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Bicycle physics - how it all works
("Écureuil roux -- Red Squirrel" by Gilles Gonthier is licensed under CC BY 2.)
This is pretty cool - a bunch of details and models on how a bicycle works
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- Jack Sexty 5 min 25 sec ago
Thanks neighbour, it's greatly appreciated and has been changed! I think the likelihood is that there were hundreds of designs when the review was...
- ShutTheFrontDawes 8 min 13 sec ago
That video is all well and good and that Black Belt Barrister fella seems very knowledgeable, but my good friend Rendel has told me that it's...
- mctrials23 26 min 10 sec ago
What an utterly strange take. Strava has all these things because people like them and clearly care about them. If you don't thats fine but others...
- Geoff Ingram 34 min 44 sec ago
I'd say go for a gravel bike with wide tyres and get another spare set of wheels with fast road tyres, swapping them out depending on your route. I...
- leipreachan 43 min 24 sec ago
The problem is very simple. Council doesn't care until the carelessness has consequences....
- brooksby 43 min 33 sec ago
I hate it when someone reminds me about xkcd. I lose hours of time... Anyhoo - found this one at https://xkcd.com/2766/
- Matthew Acton-Varian 51 min 29 sec ago
I think people need to get real on the whole "going soft" trope....
- Jimmy Ray Will 52 min 53 sec ago
I understand the notion that the safer you make an activity, the less regard to safety the participant will give, but I do feel the seatbelt...
- Paul J 1 hour 24 min ago
Guaranteed the locals, particularly those in farming, know who that is.