*snip* ...among other things***
> Riding a bicycle on Earth, you are accelerating most
> of the time, to
> counter the deceleration caused by gravity and air
> resistance. You
> wouldn't be accelerating all the time, if you were
> bicycling in space.
***
'most of the time', huh? you mean like except when
you're not??? are you confusing the concepts of
'exerting effort' and 'accelerating' maybe?
'..on earth' indeed.... *sheesh*
and you're, what, an engineer?
>
> So, if we are going to drag science and facts(!)
> into the argument, it
> gets more complicated. The deceleration caused by
> gravity is related
> to mass, but not linearly, since the force of
> gravity is generally
> perpendicular to the motion of a bicycle.
***
hey, and I suppose you're hysterical about hysteresis,
too..
facts *always* complicate things; moreso if they're incorrect, or ineptly/inappropriately applied.
>
> The more important consideration is that the mass of
> the bicycle is
> small compared to the mass of the rider. Go on a
> diet, and this
> argument is moot.
***
or vary the number of waterbottles to cancel out the
thousands you've spent/wasted chasing the asymptotic
weasel of weight minimization...
I don't
> know how anyone can
> live where it snows)
***
rather have the opportunity to chuck a few snowballs
(on a seasonally available basis) than have to worry
'bout grandma having her arm amputated by a gator in
the backyard..
bruce beautiful snowy urbana IL (sadly, not enough to ski on, though -- biking's fine, and has been all winter)
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