I personally enjoy grease drag myself.... bearings don't have to spin forever.. they just gotta be smoooth..

well the perma-spin is a by-product because you don't grease 'em ever.
Bike-wise though it's like that butta smooth Campy Hub off your grand-fathers' bike.

We have reached the age of jumbo jets!

My grandfather's bike was made in China...

if you know anything about "chinese grade bearings" then you'll know they aren't butter smooth.

More like "they just work"

Eventually the cubic bearings get ground down into roughly sperical shapes by the pummice stone bearing races.

One of my grand pappies got a gammy leg from a motorcycle accident when he was young so he never had a bicycle. My other grandfather was born in the 19th century around the time bikes were invented, but he was too rich to bother riding bikes. They both died a long time ago and neither had a cool old bike. One had a rusting and mildewy jaguar in the garage though!

Rofl. That reminds me - drilling square holes with a rotating bit.
http://upper.us.edu/faculty/smith/reuleaux.htm

Looks like the same concept behind rotary engines.

I was just about to say the same thing.. COOOOOOOL

*melts his brain trying to follow the math*

the only bike i remember was a folding raleigh three speed. my grandmother had the matching ladies version.

Neat idea, but real world alert: it's not gonna happen.

Send it out for EDM or waterjet or lasercut, or even better... don't design for square holes!

I'd just use a router and a square file...

finally, a hole I can peg

You'd have a hard time with a router on steel!

When I was a wee laddie in high school we had a machine in the wood shop that was essentially a drill contained within 4 chisel heads arranged around it. You could make square holes with that, but only one size!

Get the laser.....

"laser"

ps. I might go for a ride on Saturday morning if the weather cooperates. Thinking about taking the subway to the "city limits" (as if this sprawl we call the GTA ever stops) for a proper ride, but that's sort of up in the air at this point.

technically its always LASER as its an acronym.

I was making a dr. evil reference, professor. :)

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say.
you might want to get that cough checked out before critical mass on friday.

Looks like this friday is gonna be the "cold" CM for the year :)

As a 15 hour/week TTC and YRT veteran I can tell you that the subway goes exactly halfway to the edge of the city.

I think the november CM tops all for worst weather CM...

Soggy wet and cold cold cold.

At least it will be dry.

no

Yeah hard to believe the haloween turnout and the new years turnout was about equal!

Way to jinx it though :p

Heh, yes, and let me drop some grammar knowledge on you for that incredibly dimwitted remark.

First I stated technically, so while in common usage things like SCUBA are often rendered into scuba and LCD is often followed by a redundant usage of display according major style guides (MLA,NYT,CBC,AP) they must be rendered with capitols. The BBC style guide drops the necessity for a full period after each letter though however some still retain that usage (MLA). The only one in North America that is exempt, usually is UNICEF though Canadian media outlets tend to still refer to it in all caps. The NYT tends to refer to is as Unicef. Most people don't even know that SCUBA or LASER are acronyms, they have become accepted words in their own right. That does not change their initial meanings nor the stylistic rules that govern acronyms. Oh and when technical terms (IE SCUBA) enter common usage where the original full meaning is lost they are referred to as anacronyms. A combination of anachronism and acronym and acronym's are not an english language invention infact ancient Hebrew is full of them.

I'm always blown away by the ignorance of my Canadian educated peers, its like most people my age never took technical grammar.

I'm not saying in day to day life that it matters, in the lives of people who write for a living things like this make a difference. Plus more most of us its our first language and I always took pride in knowing how it works.

E S L

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. didn't even have to look it up.
Offhoff I'll have to agree with you there, generalized education of the masses in north america, um ..... blows when compared to the rest of the world. Then they sit back and wonder why they start to lose when the markets are all opened up.

As for media types the Style guide is usually buried in their bottom drawer.

N O S N J S FTW :lol:

Nerdy comment I can't help but make: I love "recursive acronyms". Like PHP ("PHP Hypertext Preprocessor"), GNU ("GNU's Not Unix") and (for a non-technical, common example) VISA ("Visa International Service Association").

Now back to your regularly scheduled bike talk.

ps. damn you guys are such troll-bait. :P