Old 07-14-12 | 01:23 AM
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sci_femme
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Cycloid, schmecloid! OP was on the right path.

The total distance his shoes travel per mile consists of distance his shoes travel in circular motion around bottom bracket plus 1 mile of road traveled by said bottom bracket in forward motion. Times two - shoes normally come in pairs. You do not even need a calculator - any calculator! - to figure this out, let alone flexing your impressive trigonometry muscles.

Class dismissed.
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