Electronic Shifting

[William Asher]

Curtis L. Russell wrote:

> On 13 Mar 2006 22:42:17 GMT, William Asher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>In which case you will want the brain implants that let you shift,
>>brake, monitor your power meter, and sense things such as tire
>>pressure, hydration level, body core temperature, and penile numbness
>>using a direct neural interface. Options will include an XM receiver,
>>On-Star, and Lo-Jack. The drawback is that you if you want to fly on
>>a commercial airliner you will have to turn off your brain once they
>>close the cabin door.
>
> And just when you finish all the elective surgery, the UCI reverts all
> riders to the 1969 standard.
>

The early adopters would all be RAAM riders anyway. RAAM riders are keen
to use new technology.

--
Bill Asher

 

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article <[email protected]>,
Curtis L. Russell <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:02:55 GMT, Ryan Cousineau <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >Aside from JT's multi-button suggestion, I think that the ultimate
> >evolution of electronic shifting would be some sort of active sensing
> >and adjustment of derailer positioning: imagine auto-trimming on the
> >fder, and auto-adjusting postitioning on the rder. Even auto-overshoot
> >or undershoot could be programmed in, if there was some benefit to
> >shifting.
>
> A lock in display, a few generations removed from the fighter plane
> stuff. You look through special cheesy white sunglasses until you lock
> on the person you want to get by. The bike shifts to the appropriate
> gear and tells you your cadence to accomplish the task. Look at Boonen
> and it has a special '********' response.

That's too funny. If rbr had a hall of fame, I would put this in.

--
Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

 

[Donald Munro]

Curtis L. Russell wrote:
> A lock in display, a few generations removed from the fighter plane
> stuff. You look through special cheesy white sunglasses until you lock
> on the person you want to get by.

And just what sunglasses do you think Hincapie has been wearing (they even
seem to work when targetting podium girls).

 

[Robert Chung]

[email protected] wrote:

> Eh, I don't have all of that, but I did upgrade to a heads-up
> in-eyeball display for the power meter, speed, and gear display
> (I still shift with the levers to keep the UCI from catching on).
> And cadence just to ******** Robert Chung.

Robert Chung is a red herring.

 

[Donald Munro]

[email protected] wrote:
>> Eh, I don't have all of that, but I did upgrade to a heads-up
>> in-eyeball display for the power meter, speed, and gear display
>> (I still shift with the levers to keep the UCI from catching on).
>> And cadence just to ******** Robert Chung.

Robert Chung wrote:
> Robert Chung is a red herring.

I always knew there was something fishy about those charts.

 

[[email protected]]

Robert Chung wrote:

> Robert Chung is a red herring.

The British government has learned that Robert Chung recently
sought significant quantities of herring from Norway.

 

[Robert Chung]

[email protected] wrote:
>
> The British government has learned that Robert Chung recently
> sought significant quantities of herring from Norway.

Ah. Very good. You're saying that a red herring is a weapon of
misdirection.

 

[Curtis L. Russell]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:23:00 -0800, "Robert Chung"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> The British government has learned that Robert Chung recently
>> sought significant quantities of herring from Norway.
>
>Ah. Very good. You're saying that a red herring is a weapon of
>misdirection.

Kind of reminds me of an old Matt Helm (Dean Martin) movie, where they
delivered $ 1 billion US gold bullion from Fort Knox to London via a
train through Denmark. Or maybe it was all a red herring. Which may be
the semi-German version of a Sherlock Holmes tale...

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Allusions, allusions, life is just an allusion

 

[RicodJour]

Robert Chung wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > The British government has learned that Robert Chung recently
> > sought significant quantities of herring from Norway.
>
> Ah. Very good. You're saying that a red herring is a weapon of
> misdirection.

In schools, weapons of mass direction.

R

 

[[email protected]]

Robert Chung wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > The British government has learned that Robert Chung recently
> > sought significant quantities of herring from Norway.
>
> Ah. Very good. You're saying that a red herring is a weapon of
> misdirection.

Although none of the herring has yet been found, this is proof
of Chung's dissembling. Why else would he have a mobile
sour cream trailer?

 

[Donald Munro]

[email protected] wrote:
>> > The British government has learned that Robert Chung recently
>> > sought significant quantities of herring from Norway.

Robert Chung wrote:
>> Ah. Very good. You're saying that a red herring is a weapon of
>> misdirection.

[email protected] wrote:
> Although none of the herring has yet been found, this is proof
> of Chung's dissembling. Why else would he have a mobile
> sour cream trailer?

We know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also
know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some
things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we
don't know we don't know. That is an unknown unknown.