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11-04-13 | 04:45 PM

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cyccommute

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Originally Posted by FBinNY

A modern bike on a long downhill can heat the spoon until it's red hot and simply melts apart.

I doubt that you'd reach the point where the spoon would be red hot. If you made the spoon out of steel, low temperature "dark red" where you can see a red glow in low light is from 425 C to 600C. The melting point of rubber is around 400C. The rubber would melt first. But you probably wouldn't reach that point either if you were using pneumatic tires.

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