Post #43,510
6/26/02 12:44:07 PM
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Outlaw
56.1
Of course The !@#$%^&*() Brother edged me out at 56.3. Feh!
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What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.
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Post #43,605
6/27/02 5:46:01 AM
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You devil you! Pretty cool, really! :)
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #43,748
6/28/02 9:49:44 AM
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I've never gone that fast....
....at least not on a bicycle. Way to go!
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Post #43,819
6/28/02 3:50:17 PM
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Anyone remember the train + bicycle guy?
I saw pix of this eons ago.
A caboose (?) was outfitted at rear with a kind of overhang shelter to the back. A section of track was setup with plywood? over the ties = smooth surface.
Train 'led' the cyclist, who racked up some humongous top speed. And, considering acceleration time/distance - this must have been a Lot of plywood and labor..
(Obviously, geared for top speed w/o WIND reistance = an er small advantage.) 'Course on mootorcycles - drafting a big-rig is a similar game of Chicken. Amazing how little throttle needed! Does F really equal MA?
Ashton
need volunteers for next trial: in a vacuum
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Post #43,863
6/28/02 10:21:19 PM
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Tomato trucks
Davis, in Yolo County, reeks of spoiled tomatoes in late summer.
Succinctly, I've got a wind problem at speed. They've got an inertia problem at startup. I've drafted trucks up to 50 MPH from a standing stop.
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Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]
[link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/|[link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]]
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.
[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
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Post #44,077
7/1/02 9:07:23 AM
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I used to play that
In high school, if I could find a suitably boxy truck to get behind, I would ride with traffic on a road that had a speed limit of 35, so of course most traffic was 40-45. Remembering when you were approaching the spot with the potholes (and frequently large chunks of asphalt freshly knocked out of them) was more than trivially important.
Also used to do it on a '73 Yamaha RD350 on the Jersey Turnpike. That's a small two-stroke twin that was 13 years old at the time, and a stretch of highway where there are no shoulders to speak of and traffic does 85 with just over a car length of separation. While I could cruise at 85 with very little throttle, it didn't occur to me that I was riding an air-cooled bike way faster than it was designed to cruise, while starving it for fresh air. All this came into focus when the engine seized in the left lane with trucks in front, to the right and behind me.
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Post #44,105
7/1/02 2:36:46 PM
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Ooooh.. Good ^h^h er Bad one..
And I'd have to admit too, that the now Obvious.. might not have entered My pretty-little head either :(
(Though it did enter.. on a matter of lesser importance: not a great idea to be idling around town on one's multi-cylinder *air* cooled machine when it's >90\ufffd outside.) Folks smarter than either of us - bought a cyl. head temp gauge!
I remember the RD-350: it was vastly too-fast for its Bad handling (a bad mix also with a ~16 yo newbie finding out the hard way about: short wheelbases and physics, at the same time).
Helped my SO get a new -250; it handled surprisingly well. Both showed what the Japanese could extract from a 2-stroke: eat lots of 'things' for lunch..
Another lunacy: coasting!
At top of a long wind-y downgrade. Kill engine, get: the Worst of both bicycling and [inert] motorcycling. Since it's a race, you have to keep sorta off the brakes yet still make the turns. I think.. it was a learning experience of a sort re. finding the very best line. For those who want to scare selves. Contrary to intuition (f=ma?) IIRC the lighter bikes usually won via ~ handling nearer to bicycles, further lean angles possible w/o power.. (not sure of that)
A Survivor
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Post #44,287
7/2/02 6:33:43 PM
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Saw a pic somewhere sometime of a Porsche 911...
...probably a Turbo, with some humongous spoiler-contraption on the back, to provide wind-shadow to a bicyclist following the car. Probably set some speed record, back about 15-20 years ago.
If you design your wind-shadow thingy correctly, couldn't you induce a vortex that actually *sucks* the bike along with the car (or train, truck, or whatever), without the need to tread the pedals at all -- just coasting along?
Christian R. Conrad
Microsoft is a true reflection of Bill Gates' personality - the sleaziest, most unethical, ugliest little rat's ass the world has seen unto this time. -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=42971|Andrew Grygus]
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Post #43,867
6/28/02 10:36:14 PM
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You remind me of an old friend...
His proudest moment was getting a speeding ticket on a bike. OK, it was just a residential speed limit he was breaking, but he did it uphill!
I believe he framed the cheque he paid the bill off with. :-)
Cheers,
Ben
"... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."
--Richard Feynman
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Post #43,877
6/29/02 12:26:31 AM
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Teenage pastime: racing Porsches
...down Mt. Tam. The summit road (you missed it on your trip) is classic mountain two-lane highway, lots of turns and steep grade. A bike's ability to keep speed through turns usually beat a car's ability to accellerate the straightaways, though Porsches were a toss-up. The ones I did pass were a kick.
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Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]
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What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.
[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
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Post #44,288
7/2/02 6:35:37 PM
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Funny - I'm guessing, if any of you thought of *me* as...
...a "Biker", it would be that *other* kind! :-)
Christian R. Conrad
Microsoft is a true reflection of Bill Gates' personality - the sleaziest, most unethical, ugliest little rat's ass the world has seen unto this time. -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=42971|Andrew Grygus]
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Post #44,470
7/4/02 2:40:36 PM
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Jeez
I get the heebee-jeebies when I hit 30 or 35. But then the one time I did that, it was on a circular road around a park with a bridges with definite expansion bumps (danger of busting a tire) and, at the bottom of the hills, curves coming up. I'm not willing to risk wiping out at 40+ mph even if I am wearing a helmet and reasonably heavy (eg protective) clothing.
Famous last RPG quotes: "I'll just shoot this fireball down the dungeon passageway..."
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Post #45,689
7/15/02 5:43:26 PM
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57.5
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What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
[link|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.
Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.
[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
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Post #45,743
7/16/02 7:44:14 AM
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Rock!!
John. Busy lad.
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Post #45,758
7/16/02 9:37:42 AM
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Hope Not! A rock at that speed could HURT!
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Steve
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Post #45,811
7/16/02 5:44:21 PM
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Then it's time to trade-in that M$- toy-like 'helmet'
for a Snell-approved Real helmet. Y'know? Lessn' ya Like playin them odds VS umm karma games.
(Mine saved my er ass a couple times.. at lower speeds than that. Cranium doesn't even like hitting stuff at.. 0-speed falls)
[/wear-your-galoshes rant]
Ashton
F=MA. It's the Law.
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Post #45,832
7/16/02 9:43:59 PM
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More to the point, E =0.5 mv^2. Dissipating that energy...
quickly could be a real pain. But it would only hurt for a little while.
Alex
"Television: chewing gum for the eyes." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Post #49,077
8/12/02 1:02:40 PM
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59.9
...and that wasn't even really trying (too hot for that), just nailing my line right ;-)
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Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]
[link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/|[link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]]
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
[link|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.
Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.
[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
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Post #49,087
8/12/02 2:48:39 PM
8/12/02 8:49:15 PM
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59.9% Guaranteed...
to scare the living Crud out of you....
Geezzz you'll end up looking like:
[link|http://www.steaks-meat-food.com/images/hamburger.jpg|This Picture!] or even [link|http://home.netcom.com/~kmself/Images/mug-bw.jpg|THIS ONE!!!!]
If'n you ain't careful!
greg - Grand-Master Artist in IT,
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Post #49,103
8/12/02 5:44:48 PM
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Now.. now..___Perspective!
It's quite less hazardous than..
A pack a day of the Corporate-approved fag$.
A taste for the Corp-approved bottled solvents.
A stay in a hospital environment..of a few days.
Turning sharply, in.. millions of UAVs.
Breathing the air in a newly glued-together 3000 sq. ft. house, especially after the other outgassing stuff gets moved in.
Flying lots - with O-2 starved, recirculated Other-folks' phlegm aerosols instead of actual air. While having one's vital organs compressed into a tiny box-seat.
Regular trips to McD's for the China plastic toy collection.
Pharm-chem usage. Especially, chronically.
Working 10+ hours/day/night in a place w/ mucho pos-ions and damn few neg-ions -- in a hamster cubicle.
Reading the daily Ashcroft news and taking it seriously.
...taking Any Corporate MissionStatement as one's Personal Goals.
(Did I miss any biggies?)
Ashton
{sigh}
..they said the Same Things\ufffd when I got my first Vincent.
And the next.
A soccer-mom will prolly do the deed on me, anyway; on a local 2-lane as she reaches for her cel-fone to check on the ballet lessons, or kibitz on little Malphasia's Nintendo color screen - right next to her..
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Post #49,104
8/12/02 5:47:30 PM
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OR:___Life________is something you don't get out of__ alive.
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