Have to dust off my Engineering Dynamics text, but I think it has to do with momemt arm and conservation of angular momentum.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
-----Original Message----- From: John Taglia [mailto:jtagli1@uic.edu] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 1:56 PM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: RE: [CR]Bike technology peaked in the 1984?
Why doesn't someone offer some proof that weight matters all that much to begin with and that rim and tire weight matters more. All I see are unsubstantiated claims. I say until some one can prove different rotating weight doesn't matter more, and that weight in general doesn't matter all that much.
Regards,
John Taglia Off to Lunch in Chicago
At 11:36 PM 4/19/2001 -0600, Bicycle Classics inc wrote:
>A Mavic Gel 280 is really about 280g. The weight of the reflex tubular is
>about 375gram - almost 200g for a pair of wheels. The new hubs/cassetts
>may be lighter, but that's weight at the center of the wheel which isn't
>nearly as important as weight at the edge of the rim. Mike Kone