sorry to bring up OT, but I'm reminded of a favorite Car and Driver editorial - speed v. velocity. 100 mph in an exotic GT is velocity. 100 mph in a bugeye Sprite is Speed.
On Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 6:44:43 AM UTC-5, ascpgh wrote: > > Funny how the sensation of being on the knife's edge of performance on a > bike, with increased vibration and increased feel of the road surface is > processed as "faster" in the brain. > > Sensory inputs that release the fight or flight substances in the brain > must be at play. Scientific interpretation of that is tough. A roller > coaster purposely plays with those, a take off in an airliner is a much > greater demonstration of physics but feels much less impressive. > > Andy Cheatham > Pittsburgh > > > On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 3:04:07 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> I don't believe that this is nearly as true as claimed. At any rate, it >> certainly isn't my experience, which is instead ease of maintaining a given >> cadence in given conditions in given gears. In fact, my own "sense" of >> speed is much more tied to smoothness than vibration -- Elk Passes, Parigi >> Roubaix, F Freds, etc feel fast in part because they *don't* vibrate. >> >> [Close parenthesis.] >> >> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Ron Mc <bulld...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> but most riders think the feel of road vibration = speed, hence the >>> desire to pump to max rated pressure. I was specifically talking about two >>> different tires but both running well below rated pressure - no vibration >>> whatsoever and only one of them giving occasional shock - and yes, you know >>> for sure when you're trying to chase a tandem with two healthy riders. >>> -- >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. >> By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. >> Other professional writing services. >> http://www.resumespecialties.com/ >> www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten >> ************************************* >> *************************************************** >> *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a >> circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and >> individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu >> >> *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the >> world revolves.) *Carthusian motto >> >> *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart >> >> *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
