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tw 07-21-2019 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1035874)
The 30 cylinder engine was designed to produce the torque they needed at the speed they wanted.

It was designed with sufficient horsepower so that gears could select a torque necessary to maintain a speed. Horsepower (not torque) is always the relevant parameter.

As usual, due to too much emotion and insufficient knowledge, you again got it wrong.

4 cylinder engine can produce that same torque. But insufficient speed - due to insufficient horsepower. You also got that wrong.

Anyone not educated by hearsay (who can do simple multiplication) would know that. Only motors with sufficient horsepower can produce a torque at required speeds. Somehow that multiplication is just too hard - the routine expression from another lesser educated man called George Jr.

Meanwhile, that engine apparently had a very short life span due to its low performance numbers.

tw 07-21-2019 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1035928)
I have a feeling clothing had a lot to do with it.

Innovations were necessary because the human output too much torque. That large front wheel converted high torque - low speed into low torque high speed. With gears and chains, then smaller wheels could accomplish the same conversion. And provide the many different torque - speed ratios that a bike needs for changing terrains.

But again, it all about that simple concept taught in school science - the product of torque and speed. So that a much less than 1 horsepower engine (the human) could adapt to changing loads.

BigV 07-21-2019 08:54 PM

hey tw

you're wrong about your unswerving devotion to the temple of horsepower.

Let me ask you this. When you have a nut on a bolt to remove (or tighten), do you, with your static, unchanging amount of personal horsepower, use your fingers and thumb, or do you use a wrench?

xoxoxoBruce 07-21-2019 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by tw (Post 1035941)
It was designed with sufficient horsepower so that gears could select a torque necessary to maintain a speed. Horsepower (not torque) is always the relevant parameter.

Ass backward as usual, the engine is designed for torque, they sure as hell don't add a bunch of extra pistons to make more rpm. Gear selection dictates the speed the work gets done, torque does the work.

Griff 07-28-2019 12:54 PM

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So, I was rolling along rattlesnake trail a really sweet single track with a lot of turns climbs and descents when suddenly I see ...

Griff 07-28-2019 12:54 PM

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Then a couple monster lathes...

Griff 07-28-2019 12:58 PM

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These boys...

Griff 07-28-2019 12:59 PM

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and the product

Griff 07-28-2019 01:01 PM

I did not have a ripe banana so I've scaled with a mtn bike.

glatt 07-28-2019 01:27 PM

Very interesting

Clodfobble 07-28-2019 02:27 PM

Weird. Any idea of what the history/circumstances might be?

Griff 07-28-2019 03:25 PM

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It's the site of Redstone quarries in North Conway NH. They quarried and polished granite like the massive column in the pic. I don't think they lasted long working from the late 1800's and shutting down sometime in the 1910's.

I didn't know the site was there until I rode into it.

Clodfobble 07-28-2019 04:00 PM

Granite's expensive, right? Is it not worth someone's effort to get in there and take that column? Or are there just too many trees in the way, do you think?

Griff 07-28-2019 04:17 PM

It's a state historic site now. I was surprised that amount of steel was still there. The column is accessible but there is a rail bed between it and the roads.

sexobon 07-28-2019 05:10 PM

You didn't ride your bike on top along the length of the column? After a balancing act like that, it could've been called Griffhenge.


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