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James Thomson
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"Frank Krygowski" <[email protected]> a écrit:
> Hmm. Not much meaningful discussion, though, from what I
> can see. Just two people disagreeing, with no relevant data.
Without wanting to appear conceited, there's a distinction to be made
between one participant who's familiar with only the myth, another who knows
the myth and uses the hubs in question, and others participants who aren't
familiar with the myth, the hubs, or the context.
Anyone who's familiar with these hubs knows that:
bottom gear is inefficient
and
bottom gear is not so inefficient as not to be useful.
The difficulty is trying to convey a sense of the problems with this
discussion to an audience that's broadly unfamiliar with hub gears in
general (hub gears never having had the popularity in North America that
they once had in Britain), and these hubs in particular.
Imagine if a rumour was in circulation that an S5 hub will play "God Save
the Queen" if shifted from middle to bottom gear without passing through
second. Someone familiar with the hubs might say it was nonsense - but
without proof, the rumour persists. Someone Googles and finds that some hubs
are said to emit noise in certain gears (a Rohloff plays "Im wunderschönen
Monat Mai" if shifted from eighth into seventh under load) so it's certainly
not impossible that a Sturmey plays "God Save the Queen" in certain gears.
Someone else says that he rode the hub in question fifteen years ago and
remembers distinctly that it made a noise, but it sounded more like "Rule
Britannia". Still, it was fifteen years ago. Someone postulates that a batch
of the hubs slipped through that played "Rule Britannia", which would
explain this exception to the well-known truth that all of these hubs play
"God Save the Queen".
For what it's worth, *everybody* knows that an S5/2 actually sings "Knees
Up, Mother Brown" to the tune of "Jerusalem". But only the batch with a blue
plastic oiler cap.
James Thomson
> Hmm. Not much meaningful discussion, though, from what I
> can see. Just two people disagreeing, with no relevant data.
Without wanting to appear conceited, there's a distinction to be made
between one participant who's familiar with only the myth, another who knows
the myth and uses the hubs in question, and others participants who aren't
familiar with the myth, the hubs, or the context.
Anyone who's familiar with these hubs knows that:
bottom gear is inefficient
and
bottom gear is not so inefficient as not to be useful.
The difficulty is trying to convey a sense of the problems with this
discussion to an audience that's broadly unfamiliar with hub gears in
general (hub gears never having had the popularity in North America that
they once had in Britain), and these hubs in particular.
Imagine if a rumour was in circulation that an S5 hub will play "God Save
the Queen" if shifted from middle to bottom gear without passing through
second. Someone familiar with the hubs might say it was nonsense - but
without proof, the rumour persists. Someone Googles and finds that some hubs
are said to emit noise in certain gears (a Rohloff plays "Im wunderschönen
Monat Mai" if shifted from eighth into seventh under load) so it's certainly
not impossible that a Sturmey plays "God Save the Queen" in certain gears.
Someone else says that he rode the hub in question fifteen years ago and
remembers distinctly that it made a noise, but it sounded more like "Rule
Britannia". Still, it was fifteen years ago. Someone postulates that a batch
of the hubs slipped through that played "Rule Britannia", which would
explain this exception to the well-known truth that all of these hubs play
"God Save the Queen".
For what it's worth, *everybody* knows that an S5/2 actually sings "Knees
Up, Mother Brown" to the tune of "Jerusalem". But only the batch with a blue
plastic oiler cap.
James Thomson
