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Au contraire -- I didn't even notice the wheels, as exclaimed in my posts. Now that I'm counting the spokes, I'm like, huh?! I don't get it...who the hell are these bike companies building for anyway? I expect something like Huffy to get into gimmicks, but Specialized and Trek, too??? Jasper Janssen wrote: Because it sells. It looks cool, it weighs nothing, and it looks expensive -- we all saw *you* were impressed by them, at least at first. Whether something will last 3 months or 30 years is not something you can usually see in a shopfront window, so people don't even think about that. Jasper |
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threefire wrote: You must be joking. You think economically sanctioning a country will help improve its human rights? You think the ruler rather than the regular people are going to suffer more from a poor economy? The "enemy" thing is nothing more than a fear out of ignorance. When was the last time China was of any real and actual threat to the US? Try this on. It is an obvious and well published fact that the Chinese are building their military for a future invasion of Tiawan, no doubt about it. When they do, then it will be interesting to see what the US and others, like Japan, who will also be threatened, will do. Is China a threat to attack the US? Of course not, not any more than the former Soviet Union was. But USSR was a threat to the economic center of Europe and China is a threat to the economic strength of Asia, and hence a threat to Europe and the US. To ignore this is foolhardy. How many of the claims you made were from first hand experience instead of politically motivated propaganda (you believe everything said on TV? they also say you can lose 70 pounds in a month on TV)? The human rights violation theory is way overrated. It's in many people's interests to exaggerate these things. Besides, half of the goods sold in this country are made in China. You better stop buying anything now. Gooserider wrote: Airborne is fine, if you don't mind buying a Chinese bicycle. I don't support communist dictatorships. I own three Taiwanese bikes, and an American bike. The American bike is head and shoulders above the Taiwanese quality wise, but it was far more expensive, too. I wouldn't buy the Airborne, but that's purely on an ethical level. I'm sure the quality is fine. I don't mind buying Chinese bikes, I have three of them from this manufacturer. Whether a dictatorship is communist or capitalist is all the same to me. My titanium mountain bike has taken a pounding and is still going strong. The problem with buying Chinese goods is the very real possibility that doing so supports our enemy.War with China over Taiwan is not out of the question. The Chinese have a horrible human rights record, you know. People there are routinely put in re-education camps, undergo forced sterilization, are placed in forced labor camps, and face other such horrible acts. Every dollar you spend on Chinese goods goes to strengthen them both economically and militarily. I would no more buy Chinese goods than I would buy conflict diamonds. |
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Quoting NYC XYZ :
Hmmm...I thought it had to do with the mechanics of the pull of the cable...a V-brake seems more powerful, from a mechanical POV, than a cantilever...I can't quite imagine in my mind's eye the same difference between a V-brake and caliper brakes operationally, but I have heard that V-brakes are second only to disc brakes. You might hear a lot of things. On a single bike, any brake of sensible design, not abysmally low quality, competently installed and adjusted, will lock the rear wheel (rear brake) or lift it (front brake). You cannot have more braking than that, so the theoretical brake "power" (which tandems find out, with surprising results) is quite irrelevant. -- David Damerell Distortion Field! Today is Gaiman, July - a public holiday. |
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David Damerell wrote:
Quoting NYC XYZ : Hmmm...I thought it had to do with the mechanics of the pull of the cable...a V-brake seems more powerful, from a mechanical POV, than a cantilever...I can't quite imagine in my mind's eye the same difference between a V-brake and caliper brakes operationally, but I have heard that V-brakes are second only to disc brakes. You might hear a lot of things. On a single bike, any brake of sensible design, not abysmally low quality, competently installed and adjusted, will lock the rear wheel (rear brake) or lift it (front brake). You cannot have more braking than that, so the theoretical brake "power" (which tandems find out, with surprising results) is quite irrelevant. An interesting (to me, at least...) data point is that I designed my new tandem around regular road caliper brakes, never having been really happy with the performance of canti brakes on my previous tandem. The stopping ability of the new tandem is considerably better than the canti brakes (and presumably better than V-brakes with cable pull adapters would be). David's right - there's no braking test platform better than a tandem. Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles http://www.habcycles.com Home of the $795 ti frame |
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I submit that on or about Mon, 25 Jul 2005 06:31:00 -0700, the person
known to the court as Mark Hickey made a statement in Your Honour's bundle) to the following effect: there's no braking test platform better than a tandem. A fast recumbent isn't bad either. Guy -- May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk 85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound |
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Quoting Mark Hickey :
David Damerell wrote: You cannot have more braking than that, so the theoretical brake "power" (which tandems find out, with surprising results) is quite irrelevant. An interesting (to me, at least...) data point is that I designed my new tandem around regular road caliper brakes, never having been really happy with the performance of canti brakes on my previous tandem. Certainly plain ordinary calipers can work just fine, but did you try fiddling with the straddle cable? I've got it as high as will just permit me to bottom out the lever (higher, and you're just getting lower mechanical advantage; lower, and the input force is lower, as I'm sure you know) with maximum grip, and the front brake is certainly good enough to produce an alarming DOING sensation from the front fork... [The back brake's a Suntour self-energiser, so I've no idea how well a conventional canti works on a tandem.] -- David Damerell Distortion Field! Today is Gaiman, July - a public holiday. |
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