Jan Heine "Busts" Another Tire/Wheel Myth...
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Yeah, no. See, posting nonsense like this undermines your whole argument. Also, the reason given for 29ers when they came out was that large wheels rolled over obstacles more easily.
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Suntour has released a number of forks for 26ers that are guaranteed to keep the front wheel down.
John
Edit Added: Steel is real...
...heavy.
John
Edit Added: Steel is real...
...heavy.
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It would appear that The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine did not get your memo:
Coefficient of Friction Between Tires and Road Surfaces
And here they pretty well spell it out See page 19: "The resistive force, characterized using the non-dimensional friction coefficient, μ , is the ratio of the tangential friction force (F) between the tire tread rubber and the horizontal traveled surface to the perpendicular force or vertical load (FW)"
Coefficient of Friction Between Tires and Road Surfaces
And here they pretty well spell it out See page 19: "The resistive force, characterized using the non-dimensional friction coefficient, μ , is the ratio of the tangential friction force (F) between the tire tread rubber and the horizontal traveled surface to the perpendicular force or vertical load (FW)"
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Random selection by you, in that it doesn't help to illustrate your eccentric notion of the coefficient of friction.
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No, but a Ph.D. in a field of science from the University of Washington makes me more willing to take him seriously than an anonymous person on the internet who makes such claims. As a scientist myself, I have a reasonably nuanced idea of what constitutes "scientific method," and from everything I have read from Jan Heine, it is clear he does as well.
It is cheap and easy to denounce someone like this on the internet, but I would find evidence far more compelling.
It is cheap and easy to denounce someone like this on the internet, but I would find evidence far more compelling.