Skid patches widget
 

For all the mac lovers:
A friend of mine has programmed a widget that will calculate the number of skid patches for a given cog/chainring combination:

http://home.arcor.de/skidpatches/objects/front.png

You can download it here

If you like it, give him some feedback.

now make it for YahoO!

ooh tight. up there with the bart simpson widget.

Awesome! It couldn't be too much trouble to add a gear inch calculator to that, would it?

My friend has too much time on his hands:

http://home.arcor.de/gearcalc/objects/front.png

You can download it here.

http://www.basementfreaks.com/member...ring/index.php <-- make it do everything that does and I might use it. heh.

wait. is that thing in gear METERS?

crazy europeans.

Your friend is today's MVP.

We can't help it, can we!

Actually you can select if you want the output in meters or inches. But it does NOT calculated the gear inches, but how many meters/inches you will move forward with one rotation of your crank.

The proper term for that is meters of development, which is a common european measurement.

And thanks, onetwentyeight. :D

from the looks of your first shot the widget assumes ambidextrous skidding, I think. Not sure how accurate that is.

sooo sick

how do i make it work on my comp?

How do I shot web?

Seriously, though - this has made my week. Kickass!

It should be completely accurate.
Keep practicing ;)

I need a widget that'll calculate how much tire money I'll blow every month. Anyone?

go metric now.

queerpunk!! where are you?? the metric system is EVIL!! EVIL i tell you!!!! soulless and EVIL!!!!:eek:

Eh, well my bikes all have one long skid patch that runs the circumference of the tire, but the vast majority of folks I've seen riding skid on one dominant foot. The folks that are good enough/experienced enough to go with both feet don't need a computer program to tell them how many skid patches they have...

None if you scout out the LBS dumpster for lightly used swap outs!

Did anyone else have problems with downloading this?

oh and 12XU all they would need to do is ad an input field for how often you skid (with options for if you do it switch) multiplied by the type of ground you skid on all cross-referenced with an invetory of all types of tires and their current selling prices (plus shipping and handling if you need to mail order)

I believe you need to be rocking a mac to get widgets to work, but maybe I'm not up on the computer game as much as I used to be.

widgets work on PC.

and i never thought i'd say this: Thank You Britney Spears!

er, Konfabulator widgets do. These aparently only work with OSX

maybe i'm old fashioned (or maybe my computer is) but i just use the table...