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@mayhemmayhap.bsky.social

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🍉 ◀ Sure, I may be Canadian, but I can see your house from here. Your house is on fire, FYI.

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WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 27d

MAGAts are nothing if not
always one bad decision away from getting even worse.

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 20m

COMMUNISM!

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 20m

I have banged my head on many a fine wall of higher learning.

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 21m

Pizeoelectric pickups are used for power inputs from vibrational outputs - more commonly the rotational resistance of coiled electro magnetic assemblies is another means of accumulating power (see the SON 28 generator hub).
With the power flow reversed it is functionally a motor.

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 24m

We tend to make OK bridges here.

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 25m

For square yardage/cover of open space per ounce of steel, brake rotors are an excellent material choice. It's just a cut sheet metal shape.

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 29m

Aluminum and bronze are a few thousand years apart in development. Until we figured out how to extract it from the oxide, most aluminum was inaccessible.
Brass (another "noble" metal based on copper) is a generally better metal for gears.

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 31m

For 75 million, Ontario could have laser-etched the surface of the Moon with "Fuck off, Trump"

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 33m

Law of Conservation applies.

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 34m

We donate old brake rotors to a bridge project - they're making a suicide barrier that's also a reminder of beautiful things

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 23h

Depends: I have a stable of bikes, from fixed gear to offroad adventure (and 2 allroad commuter ebikes). Fixed gear your legs never stop until the wheel is stopped...

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WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

(It was not fun for machining, though, I recommend it for casting, so perhaps a less brittle composition for gears)

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

Fun, I have actually cast and machined that alloy.

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

A "friend Ali" reminder, if you will

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

The triple goals of developing such a device are:

Making it
1) light enough
2)efficient enough
3)of sufficiently tough/affordable components

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

BUT DID HE EVER DO DRAG?

Yes, as Jesus.

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

Not serving the nation,
NOOOOO
not representing the vulnerable,
NOOOOOOOOO

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

J: Peter, Peter!
P: Yes, Lord?
J: I can see your house from here!

a person is sitting in a car with a watch on their wrist .

Alt: a person is sitting in a car with a watch on their wrist . (insane description of a GIF in which a car is flipping over while it crashes into a fountain on the lawn of the White House (from an action movie)

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WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

Sponsored by Wahabist factions within a nation closely "allied" with the US (well, on and off) since Roosevelt's era.

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

a close up of a man 's face with a few spots on it

Alt: a close up of a man 's face looking unhappily at the state of the union

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WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

Poilievre would be SO much more obsequious by comparison.

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

... and diminish the overall efficiency of the vehicle.

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

...there is also a series of springs.
In any case, the unwinding (discharge of stored energy) of the spring, used in your concept to boost the bike's travel, would be brief in comparison to the cumulative time/distance needed to charge it.
Also: Gears of any durable material will add weight...

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

With the right series of gear ratios, you could wind-up (charge) a booster unit with most of your ride, but with a manual spring (taking the mechanical application literally), there would be a point where you'd want it to stop accumulating (the spring cannot wind past a certain point, but perhaps...

WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

To paraphrase Roy Scheider in JAWS:

You're gonna need a bigger court.

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WhereTheTweetsHaveNoNames @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, as in "Look what Antifa made me do"?