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Read? I only know how to write.
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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. |
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Read? I only know how to write.
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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. |
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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?
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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.
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still says videotape
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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 ...
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Then a couple monster lathes...
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These boys...
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and the product
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I did not have a ripe banana so I've scaled with a mtn bike.
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Very interesting
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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Weird. Any idea of what the history/circumstances might be?
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#702 |
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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.
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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?
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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.
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I love it when a plan comes together.
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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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