reohn2 wrote: But at least it's got disc brakes ....
er, shouldn't that read
reohn2 wrote: But at least it's got discs ....
call me a cynical get but I reckon there are no calipers....
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reohn2 wrote: But at least it's got disc brakes ....
reohn2 wrote: But at least it's got discs ....
Brucey wrote:call me a cynical get but I reckon there are no calipers....
Brucey wrote:the dream of a fully enclosed bike is wonderful, but the reality is that every machine with a hard fairing I have ever seen or tried has been really noisy; a bit like being inside a dustbin whilst people are hitting it with something.
TBH I'm not quite sure I could stick that noise level all the time; to me it is just as intrusive as (say) the noise of riding on the rollers, which I hate. I quite like peace and quiet when I go out on my bike and I'm not sure I'd have it in any fully faired machine; maybe one with a fabric fairing would get 90% of the benefit without the noise?
BTW new materials might in the future reduce the weight of a robust bicycle significantly. However if a town bike went from (say) 15kg down to 10kg, this isn't that big a deal, not when you figure that bike plus rider plus luggage is liable to be 80-110kg for most adults on a commute.
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Brucey wrote:reohn2 wrote: But at least it's got disc brakes ....
er, shouldn't that readreohn2 wrote: But at least it's got discs ....
call me a cynical get but I reckon there are no calipers....
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mig wrote:why..er....have you been inside a dustbin whilst others whack it?
mig wrote:nope. none of that for me. mainly "real tennis" & lawn croquet don't you know.
cicatriz wrote:Like Twitter, Bicycles are more than the sum of their parts, even when the underlying technologies have a wide range of purposes and are advanced in their own right.
One way of looking at this is that for both, the underlying technologies will improve, possibly even significantly: e.g. material technologies for bicycles or semi-conductor technologies for twitter, but neither would have an enormous impact on the end-user. In this case, I think bicycles may have a bit more scope for growth because changes and advancements will, eventually, lead to cost savings that I don't see as being relevant to Twitter (unless you use it that much it actually has an appreciable affect on your electricity bill or data roaming usage).
However, I don't think there will be a change to bicycles that will get more people cycling in any great numbers. I doubt, even if tomorrow, a bike was announced that had been grown in a lab from some self-repairing, frictionless bio metal that cost less than a £100 that you'd see a huge upswing in bicycle use.
There isn't a lot you can do with twitter itself to get more people using it (even if you thought that was a good thing) - but availability of the technology to use it might. There isn't a lot you can do to get more using bicycles - availability of the infrastructure to use them might.
mig wrote:why..er....have you been inside a dustbin whilst others whack it?
mig wrote: ....none of that for me. mainly "real tennis" & lawn croquet don't you know.