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Q: How do you improve a mechanical device so simple and efficient that it's had largely the same form for the past 100 years? A: Make it more complex and expens
by akgerber 17y ago
Q: How do you improve a mechanical device so simple and efficient that it's had largely the same form for the past 100 years?
A: Make it more complex and expensive!
- IgorPartola 17y agoIs it a fact that it's more expensive? I would imagine that lining up the spokes is harder than making bearings and circles.
- Groxx 17y agoStraight lines are harder than circles? Spokes are super-simple and really cheap. It's just a tensile wire with a threaded end (for adjustment) and a bent end. Even ridiculously high-tension metals (in bike terms) are cheap. Plus, spokes don't move, bearings do, and for a setup like this they'd have really high rotational speed compared to a spoked wheel's bearing.
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