Jan Heine "Busts" Another Tire/Wheel Myth...
08-07-20, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by RiceAWay
To underscore this - the idea that CO2 could cause climate change was disproven in 1905 when people learned about spectrometry. After the idea of it was theorized in 1886 by Arrhenius. Do you suppose anything new has been learned since then?
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08-07-20, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by himespau
Yeah, no. See, posting nonsense like this undermines your whole argument.
08-07-20, 08:07 PM
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Suntour has released a number of forks for 26ers that are guaranteed to keep the front wheel down.
John
Edit Added: Steel is real...
...heavy.
John
Edit Added: Steel is real...
...heavy.
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08-07-20, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by HD3andMe
This is absolute rubbish.
08-08-20, 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Kapusta
It would appear that The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine did not get your memo:
Coefficient of Friction Between Tires and Road Surfaces
And here they pretty well spell it out See page 19: "The resistive force, characterized using the non-dimensional friction coefficient, μ , is the ratio of the tangential friction force (F) between the tire tread rubber and the horizontal traveled surface to the perpendicular force or vertical load (FW)"
Coefficient of Friction Between Tires and Road Surfaces
And here they pretty well spell it out See page 19: "The resistive force, characterized using the non-dimensional friction coefficient, μ , is the ratio of the tangential friction force (F) between the tire tread rubber and the horizontal traveled surface to the perpendicular force or vertical load (FW)"
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08-08-20, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by wphamilton
Seriously? Joking with a random cite? I'm not going into it further.
08-08-20, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Kapusta
What is “random” about the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine? And what is “random” about a cite showing them using CoF in ways you are claiming are inappropriate?
08-08-20, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by wgscott
No, but a Ph.D. in a field of science from the University of Washington makes me more willing to take him seriously than an anonymous person on the internet who makes such claims. As a scientist myself, I have a reasonably nuanced idea of what constitutes "scientific method," and from everything I have read from Jan Heine, it is clear he does as well.
It is cheap and easy to denounce someone like this on the internet, but I would find evidence far more compelling.
It is cheap and easy to denounce someone like this on the internet, but I would find evidence far more compelling.
