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Subject: Re: Science of cycling still largely mysterious
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 16:13:27 -0500
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On 5/20/2025 3:58 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2025 16:43:34 -0400, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/20/2025 1:38 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>> On Tue, 20 May 2025 11:44:29 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Science of cycling still largely mysterious"
>>>>
>>>> This article from 2016 recently popped up again:
>>>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/science-of-cycling-still-mysterious-1.3699012
>>>
>>> As is the case with most issues, if I think I need to know something I
>>> go about trying to learn it. I've little time for learning about stuff
>>> I have no need to know.
>>
>> Yep. So much for curiosity, so much for education... Ignorance is bliss!
> 
> No, ignorance would be when someone doesn't know something they need
> to know. Occasionally, I discover there's something I don't know about
> bicycles that I need, or at least, want to know. That's the only time
> I'll might start asking questions, or go looking for books about
> bicycling. I'm content for anything else to remain a mystery to me.
>   
> 
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman

We all have our own areas of interest.

I had to ask my employee to explain a cartoon (happens 
regularly for me) on Sunday evening. There's no way I could 
begin to catch up to modern pop culture, and I really don't 
care to know.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971