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Vic
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I occasionally read "The Engineer", which is a UK technology rag posted out free, and supported by
the adverts which fill about 50% of its pages.
Each month there's a prize question, ostensibly on a topic which may be of interest to engineers,
but more usually of the fox-chicken-grain type.
This month's question caught my eye, because I wonder just how many of the magazine's readership
will get it right, and if even the composer of the problem will have the answer right...
"Stan the cyclist is keen to stay abreast of latest developments so purchased a hi-tech carbon fibre
rear wheel with 16 radial spokes equally spaced and alternating eight to each side of the hub. The
wheel builder has centred the rim and trued the wheel and then torqued up the spokes to give a
tension of 125kg (sic) per spoke. As Stan lowers his 75kg onto the saddle he wonders what the
tension is in the spokes now."
I await next month's issue with baited breath!
Vic.
the adverts which fill about 50% of its pages.
Each month there's a prize question, ostensibly on a topic which may be of interest to engineers,
but more usually of the fox-chicken-grain type.
This month's question caught my eye, because I wonder just how many of the magazine's readership
will get it right, and if even the composer of the problem will have the answer right...
"Stan the cyclist is keen to stay abreast of latest developments so purchased a hi-tech carbon fibre
rear wheel with 16 radial spokes equally spaced and alternating eight to each side of the hub. The
wheel builder has centred the rim and trued the wheel and then torqued up the spokes to give a
tension of 125kg (sic) per spoke. As Stan lowers his 75kg onto the saddle he wonders what the
tension is in the spokes now."
I await next month's issue with baited breath!
Vic.