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What is the effect of adding weight to a wheel vs adding it to the frame?
There are claims often made that, eg, "An ounce of weight at the rims is like adding 7 ounces of frame weight." This is "common knowledge", but a few of us are skeptical, and our crude attempts at ...
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Momentum and gyroscopic difference between wheel sizes
A common folk wisdom in mountain biking is that smaller wheels (like 26") are "quicker" or "more flickable" and "better for courses that require lots of speeding up and ...
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storage pulley rack for a diagonal ceiling
i want a system based on a ceiling pulley for a quite heavy bike, the storage room is under the roof, so the ceiling (cement concrete material) is not flat.
Do the ceiling racks work well?
What about ...
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