot clutch...so he was a busy biker coming to a stopsign..Really kinda
> dumb, the whole program on that bike...
> He actually broke the foot because the 'hard-tail' Harley bounced over a
> river-rock and his apehanger bars and extended fork precluded him
> keeping control...so he hit a fence post...Coming into the driveway of a
> big Sunday keg party barbie...He didn't look so cool as we splinted him
> up..but he thought he was gonna look way cool when he started down that
> driveway...until that river rock...
>   Don Hanson
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Rocket J Squirrel
> <camping.elliott@gmail.com <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 8/18/2009 9:26 AM Jake de Villiers wrote:
>
>         Prolly 'product liability' costs in your fair nation.
>
>
>     Yeah? What's a similar gadget cost in your fair nation?
>
>
>         If you'd lost that foot for good it would seem like a bargain.
>
>
>     You're not wrong!
>
>
>     --
>     Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>     84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>     74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>     Bend, OR
>     KG6RCR
>
>
>
>         On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
>         <camping.elliott@gmail.com <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>
>         <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com
>         <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>            With my right foot out of commission for a while, I am
>         looking at items
>            like Item #104, the Left Foot Gas Pedal, at
>
>          http://www.handicapsinc.com/shoppingcart/agora.cgi?product=Accessories
>
>            But $280 seems spendy for what appears to be a fairly
>         uncomplicated
>            thing.
>            Of course, all the parts are probably made in small
>         quantities, but
>            still
>            . . .
>
>            --
>            Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>            84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>            74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>            Bend, OR
>            KG6RCR
>
>
>
>
>         --
>         Beverley Anne de Villiers   April 20, 1930 - July 4, 2009
>
>         Jake
>
>         1984 Vanagon GL
>         1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>
>         Crescent Beach, BC
>
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>         <http://www.crescentbeachguitar.com/>
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>         <http://www.crescentbeachguitar.com/>>
>
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>
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