> From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I spent more on tires for the bicycles than I did for my car.
Tell me about it. in 1975, I was foolish enough to go touring on sew-ups. I
call it the year of being “strung out on silks,” where basically every dime I
didn’t spend on acquiring some ~5,000 calories a day went into silk tires. (But
I didn’t own a car at the time.)
But by 1976, I came to my senses and switched to clinchers with a single fat
radial tread (can’t remember the brand), thorn-proof tubes, and concave rims. I
even drilled and build a 45-spoke wheel on Campy hi-rise rims, with all the
sprocket-side pulling spokes doubled. Went from Reedsport, Oregon to Yorktown,
Virginia, carrying ~100 pounds (plus rider) without a flat nor a broken spoke.
:::: The energy expended in two decades by a val labour force of Egyptians
stacking up some 2,300,000 blocks of stone (each weighing about two and a half
tons) to form the Great Pyramid of Cheops was less than the energy release in a
few minutes by three stages of a Saturn V rocet propelling men toward the moon.
-- William Catton <http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=William+Catton>
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op <http://www.ecoreality.org/> ::::
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