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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Science of cycling still largely mysterious
Date: 20 May 2025 21:38:14 GMT
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AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 

That kinda different and just age! Some of my colleagues are born this
century which is just wrong! And various stuff that is just passes me by!
Which is fine part of being middle aged and all that jazz!

Roger Merriman