First off, a bike weight reduction really has no substantial effect on speed except on hillclimbs. I'm not going to quote badly recalled numbers, but weight differences of a pound or so will make a measurable difference (not a huge one; we're talking about gaining seconds for the most part. But that can be enough).
As for reductions in aerodynamic drag, almost none of them are as dramatic as slapping on aero bars (which make for a big change in the cyclist's body position), and that probably accounts for maybe a 5 km/h speed difference at best.
Replacing 36-spoke wheels with discs (or more likely, disc rear and deep-section aero front; cyclists hate falling over due to crosswinds) will save a few seconds over a kilometer. A really fast cyclist in a really fast time trial (say, a Prologue, which is typically a short-distance time trial at the start of a multi-stage race) will be doing 50-60 km/h depending on the course, which means 60-second kilometers.
Those same riders wouldn't be doing 100-second kilometer times on their lightweight hill-climbing bikes. Probably more like 65 seconds.
There are some gains to be had from aerodynamics, but they are small.
Har. I have an NES with a four-player adapter, so I have made a hobby of grabbing any NES games that support it. This can be great (take a bow, Gauntlet II), very good (thank you, Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off-Road), or pretty stinky (sucks to you, Play Action Football)
But the worst four-player game I have, and the worst NES cart I own, is Monster Truck Rally. The premise (monster trucks, racing against each other, multiple events) is fine, but the gameplay is DEEP HURTING! If the trucks touch anything, they spin wildly (you know, just like in real life). This is funny for a few seconds, then you realize the game is nearly unplayable. Then we all stick Super Off-Road in and thank our lucky stars.
Other tragic games in my collection of badness:
Journey Escape for the 2600 Most non-Activision 2600 carts
And for a good game destroyed by annoying load times: Oni, for the PS2. I don't know. Maybe the Mac/PC version was spared the indignity. But Oni has great game mechanics and adequate (though unimpressive) graphics. Unfortunately, you tend to die a lot. And every time you die, the game reloads the level you're on from scratch. And that takes...too...long...Argh!
Why, Bungie why? I loved you! I thought we had something real!
Dude, you didn't so much give up caffeine as give up about 420-560 calories/day!
Coke: 140 cal/can
The rule of thumb is that a calorie deficit of 3000 calories equals one pound of weight loss. So even without the exercise and water consumption, you have given up enough calories to lose nearly a pound of weight every week.
Congratulations, though. Lifestyle changes can be hard, and often it's a matter of just finding the little changes that can be easily made and yet make the most difference.
Burt Rutan hasn't had a lot of design failures, but he has had at least one: the "Pond Racer", built for pylon racing, crashed in 1993, killing its pilot, apparently not due to pilot error.
Assuming you mean using the digital coax input for moving the digital data from the DVD player to the receiver, I'd like to know how exactly you think the coax inputs affect the sound quality versus optical inputs. coax has the virtue of being a cheaper cable, but unless you are experiencing sound dropouts due to interference or bad cabling (more likely with copper than optical), there will be no sound difference.
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Your numbers are wildly misremembered.
First off, a bike weight reduction really has no substantial effect on speed except on hillclimbs. I'm not going to quote badly recalled numbers, but weight differences of a pound or so will make a measurable difference (not a huge one; we're talking about gaining seconds for the most part. But that can be enough).
As for reductions in aerodynamic drag, almost none of them are as dramatic as slapping on aero bars (which make for a big change in the cyclist's body position), and that probably accounts for maybe a 5 km/h speed difference at best.
Replacing 36-spoke wheels with discs (or more likely, disc rear and deep-section aero front; cyclists hate falling over due to crosswinds) will save a few seconds over a kilometer. A really fast cyclist in a really fast time trial (say, a Prologue, which is typically a short-distance time trial at the start of a multi-stage race) will be doing 50-60 km/h depending on the course, which means 60-second kilometers.
Those same riders wouldn't be doing 100-second kilometer times on their lightweight hill-climbing bikes. Probably more like 65 seconds.
There are some gains to be had from aerodynamics, but they are small.
Har. I have an NES with a four-player adapter, so I have made a hobby of grabbing any NES games that support it. This can be great (take a bow, Gauntlet II), very good (thank you, Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off-Road), or pretty stinky (sucks to you, Play Action Football)
But the worst four-player game I have, and the worst NES cart I own, is Monster Truck Rally. The premise (monster trucks, racing against each other, multiple events) is fine, but the gameplay is DEEP HURTING! If the trucks touch anything, they spin wildly (you know, just like in real life). This is funny for a few seconds, then you realize the game is nearly unplayable. Then we all stick Super Off-Road in and thank our lucky stars.
Other tragic games in my collection of badness:
Journey Escape for the 2600
Most non-Activision 2600 carts
And for a good game destroyed by annoying load times:
Oni, for the PS2.
I don't know. Maybe the Mac/PC version was spared the indignity. But Oni has great game mechanics and adequate (though unimpressive) graphics. Unfortunately, you tend to die a lot. And every time you die, the game reloads the level you're on from scratch. And that takes...too...long...Argh!
Why, Bungie why? I loved you! I thought we had something real!
Dude, you didn't so much give up caffeine as give up about 420-560 calories/day!
Coke: 140 cal/can
The rule of thumb is that a calorie deficit of 3000 calories equals one pound of weight loss. So even without the exercise and water consumption, you have given up enough calories to lose nearly a pound of weight every week.
Congratulations, though. Lifestyle changes can be hard, and often it's a matter of just finding the little changes that can be easily made and yet make the most difference.
Burt Rutan hasn't had a lot of design failures, but he has had at least one: the "Pond Racer", built for pylon racing, crashed in 1993, killing its pilot, apparently not due to pilot error.
Assuming you mean using the digital coax input for moving the digital data from the DVD player to the receiver, I'd like to know how exactly you think the coax inputs affect the sound quality versus optical inputs. coax has the virtue of being a cheaper cable, but unless you are experiencing sound dropouts due to interference or bad cabling (more likely with copper than optical), there will be no sound difference.