Author Topic: Pendants' corner (Read 7805 times)

Biggsy · « **on:** 24 August, 2011, 06:15:09 pm »

It's rude to be pendatic in the normal course of conversion, so here's a thread to get your pendantry out of your system.

The thing in the middle of a bottom bracket is not an axle; it's a spindle because it spins. The thing in the middle of a hub is an axle because it doesn't spin, but something spins around it.

Bluebottle · « **Reply #1 on:** 24 August, 2011, 06:22:35 pm »

Does the corner belong to the pedant(s) or are the pedants being expected to corner?

Sorry...someone had to.

Biggsy · « **Reply #2 on:** 24 August, 2011, 06:26:32 pm »

You're spelling pendant wrongly. ;-)

spindrift · « **Reply #3 on:** 24 August, 2011, 06:27:04 pm »

pendant'(s)

FFS!

spindrift · « **Reply #4 on:** 24 August, 2011, 06:27:27 pm »

FF'S FF'S!

Biggsy · « **Reply #5 on:** 24 August, 2011, 06:28:44 pm »

Do you have to be so pendantic? Oh, ok, I will correct the title.

Andrij · « **Reply #6 on:** 24 August, 2011, 06:45:21 pm »

Here's a fancy one.

Did I do it right?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #7 on:** 24 August, 2011, 06:47:05 pm »

Provided they are being worn by people with angular necks.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #8 on:** 24 August, 2011, 06:52:09 pm »

It's a bit selfish having a corner for just one pendant. Can't you move that apostrophe so that the rest of us can post here?

Biggsy · « **Reply #9 on:** 24 August, 2011, 06:58:23 pm »

Oh, that's terribly pendantic, but you're quite right. Will edit again.

David Martin · « **Reply #10 on:** 24 August, 2011, 07:03:01 pm »

So this is the thread to hang about in?

Pingu · « **Reply #11 on:** 24 August, 2011, 07:08:27 pm »

It depends.

Bluebottle · « **Reply #12 on:** 24 August, 2011, 07:28:59 pm »

It could swing either way.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #13 on:** 24 August, 2011, 08:52:32 pm »

A pendant is, by its very nature, pendent.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #14 on:** 24 August, 2011, 08:54:43 pm »

Private Eye resolved this dilemma by calling it Pendantry Corner.

Adam · « **Reply #15 on:** 24 August, 2011, 09:34:21 pm »

And I'm sure with all this correcting, Biggsy is penitent as well.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #16 on:** 24 August, 2011, 09:40:06 pm »

That's rather cheap for a vital piece of camping kit.

Steve Kish · « **Reply #17 on:** 24 August, 2011, 11:15:15 pm »

Phase 2:-

Rear derailleurs don't have two jockey wheels .... the have one, the top one. The lower one is actually called a tension wheel.

Kim · « **Reply #18 on:** 25 August, 2011, 12:51:00 am »

The forum follows a tree structure. They have branches and leaves, not corners.

Biggsy · « **Reply #19 on:** 25 August, 2011, 08:32:36 am »

Quote from: Steve Kish on 24 August, 2011, 11:15:15 pm

Rear derailleurs don't have two jockey wheels .... the have one, the top one. The lower one is actually called a tension wheel.

Americans often call them (both of them) "pulley wheels". Would Brits know what I'm on about if using this term?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #20 on:** 25 August, 2011, 10:20:05 am »

When you slow down your bicycle or motor-car, you do not use the breaks. And when you accelerate your bicycle, it is not by peddling harder. "Peddling harder" is strictly for the animal fannies on "The Apprentice".

rower40 · « **Reply #21 on:** 25 August, 2011, 10:22:45 am »

Quote from: Biggsy on 24 August, 2011, 06:15:09 pm

The thing in the middle of a bottom bracket is not an axle; it's a spindle because it spins. The thing in the middle of a hub is an axle because it doesn't spin, but something spins around it.

SRSLY, WTF?

This contradicts Wikipedia, which states;

Quote from: Fount of all knowledge and wisdom

An axle is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear. On wheeled vehicles, the axle may be fixed to the wheels, rotating with them, or fixed to its surroundings, with the wheels rotating around the axle. In the former case, bearings or bushings are provided at the mounting points where the axle is supported. In the latter case, a bearing or bushing sits inside the hole in the wheel to allow the wheel or gear to rotate around the axle. Sometimes, especially on bicycles, the latter type is referred to as a spindle.

And in Railway applications, the f-off huge lump of round bar that joins one wheel to the other, both mechanically and electrically, is never ever ever going to be called a "spindle."

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #22 on:** 25 August, 2011, 10:32:39 am »

Is it shafted?

I thought a spindle was for spinning wool . . .

Biggsy · « **Reply #23 on:** 25 August, 2011, 10:33:20 am »

Quote from: rower40 on 25 August, 2011, 10:22:45 am

And in Railway applications, the f-off huge lump of round bar that joins one wheel to the other, both mechanically and electrically, is never ever ever going to be called a "spindle."

I am going to call it a "spindle" in my next sentence. The f-off huge lump of round bar that joins one wheel to the other, both mechanically and electrically, is a spindle. I just called it a "spindle".

Biggsy · « **Reply #24 on:** 25 August, 2011, 11:26:25 am »

On a serious note, Rower (and out of keeping with the idea of this thread), I do take your point that "axle" isn't very strictly defined, so I won't get upset when the thing in the middle of a bottom bracket is called an "axle".

Author Topic: Pendants' corner (Read 7805 times)

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