Andrew got all funicular on us. The eyeball says the chain is a tad short of chainette, but I'm an english major. That being said, my favorite bit was:
"This implies that Square wheels can roll perfectly smoothly if the road has evenly spaced bumps in the shape of a series of inverted catenary curves." On Feb 13, 10:33 pm, Andrew <ashtab...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Jeremy Till <jeremy.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Found a picture of one of Sheldon's (RIP) old fixed gears, which in my > > mind demonstrates just the proper amount of tension. > > >http://sheldonbrown.org/images/ral-int-nospox-big.gif > > Question for the group: Does a sagging bicycle chain follow the shape of a > catenary? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary(fun reading there). > > - Andrew, Berkeley -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
