That Germans - or at least one of them! - can find great ways of describing their leg length for a Velomobile boom. “Dackelbeinig” = Dachshund-legged...
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.
Quote from: mark on 19 April, 2019, 01:31:06 pmQuote from: hbunnet on 18 April, 2019, 09:35:58 pmLorry wheel nuts are left hand thread on the left side, for the same reasons as bike pedals. How I have reached my old age without knowing this is hard to understand, except that I have never driven heavy vehicles. But as ever, cars are aberrant. Chrysler built their cars that way through the late '60s. Of course, the cars in question were about the size of a truck/lorry.So did Rolls-Royce. Wire wheels for cars were also secured by handed threads.
Quote from: hbunnet on 18 April, 2019, 09:35:58 pmLorry wheel nuts are left hand thread on the left side, for the same reasons as bike pedals. How I have reached my old age without knowing this is hard to understand, except that I have never driven heavy vehicles. But as ever, cars are aberrant. Chrysler built their cars that way through the late '60s. Of course, the cars in question were about the size of a truck/lorry.
Lorry wheel nuts are left hand thread on the left side, for the same reasons as bike pedals. How I have reached my old age without knowing this is hard to understand, except that I have never driven heavy vehicles. But as ever, cars are aberrant.
... Carcass, the metal edition of of Black's Medical Dictionary.
Quote from: Salvatore on 29 October, 2018, 02:49:18 pmI found out today that one of my great-great-great grandfathers (or someone with the same name, same residence and same profession as one of my GGG GFs) received a "sabre cut on the right shoulder" at Peterloo. Today I learned that there were 2 weavers called James Entwistle living in Manchester at the time of Peterloo and that the one who suffered the sabre cut was the one who wasn't my great-great-great grandfather.Probably.
I found out today that one of my great-great-great grandfathers (or someone with the same name, same residence and same profession as one of my GGG GFs) received a "sabre cut on the right shoulder" at Peterloo.
et avec John, excellent lecteur de road-book, on s'en est sortis sans erreur
Not so much learnt as realized, that since the small ring of a 2x11 does the work of the two inner rings of a triple it'll wear out twice as fast. The ring I just changed on my 2x11 had 20,000k on it, but the inner rings on my 3x10 have around 36,000k and are just about still OK.
Kim, you are very bad!
Not to be confused with shipshape objects, presumably.
Quote from: Kim on 30 April, 2019, 08:45:29 pmNot to be confused with shipshape objects, presumably.Hopefully the ship-shaped object is shipshape thobut.