"Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Mark South said:
OTOH, if 30x32 isn't low enough then nothing is going to help.
Pish tosh! 24-34 will get one up most things,
Provided you can manage to a) spin fast enough to maintain any kind of forward momentum and b) keep the front wheel on the ground.....
That particular combination is on a trike, wherein the critical factor is not pulling a wheelie but having a suitable coefficient of friction betwixt rear tyre and terra firma. As I discovered to my discomfiture two-thirds of the way up the Koppenberg.
I have 24-34 to a 559 rear wheel (17" gear) on the Speedmachine, on which I can remain upright and travelling forwards on an 18% hill at some 4 km/h. I think the lowest I've ever run on an upright was about 22".
Dave Larrington [email hidden] opined the following...
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As I discovered to my discomfiture two-thirds of the way up the Koppenberg.
The imagine of a trike, most of the way up a hill and wheel spinning is quite amusing. I don't suppose you were riding with someone who could provide photos?
The imagine of a trike, most of the way up a hill and wheel spinning is quite amusing. I don't suppose you were riding with someone who could provide photos?
I have a couple, but one is taken from a distance sufficiently great that trike and Larrington appear as a mere dot somewhere in the middle distance, while the other was taken by me from the hot seat and displays the road and one of my feet.
Alo they're on the babbage-box bakc at Larrington Towers while I, for my sins, am still toiling in the Nut Mines. Bah!
Have you read Gibson & Sterling's "The Difference Engine?"
Yes. This fact, however, does not mean that I have a means of getting two files from Larrington Towers to the Nut Mines without going to the former and turning the Babbage-box on :-)
On 11/5/04 10:36 am, in article [email hidden], "Just zis Guy,
you know? said:
Dave Larrington said:
Alo they're on the babbage-box bakc at Larrington Towers while I, for my sins, am still toiling in the Nut Mines. Bah!
Have you read Gibson & Sterling's "The Difference Engine?"
I have just finished it. It was most disappointing. Particularly annoying as well because the obvious historical inaccuracies that had nothing to do with the plot jarred, the writing was about as convincing as [censored] van dyke's cockney accent and it was nowhere near as good as I had been led to believe Gibson was as an author.
Have you read Gibson & Sterling's "The Difference Engine?"
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I have just finished it. It was most disappointing. Particularly annoying as well because the obvious historical inaccuracies that had nothing to do with the plot jarred, the writing was about as convincing as [censored] van dyke's cockney accent and it was nowhere near as good as I had been led to believe Gibson was as an author.
I found it a perfectly acceptable yarn, but my standards are probably low. I read on the train, and my idea of perfection is a book of Asimov short stories with groan-making puns.
"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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David Martin said:
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Have you read Gibson & Sterling's "The Difference Engine?"
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I have just finished it. It was most disappointing. Particularly annoying as well because the obvious historical inaccuracies that had nothing to do with the plot jarred, the writing was about as convincing as [censored] van dyke's cockney accent and it was nowhere near as good as I had been led to believe Gibson was as an author.
I found it a perfectly acceptable yarn, but my standards are probably low.
Thing is, Gibson wrote a couple of [censored] books, then a couple of fantastic ones, then slid downhill gently but quickly.
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I read on the train, and my idea of perfection is a book of Asimov short stories with groan-making puns.
Complete: "A niche in time...." -- Mark South Citizen of the World, Denizen of the Net <<Tiens! Ce poulet a une grenade!>>
And after that read Shah Guido G, a bit of a shaggy dog story...
I think "Death of a Foy" is my favourite, though :-)
Quite a few of Asimov's so called puns fail to impress me overly. A point of law - in reverse, or whatever - is one example. Of course, I cannot really recall either the story of the punch line. Loint of paw?
I do enjoy his Foundation books (the first two) and also his Robot novels; those involving Daneel and Giskard, especially.
