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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Machine Shop
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:44:02 -0500
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> On 2/22/2025 1:58 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>> On Fri Nov 8 14:03:46 2024 Frank Krygowski  wrote:
>>> On 11/8/2024 12:20 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>> On Thu Sep 26 10:05:45 2024 Zen Cycle  wrote:
>>>>> On 9/25/2024 8:30 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:51:26 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 9/16/2024 5:28 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     100 to 1 I'm a better machinist than you ever were.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wow! Is there _anything_ that Tom's not an expert in?  ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I went to High school they had shop classes that were better 
>>>>>> than
>>>>>> most trade schools these days. Now they don't even HAVE shop 
>>>>>> classes in
>>>>>> high schools and so people like you never learned anthing but 
>>>>>> English so
>>>>>> that you can cry about misspellings and grammar.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, yes, I know more than you about practically anything but 
>>>>>> obtuse facts
>>>>>> about plant engineering. Since you've never done anything you 
>>>>>> wouldn't
>>>>>> know about that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yup, tommy knows, for example, that you can pop a dent out of your
>>>>> toptube by riding the bike
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>>>>
>>>> Because you don't understand the mechanics of it means that it 
>>>> doesn't exist.
>>>
>>> It doesn't exist, Tom. You can't pop a dent out a bicycle frame tube by
>>> riding the bike. Thinking you can is a sign of insanity.
>>>
>>> If you think otherwise, please do explain the mechanics of it. Give us
>>> all the details.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> If you have a slight dent in high performance steel. the tubing can 
>> revert to its natural shape under stress. How can you call yourself a 
>> mechanical engineer and not know that? Flunky not knowing that is fine 
>> since he doesn't know shit. I reported that I had a dent in my top 
>> tube and that it disappeared after heavy stress. you and Flunky called 
>> me a liar despite the fact that you didn't see it and now show you 
>> don't even know the mechsnics behind it. How many years did you train 
>> to know nothing?
>>
>> I must say that I don't understand you people at all. Why would Andrew 
>> argue that Tom Ritchey built Brandt's frame when a man who was working 
>> there said that it was Peter Price? Tom had to learn the art from 
>> someone. And he was building down hill frames at that time.
>>
>> Flunky is telling us he's a racer and it turns out he's over 65. 

I'm over 65?  that's news to me....

>> Exacttly what does he gain from saying that or telling us he rode 2, 
>> 200 mile days? 

Please post a link to where I claimed I ever rode 200 miles in one day.

>> Who the hell does he think he's impressi9ng by saying 
>> that yhe didn't look down at down tube friction shifters in races

I'm not impressing anyone, because no one else had to look down either. 
If one needed to look down to shift, they shouldn't be racing.

>> when 
>> even pros do?

no, they don't.

>>
>> Where the hell do you get off not knowing the properties of tempered 
>> steel and commenting on it?
> 
> 
> Your first sentence is metaphysics or fantasy but not physics. It is 
> absolutely not true in the real world.
> 
> Secondly, as I suggested the last time you dissed Mr Ritchey, ring him 
> up and ask him. He's not far from you and very much alive.
> 


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