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10-04.-2007, 06:37 AM
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Re: hang bike from one wheel
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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. |
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10-04.-2007, 06:50 AM
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Re: hang bike from one wheel
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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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10-04.-2007, 07:49 PM
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Wait a minute, isn't he the paranoid engineer that slugged the senior citizen for a McNugget? |
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10-04.-2007, 08:09 PM
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Re: hang bike from one wheel
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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10-04.-2007, 08:19 PM
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Re: hang bike from one wheel
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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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10-04.-2007, 11:32 PM
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Re: hang bike from one wheel
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 .....damn I'm slow........ |
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10-04.-2007, 11:36 PM
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Re: hang bike from one wheel
I think I'd best be checking up on my bowling forum...
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