"Bill Wheeler" <billwheeler@mtbingrocks.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:47:37 -0000, "Shaun Rimmer" <shaun@newtronic.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> >"John Morgan" <jhnmorgan@NOSPAMcox.net> wrote in message news:KrTwb.7460$9O5.4033@fed1read06...
> >> They're teaching me strange things in school. Can anyone explain why a point at the top of a
> >> rolling bicycle wheel moves twice as fast as a
point
> >> in the center of the wheel? And if you can wrap your head around that one... why is a point at
> >> the bottom of a bicycle wheel not moving at
all?
> >>
> >> Here's the model I found in the textbook to explain it:
> >
> >Piece o' piss - it's all relative! Rate of motion in this case is
relative
> >to the ground, the bottom of the wheel is _on_ the ground, and therefore
not
> >moving. The top of the wheel is in motion relative to the centre of the wheel, which is half way
> >between top and bottom, therefore it's moving
twice
> >as fast. Duh!
> >
> >',;~}~
> >
> >
> >Shaun aRe - Have a nice day now y'all, y'hear?
>
> Yeah, what he said!

Yay! What he said about what I said!

> Peace, Bill
>
> ...one speed to rule them all, one speed to find them, one speed to bring them all and on the
> trails pass them In the Land of Avalon where the geared pigs lie...

Blah-blah-blah-blah.

Shaun aRe - Some things never change, Like Wheeler. And his gears.

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:20:03 -0000, "Shaun Rimmer" <shaun@newtronic.co.uk> wrote:

>
>Shaun aRe - Some things never change, Like Wheeler. And his gears.
>

Don't got any gears to change ;-P ...one speed to rule them all, one speed to find them, one speed
to bring them all and on the trails pass them In the Land of Avalon where the geared pigs lie...

"Bill Wheeler" <billwheeler@mtbingrocks.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:20:03 -0000, "Shaun Rimmer" <shaun@newtronic.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> >
> >Shaun aRe - Some things never change, Like Wheeler. And his gears.
> >
>
> Don't got any gears to change ;-P

That's your problem Bill. You're just limiting yourself. Many of the others here with SS's also have
full geared boingers. C'mon now you did real good with the disc brake thing.

Mike - free your mind and your ass will follow.

"Bill Wheeler" <billwheeler@mtbingrocks.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:20:03 -0000, "Shaun Rimmer" <shaun@newtronic.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> >
> >Shaun aRe - Some things never change, Like Wheeler. And his gears.
> >
>
> Don't got any gears to change ;-P

Yes - it's still 'gearing' dude - gears are what set the ratio.

Shaun aRe

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:08:30 +0000, Shaun Rimmer wrote:

>> Don't got any gears to change ;-P
>
> Yes - it's still 'gearing' dude - gears are what set the ratio.

Perhaps you missed it, but Bill's now given up on the whole new-fangled 'gear' thing and gone back
to *true* riding. He's now got a hobby horse.

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"bomba" <myarse247@hotmail.com> wrote in message newsan.2003.12.03.15.17.13.500917@hotmail.com...
> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:08:30 +0000, Shaun Rimmer wrote:
>
> >> Don't got any gears to change ;-P
> >
> > Yes - it's still 'gearing' dude - gears are what set the ratio.
>
> Perhaps you missed it, but Bill's now given up on the whole new-fangled 'gear' thing and gone back
> to *true* riding. He's now got a hobby horse.
>

http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.c...ages/litho.jpg

Mike ;^)

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:03:02 -0500, Michael Dart wrote:

>> Perhaps you missed it, but Bill's now given up on the whole new-fangled 'gear' thing and gone
>> back to *true* riding. He's now got a hobby horse.
>>
>

>
> http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.c...ages/litho.jpg

Yep, that's a hobby horse...

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"bomba" <myarse247@hotmail.com> wrote in message newsan.2003.12.03.15.17.13.500917@hotmail.com...
> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:08:30 +0000, Shaun Rimmer wrote:
>
> >> Don't got any gears to change ;-P
> >
> > Yes - it's still 'gearing' dude - gears are what set the ratio.
>
> Perhaps you missed it, but Bill's now given up on the whole new-fangled 'gear' thing and gone back
> to *true* riding. He's now got a hobby horse.

Heheheheh!

"Two little boys had two little toys,"

',;~}~

Shaun aRe

> >> Perhaps you missed it, but Bill's now given up on the whole new-fangled 'gear' thing and gone
> >> back to *true* riding. He's now got a hobby horse.
> >>
> >

> >
> >
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.c...ages/litho.jpg
>
> Yep, that's a hobby horse...

Another thread hijacked, another day's pay for the ol' AMB crew.

-John Morgan

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 23:32:32 -0500, "Michael Dart" <mrdart@erols.com> wrote:

>Mike - free your mind and your ass will follow.
>
Nice ...one speed to rule them all, one speed to find them, one speed to bring them all and on the
trails pass them In the Land of Avalon where the geared pigs lie...