hang bike from one wheel - Page 2

Actually, that occured in 1895 with Ralph P. Eigen, a milkman in Red Bank, NJ, when he was caught, on the job, looking at kiddy porn. The local police thought he was a real degenerate and called his morals "Eigenvalues." As more people were found, sharing similar decrepit morals, the term "degenerate" came to be associated with each person in a group of people, sharing a given set of eigenvalues.

I think you have correctly identified the phenomena there. Another not so well known example happened in Taiwan. A janitor had an aluminum bike with a heavy Brooks saddle on it. He was injured in a freak mopping accident and confined to bed for a few months. When he started commuting to work he found the heavy saddle had compressed his seat tube. Thus started the compact frame fad.

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"You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

Wait a minute, isn't he the paranoid engineer that slugged the senior citizen for a McNugget?

I just realised why my formally 700c wheel now fit 650c tires.....spoke tension caused the rims to shrink! I'm happy as the new tires are liter anyway, and smaller frontal area is more aerodynamic.

Anybody got the history on why 700c is used? I imagine it was a rolling resistance thing and the larger tires roller over bad roads better (yes like a 29er). Now we ride great hubs and tyres why don't more riders use 650c wheels to save weight and better aero? Are 650c wheels UCI legal????

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Funny that, my old 26" MTB wheel after 5 years on the wall can now fit 700c tyres. Must be some space-time reversal b/n your and my locations.

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I've always wondered how those got started.....damn I'm slow........

I think I'd best be checking up on my bowling forum...