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Old March 5th 19, 04:35 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Default Conbtinental has come out with a GP5000S and a GP5000TL

On Sunday, March 3, 2019 at 10:43:58 AM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote:
On 3/3/2019 12:02 PM, wrote:
On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 7:02:56 PM UTC-8, Radey Shouman wrote:
writes:

On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 6:11:48 PM UTC-8, Radey Shouman wrote:
Frank Krygowski writes:

On 3/1/2019 3:55 PM,
wrote:
On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 9:32:15 AM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 3/1/2019 11:15 AM,
wrote:
On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 11:25:51 AM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 2/22/2019 1:39 PM,
wrote:
On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 6:31:09 PM UTC+1, wrote:
On Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 1:46:38 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 2/21/2019 4:27 PM,
wrote:
On Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 1:10:42 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 2/21/2019 12:52 PM,
wrote:

Remember that I was describing the coast down test I had up
in Cull Canyon where I would coast down a really rough
section of road and then it would flatten out and when I
hit a 100 yard long patch of new and very smooth pavement
the bike would actually accelerate? Everyone wanted to
argue that wasn't possible but I did it again and again. As
the summer wore on the asphalt aged and got rougher and
though it was still pretty smooth the effect had
disappeared.

When you say the road "would flatten out" do you mean it was horizontal,
instead of downhill? Or do you mean the bumps went away and it remained
downhill?
--
- Frank Krygowski

It went downhill on a very rough road, flattened to
horizontal or at least the 0% grade indication on my
altimeter and then it climbed a bit before descending a
bike. The increase in speed was immediate upon entering the
smooth section and not a slow build up of speed as would come
from a declining road.

OK, if you were coasting and you had no tailwind that exceeded your
speed, you had nobody pushing you forward (which I've done for people
many times), and you had no rope towing you or some other weird situation...

And your bike actually accelerated when the road was horizontal? Yes,
that's impossible. Sorry, Tom, this is basic physics.

(And I had to include the rope tow because that was Jute's "deus ex
machina" on his first weird braggart tale here.)

Your story does, however, indicate the power of suggestion and how it
can mess with our perceptions.

--
- Frank Krygowski

Frank, if this is against physics why haven't you actually explained this to us?

To my way of thinking if E = 1/2M*V^2 and you reduce the
rolling resistance you coast for a longer distance to expend
the energy. But that isn't what happened. As I said - when I
hit the smooth pavement the bike increased its speed.

This was not a single case but multiple experiments and as the
smooth pavement degraded over the summer and grew rougher the
increasing speed disappeared at least to the level where it
wasn't detectable.

I think what Frank tries to say is that to be able to accelerate
there must be a driving force, one of Newtons laws. If you are
coasting on flat terrain without a tailwind there is no driving
force.

Exactly. In fact, there are retarding forces, those being air resistance
and rolling resistance, at a minimum.

And as to Tom's question, why haven't I explained it? I guess I
foolishly persist in believing that some things are obvious to educated
people.


--
- Frank Krygowski

So when faced by experimental fact you simply deny it. Seem like
most teachers. "That ain't what I believe so it didn't happen."
Real education there alright.

The reason that I mentioned this in the first place is because it
did not meet my understanding of physics. I tried this multiple
times with the same results. I expected that someone here would
have some explanation for it and instead some jackasses said that
it was impossible and my personal experience wasn't just incorrect
but a lie. This is the sort of people that inhabit this
site. Freaks like Slocumb that tell us what it is like in the US
after living most of his life in foreign countries and Frank who
was used to dictating "the truth" to students and thinks that the
whole world is now as stupid as his students were for not punching
his lights out.

A week ago I did the same route. The asphalt has now degraded to
the same consistency as that of the surrounding area and it acts
just as you would expect it to.

Yes, Tom, we foolishly persist in believing that F=m*a just because
Newton demonstrated it hundreds of years ago and it's been confirmed by
millions of measurements ever since.

We foolishly doubt a guy who claims he felt his bike accelerate when no
force was available to accelerate it, and when there had to be forces
decelerating it. And who has many times attested to his own bad memory.

Oh, and who now says the phenomenon has stopped, so his world has
returned to normal physics.

So we believe fundamental 10th grade science instead of your daydreams.
We are an odd bunch, all right!

--
- Frank Krygowski

Make another moronic statement. It makes you look so smart. I
actually measured that speed increase on the speedo. Initially I was
2 mph when I entered that section at 20. And it didn't increase as
if the flat was a little downhill but very rapidly. And as I said -
after the asphalt aged to the same roughness of the approach that
speed increase disappeared.

Which is why on really smooth surfaces, bicyclists never have to
pedal? You're spouting an entirely new level of nonsense.

There are spots at which it's hard to tell by eye whether the road is
ascending or descending, some sort of optical illusion.

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I agree with you there but the acceleration was too rapid to be from
gravity. I have asked a question over on the physics forum. Let's see
if they have any answers.

Faster than even a significant grade would cause? It is hard to imagine
an explanation for that.

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I put that out on the physics forum. No one had any answers but neither did they take the Frank line and say that I was crazy.


Maybe ask at alt.metaphysics ?

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I went over to another physics forum and we discussed it and there turns out to be a very simple explanation - the speedo has a fairly long delay time showing accelerations. It is difficult to see elsewhere but accelerating down that descent under the forces of gravity and then in a relatively short period of time going on onto a smooth pavement makes it noticeable.

So what was happening is that when the pavement was new and smooth on the flats it was normal to look down at the speedo and see it "catching up". Then after that as the pavement aged the rolling resistance became higher and higher until the speed lost before very far onto the "smooth" section was high enough that the speed actually came down to the speed shown at the bottom of the descent.

Had even one of the morons here even wanted to discover what was going on we could have worked it out but Frank was being his a-hole self, Slocumb is an idiot simply writing to see his name in print and others are sucking Frank off.
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